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music at a distance 204

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1.
Aperture 11:04
2.
3.
Rippling 10:42
4.
Meadowlarks 12:04
5.
Katydids 09:45
6.
Open Field 08:24
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Recent weeks have been more sparsely attended in performance, but the listening has been intense. I'd gone into this one particularly sleep-deprived, but the music was there to sustain me. This one flows very slowly. Some pieces evolve into perceivable microtonality, especically pieces 3 and 4. The steel invites this kind of playing, and sometimes rewards it as it does here.

There are timbres of muted brass and pipe organ, though I didn't play any of those instruments.

This week's improvisation is dedicated to the art of Edda Renouf (www.eddarenouf.com). Thank you for listening!

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released March 14, 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: Inchindown Oil Tanks, St. Paul's Huddersfield, silent5 Biamp MR/140 (Tilt-Down), 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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