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metaphorical marathon

by steve cooley

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snork 05:06
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flumpf 04:12
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blunk 04:00
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anyway 05:21
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felt like forever 04:46
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radiobursting 03:19
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envelope full of head nods 02:23
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march 180th 2020 05:30
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march 243rd 2020 05:24
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march 310th 2020 04:35
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steamy leakotron 05:13
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synthseqr m4ex test 00:59
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yellyfish 03:27
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a confusing chapter not likely to be revisited 05:24
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gone forever 03:23
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standing river wave 02:13
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wasting time 01:00
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snakes in the tall grass by the waterfront 06:14
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birthdayberry jam 04:35
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sin synthesizer 01:58
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taupe alert! 04:39
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this is okay 03:31
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we can rebuild him 00:14
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reality chooser 14:01
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This is an album of mostly single-take recordings of me playing my modular synth, and other devices. My process is that I spend an hour or so, per track, exploring the never-ending caves of modular synthesis, and when I find something interesting, I stop the clock, and start recording. When I restart the clock, I try to play it again for as long as the idea still feels interesting to me. I have some patterns set up, but no overarching pre-programmed song structure. While I very much appreciate The Orb at Tops of the Pops, my days of pre-sequencing every detail of my music are over, and I get a lot more enjoyment out of trying to "play it live". How *good* I am at playing it live, well... that's a work in progress. But, in my *pursuit of progress* to make ever-better *so-called music*, I feel good about this release. It's not all great, but there's something in every one of these tracks that was interesting, which is why they all made the cut into this album. Some of the tracks start off good, then sort of fall apart. Eh, it's more interesting to me than when I programmed every pattern and sequence. It's more instructive to me on my path when things don't go exactly right. And, when they do go right, that's also helpful for me to dig into.

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released July 15, 2021

Artwork by steve cooley, from the "Cats With Boring Jobs In Space" series

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