Generative Sessions, Volume 2: In Absentia

by Christopher H. M. Jacques

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1.	Daybreak (awake and behold) 05:41	buy track
2.	Spring Etude (sublimations) 12:41	buy track
3.	Autosite (the unknowable minds of others) 07:32	buy track
4.	Bouncing Bells (afternoon meditation) 03:04	buy track
5.	Distant Shores (inching closer to oblivion) 12:37	buy track
6.	Nightfall (what stirs beneath cover of darkness) 05:36	buy track
7.	The Somnambulist (a stroll, a memory) 12:46	buy track
8.	Tape Piece + Decorrelate (how thoughts unravel) 06:09	buy track
9.	Piano Music + Decorrelate (sonata for the wee hours) 10:06	buy track
10.	The Somnambulist Revisited (flaneur of sleep) 14:21	buy track
11.	Drone Machine (deep time, deep thoughts) 49:21	buy track

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More explorations of the Empress Effects ZOIA. All sounds are synthesized within a given patch (indicated by the name of the track).. Additional ZOIAs are used for additional effects: I did not take meticulous notes of what I used with what track, but in general, I used Preamp73 for EQing/compression; Barr II, For Keith Barr, and 1978 Plate V2 were used for reverb; Decorrelate was used for looping/delaying soundscaping. I also used some eurorack modules for soundshaping purposes: the Qpas provides a high-pass filter, and the Knob Farm Ooots provides EQ, saturation, and final gain-staging. Mutable Instruments' Beads appears in one track, but its use is quite subtle (try to guess which track).

All of these patches are available or will be available shortly (within a few days of release) on Patchstorage.

The album is sequenced to progress from morning into dusk and finally night (a lot of time is spent in night, but I am a night owl and an early bird; I don't sleep, in other words).

The title, In Absentia, is a play on both the nature of generative music -- I both wrote and did not write this music, played and yet did not perform it; the composer is absent from the work -- and the cognitive disconnect that ambient music allows, absenting us from the perpetual decisions and arguments and anxieties of our lives to wander, for a time, in some sonic elsewhere.

I hope you enjoy.

Best,
Christopher

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released May 6, 2022

Christopher H. M. Jacques -- ZOIA patching, modular, recording, editing

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Christopher H. M. Jacques Charleston, West Virginia

Ambient soundscapes inspired by my Appalachian home and too much time thinking about time.

Fractals by way of tree branches.

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