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Asymptote’s focus defines the space where a perfect vision emerges, but remains just out of reach. It embodies a late-night meditation on closure, emergence and expectations; it’s deeply personal ambient atmosphere pulses inside reflective spaces. As listening deepens, sounds and textures emerge to reveal that our most profound truths are found not at the end, but in the eternal, atmospheric distance between the seeker and the source.
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INTERVIEW

Triplicate Records: What have you been up to lately?

Pollsign: Well with regards to this sphere: I want to say lots, but everything seems meticulously cared for, and then haphazardly released into the world. Behind the scenes I’m always thinking about new directions, options, or modes of working. But in the end, I don’t always have a clear plan, so that adds some internal conflict, ha.

Triplicate Records: What was the main inspiration behind “Asymptote”?

Pollsign: Asymptote is an interesting release – it’s a long form piece I’ve worked on since 2022, taking many breaks, changing things up, and frankly, shelving it for a quite a bit. It’s a shock that it actually survived a major tech failure I experienced in 2025 – I had the stems and entire contents of the project saved in an earlier form.

Originally it was inspired by a lot of early to mid 90s ambient. Stuff off Fax records and that lineage. Later on some elements of more ambient vaporwave releases wormed their way in. I really tried so many different things with this particular release, and it never felt like it was “getting there”. That’s where this idea of the asymptote came about. This form that never fully reaches a conclusive end.

It’s definitely an album about the frustration and beauty of feeling incomplete. I wanted to explore some things I go through often in creative pursuits – that deeply human feeling of getting closer and closer to a feeling, or a perfect version, while also realizing the past, present and future me might never agree on the end result.

I felt like I needed closure on it, though. So I worked to finally finish it off and gain that clarity the comes when you finally say “it’s time, this is done”.

Triplicate Records: Can you tell me about the separation between Pollsign and Survey Channel?

Pollsign: Initially pollsign was a means to work in more ambient spaces, and outside of my own expectations of my survey channel work. I’ve come to find the distinction doesn’t really make a difference, so I’ve sort of abandoned the idea of working under too many aliases. This release definitely encapsulates a lot of what I wanted to explore. I also really enjoyed working on the “jam” that ended up becoming “Resect”. I think it probably flew under the radar. I never had huge plans to market this project, so if and when I ever feel that something would benefit more from the freedom it brings, I’ll probably revisit.

Triplicate Records: When did you first become interested in creating music?

Pollsign: I grew up in a musical family in many ways – my parents both had really diverse taste. My mother tried hard to get us all interested in music with lessons. Her mother played piano and had this pretty big Hammond organ in her house that we’d mess around with as kids. As you do when you’re a kid though, you don’t have the foresight to work through things, and I struggled a lot with thoughts of inadequacy and fear, so I self-sabotaged many attempts at creating music. It wasn’t until 2019 that I really forced myself to mess around in that space. And after years of dormant creative energy, I like to think it paid off some.

Triplicate Records: What have you been listening to lately?

Pollsign: I’m bad about new music. I have my go-tos and don’t really actively seek out new music. Of course I’ve been listening to a lot of Boards of Canada since they dropped a new one. I’ve also been listened to a lot of Future Sound of London, Oval, Tetsu Inoue and Bill Laswell collabs . Also plenty of vaporwave sub-genres.

Triplicate Records: What’s next for you?

Pollsign: Not sure yet, but I have a lot of survey channel material I’m working on. Hopefully a tape release? Maybe some live shows in 2027? And I will likely continue to release under my vaporwave project in slow drips. 

Composed & Produced by Pollsign
Mastered by Michael Southard
Artwork by Michael Southard & Pollsign