Terra Organization

by Tom Moody

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1.	Random Burbles 00:58	buy track
2.	We All Know 01:38	buy track
3.	Complete Control 01:41	buy track
4.	Piskow GoBox 01:16	buy track
5.	Bartok Afterparty 01:09	buy track
6.	Chord Bingo 01:56	buy track
7.	Mall Chords 01:17	buy track
8.	Tape Hiss Tree 01:37	buy track
9.	Distinction 02:08	buy track
10.	Imaginedgy 01:19	buy track
11.	Premonition of Discord 01:50	buy track
12.	Fork It Over (Moog) 01:44	buy track
13.	Lounge Laugh 2 01:33	buy track
14.	Optimism 00:50	buy track
15.	Max Conundra 01:31	buy track
16.	Wistful Gamer 00:45	buy track
17.	Frienemies (2018) 02:08	buy track
18.	Squeegee Man 01:26	buy track
19.	You Can Implement Today 01:10	buy track
20.	Dub Mechanic 4 01:42	buy track
21.	Softsynth Comparison 01:05	buy track
22.	The Lost Gourd 01:38	buy track
23.	Moog SID March 00:59	buy track
24.	Happy Little Cabin 01:28	buy track
25.	Three Nebulaes 2 00:58	buy track
26.	Ninths 01:46	buy track

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These are short, structured songs with some interplay of a tune, a rhythm, and a timbre, written or finalized between July 2018 and January 2019.
The prevalence of chords results partly from use of the new "pattern generator" app inside the Tracktion Waveform DAW, intended for "chord progressions." As a musician coming from the visual arts, this idea of "progressions" seems bizarre, just as it would be weird to speak of color progressions in a painting. There are chords, there are timbres that have overtones or partials resembling chords, and there is how you put them together -- maybe there's progress, maybe there's only one chord, maybe there are no chords. The pattern generator is mostly used here as a timesaver, to create a melody on one track that harmonizes with something playing chords on another track. You can hear this most clearly on the song "Mall Chords," which is fairly robotic and MIDI-ish but also kind of lush.
Vocal samples are used sparingly in these tunes -- only if a track seems to need them.
The songs are mastered LOUD to be played back at medium to low volume without loss of sound. The ideal listening scenario would be home speakers with decent dynamic range, playing at quiet volume. Playing the songs LOUD might be a mistake.
26 of these types of songs is probably too many! My preference would be to keep breaking down releases into groups of 10, but I have a pile of unused 40-60 minute blank cassettes, and I'm determined not to waste tape sides now that chrome tape is becoming scarce. Hence, a forty minute release.
Side Two of the cassette begins with "Lounge Laugh 2" and I'm thinking of the tracks on that side as a second, bonus set of tunes.

Samples from the archive of stcelfer.bandcamp.com can be heard in "Squeegee Man" (and possibly other tracks).

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released January 26, 2019

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Tom Moody New York, New York

"The sound world [in Melding Principle] is very finely calibrated; your ear for pairing the very pure and the klangorous has become remarkably deft. That makes it easy for the listener to latch onto the layered melodies. (Howl Din)

"[Y]our musical works exploit the aesthetic paradoxes of telecommunications and computer technologies and the social fantasies attached to them."
(Pierre-Luc Verville) ... more

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