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1.	Enclosed Intervals 09:50	buy track
2.	Flow on Site 08:47	buy track
3.	Surroundings of Lake 09:36	buy track
4.	Willow Facing Down 10:57	buy track
5.	Center of Melted Point 09:22	buy track
6.	Origin of Space 10:56	buy track
7.	Edges, Before and After 07:39	buy track
8.	Unite 08:12	buy track
9.	End Piece 13:10	buy track

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Halloween, Samhain, All Hallows Eve, harvest festival...it's interesting to look at the long history of the rituals we use to mark our way through the year. It's good to be here to participate in them with you.

This one feels hard to summarize--there's a bit of line and pickup noise, but it fits as part of the texture. Pieces seem unhurried about getting where they're going, but they get there. The larger reverbs can feel spacious and cold, but the sounds seem close and warm. Maybe it's ideal for our season now.

I've also contributed to other fine music worth your time: the glorious new record by The Rutabega theseknottylines.bandcamp.com/album/leading-up-to (on "gone") and a collaboration with good friend Joshua Wayne Hensley, in a tribute to Enya: prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/how-can-i-keep-from-singing

I hope you're doing well and taking care of yourself. This performance is dedicated to the work of Kishio Suga. Thank you for listening!

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released November 3, 2022

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

Instrument: 1970s 10-string pedal steel guitar in modified E9 tuning (E 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 > Moyo Volume > Max/MSP eight-delay patch with FFT pitch shift, double tremolo, convolution reverb, Arturia Tape MELLO-FI.

Impulses: Inchindown Oil Tanks, Huddersfield Town Hall (Near), 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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