"hey,
first i should say that the work i sent you is recorded at very a very low volume; its also very minimal. I tried to increase the volume on the cdr i sent you but i don't have any software with which to 'master' my work which is all recorded to a digital eight track recorder. one of the problems i have with my recordings is that they tend to be too quiet and the work which i sent you is an extreme example of that... anyway let me talk a little about my work.
it is always a challenge for me to talk about my work, I never know where to begin. i work with different methods but for the pieces which i sent to you i think that i was trying to create pieces which had very few sounds but had a recognizable structure.
not only a structure in terms of a progression in time but also a structure in terms of where sounds are placed; there is a constant textured sound and then other sounds which come in and sort of rise out of the texture. i think one of the goals i have in my work is to distill sound to their essence so that you have few sounds but they carry a lot of meaning, in other words when i am working on a composition i listen for what i can use and i try to show that sound from different angles and hear how it interacts with other sounds. i know this description is kind of vague but i don't know what else to say really, i think that my work is very personal and i hope that people can listen and get something from the work.
(e-mail of Asher to Jos Smolders, December 2005)" (From the EarLabs' release page)