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1.	Inside the Periphery 08:19	buy track
2.	Passage of Oscillation 13:57	buy track
3.	Exceeding the Edges 13:18	buy track
4.	Latent Space 08:52	buy track
5.	Spatial Transcendence 08:57	buy track
6.	Edge Sky 10:24	buy track
7.	Beyond Space 09:36	buy track

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Anything the performer uses in a performance increases the risk that something will go wrong. This evening, it was a software upgrade. I'd updated Max to the latest version, and the performance suffered from audio interruption in monitoring. After a few minutes, there were increasing dropouts and glitches, and the common remedies didn't help. (Ultimately I restored the previous version from a backup.) During forty minutes of live debugging, however, the audience stayed with me. Their experience was something like an extended version of Cage's 4'33".

I began again. The first two pieces here were from the troubled part, when monitoring was interrupted by glitches, but the recording was unaffected. The remainder are from the second part, when I had to put aside my problem-solving mode to find the music. As such, it's very still, like growing a garden after a damaging storm.

This recording is dedicated to the audience and to the visual art of Kishio Suga. Thank you for listening!

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released January 25, 2024

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

Instrument: 1970s 10-string pedal steel guitar in modified E9 tuning (F# C# E F# G# B E G# D# F#), played with fingers, thumb pick, and eBow. Slides: Dunlop tonebar, Taylor ebony.

Signal chain: pedal steel > 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: silent5 Biamp MR/140, Inchindown Oil Tanks, 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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