a remembrance in three parts.

Serge Wavefolder + 2600 + Black Dual VCF (modulation from Neutron/Ornament/Strega), AM transistor radio, wire brush on metal strainer, fx.

For Never Get

for all victims of aggression, especially focusing now on the war in and around Gaza.

mixed and mastered by Steven.

Pray For Rain

The second track from my new album, Fireswild. A nine-track meditation via electro-acoustic sound art and field recording on the wild fires sweeping our planet.

For more info on the album and to preview it's other tracks, see the Bandcamp and/or Buy links. :-)

Fireswild

surfaces ii: lahaina

modular + stereo field + pulsar-23
Mixed / semi-mastered by Steven
Available on Bandcamp as the 'b-side' of the DistortionToy single.

DistortionToy

the action potential

The prompt was to choose a sentence which described your musical practice, record yourself saying the sentence and use it as your only sound source.

I recently acquired a SOMA Cosmos drifting memory station, which acts as a type of looper. The left and right channels contain discreet loops which fall out of sync, drift and blur together. The unit also includes a granular mode and something SOMA calls a giant reverb. 

When I read the prompt, I immediately remembered an online convo I had with someone last year where they humorously described their own practice. While funny, it also fairly described one that I use quite often.

So for this piece, I recorded it in the three following parts, each into the Cosmos and on to the DAW: 

F'd Around
Until I Heard
Something I Liked

(FAUIHSIL) 🙂

Once there, I added some reverb, eq and compression. I hope you like the result.

FAUIHSIL_disquiet0707

from the 2016 collection 'Fifty States of Turbulence'
https://stevenraysound.bandcamp.com/album/fifty-states-of-turbulence

Ignorance Sometimes Wins

Steven Ray :: sounds + vocal treatments
Sebastian Schönfeld :: words + vocal recording
Ari :: spoken word

Younger Suns (collaboration with Owl Yeah)

The second track on the 2020 release 'What The World Does', available now via Bandcamp, Amazon, Spotify, Tidal and elsewhere (see links in profile). Here's the Bandcamp link:  https://stevenraysound.bandcamp.com/album/what-the-world-does

subStrata / they're coming

Sound artist. Experimental, Electro-Acoustic, Field Recording, Musique Concrète and Noise. 

Learn more here: https://stevenraysound.com

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