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Anichroma was a set of two sessions that were undertaken on the evening of May 21, 2021. Partially an experiment in FM synthesis, and partially the result of a lighthearted joke. Having acquired a Yamaha TX81Z digital FM synthesizer a few months prior, a number of fascinations emerged from the instrument involving its different preset patches, many of which were used regularly in pop and dance music of the time (see: Lately Bass). A certain singer had a big hit when I was a young boy in the 1980s, and that hit included a lead melody played on a synthesizer that always struck me as sounding strange, perhaps even a bit funny. After discussing my discovery that this melody was played on a similar Yamaha FM synthesizer (the six-operator DX7, instead of the more compact four-operator TX81Z) with a producer friend in Detroit, it was decided that I ought to attempt to recreate this sound within the TX. As it turned out, a preset patch within the TX was incredibly close to the pop song's synth sound, and so all that remained was for me to plug in my Arturia Keystep Pro and play the lead melody from the pop song. Once this was programmed in, I was able to pull the sequence apart with probabilistic values from within the Keystep, and further, route the resultant audio from the TX into the R-EW Audioholistics modular system for even more obfuscation. The sessions that followed were broadcast live on Twitch as they materialized in real time, and interesting conversations were had with the attendees about synthesizers and what kind of possible new worlds could be hiding peripherally within something as topical as a radio pop song from the 1980s. Following this, the sessions were backed up and shelved, until I decided a year was enough time passed to revisit and master the audio for release.

From where I sit today, listening to this strange ambience, I cannot hear any trace whatsoever of the original provenance. Instead, I am surrounded by wavering lines of digital chords blooming in strange formations, inside some deeply surrealistic and purple-tinted space. Anichroma is a completely alien experience, drafted from a highly specific and experimental methodology that never would have happened without the TX81Z being present in my studio. It's hard to feel that the experiment was a failure, or a success, but instead that some other invisible hand dipped itself down into a cosmic pool and rippled these curvatures outward, ambivalent to their destination.

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released June 16, 2022

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar Workshop, May 21st 2021 using a Yamaha TX81Z digital FM synthesizer, an Arturia Keystep Pro and the R-EW Audioholistics modular system. Text and design by ABM&D. Mastered by The Analog Botanist, Spring 2022. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2022. All nights preserved.

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