Intracoastal Undertone, by Milieu

Intracoastal Undertone

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Following 'Enantiomorphosis' and 'Time Lines' is 'Intracoastal Undertone' - a third new session header for this catalog - focusing on recordings made with the Korg Opsix polyphonic digital synthesizer. The Opsix is a unique machine, primarily styled after the famous Yamaha DX7 with its six-operator FM architecture, but it branches further out with a complex internal modular-style patch matrix and a deep library of DSP effects, as well as numerous filters, amplifier simulators and gain circuits that allow for many interesting new shapes to be formed.

It is, by a large margin, the most involved FM synthesizer in the White Pillar Workshop so far, boasting a much richer palette and function list than the Yamaha TX81Z (with four operators), the Korg Volca FM (with two operators) and the FM voice within the Arturia Microfreak (also two operators). There are multiple FM voices in the R-EW Audioholistics system as well, but those are quite different functionally, in how they're interacted with using control voltages and their extremely limited interfaces, thanks to their ability to fit into a modular rack.

This first release was one of several initial sessions with the machine, recorded on May 22nd of 2022, and it explores the unit's randomization capabilities within arpeggiators, albeit at extremely slow tempos and further processed via the Opsix's internal shimmer reverb processor. The result recalls an obvious pillar of my ambient listening - Aphex Twin's SAW II - with a soft-focus melancholy, and a warmth that betrays its origins as a fully digital machine.

The title of this session header represents several different points of reasoning, which may or may not become apparent in the subsequent recordings. These references include the disused drawbridge in the Myrtle Beach waterway, and the felt-but-not-always-heard modulators that are a key part of six-operator FM synthesis. As the Opsix is an immensely complex and tangential machine, it follows that 'Intracoastal Undertone' sessions will likely mutate and explore many different directions and ideas that only digital/FM synthesis allow as possibilities.

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released April 16, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar on May 22, 2022 using a Korg Opsix polyphonic digital synthesizer in tandem with Goldwave. Mastered April 2023 by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number AVB62, 62nd in the Vibratelepathos series. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2023. All nights preserved.

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