Works on Evan King

The Sky Doesn't End at the Top of the Page

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Featured on KUTX Song of the Day, November 2023

“The Sky Doesn’t End at the Top of the Page” is a euphoric, genre-hopping exploration of the way our mental models of the world develop—or cease to develop—as we age.

The album’s title recalls a childhood epiphany–the kind that so firmly demarcates iterations of our understanding of the world that we retain a memory of it long into adulthood. As a child learns to draw, their depiction of the sky begins with scribbles. Yet, as we age, we realize how crude a representation that is: our skies accordingly grow in fidelity, first to include solid blocks of color, then gradients of multiple shades. Our mental models of wants and needs, fact and fiction, and meaning undergo the same incremental progression and occasional plateau. Ultimately, no matter how good the model is, it’s just an estimation. Only through experience, occasional exploration, and repeated failure can we develop an understanding of ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us.

Northern California, Summer 2023

Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Shot on Fujifilm Superia 400 with a Canon T50 camera in Sonora, CA and Half Moon Bay, CA.

My Plants Are Hanging on by a Thread

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

“My Plants Are Hanging on by a Thread” is a cozy, hazy art-pop exploration of the interplay between everyday human life and the natural world. I released this EP as Olivia Nowadays in 2022 along with my friend and collaborator, Kent Carson.

Blending field recordings with lush instrumentation, warm rhythms, and lyrics imbued with the whimsy of magical realism, the five songs on MPAHOBAT dip in and out of the experiences of different people, animals, and automatons to explore this fraught relationship between human lifestyles and nature.

Curvature of the Earth

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Featured in Bandcamp’s New and Notable, December 2021

A series of experimentations by my collaborator Kent Carson and I with a trove of recordings we’d gathered during travels abroad ultimately became the genesis of our musical project and pseudonym Alex Green: an outlet for sonic collages of synth textures, found sounds, and fluid input from collaborators that form a proxy for the lived experience of different locales.

In late 2021, we released “Curvature of the Earth” as Alex Green. Seen through the eyes of Alex as a lone, anonymous traveler, the album is an ambient, spiritual, and sometimes humorous journey drawing upon samples collected around the globe.

Texas Hill Country, 2021

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Shot on Fujifilm Superia 400 with a Canon T50 camera in Canyon Lake, TX.

Shot on Kodak Portra 800 with a Canon T50 camera in Austin, TX during the winter storm that caused the 2021 Texas power crisis.

Okinawa, 2017

Sat, 01 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Shot with a Yashica Electro 35 rangefinder camera around Okinawa, Japan.