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There are few musicians I have collaborated with that have such a creative and dedicated approach to music making. Regardless of the medium, Aaron Walters has a methodology that is always thoughtful – and when necessary, exhaustive. He will never rush the process at the risk of a compromised end-product. This type of dedication is hard to come by, especially when it’s your music attached to your name. But with Aaron, it doesn’t matter if it’s his reputation or someone else’s on the line — no one will commit more of themselves to your project! |
Nashville, TN
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I can completely produce an album from start to finish or meet for individual production consultations.
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I do regular session work, live gigs, and my own recording on drum set, piano, bass, electric, and acoustic guitar.
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Stages of Sonder
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This recording (and paper) is a large scale personal artistic and academic achievement. Every instrument in Stages of Sonder was performed by myself—with the exception of the cello lead in movement 2 & and cello doubling in movement 3 (both played by Maggie Chafee). Also, all lyrics were written by me and all music was composed, recorded, edited, and mixed by myself in my studio in Nashville, Tennessee.
Although there are five clearly defined movements in Stages of Sonder, the entire 28-minute piece is ideally intended to be listened to in one sitting, as you would a symphony. It is, in essence, somewhat of a “concept album,” or one that is tied together by a unifying narrative theme. In this case, my narrative deals with the concept of “sonder,” a word defined by John Koenig as follows: n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk. I explore this concept through a first-person narrated experience of “sonder” related to the phenomenon, The Five Stages of Grief: Denial, Depression, Anger, Bargaining, and Acceptance. ... read more |
With this download you'll get high fidelity audio along with my graduate paper where I discuss my compositional philosophy and analyze works by Becca Stevens, Bjork, and Radiohead.
Listen to Stages of Sonder,
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What's quickly apparent when working with Aaron is that he is in love with making whatever project he is involved with as compelling and beautiful as possible. We've worked together in making free-improvised electronica, accompanying diverse songwriters, and performing contemporary classical music - in all those settings he as serious and prepared as he is excited to make the music. I'm particularly drawn to the sensibilities he has developed in working with various types of dance - Aaron thinks about making music and art in a way that no one else I know does... and his accompanying work with modern and improvised dance has a lot to do with that. |
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Aaron's number one quality when it comes to his work is that he lives and breathes with a passion and discernment for musical quality at every single turn of a project. He goes 110% percent into his projects without fail, and because he WANTS to. Whether it be performance, arrangement, production, writing, consultation or any number of his numerous and relevant skills, Aaron has an instinct and a drive that will steer you towards the best result for the collaboration using his vast knowledge and deft foresight of the end product. Have an idea or question? |
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Aaron has one of the most genuinely inquisitive minds I have ever encountered. His ability to ask the right questions and dissect problems down to the root is next to none. |
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I've worked with Aaron in a variety of creative contexts, on both the creative and business side of things. |
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