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Relief Upon the Landscape

by Milieu

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"These pools that, though in forests, still reflect
The total sky almost without defect,
And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,
Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone,
And yet not out by any brook or river,
But up by roots to bring dark foliage on."

-Robert Frost, excerpt from 'Spring Pools' (1928)

With the Spring season fully annunciated by windy rainstorms and sun-kissed green growth in equal measure, it is an apt moment to publish 'Relief Upon the Landscape', a nearly nine-hour ambient recording laid to digital tape in an overnight broadcast on the evening of February 16th, 2023.

Like 'Creation', 'A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods', 'Cirrus', 'Zephyrean' and 'Chiasmus' before it, 'Relief' is a fully generative work, produced and performed hands-free by my R-EW Audioholistics modular system, with no external processing tools or augmentations. It is music that exists as the manifestation of many dozens of my own compositional decisions, accumulated into a network of controlled voltages, which combine in a designed arrangement that writes "one minute of music in one minute of time," as Bill Evans was fond of saying about improvisation.

More and more, I have enjoyed the fruits of my modular patches so much that I've opted to allow the public a voyeuristic awareness of their sound as it unfolds in my studio. For what is ultimately a tangential and highly experimental process of designing sound, I find it impressive how truly accessible these recordings can become, which leads me toward repurposing them as holistic broadcasts of soothing and sleepy ambient music, sound as a utility, and this of course then forms an ouroboros as it factors into my creative decisions when I sit down in front of this strange machine and decide how it ought to function.

I sincerely hope you find some relief in your own landscape, with this recording, because mine is filled with suffering and darkness far too often, and so I use my machines to push back this negativity, to fill the void with somnolent waves that can carry me away from the modern world and all of the terrible things within it. Spring is here, and with it, a colorful and vibrant reminder that the world keeps on moving and growing, perhaps even more than it becomes still and recedes. It should be celebrated to know that change is the only constant in our lives, that "bad times are just times that are bad," to quote a fortune teller I know. As I have mentioned alongside broadcasts such as this one in the past - let this work be my contribution to that conversation.

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All prior 'sleepbuilding' broadcasts to date remain FREE to download:

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

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The original YouTube broadcast of 'Relief Upon the Landscape' is available to stream without breaks here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiXwzDSbHm8

For more generative ambient music delivered monthly to your Bandcamp collection, please consider subscribing to my Vibratelepathos series: vibratelepathos.bandcamp.com

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released April 7, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar Workshop with the R-EW Audioholistics generative system and modular processing path. Broadcast overnight at YouTube on the evening of February 16th, 2023. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text by Brian. Poem excerpt by Robert Frost. Design by ABM&D using visual sampling of 'Around a Point' by Frantisek Kupka (ca. 1920-25). This is Milieu Music number MMD076. (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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