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Deep Earth: Year Six Compleat

by Coppice Halifax

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    Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, at the White Pillar Workshop. Sixteen white CD-Rs duplicated and printed by an Imation D20, held securely inside dual-sided sleeves within a rugged dustproof white ring binder case, bearing two white cardstock inserts with custom printed sticker labels, and another smaller sticker label affixed to the nearly two-inch spine. Includes all recorded material from the public and subscription-exclusive portions of the sixth year of the Deep Earth project.

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The monolithic sixth year of the Deep Earth series, finally collected here with all twelve subscription-exclusive EPs (which are functionally a darker 'alternate universe' version of the Astral Salons series). Extremely limited quantities of a dustproof ring-binder 16xCD box set are available while they last.

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The sixth year of the Deep Earth series unexpectedly became the last, at least at the time of this writing. Although the overall plan for the series was an eight-year run, the sixth year proved so exhausting to complete that by the end, it was decided that the series would pause, and give way to a less formalized and more exploratory sub-series called Abyssal Geology. As of this moment, Abyssal Geology is about to enter its third consecutive year, although I can also firmly state that the final two years of Deep Earth will still be recorded and released, but I simply don't yet know when.

Time has always been at the center of Deep Earth, in the sense of both rhythmic time and entropic time, and as the mantra of the series states - "Tempo Pulsos Malfokusita" - time pulses out of focus. This observation held doubly true when I'd more or less written myself into a corner with the series. Each year of Deep Earth, whether it was made apparent or not, came with a monthly narrative text accompaniment that filled out additional contexts for the sound and the amorphous light-trail visuals. This narrative existed in eight year-long arcs that were presented in non-chronological ordering, and by the end of the eight year run, it would be apparent that they also functioned recursively.

Year Six, which lies before you, is operatively the "first" narrative section of Deep Earth, and as such, it required a much more rigid and predetermined process of composition in order to be created - a process not unlike previous scoring jobs I'd taken on for video games or film. The narrative details a person (who may or may not resemble a fictionalized self-portrait) who is drafted into doing research for a clandestine corporation, living and working on site in a high-security lab facility to study and hopefully learn more about an artifact called the Ur Slate. The Slate is a four-sided obelisk, bearing a variant of Babylonian cuneiform on all four sides, and it was excavated from beneath the Antarctic ice after a seismic event created an anomalous magnetic field there in 1956. Things are not quite what they seem to be, and the story goes through some hopefully fascinating changes that lend a deeper weight to the very abstract music.

Without going further into the explanation and analysis of what I've assembled here, a few things bear mentioning, and are perhaps obvious. First, the entire story I'd dreamt up for Year Six was, in hindsight, analogous to my changing relationships with the machines I'd been using for years to create this series, as well as a commentary on the creative act itself. Second, the amount of time I'd invested in filling out the details of Year Six pales in comparison to many other projects I've done - from researching real-world sites and events in the Antarctic, to reading about the chemical composition of what seawater in the Precambrian age might have been, to lining up dates on a timeline with seismic events and even the technology that would have been available to exhume something from deep underground in 1956. It was fun to do, but in the end I needed a break from the whole thing, and it was hard to feel as if going back to a totally different leg of the Deep Earth narrative the following year would be anything but disappointing.

So as I sit here now, three years later to the month, listening to the music again with fresh ears, reading my attempt at weird fiction and meta-narrative (even though I continue to maintain that I am only ever moonlighting as a "writer" and do not wish to be taken seriously as one), Year Six is one of the most unique things I've ever done, and I've released a lot of things. It's surrealistic, both musically and textually, and I find it compelling to engage with even without all of my hyper-detailed contexts. Several of my earliest strides with modular synthesis happened in Year Six, as well as landmark recordings made in a number of wildly different approaches - everything from multiple microphone feedback setups to recording/overdubbing/pitch correcting appliances, granular sampling experiments that blur the line between diegetic sound for a film that doesn't exist and haunted field recordings - and my personal favorite composition I'd recorded throughout the '21 year on EARTH 70, which consists of only the ARP 2600. All of my influences from the classical electronic world are placed front and center on Year Six - Radigue, Lucier, Carlos, Stockhausen, Eno and many others, as well as my modern idols like Vainio, Chartier, Nakajima, Burraston and Voigt, just to list off a few easy ones - and in this way Year Six becomes one big weird love letter to synthesis itself.

I hope, if you're still reading this, you'll step with me into the dark room and see what I've found. I've collected here all twelve months of Year Six's public-facing run (EARTH 61-72) and all twelve accompanying subscriber-exclusive EPs (FORJETITAJ 61-72) that provide a smaller narrative timeline (the 1956 excavation) as well as offer, in many ways, a much more experimental parallel-universe version of the Astral Salons series, which was recorded at the same time. The whole thing spans sixteen discs of work that I sincerely think stands apart from the entirety of the Coppice Halifax catalog to date. Just press play, close your eyes and remember that time pulses out of focus - see you on the other side.

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N.B. Deep Earth currently offers a yearly subscription service, which costs $83, and includes the entirety of Year Six, over 100 different subscriber-exclusive recordings, a reusable discount code for anything in the catalog (from Year One to Year Five) and of course all material released within a calendar year following your subscription. You can explore Deep Earth here: malfokusita.bandcamp.com More details about the overall project as well as what is included when you subscribe are here: www.patreon.com/posts/95024300

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released January 20, 2024

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar Workshop, January-December 2021. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text by Brian. Photography and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number DE-C6. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2024. All nights preserved.

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Coppice Halifax Dayton, Ohio

Analog Botany, since 2005.12.08. Impressionist techno and bedroom fantasist electronics. Compost instead of composition.

I also release music as Milieu: milieumusic.bandcamp.com

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