The Collaborative Imagination Collective, a Buddhist practice-specific group of loosely connected communal musical projects, is just as much a literary creation as a musical project. Recorded in Vienna in 2016, its first set is based on a talk by Leer at a cafe. The digital materials have been reimagined, and the resulting 15 songs bustle easily. Drawing on the romantic tradition, inspired by the music of Alan Moore or Steven Royce, and including comic strips from the 1950s, the songs bear a Jungian aspect, with lectern-like intonation doing the talking.

Eugenio Cortini’s organist-guitarist procedural electronics occupy the low-end continuum, and Nick Zanozzi’s synthy reverie at the high end bears a Faustian whiff. The vocal harmonies of Cortini add a new layer of meaning to some of the songs, such as “Re-Cognition”, which sounds like a pinko Jean Paul with a snake charmer's goatee. Leer has a knack for adapting old material with new twists, and the collaged sound of the seven songs on Autumnal evolve predictably into nothing but primordial gossamer.

Wider audience members might point out that the music bears the hallmarks of postmodernist composers such as Richard Serban or Richard Holmstrom, who, through the use of computer aided synthesis, can fashion abstract, dream-like drones. These drones, they may point out, flow into operatic bursts of frenzied, distorted baroque-fantasy, but the music is more surely a product of the computer technique, its sonic collation embodying a single vision of a single lost world.

The studio album was inspired by film scores by Nolan Nolan and Terry Riley, with additions by Joel Stokley (“The Inevitable Quiet”) and Karl Stationer (“The Inevitable Quiet”), and performances by Field Music ensemble. After Stationer died in 2013, Leer turned his music over to a younger group of musicians, including a roster including Brandon Lopez, Kaleb Stephenson, Brian Gibson and Brian Pickett. Together they created the soundtrack for Brooklyn, New York, in which a dystopian love story between a man and a woman ensues as a post-nuclear Manhattan sky-diving race against time. The disc opens not too far from where the film is taking place.