THE GATEWAY by WAKING STATES

The Gateway is the next evolution of Waking States’s Debut Album, A Dream Within A Dream. Omer delves deeper into primitive electronic music created through a modular analog system inspired by electronic music pioneers, such as Suzanne Ciani and Morton Subotnick.

This album captures the contrast between repetitive rhythmic sequences alongside drones and exaggerated long notes. Influenced by La Monte Young, Father of minimalism, and contemporary analog synth master, Alessandro Cortini. Omer’s emphasis on the depth of minimalism and repetition creates awareness in the listener's ear and psyche to minute changes like in a meditative state.

The Gateway has literally become a journey through time and space expressing visual art as well as sound design. Creating a visual representation of sound and modulating visuals through sound from the Buchla inspired system. The debut album addresses a twilight between being asleep and awake, whilst the gateway is about being awake through the divine observing eye, seeing all the beauty and destruction of creation.

All the music was composed and played on analog modular synths and recorded on reel to reel tape, no overdubs, no editing, no computers involved.