perche mi piace l'italia molto - ho iniziato a studiare la lingua :)

An even busier weekend this time, though I did commit to doing an hour-long performance Saturday morning as part of the GSG's Sturgeon Moon (raid) Train on Twitch. For events like this, performers sign up and claim one or more slots for a cascade of performances that lasts 24 hours or more. A few days after the announcement, I saw there were only a few available times left, including the last one on Saturday morning. So Saturday morning it would be!

The signal chain here is pedal steel guitar in E9 tuning, played with eBow and ebony slide, into a Reuss Effects RF-01 Repeater Fuzz, Vox Wah, Hungry Robot Wardenclyffe Deluxe, and Moyo volume pedal, into an eight-delay Max/MSP patch I've been playing with the last several years. The patch is mainly eight delay lines, though also features a VST for tone-shaping (here AudioThing Reels), FFT pitch shift, a tremolo on the input, and a convolution reverb.

The title this week is chosen for a river in Ontario, crossed by Highway 606, and not far from some rivers and streams known for sturgeon.

I made this not so much as music but more an aid for a sort of meditation/concentration exercise. The first 30 seconds will give you an idea of what you get for the full duration, there's very little variation by design other than the shifting time programmed in.

I was fighting the urge to play in some variation, modulate the filters more, bring mere elements in over time, but it felt right to keep it as even as possible all the way through, and that takes some courage in a world where it feels like you have to add detail to everything and keep it varied.

I am on a trip in the country side with just my phone and garageband. Here is a quick clumsy doodle, with a selection of Chinese music instruments.

Nothing to be proud of but a track is a track.