Hold Me in a Field

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d york Wow! This is absolutely gorgeous! I haven't made it all the way through yet but so far, this is my favorite overnight broadcast to show up on Bandcamp. Favorite track: Hold Me in a Field (Part 2 / Section 4).

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NOTE: This set contains 60-minute abridged versions of Hold Me in a Field, Rain Curtain and Compline, and has been produced to satisfy the numerous requests made for physical editions of the Sleepbuilding series. Purchase of this set will come with the full digital version of Hold Me in a Field, and Bandcamp codes will be emailed for the second and third broadcasts as well. The digital releases themselves will remain free, as these sets are for collectors and/or people who prefer not to purchase digital music.

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1.	Hold Me in a Field (Part 1) 46:59	info
2.	Hold Me in a Field (Part 2 / Section 1) 03:00:12	info
3.	Hold Me in a Field (Part 2 / Section 2) 03:00:26	info
4.	Hold Me in a Field (Part 2 / Section 3) 03:00:05	info
5.	Hold Me in a Field (Part 2 / Section 4) 02:06:38	info

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"Hold me in a field of molten flowers, take me to the ground."
-F. Schneider, 1989

In what has come to be affectionately referred to as the 'Sleepbuilding' series, I offer you another twelve-hour pastorale of generative ambient music: 'Hold Me in a Field' was broadcast overnight on March 11th, 2023, and has now been dutifully cleaned up and mastered for publishing here.

'Hold Me in a Field' was created using the Spectra mode oscillator within Noise Engineering's Versio module (running the alternative Multi Versio firmware), alongside a slew of filters, two granular processors and a digital tape delay unit with four heads. It conjured up images of flower fields and orange sun that was a bit too far away to really be that warm.

Sometimes I find that these overnight broadcasts bring a lot of ideas and considerations bubbling up to the surface of my awareness, and other times, I experience a pleasantly empty-headed feeling, somewhere between momentary contentment and a low-level drip of topical stimulation. 'Hold Me' is absolutely the latter, a comforting (force)field to be cradled within, where everything just feels cozy and pain seems very distant.

I chose to issue this recording on Earth Day as well, owing to the aforementioned sensation of happy stasis, because every day seems to bring more doom and gloom in the news, a continually heightened awareness of the world not actually being very okay, and with this, a perpetual reminder that I can do very little about it. As my brain always tries to find a way to refute failure, to reactively push back against it to perhaps re-balance the scales when negative things happen, I return again and again to my self-care rituals such as the one that brought 'Hold Me in a Field' into existence. Music used as a holistic recovery method, with as much automation and as little fuss as possible in the making - that is all this is. Whatever I find inside its wide and shallow landscape as time passes is secondary, whatever it means to you is entirely canonical.

Happy Earth Day - be well, be kind and try not to work too hard.

YouTube playlist of all Sleepbuilding broadcasts: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbcjgVJRSgeSHy00DZLB8zFFIJbIgcYjo

All prior Sleepbuilding releases to date (all FREE):

MMD071 (Creation) milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/creation
MMD072 (A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods) milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-small-fire-in-the-snowy-woods
MMD073 (Cirrus) milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/cirrus
MMD074 (Zephyrean) milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/zephyrean
MMD075 (Chiasmus) milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/chiasmus
MMD076 (Relief Upon the Landscape) milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/relief-upon-the-landscape

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released April 22, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded and broadcast live at White Pillar Workshop, March 11th 2023. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text by Brian. Design by ABM&D using visual sampling from 'Drawings of Curves' by Frantisek Kupka, ca. 1926. This is Milieu Music number MMD077. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2023. All nights preserved.

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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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