The seeds that germinated between Endlings - a long-running
musical collaboration between John Dieterich and Pulitzer Prize winner Raven Chacon - and the Vancouver New Music Circle extends back the Summer and Fall of 2020 and has resulted not only in an album of new work but a fully interactive online instrument presented as a website. More than a website, the project is described as a “shared folder, many folders, an anonymous process, a translation device, a score, a text, a sound, more sounds, words ,many scores ,a multiplier, an exercise in collaboration, a bridge, a mixer, an index, a list, room with rooms in it, a journey or a trip, an album to be.” The creation of the album and the website, "took place on the internet,on many screens, between email threads, in Albuquerque,and on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ílwətaʔɬ q̓ic̓əy̓, q̓wɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ and Semiahma First Nations.” This album is a tangible and resonating trace of the creative work and interactions that have been developing and growing among all the artists involved in Vancouver New Music's PARALLEL 03 over a few months of collective work, dialogues, creations, discoveries and exchange in the Summer and Fall of 2020. In its labyrinthine nature the magic PARALLEL 03 website further complements and reveals the richness and powerful interconnections of this ongoing process. The album features the work of Parmela Attariwala, Adrian Avendaño, John Brennan, Elisa Ferrari, Marina Hasselberg, Alanna Ho, Steve Chow and Joel Schuman.

As an album, PARALLEL 03 is nurtured by many things: abstraction, analogy, beauty, brainstorming, intuition, tension, divergent thinking, questions, improvisation, noise, anxiety, diversity, magical thinking, playfulness, ambiguity, serendipity, storytelling, experiment and the power of imagination ...

...dispersion, infiltration, osmosis,
adoption, abstraction, contagion ...
music here finally aspires to the dimension of scent.
Musical communication only exists
on a purely emotional level.
Emotionality is immanent,
expression is definitely linked to the instant,
instant is unpredictably transcendent.