In 1968, Phillip K. Dick posed the question »Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?« Half a decade later, dystopian visions of a world governed by machines have long caught up with the uncanny reality we are currently living, one in which phones and computers guide our every move, and where our perceived sense of self-autonomy regularly happens to be nothing more than a meticulously conceived figment of machine learning.

For his debut release on Vaknar, Yuto Ohashi's dives deep into the digital ether by contrasting a pervasive atmosphere of machinery blips and appliance clatter with dreamlike, angelic drones, all coalesced by what seems like the constant underpinnings of nebulous AI dialogue – forming the premise of a natural world submerged in virtual slumber.