Raven Brain is the A side of brand new single AB2106. Recorded live for the Brainrave 2 festival in July 2021.

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AB2106

Raven Brain

On the long-awaited Exaptations, Toronto-based composer Nick Storring presents two highly textural, side-long pieces. On “Field Lines”, originally composed for Yvonne NG Peck Wan‘s dance piece, Magnetic Fields, a certain fragmented, uncertain openness is conveyed: a series of brief, dreamlike clearings are vignetted by pregnant silences or various levels of waking or sleeping states. Storring plays with a variety of tonal instruments that swell and tumble along while being nipped at by expressive percussion. Organic clusters develop within event-based sequences, stretching attention across multiple timbres and rhythms. On “Yield Criteria”, shifting drones move about like independent layers of ice on a lake in the dead of winter, slowing crumbling, sliding, and cracking in perfect harmony. Storring has written for dance and other interdisciplinary settings, and here he brings the delicate resourcefulness of a skilled accompanist, as well as a narrative sense that belatedly, profoundly blossoms.

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Field Lines:

Composed and recorded October 2013 - May 2014 for Yvonne Ng's dance piece, Magnetic Fields, which premiered in May 2014.

Nick Storring / various percussion and found objects, vibraphone, glockenspiel, balafon, chimes, hand bells, toy pianos, thumb pianos, voice/whistling, electric (NS Designs NXT4) and acoustic cellos, electric bass, electric mandola, violin, hammered dulcimer, Hohner Pianet T, Yamaha CP60M, Hohner Clavinet D6, flutes, harpsicle, strumstick, guitalele, steel pan, harmonica, melodica, pitch pipes, hulosi

Special thanks to Yvonne, Marie-Josée Chartier, Mairead Filgate, Luke Garwood, Christopher Willes. Thank you to Germaine Liu for the use of her vibraphone, and John Farah for the use of his Pianet.

Yield Criteria:

Composed and recorded February - June 2014.

Nick Storring / NS Designs NXT4 electric cello, electric bass, electric mandola, thunder tubes, Yamaha CP60M, toy piano, harmonica, duck call, voice, hand bells, glockenspiel

Elements were used in Eva Kolcze's film, All That Is Solid. Thank you to Eva, Spencer Barclay, Jason Doell, Brandon Valdivia, and Bryan Bray.

Processing and manipulation performed on the above sound sources (and the sound of a blank, chemically-treated 16mm film sound-strip) using combinations of the following: transducer speakers on various resonant chambers, instruments and surfaces; talkbox; spring reverb; recordable cassette walkman; various speakers; (contact) microphones.

Special thanks to Nicole Cultraro for her violin and kalimba, her support and inspiration, and patience with my process. Thanks also to Andrew Zukerman.

Gratitude also to all who listened and offered feedback.

Artwork and layout by E. Lindorff-Ellery
Printed by John Fitzgerald at Fitzgerald Letterpress, New Orleans

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"An collection of short ambient jams recorded for the sake of fun, that I decided to share with the world in the form of an album.

Most of those are "one instrument one shots" as I like to call them. This mean that those were recorded using only one synthesizer / instrument (half of the time a Roland MC-202, and different modular systems for the rest).
You could think this as being the opposite of my Stazma project, everything here is very simple, minimalistic and repetitive (hopefully in a good way tho).

This album is also some sort of a tribute to everything non-linear and unpredictable in the audio world: analogue circuits, tubes,spring reverb, tapes, all those things that made those pieces sound as they sound.
A special thanks and homage to Vic Keary from Thermionic Culture Ltd. who passed away yesterday; nothing would have sounded the same without the Culture Vulture, rest in peace.

Anyway I hope you will enjoy this, I suggest you play this in your car while driving in the snow this winter."

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