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Ombilical Brainwave Tether

by Brian Grainger

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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 seventh volume, catalog entry WD43, I have somewhat sidestepped this year's ethos of relying upon self-oscillating and no-input/feedback sound sources, and focused on a simple and distinct session with the Roland Juno 106, a polyphonic digital synthesizer with an analog filter from 1984. For reasons I will not detail here, this machine unexpectedly found its way into my studio recently, and I've been slowly approaching it by using it in very specific applications, with great care and consideration placed on that usage. It made sense that my Workingman's Drone series was well-suited to a session of quiet reflection and introspection with this very unique synthesizer, so July's entry in the series is only this. All six notes of the Juno's polyphony, utilizing both the pulse wave and sawtooth wave DCOs as well as the square sub-oscillator and just the slightest amount of the noise generator, and chorus #1, while the Juno ruminates on my six-note chord for over an hour. In post, this recording was cleaned up via a parametric EQ and overlaid upon itself at six different pitch iterations, forming the totality of the piece you hear. Intermittent crackles are peppered throughout, due to the aged machine's VCA becoming unstable, although the EQ and slight plate reverb placed on the auxiliary send channel manage to render these imperfections into a somewhat more cozy and textured atmosphere.

OMBILICAL BRAINWAVE TETHER is dedicated to R.G.

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 July 28, 2021

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar, July 2021 using the Roland Juno 106 synthesizer in tandem with a Peavey FX2 mixing desk. 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 WD43, 43rd in Year Four of the Workingman's Drone series. milieu-music.com analogbotany.com 17463.space Special thanks to R.G. for his unfathomable generosity and kindness.

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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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