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Microdot Transmissions

by Brian Grainger

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strctr_k / v_obs
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strctr_k / v_obs Very hard to pick a favorite. This is a FANTASTIC voyage and a monumental headtrip. Strongly recommended! Favorite track: Ravine.
David Prescott
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David Prescott Brian's work keeps getting deeper and richer. There is no shortage of drone-oriented music on Bandcamp; this is in a class by itself thanks to the density of its constuction and the deep thought that goes into it. Another essential release. Favorite track: Burnt Wreath.
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Catatonia 21:42
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Burnt Wreath 19:23
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Pale Hands 32:45
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Sunbleach 15:34
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Cosma 14:35
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Rain Halo 15:55
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Blue Wall 21:25
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Libations 19:10
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Incense 17:59
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Blissed 33:04
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Voyeurs 18:05
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Ravine 24:48

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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.

The Microdot Transmissions are every one of the Workingman's Drone sessions (#25-36) 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. This system was further expanded upon by processing the original two years of Workingman's Drone recordings in the same fashion - these subsequent recordings will be issued over time in 2020 as numbered "Diffusions" of the Microdot Transmissions.

Despite all of those details, these twelve 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 January 25, 2020

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded various dates, January-December 2019 at the White Pillar Workshop. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. This is Milieu Music number MT001. Text and design by ABM&D.

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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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