A few years ago, while riding the subway, flying cross-country, and even dining in a few restaurants, I began "sculpting" sound on my iPad. Given its portability, I blindsided several of my highly talented and radiant wordsmith friends and asked each to improvise on one of my sound collages. The album "b1c1: spirit matters" is the sonic fruit of that labor (and their courage!). The songs sound like a hybrid cross-pollination of Saul Williams meets Terminator X meets Yo-Yo Ma.