what remains by Christopher H. M. Jacques
A good idea is often the product of a bad idea worked over. That process of revision, erasure, deconstruction and reconstruction is akin to erosion, subduction, and uplift, the editorial practices of the Earth which wears plains into valleys and cuts the horizon with jagged peaks.
Each of these generative pieces began as something else. They were lifted from another work, or the result of that process of beginning in one place before ending somewhere else entirely.* What remains withstood those processes, for a time, before eventually being reshaped into some new idea again. Maybe in another album of mine, maybe in some work you, my listener, produce. Turning over, reshaping, forming some distant echo in the back of the mind that doesn't even register as a distinct memory... this process never really ends. We are always what remains, yet what remains is not a monument to the eternal -- just a momentary persistence, an eddy in the flow of time.
* Except 'dead reckoning' -- I knew exactly what sort of cockamamie nonsense I wanted there and it came out pretty much as expected.
The patches, uploaded as a whole to Patchstorage: https://patchstorage.com/generative-patches-from-my-album-what-remains/
Housekeeping:
People have asked about sampling my work in the past. Go ahead! I do ask that you provide attribution for the sample source. Additionally, if you want the raw recordings I used to make the album (including additional takes), get in touch. It's a fair bit of data -- a couple gigs at least -- so I'm not sure if I want to permanently distribute it, but we'll work something out.
Some of the patches used in this album are on Patchstorage already. The rest will be soon enough; I need to write patch notes. I approached this one a little differently, letting the pieces take shape without feeling compelled to document everything beforehand.
Tracklist
| 1. | chiasmus | 11:40 |
| 2. | signify nothing | 16:38 |
| 3. | break glass (in case of emergency) | 11:45 |
| 4. | dead reckoning | 5:04 |
| 5. | what remains | 11:26 |
| 6. | wish you were (quantum) hair | 21:01 |
| 7. | nimbus | 18:05 |
Credits
Christopher H. M. Jacques -- patching, artwork, and production
Font "Impact Label" by Tension Type.
License
CC BY-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.Tags
Ambient soundscapes inspired by my Appalachian home and too much time thinking about time.
Fractals by way of tree branches.