Auguries In Infernal Smoke

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Workingman's Drone returns with Year Four, twelve more monthly installments of carefully crafted drone music to be issued from January to December of 2021.

For the eleventh volume, catalog entry WD47, we hear the sound of two bristling walls of pink noise (generated by a Behringer 150 utility module), routed into the input of Mutable Instruments Rings, a Karplus-Strong synthesis engine that is also able to interpret any inbound sound material and tune it into something musical, through its use of overtones and resonation. Interestingly enough, Karplus-Strong synthesis involves an imperceptibly short noise burst that acts as a trigger mechanism for an extremely resonant and fast-rate delay, which is what in turn produces sounds that are similar in texture and timbre to an actual string being plucked or scraped. By routing pure noise into this module, it is possible to achieve an infinite level of sustain from those overtones and resonant shapes. The subsequent output of Rings after this point was then sent into two different low-pass filters (2HP LPF and Disting Mk4) before moving on to a Tascam DP-008EX multitrack digital recorder for overdubbing at different pitches. What results is a beautifully deep and dense wall of droning sound, humming in unison, not once letting on that a noise generator was the imprint for this session's approach. The final mix and master was completed several months later, utilizing an Arturia ladder filter and parametric equalization on the master bus in order to congeal the multiple layers of dubbed drones together into a singular mass.

A few more detailed thoughts about Workingman's Drone as a series, and where it sits in the landscape of ambient and drone music in particular: 17463.space/wdy4.txt

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released November 5, 2021

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar, April-November 2021 using the Mutable Instruments Rings module, within the R-EW Audioholistics modular system, in tandem with Mackie ProFX8 and Peavey FX2 mixing consoles. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. Physical edition decals printed by DT Editions in beautiful Atlanta, GA. This is Milieu Music number WD47, 47th in Year Four of the Workingman's Drone series. milieu-music.com analogbotany.com www.17463.space

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Brian Grainger Dayton, Ohio

Drone music, warm atmosphere and textural ephemera for the working man.

I also release music as Milieu milieumusic.bandcamp.com and Coppice Halifax coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com

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