My work as naw has always been about the middle ground between organically made and human made environments – the space where nature meets steel and concrete. It feels like I am forever trying to find that place acoustically where I can perfectly express how the two meet in real life, the merging and conflicts that the two have. How by nature they are contradicting each other but still manage to reside side by side often adapting to each others presence.
In the past I best expressed that phenomena by exploring the inorganic notions of a very organic sound merging a roots kind of music like dub reggae with the sharp clarity of digital technology. Recently I have taken this one step further in performance of these sounds by improvising these aural snapshots and quotations of my abstract notions of how these two worlds meet, creating and recreating these audio quotations in real time, starting from a small handful of sounds and creating the urban journey I experience on a daily basis.