...and so there I was downtown San Diego drinking sangria at Pokez on 10th and E. I still had this idea for a recording project that would be gratifying for it's members who lived in different cities. To me Proximity Effect seemed most fitting name since the "band" was displaced over the southwestern U.S.
Most of Auditory Rorschach was written on a tour bus when I was working as a live sound engineer. We were touring for 8 months and I had a mobile recording rig that I would set up on days off in green rooms, hotel rooms or anywhere with power. Most of the songs were originally named after the city I was in when I started writing. I really tried to convey a unique feeling with the music, seizing the opportunity of being somewhere that I had never been and may never return to. The idea was that I would write and record the main elements of songs and send them to my friend and drummer Chris Velasco who was living in Phoenix Arizona.
While the songs themselves don't follow a typical pop writing structure, they do have an ebb and flow that is best consumed in it's entire listening experience.
