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Blue Emerald Halftone II

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Blue Emerald Halftone returns in its second iteration, with two extended sessions further exploring the sound of Buchla 258t dual oscillator voice, recently reissued in Eurorack format by Tiptop. Both sessions rely upon an analog shift register for their melodic personalities, led by a Turing machine handling the timing of the sequencing. The first session utilizes a Japanese scale, the second a scale developed from Scottish bagpipes, with both lending a unique chordal profile to the functional rotation of the shift register's output.

(In layman's terms, a shift register produces multiple iterations of a singular melodic sequence, each one staggered a given length of time after the last, making it function well for compositional structures that feel fugue-like, and allowing for chordal forms to emerge from otherwise monophonic machines, when patched accordingly.)

Both of these sessions are mixed in a very dry way, opting to highlight the smooth textures of the Buchla oscillators with relatively little reverberation, although some very back-of-house reverb was used in order to widen the stereo field and animate some of the textural incidents that crop up throughout.

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released December 22, 2022

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar, August 5th 2022 using the R-EW Audioholistics modular system, primarily exploring the Buchla 258t dual oscillator module. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number AVB56, 56th in the Vibratelepathos series. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2022. All nights preserved.

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Explorations in generative music, ambient synthesis and audioholistics.

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