How it was made
I didn't write this album at a desk. Most of it started as voice notes — a hook I hummed in the car, a line I said into my phone at 2 a.m. so I wouldn't lose it, a rhythm I tapped out on the steering wheel. I took those recordings and bent them: changed the pitch, changed the texture, changed the gender of the voice when a different voice suited the song better, and built my beat structure underneath.
That was the experiment. What happens if the raw, unguarded version of a thought is the seed, and the production has to serve it instead of the other way around? Some of these songs had been trapped in my head for years. This was the way out.
The other half of the idea is practical. Several of the tracks are long and continuous on purpose — built so I can mix into them, extend them and fold them into what comes next. THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE is a record, but it's also raw material for the records after it.