music at a distance 80

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1.	Sun Tunnels 12:00	buy track
2.	Desert Breath 08:18	buy track
3.	City 11:52	buy track
4.	The Lightning Field 10:02	buy track
5.	Star Axis 10:39	buy track
6.	Two Rising Lines 08:12	buy track
7.	Roden Crater 12:54	buy track

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Eighty weeks of performances and recordings seems like a kind of milestone. That's a lot of hours of music, and it's entirely too many weeks of pandemic. Having had perhaps enough of it, we haven't yet willed it away.

My day before the performance was rather hectic, and I wasn't sure I'd be able to perform live at 8PM, but just fifteen minutes before showtime, everything started to resolve. After eighty weeks of practice, I was able to set up in just a few minutes and fall right into the right frame of mind.

These are particularly slow, in response to a fast-moving day. I hope these can provide a similar kind of refuge for you. Thank you for listening!

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released September 29, 2021

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

Signal chain: PureSalem Mendiola > Balls Effects KWB > Vox Wah > Moyo Volume > Max/MSP eight-delay patch with convolution reverb, FFT pitch shift, AudioThing Wires and AudioThing Motor.

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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