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What if home never was where you had to get to? ANTHONY JOHN SISSIAN takes that notion and digs into it with “The Sonic Map Home,” a track that uses sound as a compass, pulling the listener into an introspective discovery.
The underlying idea is simple and powerful, home is not necessarily a place outside of ourselves. The home search might turn into a trip within ourselves that ultimately shows us that what we were looking for was always within us. The song is included on the concept album HOME: The Sovereign Architect of Reality, a bigger creative endeavor about reclaiming authorship of your own existence. That context provides weight to the track, situating it within a greater examination of identity, awareness, and personal agency.
The interesting thing about the release is the people behind the song. ANTHONY JOHN SISSIAN is a Sydney-based singer-songwriter, classical composer, practicing lawyer, and published legal researcher. He takes concepts generally associated with philosophy and scholarly discussion and turns them into accessible songs.
That combination places “The Sonic Map Home” in an interesting spot in his artistic world. Instead of portraying philosophical ideas as distant and unreachable, the song uses music to engage with them on an emotional level.