The atom plant garden
by Edwin
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The atom plant garden
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Folds
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Parch marks
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about
More small system modular improvisations recorded over a few dark evenings of creativity in South London in early 2023. Recorded direct to a Tascam DR-05 hand held recorder the stereo files were then sent to the laptop to produce the final tracks.Tracks 2,3,5 and 6 were left pretty much unedited, just eq'd and balanced while tracks 1 and 4 are composites of multiple recordings.
The small modular system was a response to my ever expanding modular synth as I came to realise that the rabbit hole of DIY synth building had taken over from any music making. I put a select few modules in to a portable case and used them to improvise, away from the distractions of the soldering iron.
Improvisations nearly always start with a blank canvas. Nothing is patched in. I then build things up and steer everything in a direction that makes sense to me in the moment. What results is sometimes melodic, sometimes chaotic. Each recording usually lasts about fifteen minutes ending with all the cables being yanked out when I feel some sort of conclusion has been reached.
Titling the tracks is a curious process. It gives what was a freely formed piece of music an authenticity or an authority. The titles always come last, taken from notes I've made on things that have caught my interest. They don't always have any immediate relevance to the music itself but do get changed until they feel right, until they feel they fit the music comfortably.
The cover is an edit of an engraving by Gustave Doret, 'The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, Canto 31: The saintly throng form a rose in the empyrean (rose celeste)'. It is overlayed with text taken from a transcript of 'Mysteries of Physics' podcast, episode 1 'Time'.
The small modular system was a response to my ever expanding modular synth as I came to realise that the rabbit hole of DIY synth building had taken over from any music making. I put a select few modules in to a portable case and used them to improvise, away from the distractions of the soldering iron.
Improvisations nearly always start with a blank canvas. Nothing is patched in. I then build things up and steer everything in a direction that makes sense to me in the moment. What results is sometimes melodic, sometimes chaotic. Each recording usually lasts about fifteen minutes ending with all the cables being yanked out when I feel some sort of conclusion has been reached.
Titling the tracks is a curious process. It gives what was a freely formed piece of music an authenticity or an authority. The titles always come last, taken from notes I've made on things that have caught my interest. They don't always have any immediate relevance to the music itself but do get changed until they feel right, until they feel they fit the music comfortably.
The cover is an edit of an engraving by Gustave Doret, 'The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, Canto 31: The saintly throng form a rose in the empyrean (rose celeste)'. It is overlayed with text taken from a transcript of 'Mysteries of Physics' podcast, episode 1 'Time'.
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released December 2, 2023
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