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Title: Lost in Crystal Canyons Date: 2017-03-20 21:00 Category: sound Slug: last-unit-01 Summary: Debut digital album release of a deep listening ambient drone meditation on cyberpunk
Debut digital album release of a deep listening ambient drone meditation on cyberpunk called "Lost in Crystal Canyons" under my alias for audio works, "Last Unit"
All sounds used in this album were recorded with a special coil microphone, capturing the naturally inaudible electromagnetic emissions of the mainboard and componentes of a dual CPU Supermicro rack server.
> The humming beneath the physical matter. Unified Field. The server as a neuron. Cyberspace/mind emerging from electrified matter/brain which itself is a manifestation of energy/consciousness.The recordings were resampled, mixed and mangled with a Yamaha MT-120 multitrack cassette recorder, a Roland SP-404SX sampler and a bunch of stompboxes, most prominently a Jomox T-Resonator. None of the tracks were arranged, edited or mastered on a computer but only performed live by Last Unit.
The obvious medium for the final work was an electromagnetic one. In addition to the digital album available on Bandcamp I produced a limited edition of 20 numbered low-bias ferric cassette tapes for extra background hiss and subtle flutter backing up the drones. It includes the two bonus tracks "Pearly I/O" and "Sas Nam" not available on the digital album. The tape comes with a standard case and 160g/m² j-card with photographs, stickers and a signed note.
