New Polinski Song on a Compilation for Palestine
I wrote a new song. It's called garden_heart for some reason.
Listening to it now I suppose it does kind of remind me of the hidden mess of unruly life and death you might find lurking just underneath the surface of a garden. Rhizomatic mycorrhizal networks passing messages through the soil. The autumnal mulching of fallen leaves into future food for whatever manages to come next. The tireless march of tiny creatures doing their best.
That's just a wild guess though. I have no idea why I called it that. I don't even have a garden.
You can find garden_heart on Compassion through algorithms volume III which is a fund-raiser that has been hastily pulled together by the Algorave community, building upon the 24hr Live Code Stream for Palestine the other week.
It is out this Friday, 5th December, which is a Bandcamp Friday so if you wanna buy it, ideally do it on Friday instead of pre-ordering it now so none of your money gets diverted into the pockets of the Bandcamp CEOs.
It feels a bit odd to announce a song before anybody can hear it, but as anybody who has ever bought something on a Bandcamp Friday will now know, these days many musicians time their releases around them, meaning when the next one rolls around you receive a deluge of new release emails in your inbox and it is easy for music to get lost in the crowd. So this is a just a heads up. In a couple of days you can throw whatever you can afford at a good cause and get a treasure trove of electric weirdness in return.
swiggins
LAST WEEK'S LIVE STREAM
If you missed it you can find a lot (all?) of it archived here. I cannot pretend to have watched all of it, but I did have a great time just randomly clicking on sets and being rewarded with very cool music each and every time. My set is HERE, although the compression that happened somewhere along the way has obliterated my visuals. The set opens with a rough sketch of garden_heart, the capture of which formed the basis for the finished track.
I performed the whole set from a Dirtywave M8, which is a little handheld tracker thing that looks a bit like a futuristic gameboy. Mainly just to see if I could pull it off. The set was what a more optimistic person might call a 'romp', but which I will call a 'stumble' through lots of different sketches I've written on the M8 over the last couple of years. I was doing some light on-the-fly editing of the various patterns that were playing too.
The visuals were a hastily re-jigged version of my current Polinski live show visuals. They seemed to have been well-received in the live chat during the set and I've started doing a write up of how they are made, just in case anybody's interested. It'll give me an excuse to record some more and upload a more high-resolution version somewhere too. If I ever finish writing it.
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DeepDarkDweller
Speaking of the Compassion Through Algorithms series, in case you missed it there's an exclusive 65daysofstatic track on the previous volume. Here: https://lightentries.bandcamp.com/album/compassion-through-algorithms-vol-ii
It's called Renoiser and it went on to become the source material for a couple of the systems in Wreckage Systems, but this is the only place to hear the canonical version.
And also connected I'll give a quick bump to Asymmetry, another 65daysofstatic song that was put out to raise some cash for Medical Aid for Palestine a few years ago.
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