Double Lives is a dreamy vision laid out in six tracks performed January 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Recorded at the community space ‘uKirke’, the album takes its sonic inspiration from the acoustics of the church space in combination with the unusual Sound Object, a patent pending speaker system used for for sound rendering. Not directly appreciable in the recording (you would need to have a Sound Object at home to hear the effect), the multi-channel speaker cluster nevertheless permeates the sensibility of the sound throughout the album.

The at times heavily processed guitar takes on many shapes and forms as it weaves melodies, chords, textures and effects into the music, then further recorded, reassembled and processed in realtime by the digital companion. The elaborate computer programming blends impeccably with the rich guitar and together they form a continuum of sound where the elements are not perceptibly different from each other. That is, within each track only, since the difference between the tracks is at times remarkable.

Some tracks are held together by a realtime recorded guitar sample that facilitates the onset of improvisations that develop into rich mesh of filigree that intertwine, disentangles, enmesh and unravel. In other tracks multiple guitar voices refracts the live guitar and creates an instrument that seemingly is performed by innumerable hands that working the fretboard and plucks, strum and squeezes the strings to surprising effects.