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The truth is Out THERE!!!!

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A film, such a special and affective film; Andrei Tarkovsy’s “Solaris”. Psychiatrist Dr. Kelvin is sent on a mission to a space station where things are not quite going right.

When he gets there he keeps coming home to his space and seeing his wife waiting for him. His wife committed suicide years ago. This keeps happening and he keeps having to kill her to stop the visions. This goes on for a good three hours as we see these beautiful images of the planet giving us all we need to know that the planet is an entity itself, rather than counting entities.

Stanislaw Lem who wrote the book, hated the film. He preferred Stephen Soderberg’s to Tarkovsky’s version… Cluney played Kelvin in Soderberg’s and I am absolutely convinced there is a connection between Cluney’s “Midnight Sky” and Tarkovsky’s “Solaris”.

OK…. TIME FOR NOIZ

Happy new 360 day period… really? does it really and truly change?

Thee Thin Ice Of Sundown In A Small Town

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This one came slowly over the course of the entire day. I would go and work at it for an hour or two and then kept wanting to tweak something with the sound and how it sounded when recorded. I do admit that sometimes things get a little cloudy, not necessarily a bad thing; but one of those things one would rather do on purpose for effect.

Its a … …. ….

It is feeling more and more normal to shift attention towards the Matriarch, using a level or two of automation in Ableton Live helps to keep a flow going. I sense the pieces are getting longer and longer (in tiny increments) and this feels very much like my initial experiments could lead me to sessions of one to three hours with very little effort.

Thee Thin Ice Of Sundown In A Small Town. At sundown it is hard to see where ice pan ends and sea begins.

Thee Capsule Landed; alien came to visit (childhood’s impression)

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Watered Down water mark of a passage of reflection

Listening to “Kinka” by Carter Tutti, live at LEM festival. This is the perfect picture of where I want to take sound. The use of rhythm to enrapture and then sound to displace is so tenderly applied.

Tonight [… and recorded earlier today…] straight from the Matriarch/Subhamonicon dynamic duo; no messing with samples or over dubs at all. Just going with where my patch took me. I am so completely falling heads over heels for this.

And the work seems ot flow out

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Gospel Compass and Net

The Matriarch is going to play a big part in how my work moves forward. I see that already, the ability to create more expansive and flowing motions in time is what I have been looking for. The ability to formulate and transform the sound is amazing and quite natural in a strange way. As opposed to an initial synthesizer I got that was sequencer based, the Matriarch is more oscillator based with a sequence function, subtle but important difference for me.

Two new pieces today built on mostly the same samples with different synth patches and expressions.

Dancing Bells (patch0 – Orgasmatron modulation
Echo Chamber Lobotomy