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Satie never slept here

by Kevin J. O'Conner

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My fractious relationship with sleep 01:59
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Bed of ether 20:29
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Cosmic ether 06:39
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Amber waves of ether 04:27
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Ethereal remembrance 08:36
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Waking up when the ether runs out 04:35
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Océan quantique 02:15
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Seagulls in a small town by the bay 17:52
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Most of the pieces in this collection were recorded using the Soma Ether, which, in a way, can be thought of almost as a radio that is not tuned to any particular station. Its two controls are intensity and volume; using it is like putting a transistor radio next to stuff to see how it is affected.

I used "ether" in several of the titles. For a lot of people born during the 20th Century, it's kind of a nostalgic word (oddly romantic even); some will remember that it used to be used as anesthetic, while others will remember Bugs Bunny and the Evil Scientist moving dreamily through their chase scene after being exposed to the fumes from a broken bottle of the stuff.

Because of that, I had ether's association with sleep in mind at the time I came up with the titles of these pieces.

The only piece not using Ether in some way is "Océan quantique", which was made using Soma's Quantum Ocean binaural noise generator, with the Soma Pipe as the effects processor. (I should also note that I apparently recorded that piece at 48 kHz/24-bit, so that's how it appears here.)

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Instruments:
Soma Ether
Soma Quantum Ocean
Soma Lyra-8
Hikari Duos
Hikari Monos

Effects:
Enjoy Electronics Reminder
Hologram Microcosm
Soma Cosmos
Soma Pipe
Strymon Deco
Strymon Nightsky

Other elements:
Recording of clattering vent cover
Manipulated recording of short synth loop

Interacting with Ether:
Wacom Intuos graphics tablet
Apple Magic Trackpad
Tidbyt

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released July 27, 2022

Improvised, recorded, and edited by Kevin J. O'Conner, March–June 2022.

Cover art ©2022 Kevin J. O'Conner.
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This collection copyright © & ℗ 2022 Kevin J. O'Conner.
All rights reserved.

Once purchased, the individual pieces may be used and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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