<div><div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Audio and control signal feedback are a well-established compositional tool decades after the Barrons and David Tudor’s early explorations, but it’s taken me a long while to come around to it after early, unpleasant encounters (there’s a piercing, head-clamping moment on pretty much every Mouse on Mars-adjacent album, eg) and explore the possibilities the techniques offer beyond howling squalls. I reckon emptyset are due some credit for this, and perhaps Rafael Toral’s “Spectral Evolution” has exerted some influence by virtue of consistent and attentive play, here.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Here are my last two patches. They’re far from realized pieces - composition begins and ends only a few minutes on either side of each recording, but it’s nice to let your peeps know where your head’s at, sometimes.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://youtu.be/DDTDqZBnYsE?si=7R2N4NrZRPyUViDG" style="font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(66,133,244);color:rgb(66,133,244)">https://youtu.be/DDTDqZBnYsE?si=7R2N4NrZRPyUViDG</a></div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://youtu.be/qyYGCcyApCg?si=vp__pIQAQ7ofBNbL" style="font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(66,133,244);color:rgb(66,133,244)">https://youtu.be/qyYGCcyApCg?si=vp__pIQAQ7ofBNbL</a></div></div></div><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yours,</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Niall.</span></div></div></div>