Cubic Surfaces by Brian Grainger

The third recording session undertaken specifically for a birthday gift to David Tagg. David turned 27 in 2009, and around this time I was fond of very tonal, ambient drones like those present on Leaves Painted Purple or Translucent Forestation. Being a numbers-obsessive, specifically of threes, 27 was a wonderfully fun opportunity for me to write something around the number. Cubic Surfaces emerged from a very detailed/convoluted process that I cannot seem to recall completely now, but it included the creation of three thirty-minute pieces to coincide with 27 being a perfect cube (3x3x3). Everything was improvised in the key of D (for David) and used a system of 27 keyboard notes, played in groups of three, that themselves would repeat 27 times. In addition to this, all three pieces were engineered so that they could be played simultaneously without precise alignment of any kind, as evidenced in the fourth bonus track. Instruments for the session included a Lowrey organ and several delay, reverb and filter effects units. All music was laid directly to tape and edited for time on a computer in post. A special 2xCD-R set was assembled for David alone and mailed to him when the recordings were completed, and subsequently a very small number of promotional CD-R copies were sent out in Milieu Music orders for a short time, but these copies are excessively rare.

Tracklist

1.	3/1	30:00

2.	3/2	30:00

3.	3/3	30:00

4.	[Cubic Surfaces Mixed]	30:00

Credits

released September 14, 2009

W/P by Brian Grainger, for David Tagg's 27th birthday. Recorded at 114RKD, September 2009. This is Milieu Music number MMB003.

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