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Beside a Green Window

by Milieu

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On May 7th, 2023 I unexpectedly recorded something very pretty with my modular system, troubleshooting a couple modules after a power blip and testing their fidelity after a full day without being powered on. I plugged up a very simple patch with the Buchla 258t dual-oscillator, playing a Mixolydian scale with timing information coming from a Turing machine, into two granular processors and a tapped delay. The resultant recording felt both active and still in beautiful ways, and after a little post-processing and overdubbing an uneventful field recording from my basement window in June of 2018, Beside a Green Window was complete.

I'm issuing this recording for free on the occasion of my fortieth year on this planet, wanting nothing more from it than a simple relaxing pastorale to accompany a pleasantly empty day of reflection and time with my family. Whatever meaning you find within it, or place upon it, is complete and correct. I seem to forever find myself beside one green window or another, pondering and patching and playfully exploring things while the sun goes up and comes back down again, day after day. This is a sunny day like any other, notable only because I can look back to 5:45 PM exactly forty years ago, and look no further, and this recording is something for me to mark that passage of time with.

I hope to be here a while longer to share things like this with you, wherever and whenever you are when you discover them. It goes without saying, but I'll say it all the same, that I am very proud to know my work has brought any sizeable peace or distraction to anyone besides myself - that I am content to be a part of it myself, just as you are, and to know that in the crystallized moment, frozen in the perpetual now of these recordings, we're able to be together, and I can say the things I want to say without speaking to you at all, and you can understand them too. Thank you for reading all of my verbose meandering, listening to and experiencing these wordless clouds of vibration with me. It means more than you think.

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released May 17, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar Workshop, May 7th 2023 using a Buchla 258t dual oscillator (Turing machine timing, Mixolydian scale) in tandem with two granular processors and a tapped delay. Field recording dated June 6th, 2018, Workshop basement window. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text by Brian. Design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music Distributed number 82. (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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