Tone Canal & Continent, by Coppice Halifax

Tone Canal & Continent

by Coppice Halifax

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Packaged in a windowed white/black/brown cardboard jacket, bearing custom decal work for texts and designs, and a hand-cut 4x5" glossy photographic print insert, with an in-house duplicated/printed white recordable 5" disc. Contains an uncut, "single track" mix of the live set for uninterrupted playback on any system.

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	1.	Tone 22:16
	2.	Canal 11:41
	3.	Continent 17:01

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Recorded live on the evening of March 10th, 2018, and broadcast via audio/video stream from the White Pillar Workshop to the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club at Patreon. Tone Canal & Continent is the first of its kind, an almost "proof of concept" live performance using only a single Korg analog drum machine. Improvising from scratch, starting with a lone bassdrum, and building up a rhythmic microcosm that gradually shifts through three distinct sections.

The first of these sections, titled Tone, is a minimal techno exercise that recalls influences such as Studio 1, Pole, Plastikman and Thomas Brinkmann, among others. It leads to the bridge section, a live iteration of the track Canal (which originally appeared on the self-titled Coppice Halifax album in 2008, recorded in 2006) that initially involves bass-heavy dancefloor pulses that begin to break apart like shifting tectonics, spattering out in wet waves of molten earth that eject from the spaces between drum hits, eventually falling to the bubbling sea. The third and final section, titled Continent, is what remains of the turbulence - kicks and toms reduced to filtered smears of 300 Hz wobble, phasing out and trailing off into a haze of mixer feedback and artificially extended reverb tails. The vessel has sunk, and silently drifts down to rest on a black seafloor. All that remains is the purple sky that becomes darker and darker from beneath the waves.

Tone Canal & Continent is a unique piece in the CH acreage, bearing momentary similarities to other recordings, while also establishing a new possible trajectory forward in the realm of live performance and analog potential. The sound of just one drum machine, cleverly programmed and processed in realtime, becomes less and less monochromatic as a sonic presence as the piece develops, with the toms and kick mutating into a strange melodic movement. Augmented only by a noise generator, between-band fuzz from the local AM radio airwaves and a piezoelectric microphone picking up occasional artifacts from a bedside monitor next to my sleeping daughter - these additions providing no substantial tonalities, but an atmosphere, like a curtain backdrop - contrast, depth of shadow, measurable distance in an otherwise unmappable space. Hopefully, despite this being only the initial realization of this idea, it becomes more than the sum of its parts, and will give way to more attempts at music made within this framework.

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released March 13, 2018

W/P by Brian Grainger. Performed and recorded live at White Pillar Workshop on March 10, 2018, using only a Korg Volca Beats drum machine, split signalled into a Zoom 506 compressor and a Synthrotek PT2399 delay, augmented by a Grass C-TCM, Unisonic MX8888 and C.S. piezoelectric microphone, and channeled through a Peavey FX2x24 mixing desk with the following outboard FX: Pioneer SR202W spring reverb, Alesis Quadraverb, BBE Two Timer, Boss RV-3. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Cover design and photography by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number ABX78.

Special thanks to the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club, for helping make this recording possible: Justin T / Burton T / William C / Brian C / Chris S / Levi G / Rich A / Matthew D / Peter B / Rik J / Jose S / Jonathan W / David T / Devin H / Mathieu L / Andy B / Francois H / Benoit P / Alex G / Daniel F / Joel B / Gordon C / Alex S / Sean W / Alex B.

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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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