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Douglas Witmer | Forty, For You

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Throughout his career working as an artist, Douglas Witmer has consistently explored ways to create experiential contexts which highlight reductive abstraction as a direct response to conditions of the world.

In early 2020, driven by a desire to establish a the experience of contemplative space and time within the format of an often endless social media scroll, Witmer created the project "Forty, For You," harnessing Instagram's default presentation of square images and 1-minute of video which looped automatically in the user's feed. Witmer chose the 40-day season of Lent as a chronological framework.

Witmer began to make a suite of 40 paintings on paper, each one accompanied by a 1-minute original ambient musical composition. The paintings in the series were made in triplicate…3 sets of unique but very similar artworks. Creating the paintings this way involved a degree of arrangement, rehearsal, and performance akin to making music.

The pieces were created and released daily on Instagram from February 26 through April 11. Each painting could be viewed as a still image while the music looped, with the viewer deciding when the experience ended. The project took on an unforeseen significance as it unfolded against the backdrop of the global coronavirus pandemic, with hundreds of millions of people sheltering at home for months.

For this album, Douglas Witmer has edited and expanded the recordings into more typical song structures for a longer-format listening experience.

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released September 1, 2020

All instruments, engineering, mixing, and mastering by Douglas Witmer.

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Philadelphia visual artist Douglas Witmer makes ambient music under the moniker The Consolidated Hand Mouth & Ear Institute.

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