GRIST - EIGHT OF EIGHT
ALL NEW THREE HOUR IMMERSION AVAILABLE FROM SOMBRE SONIKS
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THE GRISTIAN RITUAL: an example.
an old secondhand CDJ player runs into a secondhand Kaoss Pad. the Kaoss Pad runs into a secondhand Heavy Metal pedal so old that the black paint is flaking off and revealing the steel beneath. the Heavy Metal pedal runs into a Loop Station. a pile of CDs sits nearby.
a CD is selected, placed inside the CDJ, and a random track is selected. with the volume down, the CD is turned into a small loop - still completely unheard by the Gristian Practitioner - with the use of the Kaoss Pad.
this microloop is faded up into audibility, and a longer loop of this randomised microloop is captured by the Loop Station. this longer loop goes slowly out of synch with the shorter loop, creating Reichian phases and counterpoints, sonic interference patterns.
repeat with another (unheard) fragment of the same CD, or a completely different CD, or a slightly different microloop of the same track. fade the same loop up as a distorted wave with the Heavy Metal pedal, adjusting the EQ on the pedal (even though the knobs have long fallen off, the potentiometer still works). use the Kaoss Pad to sample its own microloop, then double or half the BPM to create octaves of sound. constantly ride the volumes, so that sometimes the macroloop on the Loop Station is louder, sometimes the microloop on the Kaoss Pad is louder, to create different foci in the soundscape.
the possibilities are endless.
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EIGHT OF EIGHT is a three hour immersion created by Victorian audiomancer GRIST on the 8th of the 8th, 2020, and released on UK label Sombre Soniks.
but if that's not enough GRIST, he's also released a bonus piece, recorded one day later, on the 9th, one year earlier, in 2019, entitled ONE STEP FORWARD, ONE LEAP BACK.
ONE STEP FORWARD, ONE LEAP BACK
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no instruments, no composition
death to the artist, embrace the void
blackened mono punk-ambient
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