A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods

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Christopher Wright Quiet, peaceful, slowly shifting tones helping me focus on anything or nothing

Marcel 'Nemo' Frehse thank you for this, Brian! i really can imagine my own local old garden in the forest here, late afternoon and almost dark, and a small campfire near the old shed .. a wonderful and cozy release, top notch!

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Ingredients: clean air, cool mist, warm sunsets and endless dreams. Favorite track: A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods (Part I).

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	1.	A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods (Part I) 02:06:02
	2.	A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods (Part II) 02:01:10
	3.	A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods (Part III / Section I) 02:02:22
	4.	A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods (Part III / Section II) 03:01:12
	5.	A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods (Part III / Section III) 02:38:30

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"O you whom I often and silently come where you are that I may be with you,
As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me."

-Walt Whitman

'A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods' was originally broadcast for about fourteen hours from the evening of December 27th to the afternoon of December 28th, 2022. It is a piece of generative music, created with the R-EW Audioholistics modular system, primarily focusing upon the Karplus-Strong synthesizer within Noise Engineering's Versio module (running Spectra mode in the user-designed Multi Versio firmware), which played soft and fuzzy ambient music in a custom scale. I revisited the patch two different times during the night, each time in a progressively more relaxed and sleepy state, which allowed for three distinct variations to materialize.

This recording follows November's 'Creation' in form and function, and is designed as a name-your-price longform ambient work that I hope will offer you some relief from the world when it is tiresome, and also enrich that same world when you are ready to return to it. There is no right or wrong way to use this recording, and I encourage listeners to experiment with it as if it were a renewable utility in their day to day lives.

Twelve hours of the original broadcast were captured and archived at YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=csaqqBaYTOk

PATCH NOTES:

Voice: Noise Eng Multi Versio (Spectra mode)
Sequencing: Multi Versio (Custom tuned scale)
Timing: Cute Labs Missed Opportunities, Blue Lantern CMOS Party (Boolean) + Doepfer A-160-1 divider
Filters: 2HP LPF, Doepfer A-121-3 LPF
Modulation: Behringer 150, Buchla 266t Source of Uncertainty
FX: Mutable Inst Clouds (Vanilla)
Mixer: Behringer 305, Zoom H1

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released January 23, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Generated and recorded at White Pillar, December 27-28, 2022, using the R-EW Audioholistics modular system. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D, using visual sampling from 'Colour Planes, Winter Recollection' by Frantisek Kupka, ca. 1913-1923. Poem by Walt Whitman. This is Milieu Music number MMD072. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2023. All nights preserved.

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Milieu Dayton, Ohio

Psychedelic electronic music, sun-warmed analog ambient and sci-fi braindance, for cats, aliens and epicureans alike.

I also release music as Coppice Halifax: coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com

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