recording/rehearsal room set up

The deed is done... Our room is now complete. Now it's just a matter of recording some sounds in it. Very happy right now...

So...I was thinking about the natural progression in writing we've made both as a band and as individuals, and about all the different styles and sounds we've explored and exploited, and it's pretty interesting to see where we've ended up. I never would have thought 6 years ago I'd go from heavy interest in more complex type music (not prog rock, but musically complex) to absolute minimalist ambient work. I'm not sure if it is more of a maturing or that I've just gotten bored of trying to stuff as many chords/notes as possible into a single song. But I've almost completely lost interest in more complex music and am instead drawn to the feel and mood of the tone and timber of the sound created.

In a way, for an absolute control freak/tweaker like myself in the post-production phase of creating music, minimalist type music actually creates a broader palette to work with than something more complex due to the fact that you cannot drift your focus onto other instruments/passages. A perfect example of what I'm referring to would be Aphex Twin's "Stone in Focus" from Ambient works disc II or some of the stuff Brian Eno did in the 80's. Subtle differences and changes feel like tsunamis when there is less musically going on.

-chuck