April's Blissed Communion

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	1.	April's Blissed Communion (Part 1) 45:12
	2.	April's Blissed Communion (Part 2) 03:13:50

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"Let us welcome the season, and taste of that bliss, which the sun-shine and daylight forbids."

-Thomas Brerewood, excerpt from 'Autumn' (1770)

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'April's Blissed Communion' is the sixteenth Sleepbuilding session to mastered and published. It was broadcast on the evening of April 24, 2023 using the R-EW Audioholistics modular system, primarily focusing on two granular samplers that were being fed the signal from Wildfire Laboratories' Yanqui oscillator - a fixed-frequency 389 hertz CMOS oscillator with no controls whatsoever - as both samplers were then directed to relay this audio information back in the Dorian scale.

A much more 'modest' length of session, 'April's Blissed Communion' offers an accessible return to the Sleepbuilding series after taking a month off, in order to complete recording work for 'Watch the Head.' Although it was recorded in April, as rainstorms coated the green valley with the yearly promise of new life, the textural personality of this session felt apt for the onset of Autumn as well, now creeping in very slowly and subtly this year. Sometimes, there is enough cool air and wind compelling it over the Far Hills, that if you were to close your eyes, Spring and Autumn in Ohio would feel interchangeable. Having spent 33 long and sweltering years in the green Hell of the deep south, I am always in awe of the abundant beauty of where I now reside. It is my sincere hope that this soft-focus synthesizer pastorale also accompanies you, wherever you are, in a gentle and pleasant way. '23 has been a long and chaotic year, and now, it is finally ending.

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released October 13, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Generated and broadcast live overnight on April 24, 2023 at White Pillar, using the R-EW Audioholistics modular system. Mastered by The Analog Botanist, October 2023. Text by Brian. Poetry excerpt by Thomas Brerewood, 1770. Design by ABM&D using visual sampling of "Nocturne" by Frantisek Kupka, ca. 1910. This is Milieu Music number MMD089. (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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