With such diverse sound effects and samples as frogs croaking, children playing, side walk preachers preaching, and a New York subway door closing, The Education of the Individual Soul is tied to both nature and to everyday urban life, giving it the qualities of a sort of ethereal and mystical modern-day fairytale.

NPR: East Forest: 'Pacific Coast Highway'

The Optigan, or optical organ, plays samples from a transparency with sound waves printed on it, like the grooves on a record.

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Instead, he includes samples of original field recordings, looped over layers and layers of ambient sound and gentle instrumentation.

NPR: East Forest: 'Pacific Coast Highway'