The Flooded Vestibule

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	1.	The Flooded Vestibule (Part 1 / Section 1) 01:59:26
	2.	The Flooded Vestibule (Part 1 / Section 2) 01:59:53
	3.	The Flooded Vestibule (Part 1 / Section 3) 01:59:49
	4.	The Flooded Vestibule (Part 1 / Section 4) 01:59:54
	5.	The Flooded Vestibule (Part 1 / Section 5) 02:06:52
	6.	The Flooded Vestibule (Part 2) 01:09:24

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"...now the mazes of this rugged heath
Trace with your fleeting steps; who all night long
Repeat, amid the cool and tranquil air,
Your lonely murmurs, tarry: and receive
My offer'd lay. To pay you homage due,
I leave the gates of sleep; nor shall my lyre
Too far into the splendid hours of morn
Ingage your audience: my observant hand
Shall close the strain ere any sultry beam
Approach you. To your subterranean haunts
Ye then may timely steal; to pace with care
The humid sands; to loosen from the soil
The bubbling sources; to direct the rills
To meet in wider channels; or beneath
Some grotto's dripping arch, at height of noon
To slumber, shelter'd from the burning heaven."

-Mark Akenside, excerpt from "Hymn to the Naiads" (1746)

'The Flooded Vestibule' is the fourteenth Sleepbuilding broadcast to be mastered and published at Bandcamp. It was originally streamed overnight on February 18th, 2023, and was another tangential exploration of a Karplus-Strong synthesizer voice playing the Dorian scale. Notably, this was the same instrument and scale employed for the very first Sleepbuilding session, 'Creation' in November 2022, and yet 'The Flooded Vestibule' feels a world apart from it.

Following on the thread of these considerations, the piece thematically reflects the sensation of being in a familiar place that has been changed in some way, thereby recontextualizing it, and its title illustrates this; a beautiful castle of white marble, decorated with alcoves that contain statues, cascading up a long spiral staircase dotted with plinths. In contrast to such a place, it has partially filled with sea water, coming in from some unseen peripheral ocean, and above us, where the staircase winds up so far that we can no longer see the top, we can hear birds and wind.

The conversation between the man-made and the natural world is one I've thought about quite a lot throughout my creative life, and delving further into the realm of modular synthesis and generative music has only compounded my fascination with these relationships. This castle, or any other, was hewn from stone held within the Earth, and no matter how long it stands, or is repaired during our lifetimes, it will inevitably become reclaimed by the Earth. I often invoke this notion as a creative mantra of sorts - 'The statue remains inside the stone' - and it feels apt here also, to acknowledge the impermanence of anything I could think to build, and to instead find contentment in what already exists in the world; the first great work, authored by no one, or at least no one who can be found today to explain their intent.

'The Flooded Vestibule' remains still beneath the weather surrounding it, accepting the gently swaying blue water line as an old friend, or some long forgotten part of itself that has returned to both reclaim and itself be reclaimed. We are here too, interlopers in this epoch of unnamed and unrecorded music, suspended beneath the weight of this sublime moment, waiting for the next change, knowing it must come, whether we are witness to it or not.

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released August 14, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Generated and broadcast live from White Pillar on February 18th 2023, using the R-EW Audioholistics modular system. Mastered by The Analog Botanist, August 2023. Text by Brian. Design by ABM&D using visual sampling of 'Study for Arrangement on Verticals' by Frantisek Kupka, ca. 1910-1911. This is Milieu Music number MMD086. (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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