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Microdot Transmissions [Diffusions XIII​-​XVI]

by Brian Grainger

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Diffusion XIII 01:17:13
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Diffusion XIV 01:16:43
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Diffusion XV 01:14:47
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Diffusion XVI 01:13:47

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During the course of the 2019 year, the third leg of the Workingman's Drone series was unfolding across twelve different sessions of deep listening and minimalist synthesis. Each session was devoted to exploring the voice of a singular machine, some of which were not even technically "synthesizers", but rather, drum machines with sound sculpting capabilities, hospital lab equipment repurposed as tone generators, anything that could be exploited into producing a tone.

It follows that once these pieces had been laid to tape, the temptation to manipulate and further process them was too great to resist, and so a few branches of expanded recording work grew from these sessions. The first were the Pharmlands recordings by Coppice Halifax - repurposing the WD material into sonic mulch over drum machines and bass, totally recontextualizing it as ambient and dub techno music. The second expedition manifested as these pieces, the Microdot Transmissions - a macro-lens reduction/expansion via generative processing.

The Microdot Diffusions are every one of the original Workingman's Drone sessions (#1-24) routed through a complex but incredibly distinct set of analog and digital effects equipment, multitrack tape overdubs and finally a topical layer of DAW processing, effectively rendering new ambient galaxies out of the overtones and distant echoes of the original sessions.

Despite all of those details, these four pieces live and breathe with their own unique physicalities, proof positive that anything I record is itself a part of a larger macroverse, and contains untold numbers of microverses as well - all vibrations, channeled through an unfathomable invisible body, on currents both electrical and elemental.

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released October 2, 2020

W/P by Brian Grainger. Remixed & regenerated at White Pillar Workshop, November 2019-May 2020. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number MTD004.

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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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