Photo by Marcus Fischer

William Selman

William Selman is a Portland, Oregon-based multi-disciplinary artist whose sound work uses field recordings, synthesizers, acoustic instruments, and digital processing techniques to explore themes such as place and non-places, embodiment, atmosphere, vagueness, and the ambiguity between the natural and the artificial. He co-manages the Critique of Everyday Life label with Chris Miller (Gunnar Haslam) and plays in the improvisational trio Wild Card of Cascadia with Paul Dickow (Strategy) and Marcus Fischer. He has released sound works on Mysteries of the Deep, Hausu Mountain, Digitalis, and Critique of Everyday Life.. 

For booking inquiries: info@mysteriesofthedeep.net

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Releases

The Weather Indoors
Vinyl LP, Digital Album

INTERPRETATIONS VOL II - MUSICA ENTERRADA Digital Album

INTERPRETATIONS VOL II - MUSICA ENTERRADA
Digital Album

CHAÎNE OPÉRATOIRE Digital Album

CHAÎNE OPÉRATOIRE
Digital Album

GUERO VARIATIONS Digital Album

GUERO VARIATIONS
Digital Album

NAMING BEFORE NAMES Digital Album

NAMING BEFORE NAMES
Digital Album

MUSICA ENTERRADA Vinyl LP, Digital Album

MUSICA ENTERRADA
Vinyl LP, Digital Album

URBANISM AND ECOLOGY Digital Album

URBANISM AND ECOLOGY
Digital Album

What if music had no beginning, no end? Can music exist "for itself" or "of itself," without structure constraining it, defining it? Can music be non-linear, non-narrative, simply experiential, existential? The second full-length album on Mysteries of the Deep, Musica Enterrada from Portland's William Selman, neither answers these questions nor supposes them.