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I don't always know what I'm making until after I've made it. Then sometimes it occurs to me what it could be about.* Notes below ...

WE WILL NOT SURRENDER
#PittsburghModular #SV1b #Lifeforms #LiveModular #modular #ambient #drone #DeepListening #nowar

INSTRUMENTS:
Pittsburgh Modular SV-1b
Cre8 Audio Capt'n Big-O
Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms (assorted)
Pittsburgh Modular Local Florist
Nonlinear Circuits Triple Sloths
Gamechanger Audio Light Pedal
Strymon Volante
Meris Mercury 7
Arturia Drumbrute
MXR Studio Compressor

VIDEO:
by Dan Cristian Pădureț from Pexels
Many thanks!

NOTES:
This started out as a three-oscillator drone patch. There's a lot of effects: Local Florist, Analog Delay, Light Pedal, Volante, and Mercury 7. There some random percussive hits that can be played by adjusting the clock and id/ego on the Wogglebug. I played around with with the drone during the week, mostly leaving the random percussion out. Then I experimented with adding some drums to it with the Drumbrute. Finally I put back in the random percussion, and added some jarring knocks on the Light Pedal. The performance is mostly improvised, just building up the intensity of the piece to climax, and then peeling off the layers.

*I've been following the news about Russia's war in Ukraine with deep sadness, along with admiration for the spirit of the Ukrainian people. It wasn't until after I recorded this and was putting together the video that it occurred to me that's what this piece is maybe about -- and more generally about war and the trauma it inflicts on human beings. The title is a quote from Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian Ambassador to the US. May all find peace!

RECORDING:
Recorded direct with just a touch of limiting and normalizing.
Category
Audio
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