Microdot Transmissions by Brian Grainger

During the course of the 2019 year, the third leg of the Workingman's Drone series was unfolding across twelve different sessions of deep listening and minimalist synthesis. Each session was devoted to exploring the voice of a singular machine, some of which were not even technically "synthesizers", but rather, drum machines with sound sculpting capabilities, hospital lab equipment repurposed as tone generators, anything that could be exploited into producing a tone.

It follows that once these pieces had been laid to tape, the temptation to manipulate and further process them was too great to resist, and so a few branches of expanded recording work grew from these sessions. The first were the Pharmlands recordings by Coppice Halifax - repurposing the WD material into sonic mulch over drum machines and bass, totally recontextualizing it as ambient and dub techno music. The second expedition manifested as these pieces, the Microdot Transmissions.

The Microdot Transmissions are every one of the Workingman's Drone sessions (#25-36) routed through a complex but incredibly distinct set of analog and digital effects equipment, multitrack tape overdubs and finally a topical layer of DAW processing, effectively rendering new ambient galaxies out of the overtones and distant echoes of the original sessions. This system was further expanded upon by processing the original two years of Workingman's Drone recordings in the same fashion - these subsequent recordings will be issued over time in 2020 as numbered "Diffusions" of the Microdot Transmissions.

Despite all of those details, these twelve pieces live and breathe with their own unique physicalities, proof positive that anything I record is itself a part of a larger macroverse, and contains untold numbers of microverses as well - all vibrations, channeled through an unfathomable invisible body, on currents both electrical and elemental.

Tracklist

1.	Catatonia	21:42

2.	Burnt Wreath	19:24

3.	Pale Hands	32:45

4.	Sunbleach	15:34

5.	Cosma	14:35

6.	Rain Halo	15:56

7.	Blue Wall	21:26

8.	Libations	19:11

9.	Incense	17:59

10.	Blissed	33:04

11.	Voyeurs	18:05

12.	Ravine	24:48

Credits

released January 25, 2020

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded various dates, January-December 2019 at the White Pillar Workshop. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. This is Milieu Music number MT001. Text and design by ABM&D.

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