Guided Tours Through Bardoland!
What I’m doing now is something a little different from just composing, recording and playing music as a DJ on zoom. I’m actually sort of putting together a guided tour.
Not a playlist, not a collection of songs, not even an album in the usual sense. A tour.
Over time, I’ve generated thousands of versions of my songs in many categories and styles. Same lyrics, but wildly different arrangements, different bands, different languages, different feels. At first, it looks like a huge pile of material. But it isn’t. It’s more like a field of signals.
Some of those signals come through more clearly than others. That’s where the serious work begins.
Out of twenty versions, maybe one really lands. Out of fifty, maybe two or three carry something that feels really special. You can hear it right away when it happens. There’s a kind of lock-and-key effect. The song isn’t just playing—you’re actually receiving it.
So what I’m doing is selecting only those moments. The ones where the transmission actually gets through.
This isn’t about technical perfection. It’s not about production quality, or style, or genre. It’s about whether the piece functions. Whether it does something to you.
That’s the difference.
A lot of music is made to be heard. This material is made to be experienced.
So instead of presenting full albums, I’m moving through them, pulling out the tracks that carry the strongest signal. Then I arrange them by feel.
One piece opens the door. Another deepens the space. Another shifts things slightly—just enough to move you out of where you were. Then something hits that really clicks. You hear it. You feel it. You know it. And then, eventually, something brings you back.
That’s the shape of the tour.
What makes this especially interesting is that many of these tracks are actually the same song, just expressed differently. So instead of changing songs, you’re changing angles. One version might not connect at all. The next version—same words, different arrangement—suddenly makes perfect sense.
That moment is important.
It shows that the signal was always there. You just needed the right form to hear it.
So this becomes a kind of exercise.
Listening isn’t passive anymore. You begin to notice what works for you, what doesn’t, what opens something, what falls flat. Over time, you get a feel for it. You start to recognize the shift when it happens.
That’s useful. Because once you can recognize a shift, you can allow it. And once you can allow it, you can begin to use it. That’s where this crosses over from music into something else.
Call it a guided listening experience. Call it a state tour. Call it whatever you like. The idea is simple. You don’t just listen to the music. You consciously go with it and continue to go with it.
And if you let it, it takes you somewhere. No mistakes along the way. Nothing to get hung about. Just some more turns in the road.
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Here comes the Bardo bus!
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