Rhythm Cafe MKE
VOL53 - Maximiano - Waveform Mountain
Season 2025 Episode 26 | 5m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Join Maximiano for a raw and moving performance of their original song, "Waveform Mountain."
This track dives into the difficult feeling of painful hope that comes with losing a dear friendship. Written for two childhood friends after a painful rift, Maximiano explores the search for closure that ultimately keeps you stuck. The song's title comes from the artist’s habit of diving into music production, endlessly mixing and splicing audio waveforms late into the night, as a means of escape
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Rhythm Cafe MKE is a local public television program presented by MILWAUKEE PBS
Rhythm Cafe MKE
VOL53 - Maximiano - Waveform Mountain
Season 2025 Episode 26 | 5m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
This track dives into the difficult feeling of painful hope that comes with losing a dear friendship. Written for two childhood friends after a painful rift, Maximiano explores the search for closure that ultimately keeps you stuck. The song's title comes from the artist’s habit of diving into music production, endlessly mixing and splicing audio waveforms late into the night, as a means of escape
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(guitar case clatters) (bright guitar music) - Hi, I'm Maximiano, and this is "Waveform Mountain."
("Waveform Mountain" by Maximiano) (bright guitar music continues) ♪ Your flowers are dying in my window ♪ ♪ They took their time drying out ♪ ♪ Maybe they'll feed the garden ♪ ♪ And give something new the will to sprout ♪ ♪ The silence tells a story ♪ ♪ Of how we got in this mess ♪ ♪ How you need saving ♪ ♪ From whatever comes next ♪ (Maximiano whistling) (bright guitar music continues) ♪ Riding the waveform mountain ♪ ♪ Trying my best to get away ♪ ♪ I'll meet you in the next sunrise ♪ ♪ And hope you have some new song to play ♪ ♪ All that I remember ♪ ♪ The tears and the shame ♪ ♪ You made yourself the villain ♪ ♪ Then the punishment came ♪ (Maximiano whistling) "Waveform Mountain" is a song about how painful hope can be.
It's a song written into the feeling of losing a friendship.
It's written for two old friends of mine, friends from high school, friends from childhood, who, in our adult lives, we hurt each other and drifted apart.
And... I found very little closure from the way that we left things.
And I also found that looking for closure was something that was keeping me from moving on.
And I would dive into mixing music, reading waveforms, cutting them up, splicing endlessly late into the night, and I just found myself running away from the feelings.
So I wrote the song as a way to express not only the feelings, the story, the unsettledness, but also, to remind myself and them if they ever hear it, that I still love them, and that I still know that at some point we will change from who we were.
I've already changed, you know.
They already have to, I'm sure, and that I know at some point, we'll be able to come back together.
But until then, I just have my hope, and my hope hurts.
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