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Greenest Grass Whitest Clouds VI

by Milieu

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The sixth Greenest Grass session, issued in celebration of Green Thursday, is no less than seven and one-half hours of slightly paranoid shimmering sound, sourced directly from a Deep Earth session tape dated June 2017 that overlaid four different pitches of the Grass Click-Tone Control Module on the Tascam 414 four-track machine.

As many listeners by now know, the Grass unit was the first piece of new hardware I acquired after moving to Ohio, and it was an object of fascination for me due to the fact that it was actually designed as a piece of medical equipment for ocular testing in a hospital lab, and not a tone generator or musical device of any kind. After finding one for sale online, and looking very closely at the controls on the face of the unit, I determined that it *had* to produce sound, and I *had* to know what it was, and so this four-track tape session in 2017 was one of the first sessions undertaken with the Grass unit.

Fast-forward to today, where I am now hopelessly sliding down the slope of modular synthesis and endlessly expanding racked machines, and I now possess many different tools and approaches for reprocessing existing sound that I did not have before. These new methods allow me to dig out old four-track cassettes such as this one, and slowly drip-feed the sound into my setup in order to spin it out into woven tapestries of alchemical gold.

There is something prosaic about exhuming Deep Earth recordings also, in order to find within them shapes and timbres that I did not know they possessed when I laid them to tape to begin with. Perhaps all sound is this way - every grain of frequency band is a macrocosm unto itself, some kind of cosmic matter that can be infinitely changed from one shape into any other - and I am only now discovering this fact.

In any case, what I offer you here today is a testament to the arcane processes I find myself continually fascinated with here in the cold studio, how nothing is ever really the same twice, and I hope you enjoy this surrealist room of dark green paint and black glass windchimes, a space to sit inside while you think about sitting in space.

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released April 20, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded April 15 2023 at White Pillar, using a four-track cassette session from June 2017 containing multitracked recordings of the Grass Click-Tone Control Module. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number AVB63, 63rd in the Vibratelepathos series. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2023. All nights preserved.

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Explorations in generative music, ambient synthesis and audioholistics.

"It's music... I think"

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