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the storm (the pulsar suite three)

By neon liminal on December 8, 2024 9:31 pm

Dog crises continued this week, so this was a struggle - not entirely what I expected, but still an intense five minutes I think.

First - I want to apologize for not being able to listen and comment on tracks this week, I've just not had the physical time and headspace dealing with all the dog issues and vet appointments and medication schedules. We have a minor setback today but I'm hoping we're still on an upward trend for recovery - Max is just really having a rough time.

On that note, I've spent several times more than I make in a month in a week on vet bills so far. A few very good friends have been immensely generous and helped out there, and thank you again, you know who you are. If you're reading this and would like to help, I've still got just the one song on bandcamp - new album within a week or two I hope - but every little bit counts:

Neon Liminal on Bandcamp

Also, if you happen to be a knitter, I have some knitting patterns for sale - send me a DM on here.

This week's track represents the high point for tension in The Pulsar Suite, and the Pulsar-23 finally gets centre stage alongside the Subharmonicon, with a special appearance from a screaming Lyra-8. You will hear the Pulsar-23 in its full industrial, distorted, wailing wall of sound glory, along with a few other friends.

This was recorded as a few takes on the modular, then moved into Ableton to edit, chop, augment, fuck around, generally destroy and build back again. A real revelation this round was running the Pulsar into Noise Engineering's Ruina Versio > Desmodus Versio, exploiting Desmodus' ducking regen feature for some disgusting texture and grit. Vocals and a few other elements were added afterwards - as usual, the vocals are all me, screaming into the void aka my entirely un-acoustically-treated-messy studio.

And I gotta go feed some dogs. To everyone that's commented and whom I usually try to listen to, again, apologies for the lack of response - I'm hoping to spend tonight and this week listening and replying to everyone.

Thank you again to everyone for all their support, this has been one hell of a year.

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Sending good vibes for your dog! I hope you guys turn the corner soon, we all hurt when our pet friends are hurting.
Love that static like synth that comes in at 2min. Great build throughout. A great addition to the pulsar suite.

Definitely intense, got the vibe. I like the tags: dirty, disgusting, filthy haha. Good job on this, definite built a n atmosphere, could totally see this working great on a movie soundtrack.

I hope it hasn't been too much with everything going on, I wish you and the dogs all the best heart

This sounds delightfully grimy. The percussion is something I can only dream of, sound- and mood-wise, and the thick, buzzy/staticky synths & sounds are the perfect organic layer of filth needed. The vocal sample ramps up the urgency and the build after it is great. Love it all!

I hope your pupper continues to improve despite bumps in the road. Sending healing vibes.

truly incredible work. overwhelming in headphones, in the best way.
this one was very emotional for me. your music really speaks to me, and i'm grateful you've stuck around.

much love to you and Max!

There is a lot to love about this track - where last weeks mood had a quiet unease for the most part, in this weeks it sounds as though the shit has truly hit the fan.  The industrial tones are perfect, at about 2:10 when they really kick in combined with some kind of synth pulse that sounds like a siren the build is intense then the noise at 2:50...perfection. Your vocal samples this week and last sound custom made, are they lucky finds or are they your work?

Take care of yourself and Max, I really do hope for nothing but the best for you both.

Excellent gritty feel to this.  The beat is absolutely killer.  Reznor-esque in it's industrial feel.  Love how that snare-like hit sounds in the groove.  Instead of the far out space feeling I'm getting a bit of that dirty (disgusting) feeling like something is on fire.  The inside of the ship?  The tension that the vocals create really adds to that feeling too.  Awesome suite from the pulsar.  Hoping things for you and Max get better soon, sending love and well wishes to your fam.

Allow me to say that I was nervous to listen to this. Worried about where the drama was going to lead.

Fucking hell. Chills.

The grit is amazing, as is that insistent beat. Simultaneously dirty and clean. I don't know if I've ever felt quite so propelled by a wall of sound. Build is fantastic. And can we get a shout out for your vocal performance? Love the energy and exertion, you can feel the edge of panic. "I've got you! I've got you!" Got that sort of surge in the chest feel when a rescue happens in a movie...and then finding out the're not quite out of the woods yet.

Add to the fact that we've never heard a second voice - it allows us all to drop ourselves into the action that much more. Like the old RPG where the main character never talks - you become that character.

This is great music and great drama. I cannot wait to hear where it goes next.

