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:
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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