The Glowing Book

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1.	The Glowing Book (Part 1) 26:01	info
2.	The Glowing Book (Part 2) 02:19:30
3.	The Glowing Book (Part 3) 01:14:33
4.	The Glowing Book (Part 4) 35:24
5.	The Glowing Book (Part 5) 01:38:40
6.	The Glowing Book (Part 6) 01:39
7.	The Glowing Book (Part 7 / Section 1) 01:40:19
8.	The Glowing Book (Part 7 / Section 2) 02:36:19
9.	The Glowing Book (Part 7 / Section 3) 02:20:07

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"I sail'd through the storm, I was refresh'd by the storm,
I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves,
I mark'd the white combs where they career'd so high,
curling over,
I heard the wind piping, I saw the black clouds,
Saw from below what arose and mounted,
(O superb! O wild as
my heart, and powerful!)
Heard the continuous thunder as it bellow'd after the lightning,
Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and
fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;
These, and such as these, I, elate, saw—saw with wonder, yet
pensive and masterful,
All the menacing might of the globe uprisen around me,
Yet there with my soul I fed, I fed content, supercilious."

-Walt Whitman, excerpt from "Rise O Days From Your Fathomless Deeps"

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Originally broadcast overnight on May 23, 2023, 'The Glowing Book' is the seventeenth Sleepbuilding session to be released. Like all others before it, it is a free download, now and forever. It focuses on a study with the 3340 "Curtis chip"; so proliferated throughout many synthesizers (namely the Roland SH-101, a personal favorite), playing Flamenco scales with a Turing machine, two granular processors and multiple delay and reverberation paths.

Selected from the growing archive of unpublished broadcasts by careful consideration with the Book of Changes, 'The Glowing Book' echoed the stormy hexagram cast by the I Ching in an electrical sense - producing a paradoxically sonorous sound from a small universe of patch cables, pulsing lights and directed current, invisible beneath the stoic exterior of the R-EW Audioholistics modular system. This felt like an apt thing to consider as analogous to oscillation itself - a wave of current, bending up and then down again - or perhaps it is on and off, or opening and closing - and this wave can be mirrored by simply inverting voltage, a paradox in the pauses, and the inverse paradox resolving into a sound.

What could be more illustrative of the core philosophy of the Book of Changes? Oscillation, before it is musical, before it is audible, before it is even electrical, is simply a season of change, a gradient from one polarity to another. Always leaving, and (as Eno may have been thinking when he said) always returning. Or was it Dylan? "From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying" - I'm fairly certain both men have been reading the same book I have, which is remarkably older than a lot of other books in the world today.

So, here is my contribution to that recursive discussion of perspective, my glowing mass of soundwaves and digital pixel text, beaming to (or through) you right this moment, a book with no pages, no words, no binding, no spine. A self-negating statement of silence to weave another paradox.

N.B. Due to errors in the recording of the original broadcast audio, sections of 'The Glowing Book' have been edited and revised, however the casual listener will likely notice no differences, as the core of the music and its function remains the same.

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released October 22, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Generated and broadcast live overnight on May 23rd, 2023 at White Pillar, using the R-EW Audioholistics modular system. Mastered by The Analog Botanist, September 2023. Text by Brian. Poetry excerpt by Walt Whitman. Design by ABM&D using visual sampling of "Cosmic Spring II" by Frantisek Kupka, ca. 1910-1911. This is Milieu Music number MMD090. (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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