Field has recently recorded his first solo release Subterranea which was made in an underground room in Roswell, New Mexico. We caught up with him in Silver City, and began by asking him if he thought music was a language. A language is something that communicates, maybe between two people, or it can communicate in time, like with a diary or a letter. The best things I spontaneously compose are things I've done at home when no one else was there to hear them. But I've experienced something, as if I was talking to myself.
Language is an external representation of internal thoughts.
It's taking this nebulous mass of whatever in your brain, and putting it in some kind of organized form. That has the effect of forcing you to organize it a little bit. And sitting by yourself and thinking isn't quite the same as sitting by yourself and talking. For me, I'm often surprised when I'm writing a letter, because I write things I didn't even know I was thinking, or feeling. There are two ways I make music.