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1.	Ripe Wheat 08:44	buy track
2.	Two Elements 08:04	buy track
3.	Summer Red 07:38	buy track
4.	Pear Orchard 08:02	buy track
5.	Event Gray 10:09	buy track
6.	Distant Object 07:45	buy track
7.	Field: Language 10:52	buy track
8.	Edge of Red 08:06	buy track
9.	Continual Shift 12:17	buy track

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After a week off from live performance, I come back to it with some additional sounds and approaches I'd like to make audible. These aren't radical changes--they're additional fields of engagement--exploring depth, space, repetition on shorter and longer time scales. (You might hear some of this in the first few pieces here.)

This week is a return to the Moog Guitar, which in some passages has been sounding very vocal. Some higher harmonics expressed themselves, sometimes lending a kind of tension. I usually don't set out to make things especially tense in this series, but if it emerges, I allow it to express itself. Soon enough, it will move on. (It's something like conscious thought emerging in meditation.)

The connectedness of live performance is still grounding for me, and I always appreciate seeing people in the performance chat--thank you for being here to listen!

This week's improvisations are dedicated to the work of Warren Rohrer.

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released July 20, 2022

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

Signal chain: Moog Guitar > Balls Effects KWB > Vox Wah > Moyo Volume > Max/MSP eight-delay patch with FFT pitch shift, double tremolo, convolution reverb, Arturia Tape MELLO-FI.

Impulses: Huddersfield Town Hall (Near), 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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