"The euphony of the rustling meadow was my education; among the flowers I learned to love."
-Friedrich Hölderlin, excerpt from 'When I Was a Boy' (1797-98)
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'Quirinal Silver Boa' is the curiously named 19th Sleepbuilding release to be published for free. It is unique in its source - a deep exploration of a single-note sample from a fellow synthesist, integrated into the R-EW Audioholistics modular system and used as a molecular seed to generate the piece. It was originally broadcast overnight on May 26th, 2023.
Due to the external sample usage that shaped this piece, 'Quirinal Silver Boa' is perhaps the most proof of concept broadcast to be included in this series thus far. It is highly illustrative of the worlds of variation that are possible with a deep-dive of modular processors, granular resamplers, and a large amount of filtering, equalization and reverberation.
Musically speaking, 'QSB' is played in the Ionian scale, and offers a distinct sense of isolation - notes of sound blowing in a slow desert wind, becoming a dusky perfume as they mingle with the grains of Urth. Outlining surrealistic structures that hover in the air, between the dirt and the clouds, the melodic lines wander through almost-night darkness, and find us here, between waking and sleeping, waiting and listening for them.
I would like to express my gratitude to S.A. for his friendship, lively conversations and of course for contributing his creative effort to the whims of my machines. This is a whole universe, grown from something too small to even see, and that makes it remarkable and unremarkable at once. It is a view of the peripheral that always exists, the horizon line behind the next hill, and I will never tire of the walk toward whatever we will find there.
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released November 24, 2023
W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar, May 26, 2023 using the R-EW Audioholistics modular system, exploring a single-note sample created/offered by S.A. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text by Brian. Design by ABM&D using visual sampling of 'Animated Spaces' by Frantisek Kupka (1922). Poem excerpt by Friedrich Hölderlin (1797-98). Special thanks to S.A. for his friendship and collaboration, and for suggesting the Hölderlin poem. This is Milieu Music number MMD093. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2023. All nights preserved.