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Drift along the soft cotton filled stream of Halifaxian drones in this opulent, audibly saturated chromatic journey that will take you to that special place outside of your own consciousness.
Three white 5" recordable discs, duplicated and printed via an Imation D20, contained inside a triple-disc jewel case with a hand-cut chipboard insert bearing custom ink stamping and a 4x4" glossy photographic print affixed to the front cover, with custom text sticker work on the back cover.
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While exploring the tangential variations on the SOLUS 3 album, a large amount of recorded material was generated due to the processing-heavy nature of the experiments. One such recording took the form of this three-hour macroverse, found hiding within the sonic DNA of SOLUS 3, and was far too engrossing to leave unreleased.
TETRACHROMATISOL is a near-generative result of isolating various narrow frequency bands and non-stereo information from the original SOLUS 3 live session, and elongating/pitch shifting/filter shaping that content via Fourier transforms, stereo differentials and various digital/analog signal processors. Essentially, this is the shape of SOLUS 3's skeleton, after much of the topical and immediately defining characteristics have been stripped away. The several dozen layers of processed sound that were "grown" from this approach were then laid over/under/beside a drum machine & monosynth loop taken from a rehearsal for the original SOLUS 3 broadcast.
The feeling of an artificially created physical landscape is echoed in the heavily processed photography that represents the album visually, and TETRACHROMATISOL recalls aspects of previous CH releases in this vein, such as the AUTOCHROMATA series, the right/left pair of NEPENTHESOL / AMBUSILICATE and the procedurally built NIGHT'S MOISTURE. Thanks to a very careful FLAC compression, I was able to provide a completely uncut/unedited 3 hour file for your deep listening use, hopefully allowing TETRACHROMATISOL to aid in sleep and meditation sessions, in addition to the usual playback settings. For the physical edition, I've divided the full piece into 1-hour sections across three discs, with fades/additional filter processing, offering the option of more modest listening sessions.
credits
released November 21, 2018
W/P by Brian Grainger. Extracted, regenerated, reprocessed and captured at White Pillar Workshop, November 2018. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Photography, text and photo processing by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number ABX90.
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