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1.	Tamariz 10:33	buy track
2.	The Exclusive Coterie 08:42	buy track
3.	Perplexity 09:22	buy track
4.	Fadeway 11:45	buy track
5.	The Specialist 11:02	buy track
6.	Mizar 09:40	buy track
7.	Spirit Phenomena 07:50	buy track
8.	Florian, Child of Air 11:22	buy track

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This week's performance is a return to the Moog Guitar, which is sometimes cooperative, sometimes willful, and always very acoustically present in the room, so performances as they unfold seem full of sound, dense, and busy to me...which is very different from what listeners hear and the recorder records. Inevitably, I don't hear the music as it is until later. This one seems calm and centered, while also expanding outward.

Last week I listened to a few of the earlier weekly performances (40 and 26), which sound very dark and brooding now, perhaps understandably. Some of that feeling comes from the dissonance of the ring modulator, and it seemed interesting to try bringing those timbres back for these pieces, with a more gentle intention.

These pieces are dedicated to the work of Tony DeLap. Wherever you are, I hope you're well and taking good care of yourself. Thank you for listening!

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released January 19, 2023

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

Signal chain: Moog Guitar > Balls Effects KWB > Vox Wah > Moyo Volume > Max/MSP eight-delay patch with FFT pitch shift, tremolo, ring modulation, convolution reverb, AudioThing Wires.

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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