Suspended Generations

by Paul Davis

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1.	Harmonhay 05:20	info	buy track
2.	Cliff Notes 06:40		buy track
3.	Arps N'Such 04:11		buy track
4.	Tuesday Afternoon 04:51		buy track
5.	The Pony (for Rodelius) 04:02		buy track
6.	Meandering Lozcrouki 03:10	info	buy track

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In 1998, I started writing software for making music, but within a few years I realized that I was a much better programmer than I was a musician. There have always been plenty of people making music that I have loved listening to, and would loved to have made, so making music was never about needing to make "the sound I hear in my head". However, over the years I did still have a desire to be engaged in some kind of noise-shaping-sound-in-time creative process.

in 2020 I began experimenting with VCV Rack, an open source modular synthesizer application written by Andrew Belt and with thousands of modules written by many other fine people. It rapidly felt like the right kind of sonic environment for me to work with, and Omri Cohen became my guide as I got deeper into Rack and modular synthesis in general. My work in Rack so far is all "generative" - I do not "play" anything, but rather design sounds and patterns, set things in motion, sit back and listen.

During 2021 a few experiments progressed a little further than most of the others had. I never felt that they were finished or any more than simple sketches or worthy of anybody's attention. They never took on any kind of song structure (beginning, middle, end), but just floated, like an atmosphere or a mood. I had no plans to ever release these pieces, but some gentle prodding by a neighbor convinced me to get them into a form where other people could hear them. There was very little audio engineering involved, most of the pieces are recorded directly in Rack itself, then just given appropriate fade in/fade out treatment.

It's now the end of 2021, and time to put these particular experiments to bed, moving on to no-doubt similar-but-not-the-same works during 2022. Thanks for listening.

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released December 25, 2021

VCV Rack by Andrew Belt. Modules by Vult, MindMeld, Bog Audio and so many others. Acoustic instrument samples from pianobook.co.uk. Ardour by Paul Davis. Original cover image and periodic encouragement by Louigi Verona.

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