Patchwork, by Joe Paradiso

Patchwork

by Joe Paradiso

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1.	Half A Man 03:32	info	buy track
2.	By Mutual Consensus 04:42	info	buy track
3.	He Looked At His Bible 03:28	info	buy track
4.	Eye Care For The Elderly 02:11	info	buy track
5.	Shrouded in Silver 09:30	info	buy track
6.	At Buried Ruins 02:59	info	buy track
7.	Bas Relief 03:59	info	buy track
8.	Bazaar 01:30	info	buy track
9.	Up and at 'em 00:12	info	buy track
10.	Boston Tea Pot Soundtrack 1 01:51	info	buy track
11.	Boston Tea Pot Soundtrack 2 01:15	info	buy track
12.	WMFO News Intro 1 00:46	info	buy track
13.	Brownian Motion 03:11	info	buy track
14.	Never Trust The Robot 10:06	info	buy track
15.	Dance of the Flow-Thru Teabags 08:01	info	buy track
16.	Drain The Pool 05:18	info	buy track
17.	Approach of the Vortex 05:08	info	buy track
18.	Back at the Ski Lodge 04:10	info	buy track
19.	Disconnected 07:21	info	buy track

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This album is composed of keyboard compositions, either using early MIDI sequencers or played directly onto overdubbed or multitrack recordings. Essentially everything here, aside from some simple sequencer or ambient sounds/textures/rhythms, was played live on the keyboards and recorded. The quality of these recordings accordingly varies somewhat - my work around 88-89 leveraged MIDI sequencers and multitrack recording, hence is more perfected - the older stuff was overdubbed and bounced between tape recorders or via Sound-On-Sound, hence shows its sonic warts. The pieces were mainly done on my custom synthesizer system at various stages during the 1980s - many in my apartment in Newton MA (see the cover photo for what became of my living room there), beforehand when I lived in Zurich (using only a few modules at a time and a few keyboards), or afterwards in the basement studio of my old condo in Medford. The next 3 decades of my musical life focused on music-generating autonomous patches (represented in the other Bandcamp albums), but during the 1980s, I liked to play the keyboards. I still do, and future pieces will involve more of that. More info on my synth system is at synth.media.mit.edu and paradiso.media.mit.edu/synth.html

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released July 1, 2000

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Joe Paradiso Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joe Paradiso has been designing, building, and using his own music synthesizers and systems since 1975. Joe is a professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he has designed many kinds of electronic musical instruments and controllers that have been used in performance worldwide. He has composed synth patches for live soundscape performances at several public venues, including Ars Electronica 2004. ... more

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