Veteran electronic composer-experimenter Craig Padilla’s Discovery of Meaning is a celebration of the endless lessons brought by living in the present, and he invites the listener into the intimacy of a single instant. A personal and contemplative record, Discovery of Meaning paints in sounds from across Padilla’s career. Elements of electronica, trance, new age, drone, ambient, and cosmic space music blend into something unique and spellbinding, though Padilla’s environment is also a significant influence. He draws from modular synth explorations in Oregon, serene naturescapes at his Cottonwood, California home and the hovering anxieties of the 2020 lockdown. Padilla first began Discovery of Meaning in Oregon while working at a modular synthesizer shop and learning more about modular techniques—but completed it at his home in California in the middle of the 2020 lockdown.
