Full Circle

Full Circle is a collection of songs curated from 40 years of songwriting, and was recorded over 7 years in 6 countries and 18 locations, with 52 musicians, 8 engineers and 4 foley artists; and with binaural directional impulse responses (digital acoustic fingerprints) captured in 22 chapels, cathedrals, caves and caverns across North America, Europe and Asia — entirely in the native binaural format.

All music has been produced in the immersive Full Circle Sound format for earphone listening. Full Circle Sound is a recording technique I have personally developed to maximize the level of immersion when listening with earphones.

CREDITS

Mixed by Michael Harris
at Signature Sound Recording Studios
San Diego, California, USA

Immersive mastering by Michael Romanowski
at Coast Mastering
San Francisco, California, USA

Album cover design by Dan Lebrunn, Reactive Design
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

International production assistance by Sigi "Oida" Pilgerstorfer (Austria), Paul "Paulito" Gatien (Canada), and Per "Heh Pei-Er" van der Horst (Taiwan)
Travel Support by Sandrine Duffieux of Yukon Travel

All instruments, instrument sampling, re-amping, field recording, and impulse responses (acoustics) were recorded exclusively with the Neumann KU-100 microphone. Impulse responses were created using Altiverb software from Audio Ease.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

We gratefully acknowledge the funding support of Innovation & Entrepreneurship | Yukon University;
and the Yukon Government.

Special thanks to: Johnson Ong, Eric Hsu, Summer Wang and River Yau of New Vision Integrated Marketing for unwavering support; Wellington Chow for believing in me at the start of my binaural adventure; Serena Ma, Sailing Chen and Akiko Lin of Universal Music Publishing Taiwan; Benson Lin and ASUS Taiwan and North America for amazing computer support; Lius Arteaga and Nicolas Ritchie at Signature Sound Recording Studios; Arjen van der Schoot of Audio Ease; Paul Gatien and Todd Hooge for enthusiastically sharing in this journey; Markus Pöchinger for exploring the acoustics of Sankt Florian; Yu "Akiang" Yuan-keng for housing my beloved C7; Siki "Oida" Pilgerstorfer for gaining access to so many Austrian places and spaces (und Schwester Friedberg for the keys to the Admont kingdom); Pam and Fred for San Diego hospitality; Maureen Blaker Stephens and Leah DeForrest for loving support, and to Master Miao-Chan for his guiding light.

This album is dedicated to my mother and father who provided me with the lifelong affirmation that music is a noble path.