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1.	Deep Sun 10:09	buy track
2.	Ganymede 13:14	buy track
3.	Bronze Smoke 10:38	buy track
4.	Night Music 07:24	buy track
5.	Walking Rain 11:17	buy track
6.	East and Beyond 09:45	buy track
7.	Red Shift 08:32	buy track
8.	A Slice of the Stone Itself 10:34	buy track

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The music this week was insistent on leading the way. In most of the improvisations, it clearly wanted to lead listeners toward wonder and bliss. The instrument is pedal steel, though several tracks feature timbres of Mellotron and ARP string synth, sometimes played over a shortwave radio. Others sound more organic, like oboe, glass harmonica, and chamber ensemble in an old stone church. In the fifth one, though, the music took a more obscure route, leading me on something like a blindfolded tour of an ancient building. There's some sonic journeying going on this week, and I hope it leads you to good places.

Wherever you are, I hope you're treating yourself well. This week's titles are a tribute to the work of Helen Frankenthaler. Thank you for listening!

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released April 18, 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, silent5 Biamp MR/140 (Tilt-Up-2), St. Paul's Huddersfield, 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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