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1.	Thousands of Rooms 11:14	buy track
2.	Wisp of Rain 08:14	buy track
3.	Tone Memory 11:43	buy track
4.	Slight Light 09:00	buy track
5.	Through the Clouds 07:57	buy track
6.	Mesh Structure 11:00	buy track
7.	Cross Tone 09:03	buy track
8.	Voice of the Forest 14:26	buy track

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Live improvisation, when it goes well, is a chance to participate in the creation of something new. Being present when new music comes into being is more like discovering something than inventing it. It's more "Whoa--look at this cool rock!" than "Stand back and watch my meticulous plan unfold." There are plenty of other times it's more like a hike through terrain you won't remember well later, in which you're just moving between the last destination and the next one. (There are certainly cool rocks along the way, but maybe we didn't notice them or see how cool they were, and passed them by. Or maybe the cool things were plants or squirrels, but we ere looking for rocks. Someone else will have to find them.)

New music did appear in this improvisation, particularly in the longer pieces. Listening back to it now, it's surprising to hear these melodic and harmonic shifts I wouldn't have set out to do. It's good to come back with some cool rocks and share them with you.

This performance is dedicated to the visual art of Hideaki Yamanobe. Thank you for listening!

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released January 10, 2024

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

Signal chain: PureSalem Mendiola > Balls Effects KWB > Vox Wah > Dunlop Uni-Vibe > Moyo Volume > Max/MSP eight-delay patch with FFT pitch shift, tremolo, convolution reverb, Arturia Tape MELLO-Fi.

Impulses: St. Paul's Huddersfield, Inchindown Oil Tanks, Huddersfield Town Hall (Near), Fort Worden Cistern

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snwv Pittsburgh

Maurice Rickard is a musician, sound artist, and Deep Listening Certificate holder based in Pittsburgh. snwv is his project to create ambient environments from finely tuned oscillators and other sound sources as well (guitar, microphones, feedback). Some patches use mostly oscillators, some use delays, some use controlled amounts of randomness. Results range from gentle ambience to chaos. ... more

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