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Tracks :
1. Grace (free MP3)
2. Dry
3. Enough Pain
4. Sound Of Madness
5. For Lois Vierk
6. Evolutionary Biology Determining The Possibility Of Its Own Conceptualization
7. Dragon Paths
8. Older Now
Berndt began as a composer with a distinctly "inhuman" style and severe set of conceptual preoccupations, but in an unusual development process expanded his sensibility in a variety of contradictory directions, such that his work today is so aesthetically varied as to seem the work of a number of unrelated artists.
In 1991 Berndt had heard saxophonist Jack Wright, who became his saxophone teacher, and as a result began to focus on developing his abilities in spontaneous instrumental performance to a high degree. His rigorously strange aesthetic then broadened to incorporate lessons from a variety of clashing modalities: jazz, Indian and African music, and extreme modernist instrumental technique.
In this transformation, he was also highly influenced by another collaborator and teacher, the philosopher Henry Flynt, whose critique of the western computational mind-set greatly enabled Berndt's own critical path.
CD is packaged in a deluxe wallet with extensive liner notes by both John Berndt and Michael Anton Parker.