Earthly Branches, by Milieu

Earthly Branches

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da5idh Pastoral glades of dappled sunlight emerge out of River Mural into Earthly Branches - a sublime transition. Favorite track: Earthly Branches I.I.

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	1.	Earthly Branches I.I 02:08:27
	2.	Earthly Branches I.II 01:59:34

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Earthly Branches is the expansive and vibrant first publication of a new session header, which focuses on exploring the voice of the Behringer 921 analog oscillator - an updated but faithful recreation of the Moog System 55 oscillator from 1973, which is unique in a post-chipset world, because it functions completely on discrete circuitry. The 921 has four different waveform outputs - sine wave, triangle wave, ramp wave and square wave - as well as pulsewidth modulation and the ability to change the 'clamping point' of a waveform, which produces interesting overtones and other timbral alterations by adjusting the start of the waveform's output mid-waveform.

Many recordings have been made with the Moog System 55, but these sessions are my first experiences with the machine, and the way I approached it from within the already assertive personality of the R-EW Audioholistics system changed the behavior of the unit drastically. What you hear on these Earthly Branches sessions is the 921 being sequenced by a Turing machine, filtered multiple times and routed through probabilistic granular processing, a four-head digital tape delay and lengthy tails of reverb, with all aspects of this patch modulated in different directions by a wide array of LFOs and trigger patterns. Extensive use of opening and closing VCAs was employed, in order to constantly change the combination of the four waveforms being routed into the rest of the system - in this way, the listener can appreciate the fullness of the oscillator's power, while also hopefully being able to discern the four different waveforms in different states of prominence.

Every moment invokes the name I've given to this session, splitting apart into multiple directions, meandering for a while, and then doing it again, until the space is filled with surrealistic trees made of pure electricity. As with most session headers, more Earthly Branches will follow, but for now, please explore these passages as both above and below ground generative systems.

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released September 11, 2022

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded live in the White Pillar Workshop on September 18th, 2021, using the Behringer 921 oscillator in conjunction with the R-EW Audioholistics modular system. Mastered by The Analog Botanist, Summer 2022. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number AVB50.

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