Artist: Hollan Holmes & Resonant Drift
Tracklist:
1. Many Voices 10:07
2. Finding our Way 5:52
3. Spirited Encounter 6:36
4. Ancient Whispers 4:50
5. The Apollo Frequency 6:06
6. Edge of Tranquility 5:54
7. Tempest Rising 8:31
8. Long Voyage Home 5:53
9. The Ties that bind 6:58
December 1, 2015 - The journey has begun and a major milestone has been reached with the completion of a two-year project: the collaboration between Ambient duo Resonant Drift (Bill Olien and Gary Johnson) and Electronic Space music composer Hollan Holmes, with the release of their debut album, Common Ground. From this release forward, Common Ground will serve as the name of this collaboration and subsequent CDs will possess unique titles. We chose simply to call our first release Common Ground. Toward the end of production on the Common Ground project, the three band members, Bill Olien, Gary Johnson and Hollan Holmes, began exploring ideas for the art and design for the music's packaging. Several ideas were discussed and they decided to build upon a theme based on a Planetary Gear Set, a mechanical engine component whereby a number of Planetary gears - in this case three (representing the three members of Common Ground) - rotate in synchronization around a central Sun gear (representing the common musical endeavors of the group) and within an outer Ring gear. The plan was for Hollan to model the components in 3d software (Maya), then surface (or "texture") the 3d objects, light the scene and render it all in Arnold, a powerful rendering engine used throughout the animation and movie industry. Hollan's original estimate for the time necessary to complete the job was 150 hours. In the end, it required approximately 176 hours, from the initial sketches to the final design and layout of the physical digipak.
