Lost And Sound
Lost And Sound
Paul Hanford
Visible Cloaks – Listening Beyond the Real
1 hour 1 minutes Posted Jul 8, 2026 at 3:00 am.
Why Listening Shapes Everything
Making Music For The Journey
Deadlines That Force A Finish
Album Listening Sessions As Gallery
Building Virtual Space In Stereo
Blurring Field Recording And Synthesis
Why We Crave Sonic Realism
Fourth World Music And Cultural Exchange
Streaming Mood Music And The Market
Positive Space And Composing With Silence
Album Details And Closing Notes
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Visible Cloaks’ music has long occupied a space between the natural and the synthetic: sounds that can feel tactile, architectural, intimate and slightly impossible all at once. With the release of Paradessence — the project’s first full-length album in nine years — I spoke with The Cloak’s Spencer Doran for a wide-ranging conversation about process, perception and the increasingly complicated act of listening. Spencer talks about the strange malleability of recorded sound; about mixing as an...