Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, in the White Pillar Workshop. One white 5" recordable disc, printed and duplicated via Imation D20, held securely inside a black paperboard jacket bearing a custom decal on the front (printed by David Tagg in Atlanta GA) and a text sticker on the back indicating the catalog number. Contained in and protected by a clear plastic cast polypropylene sleeve, with a flap on the back side, to keep your sonic artifact dust and moisture-free.
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Nine years ago, I began the Workingman's Drone series, a serialized EP catalog issuing one 20-minute drone recording each month. The series issued 12 EPs in 2010 and another 12 in 2012, and has been on hiatus since. Now, seven years later, I am finally ready to offer a third exploration of these surreal sonic forests, and for the first time in the Workingman's template, each month's edition will be a full-length recording, instead of a 20-minute piece.
For Workingman's third, I have also opted to implement some basic rules for the way these recordings are allowed to manifest, the first being that each month's installment will be created using only a single synthesizer, and the second rule being that each month must use a different synthesizer than the last. In the seven years since I've carved paths through these tall trees, I have relocated to a new home 600 miles away, and expanded my studio considerably. As such, these recordings are intended as intimate and focused studies of the machines that are generating them, isolated and given full command of the frequency spectrum and stereo field.
The twelfth volume of Workingman's third was constructed using a Korg Volca Bass monophonic analog synthesizer, in tandem with the following reverberation and delay units: Pioneer SR202W spring reverb, Boss RV-3 digital reverb, BBE Two Timer analog delay, Alesis Quadraverb digital reverb/delay, Digitech WH-4 and the Korg MS-20's external signal processor, plus two onboard custom DSP FX built into my Peavey FX2 24-channel mixing board.
Due to the intense level of calm induced by the constant vibrations present in these sessions, the runtimes of these recordings can sometimes run well past the length of a CD-R's 80 minutes. The digital edition of each release will be the unedited full session recording, while the CD-R editions will contain edits or composites that accurately represent the work while still being able to fit on a single disc. In the case of WD36, the complete session manages to fit without too much of an edit.
credits
released December 3, 2019
W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded live at the White Pillar Workshop, December 3rd, 2019. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. Cover decals printed by David Tagg in Atlanta GA. This is Milieu Music number WD36, and 36th in the Workingman's Drone series. www.milieu-music.com / www.analogbotany.com
Special thanks to all of the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club at Patreon (www.patreon.com/analogbotany). With their continued support, more music like this release can happen! At the present moment, the members of the Fan Club are: Burt T / Brian S / Jake P / Christ S / Damian H / Levi G / Arthur W / Joel B / Peter H-B / Rik J / Jose S / David P / Helge J / Peter C / Alan A / Alex G / Seth B / David T / Devin H / Mathieu L / Andy B / Francois H / Benoit P / J.C. Bastos / Michael R / Juan D
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