Susmit Pudasaini releases his first sound piece, "Do You Mind?"

"Travel in my mind, your mind, do you mind?"  The words reverberate like the yelps of endless tourists passing through the Grand Canyon.  The echo makes you wonder where the rest of this soundscape will go.  Knowing Susmit's work on a personal level I understand the strong rhythms that shape the art of this young man from Nepal.  Understanding this steady beat that pulses through Susmit's life and work I begin to wonder why he decided to release a beat-less piece as his first public offering.  While it lacks percussion, or any sort of drums for that matter, there is a clear sense of rhythm as evidenced by the syncopated echoes and vocal repetitions.  Susmit has chosen to catch the listener's ear with something familiar to all of us hear on earth, the human voice.  Before any of us hear the monotonous beat of our industrialized urban landscape we hear the voice of our mother as we expand slowly in her womb. "Do you mind?" is a piece that removes external noise so that we can focus on the rhythm inherent in all of our voices.  Space to breathe is provided to prepare us for a long journey ahead.  At least that's what I got from it.  - Mars Jupiter