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Pumula Riverbanks

from Divergent Paths [Volume Four] by Milieu

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Pumula Riverbanks was a session from the late Summer/early Autumn, exploring the low frequency noise generator within the ARP 2600 as a stimulus for Mutable Instruments Rings' external input. The result is a warm and flowing cloud of Karplus Strong synthesis that doesn't seem to resemble any of the tools or processes used to manifest it. The title was derived generatively using an eclectic anagram generator, although incidentally the word 'pumula' is a Zulu word that means rest and relaxation. This was, as Bob Ross was fond of saying, a happy accident, and it should be mentioned transparently that I have no interest in appropriating African language for my own uses, and that any relation to this beyond the topical title is incidental and wholly unintended.

Generative music frequently presents me with a number of challenges, which are by design very different than those involved in compositional work, and one such challenge is the reality of the process, which provides me with beautiful musical recordings quicker than I have the ability to even name them. This highlights the need for session headers that are reliably reused in the Vibra catalog, but for singular recordings such as this one, a bit more imagination must still be employed.

The irony of having to apply manual effort in order to publish generative music is not lost on me, but I hope that the material, as ever, says more than anything I could ever hope to write or imply. The system is the music, and any derivations from it are just tributaries that run back to its ever-growing wellspring.

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from Divergent Paths [Volume Four], released March 3, 2023

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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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