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Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, in the White Pillar Workshop! Three white recordable discs, printed and duplicated via an Imation D20, held inside a triple-jewel case with a hand-cut cardstock insert bearing custom text labels.

NOTE: This set contains 60-minute abridged versions of Natural Green, The Flooded Vestibule and The Slumbering Pillar, 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 Imagining a Forest, 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.	Natural Green (Part 1) 03:20:14	info
2.	Natural Green (Part 2) 04:37
3.	Natural Green (Part 3 / Section 1) 02:00:42
4.	Natural Green (Part 3 / Section 2) 02:01:10
5.	Natural Green (Part 3 / Section 3) 02:01:54
6.	Natural Green (Part 3 / Section 4) 02:02:58
7.	Natural Green (Part 4) 03:26
8.	Natural Green (Part 5) 02:56:17

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"The holy, familiar hall, built long ago, is aired and filled with heavenly, softly echoing, quietly modulating music. A cloud of joy sends fragrance over the green carpets. Shining in the distance, a splendid row of gold-wreathed cups stands, well-ordered, full of ripe fruits.Tables stand at the sides, rising above the leveled ground. For now in the evening, loving guests have gathered, coming from far."

-Friedrich Hölderlin, excerpt from 'Celebration of Peace'

'Natural Green' is the thirteenth Sleepbuilding broadcast to be published, continuing the expansive lineage of long-form generative ambient recordings that are offered digitally for free to everyone. It was broadcast overnight on June 25th, 2023 at YouTube, and like 'Burned Oath' before it, runs over twelve hours long - nearly a full day of sonic utility with no right or wrong application.

This composition was a first for the series in that it used the Arturia Microfreak to convey the sequencing and synthesized voice, rather than the R-EW Audioholistics modular system, which usually handles these tasks. I've written prolifically about the Microfreak before, and once again, it displays a fantastic versatility and range as an instrument that can in many ways keep pace with a fully developed modular system. The sound of 'Natural Green' consists of a formant synthesizer voice I developed alongside the machine's complex patching matrix, making efficient use of the non-stepped sample and hold low frequency oscillator, the bandpass filter and a very slow arpeggiator cycling through four paraphonic notes (in the Mixolydian scale) with multiple different randomization attributes applied. The R-EW Audioholistics system supplemented the Microfreak by providing timing/tempo information from a Turing machine and probabilistic/subdivider trigger array, as well as generating a stereo image from the Microfreak's monophonic output with constantly evolving reverberation, modulation and some additional filtering via Strymon's Starlab module.

Texturally, the Sleepbuilding broadcasts tend to fall loosely into two categories when I listen to them: daytime listening, and nighttime listening - with 'Natural Green' decidedly feeling more a part of the former category to me. It feels vibrantly alive in a floral and sunny way, with dapples of orange light fluttering across leaves and blooms in a warm Summer breeze. The melodies shift in and out of focus, at times distant and spacious like a blue sky, and at others, closer and intimate, a macro-lens view of a thriving ecosystem.

I chose this recording for publication after a number of factors were considered - a longtime listener who works in the visual art world asked about it, having enjoyed it when it was first broadcast, and then following this, I consulted with the I Ching to determine where the series might next go, with the I Ching illuminating 'Natural Green' in such a way that I felt like I'd missed something obvious up to that moment. In many ways, both topical and conceptual, 'Natural Green' is about sharing space, familial with the Earth, acknowledgement in an almost spiritual sense of the reality that none of us are really alone in this world, and that wherever we might end up if we are to enrich and evolve our place in the universe, we must go there together.

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released July 26, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded live at White Pillar on June 25th, 2023 using the Arturia Microfreak in conjunction with the R-EW Audioholistics modular system. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Prose excerpt by Friedrich Hölderlin. Text by Brian. Design by ABM&D using visual sampling of 'Blue and Green' by Frantisek Kupka, ca. 1921-1923. This is Milieu Music number MMD085. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2023. All nights preserved. Special thanks to A.T. for the gift of the Microfreak and to S.A. for the poetry.

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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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