Rain Curtain, by Milieu

Rain Curtain

by Milieu

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d york If you listen to this at low volume, it appears there isn't much variation. Turn it up and tune in, and you hear all the glorious details... This is another wonderful sleep building transmission. Favorite track: Rain Curtain (05:00:29-07:30:46).

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	1.	Rain Curtain (00:00:00-02:30:09) 02:30:09
	2.	Rain Curtain (02:30:10-05:00:28) 02:30:19
	3.	Rain Curtain (05:00:29-07:30:46) 02:30:18
	4.	Rain Curtain (07:30:47-10:01:21) 02:30:35
	5.	Rain Curtain (10:01:22-11:40:47) 01:39:26

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"I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed,
and yet the same,
I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;
And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own
origin, and make pure and beautify it"

-W. Whitman, excerpt from 'The Voice of the Rain'

The eighth published session from the "Sleepbuilding" overnight broadcasts, 'Rain Curtain' was generated and streamed online on February 17th, 2023 from the White Pillar Workshop. Running for almost twelve straight hours, this patch on the R-EW Audioholistics modular system yielded deep blue hues for sleeping and waking listener alike.

Primarily centered around the Karplus-Strong voice in Mutable Instruments' Braids module (otherwise known as PLUK), 'Rain Curtain' is a minor pentatonic scale explored via two Ornament & Crime modules - one running the Harrington 1200 chordal-triad algorithm and the other running Squanch, which is a simple but effective shifting quantizer - with timing information stemming from a complex trigger array of Missed Opportunities, a Doepfer clock divider and a Boolean divider (CMOS Party).

Musically, it was somewhat patched alongside a particularly spirited rainstorm that was passing over my home (hence the title), with the patch providing an interesting counterpoint to the erratic thunder, metal windchimes on my porch and the white noise of the rainfall itself. The absence of all of these sounds and textures from the recorded piece, which is simply the isolated modular system's output, makes it a bit easier to recontextualize the work, which feels detailed enough that I never really get the sensation of missing a vital element when I listen to it now.

This release, like the seven others before it (links below), will remain free to download, and this is especially important to me because this particular stream was a much-needed respite after an incredibly difficult week in my personal life. I am happy to have these broadcasts, and the modular system itself, for the selfish purposes of facilitating a continuous balm in a recuperation ritual, and it makes me feel better in a selfless way to know that these recordings are able to reach others and accomplish this same purpose too, entirely apart from whatever guided my hand when I was plugging in so many cables. The Sleepbuilding broadcasts offer balance of self and anti-self, they foster connection through their disconnection. Here are twelve more surrealistic hours to color your days and nights with.

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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
MMD077 (Hold Me in a Field) milieumusic.bandcamp.com/album/hold-me-in-a-field

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released May 5, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at and broadcast from the White Pillar Workshop, February 17th 2023, using the R-EW Audioholistics modular system. Mastered by The Analog Botanist, April 2023. Text by Brian. Design by ABM&D using visual sampling from Frantisek Kupka's "Blue" ca. 1914. This is Milieu Music number MMD078, and #8 in the open-ended Sleepbuilding series. (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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