Isochronous Waves

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Following in the vein of February's 'Silver Ore / River Garden' - which is to say, recordings that emerged from the many different Vibratelepathos sessions that felt distinct enough to issue separate from that imprint - is the Isochronous Waves session. Recorded live on the evening of April 27th, 2021, and broadcast online at Twitch as well, Isochronous Waves was an improvisation built with the ARP Odyssey monophonic analog synthesizer and the R-EW Audioholistics generative system and modular processing path.

The ARP Odyssey used here was purchased from David Tagg, and it has since become one of my favorite synthesizers I've ever had the pleasure to use. Not only does this machine possess what I consider to be one of the most functional and beautiful design interfaces out there, it also seems to continually avoid destabilization when it is pushed into directions that most other synthesizers fail to reach. What I mean by this, is that the three filter types, the ring modulator, even the sample and hold - they all seem to convey eloquent and interesting curvatures and textures, no matter how hard or incongruously they are driven and modulated. The ARP is, in this way, very much like the Roland Juno 106, and every single time I've sat down with these instruments, they assert their own distinct personalities within the framework of whatever recording is underway.

Musically, this session conjured up imagery of great whales slowly bowing up and down beneath the ocean's surface. Dappled in ribbons of golden sunlight that flutter through the slate blue like unspooled tape, their songs echoing out through the dense watery forests like angelic horns filling all the rooms of a deep blue heaven. In this place, time is slower, movement is muted, light is softer. It is a perfect analog for the stillness of meditation and the mindfulness of deep breathing, and has accompanied me for the last year while I do those exact things. I offer it here to the public, in the hopes that it can facilitate even just a little bit of manual disconnection from the impossibly depressing world outside. I hope it helps you sleep, or think, or perhaps even just read something or rest your eyes, blotting out the day's headlines with a long slow brush stroke.

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released March 4, 2022

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded live at White Pillar, April 27th 2021, using an ARP Odyssey monophonic analog synthesizer in tandem with the R-EW Audioholistics generative system and modular processing path, channeled through the veins of Mackie ProFX8 and Peavey FX2 mixing desks, with onboard custom DSP FX and outboard rack FX (Alesis Quadraverb, Lexicon Alex) providing supplemental reverberation and filter/EQ processing. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Design and text by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number MMD064. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2022. 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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