You have got the voice, my love, to melt a lake of ice.

On Battleship Hill (PJ Harvey)

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The Only Moment We Were Alone (Explosions in the Sky)

@NewYork

Oberlin, here I come.

Spinning up a storm. Howling guitars, thunderous drums, feedback that could drown out the wind. Come join in. I’ll be in and out starting at about 11 PM.

First tackle at recording Birth and Death of the Day. A bit rough around the edges.

I posted this about a year ago and have since re-vamped it. The soundtrack is intended to be a companion piece to Mark Z. Danielewski’s extraordinary House of Leaves. Hope you all enjoy it. Leave questions about the scenes’ real world identities in the ask box if you like.

All tracks by Aldaraia were composed specifically for House of Leaves.

(H)al(l)ways: Music for House of Leaves

1. This is not for you.
2. I still get nightmares.
3. The House on Ash Tree Lane
4. The Door
5. Don’t look. Now keep your eyes here.
6. 1/4”
7. The Happiest Place on Earth
8. 5/16”
9. Lysistrata
10. Exploration A
11. The cats are all gone.
12. Explorers
13. SO?
14. Exploration #4
15. The Minotaur I
16. The Great Hall
17. Descent
18. Picture that. In your dreams.
19. Unshaped
20. Man Holding a Rifle
21. Tom’s Story
22. Lude’s List/The Pekingese
23. Stairway Stretch
24. Monsters in the Margins
25. The Minotaur II
26. The Hol[ ]y Tape
27. The House Melts
28. Intermezzo
29. A Partial Transcript of What Some Have Thought
30. Infinite Density
31. theres no second ive lived you cant call your own
32. Jonah
33. Delial
34. No one should brave the underworld alone.
35. Except this stanza does not remain entirely empty
36. I must remember. I must read. I must read. I must read.
37. ecce puer
38. He ends instead on what he knows is true and always will be true.

Colleen (Joanna Newsom)