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Shrouded in Silver

from Patchwork by Joe Paradiso

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This track was made in my Newton living room studio (on the cover) in 1986, based around the Optigan keyboard that I had just acquired and modified. It was a 'poor man's mellotron' in that it played analog samples optically encoded in concentric soundtrack circles on 12" film disks - it was very cheap and commonly available in department stores during the 1970s. A friend gave me an Optigan disk of choir voices, which produced the vibe I was after (although the Optigan was purely staccato without attack and decay, which those sounds tend to want - I fixed this once I sampled them into the Mirage I picked up a year later - as heard in the next track). The random cello sounds also came from the Optigan - I broke those out in parallel, and processed them in the modular. Otherwise, I made lots of nicely fat filter-swept sounds using my Moogs, augmented with oscillators in the modular. I was thinking about Tangerine Dream's 'Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares' and K. Leimer's 'Imposed Order' LP when I did this, but of course it didn't really go to either place - it lives in some tangent realm. Everything, excepting the bits of modular 'passing spaceship' effects was played live and overdubbed.

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from Patchwork, 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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