music at a distance 61

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1.	Are You Busy? 07:28	buy track
2.	The Name of Your Station 09:04	buy track
3.	Are You Receiving? 09:55	buy track
4.	Send More Slowly 09:22	buy track
5.	Are You Ready? 07:48	buy track
6.	Fading Signals 09:36	buy track
7.	73 12:06	buy track

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I hope you're all doing well. I find time to be progressing strangely--this period starting a few weeks ago seems like it's gone on forever, while last year seems close. This may just be how things are, now. How are you experiencing time?

This week's improvisations emerged in their own way. I used three nonstandard tunings, and let their sounds give form to the pieces. Some dwell on the same pitch class for a while, and some develop more steadily. This music wants to be what it is, rather than be over-directed. (This includes hum from the guitars, particularly the Heit. If I think of it as that aspect of the guitar expressing itself...it's not annoying. It's just a sound the guitar makes.)

Feel free to sit with these sounds for a while. Thank you for listening!

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released May 19, 2021

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

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

Guitars:
Kalamazoo KG-2 in open G (1, 2, 7)
Univox Effie in Fahey C tuning (3, 4, 6)
Heit Deluxe in baglama tuning (5)

Impulses: St Paul's Hall 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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