Dense textural tracts crafted with processed guitar, mining a vein of inquiry into sound perception, the interplay of time and space and the emotions induced. That’s Sublamp. Ambient since 2005 by appointment to such as eilean, Hibernate, and Dragon’s Eye, host of Sister Maps, his first in nearly a decade, Ryan Connor, engaged as a sound designer on a live TV show over a 3-week tour of 19 cities was prompted to muse on our understanding of place—its limitations when experiencing only fleeting glimpses of it. Each track covers the same duration, as if simultaneously captured in six places across an imaginary city; subtly influencing each other, some sounds seep in between, intersecting, flowing seamlessly into one another with parallel placement. It makes for altered listening, like meandering through an unfamiliar city with only personal experience available to make sense of it. A city is not linear, as map is not territory, showing only a delineated space, not what occurs within. Elsewhere something is always going on, paralleling your experience.
— Alan Lockett, Igloo Magazine