The world is burning, but we are aware of the emptiness inherent in all things. This too, shall pass.

May all beings find and achieve happiness.

I started slowly accumulating a few of her recordings, each more compelling to me than the last. She has become an enormous influence on my music, which I think is obvious to hear when you listen to my more drone-oriented work.

Yesterday, when I found out she had passed, I was actually listening to Sinewives (my newest Max 9 project) very slowly feeding me with FM tones, and her influence on me was thrown into stark relief. In her memory, I post this episode of Radio Free Arcadia, which is made largely from recordings of the output of Sinewives using the Free Arcadia Broadcaster device. Upon listening back I think it's appropriate, if not coming close to her brilliance.

In horror of death, I took to the mountains— Again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, Capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind, Now all fear of death is over and done.

-Milarepa

May all beings be happy!

I'll go into details about the device as it continues to take shape, but it is beginning to fulfill my desires to have a machine that crawls my library of bits and pieces and re-contrextualizes and re-assembles them, creating a shifting stream of sound that can be guided or left to its own to continue churning out music on its own. A Radio Free Arcadia broadcaster and DJ, if you will.

This first example was assembled from a few different sessions with the machine, including:

• some explorations of the intersection of ambient and experimental music with traditional Irish music and the uilleann pipes;
• explorations from a highly influential recording of a folk song in played on an acoustic guitar in DADGAD tuning;
• a collection of my own ambient demos from 2023;
• finally, I fed it with its own output.

This device will continue to evolve, and I hope to start broadcasting live with it in the very near future.

Don't forget to check out the first release on the new Offnominal imprint - Treces by Mail Order Mystics, who are myself and my very good friend and collaborator Ryan Dempsey. I suspect the next episode will involve the broadcaster being fed with that album.

My sincerest thanks to all of you who have listened.

This episode is comprised of reconfigurations and reprocesses of the tracks from the album, but keeping with the spirit of the originals. I hope you enjoy these, and please do check out the release at https://logickal.bandcamp.com.

This episode is made of bits from three different rehearsal takes, all bent and modified in some way of their own. I’ve been on the fence about retaining the Polyend Synth, but it does hold its own as another option for my Ambient sets. It’s still not quite earned a place in the more rhythmic material yet, but it’s right at home helping do these kinds of things.

Subscribers to my Patreon should be seeing an alternate combination of these three recordings coming to them in the coming days - hopefully before I leave the country again for a work trip to that city of music, Vienna.

Includes:

oct3-stepaside-3x // oct3-stepaway-3x // oct3-stepdown

This is definitely a longer, slower burn of a piece, and a bit of a change of pace to some of my usual sequencing - I have the T-1 tracks focused on a single note of a single sound on the Digitone, each with a different sequence length, leading to our favorite asynchronous looping patterns. The Syntakt is supplying analog drones and some arpeggios via the SY Chip machine.

All of this leads into the Octatrack, where I start sampling, looping and stretching the patterns and let things evolve as they go. It's not perfect, but it leads to some blissed-out moments. Overall, it was a good practice session, I think.

The final (?) phase of these tracks are now presented here as a mix for the latest episode of the podcast. I'll be sharing some of the other bits from this on Patreon in the coming days as well.

Tracks:

alienwave2c / mondayloops / feedback, again / postfree

Exit Strategies was released originally on Metalabel, now available on Bandcamp and Ampwall:

Bandcamp: https://logickal.bandcamp.com/album/exit-strategies

Ampwall: https://ampwall.com/a/logickal/album/exit-strategies

Various pieces, scraps and snippets assembled into a somewhat coherent whole. May all beings be happy!

Tracklist:

Breach. immortalstatesman. Pastel Grain. Blightness. Skyle. Lass. (and a Pigments synth overdub)

Tracklist: Supplementary Preference / Crisistime / Mare Drift / Skylon 1 / Activation Out

Visualizer version available on YouTube.

More jams edited together for your listening pleasure. Some more rhythmic material this time creeping into the aethyrs.

Hope you all enjoy, much more where this comes from!