Patterning by Cedric Noel

I’m so happy to release this new album called Patterning. As an end of year gift for friends. Mostly made up of ambient leaning instrumental pieces and loops that were improvised, composed and recorded after getting my first synthesizer a couple years ago.

I naively recorded them for fun and for future reference through an old guitar amp with a USB microphone, which were the only tools I really had to capture them at the time. After sitting with them for a few months I grew attached to their structures and was then stuck with trying to make them listenable and somewhat palatable. After a number of attempts throughout the past couple years I arrived at something that felt appropriate to share this fall and whittled away until I was content. Along the way I asked some good friends to contribute to some of the pieces, with either very little or moderate instruction. I was curious to see what these collaborations would sound like without too much of my own input or being in the same room while recording.

I’m so thankful to Emily, Eve, Alexia, Ryan, Scott, Mingjia, Tim, James, Rachel and Isaac for contributing such integral and beautiful parts of this project whilst being patient and kind with the giving of their time and talent <3 I hope these pieces bring some comfort and exploration throughout these coming months. Thx, always for listening.

I write songs. Here are some. More will follow.

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