The Silver Pioneer Crossing the Threshold of Neptune

by Brian Grainger

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The Silver Pioneer was a session recorded on June 13th, 2021, under a similar concept to LSZ's recent 'Pierce/Coupling' recording being issued for the 60th anniversary of Telstar 1's launch ( weltlandschaft.bandcamp.com/album/pierce-coupling ). Silver Pioneer relates back to my father's first birthday after I was brought into the world - Monday, June 13th, 1983 - when the Pioneer 10 space probe passed beyond the orbit of Neptune, making it the first man-made object to leave the central solar system. Synchronicity is something that I've grown more and more fascinated by, as I grow older, and this strange Venn diagram of myself in the year of my birth, my father's birthday and the first Earthen machine to cross into the greater abyss feels like some kind of alignment that holds significance. So, to mark that moment in time, I held a special session on the Behringer TD-3, a nearly 1:1 reinstatement of the much more iconic Roland TB-303, where it was employed in a very unorthodox way to hold a single oscillator tone, in order to then be further expanded upon within my R-EW Audioholistics modular system. A cosmic mile-marker, a heraldic plinth that exists to suffuse three very different moments in time and space, bound by shaped voltage and acoustic vibration. A sustained and endless line to drawn like a path that follows Pioneer 10, wherever and whenever it may yet be.

N.B. The Silver Pioneer is included as a bonus session with the other twelve sessions collected in Workingman's Drone: Year Four. Anyone purchasing that set, digitally or physically, will obtain it as part of that set.

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released July 20, 2022

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded live on the evening of June 13, 2021, using the Behringer TD-3 monophonic analog synthesizer in conjunction with the R-EW Audioholistics generative system and modular processing path. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number WDY4B. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2022. All nights preserved.

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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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