Lint

I’m haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.

I’ve been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.

–Richard Brautigan

music: mike brosco
photo: mike brosco

Dimensions of Lint

'Fires of Dawn' is a song taken from The Lonely Bell's EP, 'The Outer Banks'.

Stream/Buy/Download :
https://thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/album/the-outer-banks

Fires Of Dawn

The sun shone brightly on the garden, casting its warm embrace on the verdant foliage, where the flowers swayed in a rhythmic dance. The wind whispered gently, as if it were singing an undulating melody, guiding the observer towards a peculiar sense of familiarity, an odd déjà vu, as it delicately cradled the leaves in its intangible arms. Amidst this idyllic scene, one couldn't help but notice the curious coalescence of shadows, converging into a harmoniously illogical pattern, wrapping themselves around the trees' trunks in an uncanny embrace.

The air was permeated by a peculiar fragrance, a scent that seemed at once sweet and daunting, a curious blend of petrichor and ephemeral dissonance. As the observer walked further into the garden, the overgrown path began to twist and contort, beckoning the traveler to venture deeper into an enigmatic labyrinth of verdure. The rustling leaves seemed to chant a cryptic incantation, spiraling into an ever-growing symphony of incohesive harmonics.

A strange sensation enveloped the observer, the boundaries between reality and imagination blurring in a disconcerting amalgamation. The vibrant colors of the blossoms began to bleed into one another, creating a swirling array of chromatic aberrations. The beauty of the garden seemed to transcend the confines of reason, morphing into a living, breathing canvas of distorted wonder.

The observer found themselves entranced by the garden's ethereal nature, each step revealing a myriad of inexplicable details. Suddenly, the ground beneath their feet began to undulate, like a restless ocean of verdant waves, urging them to cast away their preconceived notions and surrender to the enigmatic embrace of the surreal landscape.

As the observer succumbed to the hypnotic pull of the garden, words and phrases took on new, unanticipated meanings, their familiar cadences reshaped into bewildering constructs of sound and syntax. The flowers whispered in cryptic riddles, their petals unfurling to reveal unsettling truths hidden within their intricate folds. The unspoken promise of the garden, once so alluring and inviting, now swirled into an enigmatic whirlpool of uncertainty, its pull irresistible, its depths unfathomable. With each breath, the observer became further entwined in the garden's enigmatic embrace, the line between reality and illusion slipping away, like grains of sand through the fingers of time.

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A single take of an eurorack patch using Mutable Tides v2 in chord mode, through filters and to the LyraFX delay. Added the looping bass note and background field recordings in Ableton

open sky

Inspired by the following haiku written by Marco Sebastiano Alessi:
Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life
Naviar Records: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/10/25/naviarhaiku512-endless-echo/
Picture by Raya Mal https://unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

Echoes of memory (naviarhaiku512)

Echoes Of Memory (naviarhaiku512)

thoughts return to void

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Artefact

Réverie

Original Track By:
https://soundcloud.com/darcycopeland/ghosts-monsters-2021
commissioned & premiered by Loadbang

Trumpet: Andy Kozar
Trombone: William Lang
Bass Clarinet: Adrián Sandí
Baritone Voice: Jeffrey Gavett
Date: October 1, 2021
Venue: Opera America (NYC)
Event: loadbang Presents: Premieres Vol. 17
Audio and Video by Stuart Breczinski

video: youtu.be/cfU1rI2Ge9w

Darcy Copeland - Ghosts & Monsters (Senglar Version)

This piece combines "Improvisation for Solo Lyra-8 Synthesizer" and "Drone Painting No.2" with a touch of dialog provided by Espeak, a rather primitive, command line speech synthesis program. I am starting to compile another Phantom Oscillator album for Bandcamp that will probably be called Orphans. As the title hopefully suggests, it will consist of songs recorded over the past two years or so that didn't fit with the mood or aesthetic of whatever album I was working on at the time.  Utopian Death March will be among this eclectic group of orphaned experiments, which will hopefully see a small cassette tape edition like last year's Music for Soldering. Stay tuned! BTW, the quotes spoken by my robot are not my own. The quote at the beginning of the track is by Peter Hitchens and the one at the end is by Bertrand De Jouvenel.

Phantom Oscillator - Utopian Death March

written 24/02/21

There is a perfect 5th in there at 0:49 and 1:24. It worked without it but I couldn't help it. Locrian is so bleak. I had no idea how to make something sound good with locrian so I listened to Mick Gordon for inspiration.

Darcy Copeland - Ghosts & Monsters (Senglar Version)

Senglar

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