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Microdot Transmissions (Volume II)

by Brian Grainger

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1.
Nereus 22:49
2.
Lowered 22:29
3.
4.
Paring 18:54
5.
Vial Of Urth 20:00
6.
Telepaths 32:39
7.
Evaporated 22:37
8.
Olivine 24:55
9.
Achiral Void 31:06
10.
Reliquary 24:32
11.
Sun Mine 23:39
12.
Radiance 20:48

about

Another year of Workingman's Drone sessions produced twelve longform recordings that, much like many of my beatless sound explorations, were developed as much for their utility in subsequent creative tangents as their approachability as music. With this in mind, the MICRODOT TRANSMISSIONS are the resultant recordings generated by re-processing and transfiguring much longer drone pieces into (relatively) shorter runtimes between fifteen and thirty minutes.

When working to elongate sound, certain decisions are inevitably made in order to facilitate something that can sustain itself aesthetically across a longer period of time, and the same caveats exist for the inverse, although this seems to be a direction rarely explored, except when musicians wish to edit their compositions for existing time constraints, such as vinyl or tape sides, performance limitations or broadcast schedules. In order to compress and reduce a very long piece of tonal sound into sound-matter that does not simply feel "sped up", other processes are used to essentially "fold" the sound in onto itself in soft and seamless patterns, and drone music in particular is perfectly suited to the digital tools used in this scenario.

MICRODOT TRANSMISSIONS feel like echoes of their former selves - lone plinths abandoned in an otherwise empty landscape, once a majestic city, and even a majestic ruin, now merely a single column weathering itself down into sand. As with the first volume, the second addresses the bleakness of its inherent design with a sense of resignation, succumbing to the abyss, feeling absorbed by the totality of what must only be described as the end of all things. MICRODOT zeroes in on this cosmic dread with a laser precise focus, and presents it pointillistically, a blotter sheet of monochrome doom, saturated with lust and secrets, a hidden paean to the sweet downslope of entropy.

Tune in, turn off, give up.

credits

released December 3, 2021

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar, 2021. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number MT002. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2021. All nights preserved.

www.milieu-music.com
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Many humble thanks to the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club at Patreon: www.patreon.com/analogbotany and the subscribers at Deep Earth: malfokusita.bandcamp.com and Vibratelepathos: vibratelepathos.bandcamp.com

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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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