Establishing the mood with a rising meditative frequency, expanding into a choral vocal synth with shooting textures and cerebral drum loops, Qubits by Stratafield opens with dimensionality and subversion.
The opus evolves into an 8-bit, dynamic trip which feels like the beginning stages of a DMT experience. We appreciate the intricacy of the design and the unique sounds that manifest. There is a playfulness that comes to life, and the continuity of the immersive vocal synth maintains an almost zen vibe.
Mid-way through the piece, we trip into a liquid dimension, brought to life visually by the underwater segment of the music video. We appreciate the cosmic notions and there is no doubt that Qubits would be perfect for the score of a video game like Sonic The Hedgehog.
The audio-visual journey begins inside a superconducting quantum computer, where three industrious Qubits give rise to new life forms through intricate honeycomb structures. This is a cinematic metaphor for evolution, and unfolds across five acts: The Quantum Computer (Act I), followed by a wormhole passage into Qubits Spawn New Life Forms in Space (Act II), another wormhole transition into Qubits Spawn New Life Forms in Water (Act III), then Onto the Land (Act IV), and culminates in the grand finale, Into the Eye.
Speaking on the release, Stratafield confesses, “I had the whole journey in my head while I was writing the music – from the qubits to that last shot inside the mudskipper’s eye. It’s really one idea told in two languages at once, music and video.”
We learn that Stratafield is the instrumental multi-genre project of Atlanta-based composer and artist Peter Lewman. His creative process embraces both emerging technology and traditional artistic craft, combining AI-assisted visual generation with meticulous human editing.
Needless to say, we are in awe, and will be adding Qubits to our New Music Spotlight playlist when it launches on Spotify, whilst we continue to stream Stratafield‘s wider body of work, including Army Ant.