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1.	Street of Many Corners 09:20	buy track
2.	Dark Pressure 10:24	buy track
3.	Labyrinth of Closed Forms 12:47	buy track
4.	Mobile Tensions 11:59	buy track
5.	Paths of Points 08:14	buy track
6.	Suspension 09:22	buy track
7.	City Twilight 09:28	buy track
8.	Ionic Magnitude 12:56	buy track

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Unlike last week, I was able to bring out the voice of the pedal steel. The music this week directed me listening to things as they are--both the presence of the music, and the presence of its silences.

This music sounds both bodied (4, 6, 8) with timbres of strings, woodwinds, brass, and vocals...and some very un-bodied vocals in 3 and 5. (Maybe that's appropriate for the month.)

Against a background of distressing news, we find ourselves wherever our bodies are. It sounds like a platitude, but it's easy to live in our heads and forget what's around us.

This week's improvisation is dedicated to the visual art of Alice Trumbull Mason, and to the remaining and former employees of Bandcamp. Thank you for listening.

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released October 18, 2023

Maurice Rickard: pedal steel guitar, programming

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

Impulses: St. Paul's Huddersfield, 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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