Man the distortion on this track is NEXT LEVEL.  There so much movement in all that sizzle... and I don't know that I have ever noticed like separation in distortion before.  And the sound design on the higher synth voice that rises up around 2:22... just perfect for the track.  Great work. 

holding space for you this week heart

exploding star week eh?

SQF wrote:

Sending good vibes for your dog! I hope you guys turn the corner soon, we all hurt when our pet friends are hurting.
Love that static like synth that comes in at 2min. Great build throughout. A great addition to the pulsar suite.

Thank you heart

myfirstpunksong wrote:

Definitely intense, got the vibe. I like the tags: dirty, disgusting, filthy haha. Good job on this, definite built a n atmosphere, could totally see this working great on a movie soundtrack.

I hope it hasn't been too much with everything going on, I wish you and the dogs all the best heart

Thank you heart I love me some dirty disgusting filthy synths lol.

MRDRCAT wrote:

This sounds delightfully grimy. The percussion is something I can only dream of, sound- and mood-wise, and the thick, buzzy/staticky synths & sounds are the perfect organic layer of filth needed. The vocal sample ramps up the urgency and the build after it is great. Love it all!

I hope your pupper continues to improve despite bumps in the road. Sending healing vibes.

Thank you heart I've honestly dreamt of having a Pulsar-23 for years and it's more than I could have imagined. A beast but it gets my full recommendation.

jwh wrote:

truly incredible work. overwhelming in headphones, in the best way.
this one was very emotional for me. your music really speaks to me, and i'm grateful you've stuck around.

much love to you and Max!

Thank you heart heart heart

lament.config wrote:

There is a lot to love about this track - where last weeks mood had a quiet unease for the most part, in this weeks it sounds as though the shit has truly hit the fan.  The industrial tones are perfect, at about 2:10 when they really kick in combined with some kind of synth pulse that sounds like a siren the build is intense then the noise at 2:50...perfection. Your vocal samples this week and last sound custom made, are they lucky finds or are they your work?

Thank you heart ! All the vocals for these tracks were recorded by me - they've been a challenge but lots of fun! I tend to make a lot of my own samples because I just don't have time to search through sample libraries lol.

Tone Matrix wrote:

Excellent gritty feel to this.  The beat is absolutely killer.  Reznor-esque in its industrial feel.  Love how that snare-like hit sounds in the groove.  Instead of the far out space feeling I'm getting a bit of that dirty (disgusting) feeling like something is on fire.  The inside of the ship?  The tension that the vocals create really adds to that feeling too.  Awesome suite from the pulsar.  Hoping things for you and Max get better soon, sending love and well wishes to your fam.

Thank you heart I'm glad it's evoking a lot of imaginings for people

Paisleyfrog wrote:

Allow me to say that I was nervous to listen to this. Worried about where the drama was going to lead.

Fucking hell. Chills.

The grit is amazing, as is that insistent beat. Simultaneously dirty and clean. I don't know if I've ever felt quite so propelled by a wall of sound. Build is fantastic. And can we get a shout out for your vocal performance? Love the energy and exertion, you can feel the edge of panic. "I've got you! I've got you!" Got that sort of surge in the chest feel when a rescue happens in a movie...and then finding out the're not quite out of the woods yet.

Add to the fact that we've never heard a second voice - it allows us all to drop ourselves into the action that much more. Like the old RPG where the main character never talks - you become that character.

This is great music and great drama. I cannot wait to hear where it goes next.

Thank you so much heart I'm really glad it's resonated with you on so many levels. And sorry to make you nervous! Although that's also a tremendous compliment. Writing, art, music, I've always wanted to make things that haunt people - I feel like I've been a little successful here lol.

Napear wrote:

Man the distortion on this track is NEXT LEVEL.  There so much movement in all that sizzle... and I don't know that I have ever noticed like separation in distortion before.  And the sound design on the higher synth voice that rises up around 2:22... just perfect for the track.  Great work.

Distortion is my fave drug. And there's a few flavours you're hearing here - of note the drive on two modules in the pulsar, as well as the smorgasbord of distortion that is available on Ruina Versio (which is a free VST as well as a module if you are interested!) And naturally the distortion on the Lyra8 and LyraFX ... the synth voice you mentioned being the Lyra8 in all its glory. I might be a SOMA fanboy.

emily wrote:

holding space for you this week heart

exploding star week eh?

Thank you heart heart heart

Sorry to hear about all your troubles with your dog Max.  This is another epic piece of music, love the intensity of it, some beautiful grit for my ears, will give repeated listening and listen loud!

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