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So pleased to be back after 6 weeks away. 'I Sat In One Place Until It Became Many' is tonight's theme and the title of the Microfiche song I played first. I don’t know the meaning behind that title from the band's persepctive, but what it made me think of is the act of deep listening – in two ways. The first, a lot of what I’m playing tonight is what I was listening to on the plane home from Europe, working my way through radio submissions, through albums I’d been meaning to listen to. It’s amazing to me how fast the time can go, where you can go, when all you are doing is listening. But it also made me think of the theme I did right before I left and some of the conversations it started with listeners during that show and after. About passive listening vs undivided listening, and I really appreciated that many of you said that you listen to this show and the music we hear together in an undivided way. Some of you, as it turns out, sit or lie there and do nothing else but listen to this show. Somewhere there’s a meaning in that which sounds a bit like I Sat In One Place Until It Became Many.