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1.	Tower of Silence 08:29	buy track
2.	Pollen from Hazelnut 08:32	buy track
3.	The Beginning of Something Else 06:52	buy track
4.	Passageway Inside--Downside 10:23	buy track
5.	The Chamber of Certainty 09:58	buy track
6.	A Wax Room for a Mountain 09:54	buy track
7.	Pollen from Pine 11:30	buy track
8.	Without Place -- Without Time -- Without Body 06:20	buy track
9.	Unlimited Ocean 11:52	buy track

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There's a hint of the seasons changing here, with cooler evenings, shorter days just starting to become obvious, the beginning of the academic year. Summer hasn't let go yet, but change is coming soon. It's easy to think that we as conscious people are somehow separate from that, but feelings and energy levels are closely tied to the environment, or at least they are for me. Light, wind, air...it makes a difference. Right now, it feels as though a kind of burden is beginning to lift.

This improvisation is a return to the Moog Guitar and its spectral harmonics. These pieces have some much longer loops than some other weeks, with less of an emphasis on the high harmonics, but still that glassy quality that the Moog brings. It's a real looking-up-at-the-night-sky instrument for me. Ideal for contemplating changes in seasons and changes in other realms.

This week's performance is dedicated ot the work of Wolfgang Laib (art21.org/artist/wolfgang-laib/).

Thank you for listening!

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released August 31, 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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