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by snwv

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1.	Empty Room, Empty Street 11:12	buy track
2.	Voices Heard 11:29	buy track
3.	Clear and Deep 09:43	buy track
4.	Say Your Name 10:44	buy track
5.	Distant Light 11:14	buy track

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Previous weeks' improvisations found me thinking of other places, travel, nature, and escaping routine. Now isn't the time for escape. Reality is right here. It's brutal and terrifying.

I'm not going to reflect the brutality directly. There's already plenty of it; we don't need more, at least from me. As the person creating this, what I'm thinking and feeling is going to inform what I do. In improvising, I wanted to be honest about the presence of sadness and worry, while also trying to bend my action toward giving the listener something helpful.

There may be positive effects in some listeners from these aesthetic decisions, but aesthetics aren't going to help anyone who's been arrested and brutalized for protesting. To that end, I'm donating any revenue from Bandcamp in June to a different bail bond fund each week, with a match. This first week of June, it'll be Pittsburgh's Bukit Bail Fund (bukitbailfund.org), with others to follow.

If you'd like to donate directly to a bail bond fund, I'll recommend consulting the list at bailfunds.github.io.

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released June 3, 2020

Guitar, programming: Maurice Rickard
Production notes:

Guitar (PureSalem Mendiola) > Balls Effects KWB distortion > Vox Wah > Moyo passive volume pedal > Max/MSP quad delay with buffers

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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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