The Glimmer of a Sword, by LSZ

The Glimmer of a Sword

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"Upon the curvature of a hill
Grass to heel, ranges glimpsed
The glimmer of a sword like a noonday star
That guides the praying hands of a king"

The fourth part of a five-session 'tone poem' that explores the different facets of loop-based composition, 'The Glimmer of a Sword' arrives aptly at a time when the world's sanity and safety seems to hang precariously in the undefined space between so many negative forces. The loop persists, because it cannot do anything else - it is a recursive circle bound to follow a singular path, the only place it has ever been. While we stand in the center of this oscillating whirlpool, we wonder if the next time around might be different? Perhaps change will come, if the tracks beneath us deteriorate? As if in a wordless answer, the loop persists - hope is as facile as vanity, here. The circle remains unbroken, logical and illogical, the oscillation forever complete and incomplete in a superposition of dizzying mindless madness. We too become entranced within it, able to sense its presence even with our eyes closed, held in a gasp between the here and the there, lulled and pacified, unaware or unwilling to acknowledge the true nature of this glimmering line drawn around us, a coiled blade, a sword with no hilt and no terminus, no master to direct it, a decapitant halo.

Catalog designate: UR-23/176
Source sound: Behringer 'Blue Marvin' ARP 2600 reiteration
Image: Luigi Mayer / Reprocessed by ABM&D

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released June 25, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded principally during a session at White Pillar on October 12th, 2021 using Behringer's reinstatement of the 'Blue Marvin' ARP 2600 monophonic analog synthesizer, and developed into its final loop study on March 20th, 2023. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text by Brian. Design by ABM&D using visual sampling of 'Crater in the Island of Volcano' by Luigi Mayer, c. 1800. (C) + (P) Oscillog 2023. All nights preserved.

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