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Sun Keep Vigil

from Divergent Paths [Volume Four] by Milieu

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Sun Keep Vigil was the first session recorded when I returned to the ARP 2600, after taking some time away since 2021. I recently ordered some custom 3d printed white fader caps from a very nice engineer in Germany, to make the ARP's 63 faders a bit easier on the fingers, and somewhat unsurprisingly, the tactile changes have altered what I now do with this machine in subtle ways. Sun Keep Vigil is, at it's heart, a very simple patch, with all three oscillators in the 2600 playing a shelf register sequence in the major pentatonic scale (via Ornament & Crime), that is using the digits of Pi to inform the timing and the octave range of the sequence. From there, the 2600 shapes and colors the sound with modulation from an internal LFO and a mechanical spring reverb tank within the unit itself, and this audio is then routed into a granular processor, which pulls the information apart inside a buffer, and reiterates it probabilistically, with beautiful long reverb tails. The resultant recording is a peaceful one, recalling mental images of an undisturbed stone shrine, on a remote island, that contains a magical stone on an altar, absorbing the sun's rays over thousands of years, waiting for a ship to land outside the temple walls and retrieve it, in some incalculably distant age.

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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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