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Mike Metlay "While Shawna Slept" is a collaboration between Mike Metlay (a.k.a. Metlay!) and John Curtis, a.k.a. z1r0, whose first album _Audio Atavisms Revisited_ was pressed as an Atomic City Silent Volume some years ago. It was in fact recorded while John's wife Shawna slept on a nearby couch during a long night session in the now defunct Atomic City East studios in Pittsburgh, sometime in 1988. The song was recorded using a primitive form of digital sound-on-sound thanks to a Sony PCM-501ES encoder/decoder box and two VHS tape decks. Mike's Chroma Polaris and John's guitar were processed through the same effects chain to give them similar tonality while retaining their vastly different articulations for their traded solo sections. Metlay!, after decades of work with a number of world-class guitarists, still considers z1r0 his favorite player of all time. John's work on Atomic City projects is very scarce, with only one or two officially released tracks in the catalog. This little gem has wanted releasing for some time... and now here it is! "Cascade Syncline" is an experiment in multiple clocked sound sources, recorded at the Towers Of Duh sometime in 1994. It includes multiple loop sequencers, arpeggiators, etc., and uses arpeggiation and sample mapping to create evolving and changing percussion patterns under the various melodic loops. Beat-synchronized effects and a liberal dose of 60-cycle-derived buzz (ah for the days before signature-based noise reduction!) complete the mix. John Goff "The Pink Pig" is a track by John's alter ego, The Silver Wizard. Many people have seen Pink Elephants, but how many have seen a Pink Pig? Tim Walters "Reconstruction Of Settlement At Dolni Vestonice" and "Nudging Space" are from Tim's Shalmaneser CD Feature Wars. Bathed in his currents of liquid helium, self-contained, immobile, vastly well informed by every mechanical sense: Shalmaneser. Every now and again there passes through his circuits a pulse which caries the cybernetic equivalent of the phrase, "Christ, what an imagination I've got." --John Brunner, Stand On Zanzibar ORDER SHALMANESER FEATURE WARS Phosphene Grid: Tim Walters & Jim Combs "Simon Stylites Dreams Of Rain" Jim Combs and Tim Walters first met and performed together (with James Lacey) as Phosphene Grid at the 2004 Different Skies electronic music festival, where they combined mime, live mangled samples from SuperCollider, and atmospheric synth washes into a song called Divine Wind. Now they team up transcontinentally to bring you music for the inside of your eyelids. Don't push too hard--you wanna go blind? Jim Combs "Fast Train," "Caravan Through Sahara," "Long Haul," and "Sad Space" are from the Jim Combs CD Fast Train, an unreleased CD featuring solo works from the early 1990's to the early 2000's. The tracks here dating from the mid-1990's were primarily composed using MOTU Performer, an EMU Proteus/1, EMU ProCussion, and Roland MKS-50. Low Earth Orbit: Bill Fox & Brian Good "Flawed Trajectory" This track is from circa 1998. It was made using thonk, a granular synthesizing program, Bill's Leilani lap guitar driven by an Ebow through a Boss GT-5 pedal, Bill's Korg Prophecy and Brian's Z1. This was recorded in Brian's studio in Chesterland, Ohio while Bill was visiting home for Thanksgiving. | ||||
MUSIC SAMPLES FROM Arcs & Angles DVD
MUSIC SAMPLES FROM DIFFERENT SKIES ALUMNI The Mystery Track Game | ||||
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