Thomas Scharfenberg – Queen City Sounds and Art

Kaitlin Aurelia Smith, The Mosaic of Transformation cover

The melody and soundcapes of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s “The Steady Heart” seem to follow a pattern that evolves and expands organically in a kind of recursive drift of reflective emotional tides. The music video employs images of Smith in poses replicated in quadrants, the visuals created by Sean Hellfritsch and resonant with the work of the artist Thomas Scharfenberg. The glimmering tones and mantra-like vocals interweave with a simple, textural rhythm for an effect like a multidimensional drone made to put your mind in a state where you can cast off the usual distractions and, for a few moments anyway, swim out of the anxieties that seem to be compounding with the rapid succession of crises that have dropped on to us the last few years. The dynamics of the song has a fluidity that engenders a flexibility of mind that helps to get you unstuck from static habits. Watch the video for “The Steady Heart” on YouTube and connect with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith at the links below where you can find more information on her recently released album The Mosaic of Transformation out on Ghostly International.