LINER NOTES with David Bixler featuring Miles Okazaki

After several decades of creating music in a manner that was
beginning to feel routine, guitarist Miles
Okazaki was searching for a fresh way to make music. He
examined the processes of artists Ed Ruscha,
Sol Lewitt, and Ken Price as
templates for creating. In possession of these new ideas gleaned
from these artists, he went into the studio with a group of
musicians that were given prompts which were recorded and formed
into what Miles refers to as musical “slabs.” These “slabs” were
then sanded, polished, and sculpted, and the result is
Miniture America, which Okazaki describes as a
sonic treasure hunt, a collection of 22 vignettes exploring the
wonder of chance encounters and “found” compositions.