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2.	Aquila 08:51	buy track
3.	Sagitta 08:36	buy track
4.	Vela 08:18	buy track
5.	Perseus 08:43	buy track
6.	Crux 08:07	buy track
7.	Ara 10:45	buy track

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Looking back over this last year and five weeks...people have been through a lot. Many of us have endured losses. I think of friends and family who are gone, and some friends whose losses are still unfolding. It's understandable if anyone's exhausted by this, and it's understandable if you want some kind of break from it, however you find it.

This improvisation feels like it's finding some stillness and a place of calm, giving us permission to slow down. Maybe that's just me, but after performing this and listening back to it several times, and the slow accumulation of long tones, I felt like that without noticing it, I'd set down a lot of the stress I'd been carrying. Maybe it will help someone else in a similar way.

This performance is dedicated to Russ and Leah.

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released April 14, 2021

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

Signal chain: Moog Guitar > Balls Effects KWB > Vox Wah > Moyo Volume > Max/MSP eight-delay patch with tremolo, convolution reverb, AudioThing Reels and AudioThing Motor.

Impulses: St Paul's Hall Huddersfield, 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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