slowly catching up - going through files recorded in spring - beg of summer

Not technically a late submission for this year--I'm in before the deadline of midnight Eastern. Why so late? I was out of town to play a show for the solstice, and a tight travel schedule meant I couldn't finalize the recording until late Sunday night.

The sound source here is a Max/MSP patch I've been developing based on the feedback patch Jaap Vink developed at the Institute of Sonology in the 1970s. This Max patch is four channels of ring modulator > delay > ring mod > delay > level setter > low-pass filter > high-pass filter > reverb algorithm > graphic EQ (global) > back to the input ring modulator. In this case, there's no explicit input to the feedback loop, apart from clicks when values are set.

The sound and structure are a performance simply from changing the values of all these settings once the patch starts feeding back. It's a work in progress, but it's promising.

The title comes from the fact that 599 (the number of this weekly piece) is a twin prime with 601.

Going for some dark ambient this week, I like the vibe of it. Hard to do something truly minimal, I feel.

Some slow piano, a trumpet, traffic samples, and jazz drums. There is a whale too.