Watching movies growing up, I learned as most cinephiles do to praise the composer, especially when their music stands out ahead of what is on the screen.

Focusing on the score, I also learned about variations on a melody and in doing so, also saw the composer as someone who was always molding their compositions like clay, stressing the boundaries and breaking the barriers of their own constructions.

The fact that Matt Walker's first EP under of1000faces profoundly titles itself 'DDMMYYYY Variations', it offers a guide through the work and with it my full attention.

Also, the variations here are of the single released last year.

Simply put, the 4-track release summarizes our consciousness through a entire day starting with the dawning of our own self-awareness of "Wake, Sibling of the Sky".

Being that 0f1000faces is an electronic music project, it's easy to sense the sounds of industry. The percussion is the ticking of clocks, the beat establishing the energetic rush of how we start our day, thrusting ourselves into our daily routine which always needs our self-awareness to be the narrator.

Then we go to the second movement with "Day, Canvas White and Dry" where we've settled into a steady rhythm, neutral and still dramatically enhanced, but the clock is always there. Again, with our awareness, while not as caffinated as before, narrating.

Then we get to my favorite and also the longest track on the EP, "Night, Dressed in Feathers Black" which is more relaxed as we wind down. This time with a more ethereal tone with the use of Scott Tallarida's rhythm guitar and Alan Berliant's driving cool blue bass.

Unlike the first two movements, Brandon Robbins' vocals are put through effect filters, giving the track more of a darker evening atmosphere.

It's when we get to the fourth movement, "Sleep, Dreams to Dust" where the ticking of the clock turns into percussive shaker and the tone of the music becomes heavier and broad. The synths and the electronics take over on this one, seducing us into the darkness of the sleep we might not ever return from, which is really what we face in the process of our daily lives.

Through all of this, the same lyrics are sung on each track but differently depending on the foundation of each movement and in such a way that captures the mood that Matt is trying to establish.

Along with my familarity of the process of the composer, is the perception that without human awareness, there is no witness to the every day cycle of the mundane. We are here to be alert, to exist within the constant pliable boundaries of our rhythms through the stages of the day and in the end as witnesses to point to the moon. This music is the soundtrack of life basking in our subjective reality before that reality transitions from dreams to dust.