Second Coat, by Milieu

Second Coat

by Milieu

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David Prescott Holy wow. I use to have the same synth and can recognize some of its trademark sounds. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it could serve as the basis for something like this. An amazing release!

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Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, in the White Pillar Workshop! Just for you, this clean white 5" recordable disc is etched via the laser-arm of a D20 duplication machine, kissed with ink and placed snugly inside a white cardboard jacket bearing a custom vintage 3.5mm floppy disk label (retrieved from the deep archives of forgotten office supplies in a Daytonian warehouse) on the front cover, informing you in a clear and concise way which broadcast you're listening to. Almost all of the CD-R editions of the Vibratelepathos material have been edited for runtime to fit on a CD-R, but between you and I, it's really hard to tell the difference!

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SECOND COAT is the first of a number of different recordings that will be released and detailed within the VIBRATELEPATHOS series. Recordings bearing the SECOND COAT designate are sourced from the Korg MS-20's two VCOs for their provenance, and were in fact the first recordings made with the modular R-EW Audioholistics path.

On a topical level, SECOND COAT implies a vast scenic overlook, similar to those I used to stop at frequently while traveling with my wife through the Appalachian mountains. Impossibly tall peaks covered in deep green and mossy brown, with hints of orange slowly overtaking the landscape as the Autumn looms closer. Valleys filled with trickling streams that turn into great rivers, eager to churn forward to the oceanic terminus, mindless in their droning rush. Skylines that are like paint-splattered canvases of melting blues, offwhites and yellows. The MS-20's beautiful way with high and low-pass filtering and rich subharmonic response illustrates this scene in perfect clarity.

In a technical way, what SECOND COAT is conveying is the sound of the MS-20 externally sequenced via an SQ-1 analog sequencer, playing back a set of hand-tuned pitches in a random order, and the resultant sounds are then routed into a JVC KD-A11 cassette deck's analog signal path veins for a slight emphasis of gain on the MS-20's sumptuous triangle-wave curvatures. From there, the signal is multed into the R-EW modular rig where it is sampled in realtime and pulled apart into granules, as well as sent to other FX destinations such as a Digitech pitch shifter, an Alesis Quadraverb and a Danelectro Reel Echo. This system is left to generate the recordings in a self-referential way, and the final takes are digitally recorded on a Peavey FX2 mixing desk and migrated to a DAW for final parametric equalization, volume leveling and very light compression work before arriving here at Bandcamp, cleverly hidden behind a play button.

In a slight break for the series, in terms of sequencing, SECOND COAT recordings will continue intermittently, since there have been more of them than other more singular sessions, and this is only a testament to the absolute beauty, range and power of the MS-20 as an instrument - that it cannot accurately be conveyed or fully detailed in even these expanded runtimes, any more than Monet could capture and define the sunlight falling across the Rouen cathedral.

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released August 24, 2020

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at the White Pillar Workshop, February 2020, using a Korg MS-20 and the R-EW Audioholistics modular processing path. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number AVB11, and 11th in the Vibratelepathos series. www.milieu-music.com / www.analogbotany.com

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