Imagining a Forest

by Milieu

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neglectsound Milieu gives us too much. Incredibly long drifts that slow down time, slow down the world, give you moment to pause, to breathe, to accept that there are things you cannot control however much you wish to. Ambient excellence. Favorite track: Imagining a Forest (Part 2 / Section 2).

Dennis Albrecht If I would have to describe to people who are new to the genre, what Brian sets apart from other artists, this would be one of the albums I would direct them too.

On the surface so simple, but actually so rich and full of detail, this album webs you in with the sheer sensation of calmness and warmth, only very specific moments can create. Outstanding as always.

mario1984 Beautiful soundscapes. A place of peace where the Ego slowly disappears.

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1.	Imagining a Forest (Part 1) 01:29:30	info
2.	Imagining a Forest (Part 2 / Section 1) 02:30:26	info
3.	Imagining a Forest (Part 2 / Section 2) 02:30:27	info
4.	Imagining a Forest (Part 2 / Section 3) 02:23:42	info
5.	Imagining a Forest (Part 2 / Section 4) 02:21:05	info
6.	Imagining a Forest (Part 3) 04:30	info

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"Surely there is something more in each of the trees,
some living soul.
In my soul I plainly heard the wood-spirit join the refrain,
As some old tree thrill’d with its soul:
Know I bear the soul befitting me,
I too have consciousness, identity,
And all the rocks and mountains have, and all the earth."

-Walt Whitman, excerpt from 'Trees'

'Imagining a Forest' is the tenth published overnight broadcast in the Sleepbuilding series of longform generative ambient sessions. It was streamed as it was composed on February 22nd 2023,

The further in I cut a path into my overgrown creative real estate, the more apparent it becomes that there must exist certain works that can act as beacons - well-lit gates of welcoming, easy to locate, open and unconditional in their acceptance.

Not only do I feel obligated to build such functional structures, out of the basic need to share things that bring me to a state of happiness, but also because these open doors are a logistic necessity - realms of familiarity, pinpointed across the map, anchors of orientation.

'Imagining a Forest' is one such work, one of several I could now name that, for my experiences with them, could be a lighthouse in a dark and stormy night on the coastline. It is both a dream hovering in the dim air above a sleeping automaton, and the machine itself, having the dream. It presumes nothing about us, voyeuristically listening in, while we wonder if we are a part of this dream ourselves. The machine is ambivalent, it continues on as it dissolves the lines in the air that separate the two worlds.

In this moment, which the machine emanates for twelve hours, nothing happens, and for that, I am in awe of the beauty of being comfortably inert. The machine has grown this massive forest from only a single branch, and so it is my doing to build a fire at its entrance, where we can all sit and gaze at the soft colors fluttering in the even softer breath of this surreal blue wood.

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released June 13, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded and broadcast live at White Pillar on February 22nd, 2023 using the R-EW Audioholistics generative system and modular processing path. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text by Brian. Design by ABM&D using visual sampling of 'Abstract Composition' by Frantisek Kupka, ca. 1935. This is Milieu Music number MMD080. (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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