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PRESS RELEASE
Hidden Topographies by Rhomb was the first release of 1998. This album took shape in a time of new opportunities and personal upheaval. A heightened awareness of multiple perspectives and the delicate nature of our perceptions lends an introspective air to this music, a collection of pieces in which the space between notes is at least as important as the notes themselves.
To quote from the Hidden Topographies liner notes...
each moment opens, for every one of us, a new and personal frontier, a small unknown land, ripe for exploration. time passes as vista follows vista, each unique and seemingly self-contained. as experiences accumulate, the vast scope of possibilities contrasts the tininess of our subjectivity. here we try to journey between the two, through hidden topographies.
These tracks are intended to have multiple characters. Terminus is a beginning and an end. Ice fields may be a sweet song for winter, or the final thoughts of a Victorian explorer dying of hypothermia in the Arctic. Darkened may reflect the turning of a mood, or the setting of the sun.
A graphic component was planned for the Hidden Topographies CD, but technical problems kept the graphics from being on the final pressing. However, you can link from here to see the Hidden Topographies gallery, show casing some of the "digital tapestries" created by DocumentRF from raw binary data. These images are just one of the many ways in which we can translate information, suggesting the infinite and hidden topographies that lay just beyond our nose.