From Derek's website, about the original tracks:Deliver is a duet with Carahanni and features organ, tape, bells and field recordings of a pine forest. The lyrics were improvised.Glass Broadcast was a track I wrote with samples of a violin I had played while at Berklee College during Summer 2011. Additional recordings of various bottles and glasses form the main elements of the track as well as the rhythm section. This track was originally the backing to a spoken word performance I gave of Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem Corrigenda.Radimantra is a meditative piece featuring gongs, cymbals, wineglass and electronics. the piece’s rhythm section was constructed from recordings of radio static contributed by dendrite, and the end of the piece features the inclusion of a piece I wrote for cymbal and voice; the first sketches I composed with Airing in mind. the vocals are wordless. Extended forms of this piece were composed; titled Radio Mantras, they are their own separate release and also function as an abstract radio play.Colossus was originally created using purely samples of my voice. I added light electronics and bells only later, to reflect the theme of the record. The title was inspired both by Sylvia Plath and the Rhodes colossus, a lost wonder of the ancient world. the ending of this track and the beginning of Islets feature field recordings of radio static from my boyfriend dendrite’s car, which reinforces the concept of this record as a transmission.Guides is a drone piece which I recorded and processed from wineglasses. The main sample in the piece was spontaneously recorded on my macbook in the Summer when a random freight train happened to be stalled on the tracks outside my house. I ran outside to record it, and this recording forms the core of the piece.Insects is a short, strong beat piece I started work on after a friend suggested many of the elements of my work sound like insects moving about. Additionally, I play toy piano on this track.Clandestine Spread is mainly based around recordings of violin that I played at Berklee College. It is perhaps the most electro-acoustic piece on this project, and features inclusion of one of the files I created by layering takes of my own voice to form a choir of myself. Martina Crouch wrote a poem in response to this piece, forthcoming in a chapbook of poetry to accompany Airing, read the poem.A step forward in conventional musicality has also taken place; I play percussion on each track, violin for the first time on tracks Clandestine Spread and Glass Broadcast, wineglasses on Radimantra, and toy piano and zither on Sixmonth and Insects.