"Focus On Your Breathing" is the seventh song off my album 79 Vernon Street, released in April of last year. Leave a comment below if you liked it, and don't forget to Upvote, Resteem, and Follow me Hive account@ausxen! 🤘🏼

"Focus On Your Breathing" was built by looping and pitch-shifting the delay tail from "...and the flowers in your hair". I was going for a Steve-Reich-esque minimalist meditation track to separate the brighter first half of the record from the darker second half. If I ever press this record to vinyl, this track will fade out to the end of Side 1 and fade back in on Side 2."Focus On Your Breathing" proceeds directly out of the previous song, and leads right into the next one, "Get oveR".

This track is heavily inspired by the experimental minimalism of Steve Reich, particularly his delay-looping technique which produced pieces including “Come Out”:

I also tried to emulate the sound of later Steve Reich works which rely on xylophones fading in and out to create an ethereal, ambient yet driving texture.

"Focus On Your Breathing", along with the rest of 79 Vernon Street is also available on DSound and Musicoin, as well as all major traditional streaming outlets.

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