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1.	Sundial:NightWatch 12:48	buy track
2.	Drawing in the Dark 11:16	buy track
3.	Sun Study 11:37	buy track
4.	Erased Diary 09:20	buy track
5.	Silence (Project for a Library) 07:39	buy track
6.	On Account of the Moon 08:22	buy track
7.	On the Shadow Cast by Our Thoughts 08:39	buy track
8.	The Crystal Ship 13:50	buy track

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Music manifests itself through a multi-part medium: there's the player, the instrument, the immediate environment, and the listener (and their environment). Every part of this chain affects how the listener experiences the music: the listener sitting quietly at home will have a different experience from the listener speeding down an empty two-lane road in an old muscle car, blasting an 8-track tape.

I want to focus, though, on the instrument part of the chain. While players can channel music through many instruments, the nature of the instrument affects what comes through. This week's guitar brings resonances we haven't heard in a while, from its extended tuning, how that affects the strings, and the resonance of the hollow body. This week's music feels strongly emotional, and the whole environment allowed that.

This week's improvisations are dedicated to the visual art of Susan Morris (susanmorris.com). Please take good care of yourself, and thank you for listening!

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released March 21, 2024

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

Instrument: $60 Univox hollowbody in modified Fahey C tuning (Bb F Bb F Bb C), played with fingers and eBow.

Signal chain: guitar > Balls Effects KWB > Vox Wah > Dunlop Uni-Vibe > Moyo Volume > Max/MSP eight-delay patch with FFT pitch shift, tremolo, convolution reverb, AudioThing Reels.

Impulses: Inchindown Oil Tanks, silent5 Biamp MR/140 (Tilt-Down 2), St. Paul's Huddersfield, 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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