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https://youtu.be/2GDB7y9VlhI I did the original recording for this on 01 Dec 2019 was on Day 243 in the ongoing 100 Day Project timeline. It was one of four pieces I started that day. I used a granular looping Max 4 Live instrument called Iota by Dillon Baston alongside native Ableton Live devices.

On 05 Mar 2023, I took a slightly slower version of the original captured audio and mixed it with another rerun of the same system into the final piece heard here.

The title for this piece was from a notebook I used between approximately 1987-1997. Working title for this piece was “FroScienBnc.”

I recorded & remixed this in Massapequa, NY for Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories & Blister Pop Unlimited.

On a walk around the neighborhood, I took the artwork photography here on 07 Dec 2014, almost 5 years before the original recording.

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https://youtu.be/Rn9GW3ziX6c Hey everyone!

I bought this dictaphone machine for about $20 in 2020. I go through some of its features and possibilities for sound manipulation in this 12 1/2 min video.

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https://youtu.be/N9NuCkZqYA4 The original recording for this was on 16 Dec 2019 was Day 258 in the ongoing 100 Day Project timeline.

This was a generative sequence based on the notes G3, F#3, D#3 & C#3. I used Ableton Live & Operator, the Max 4 Live device “Expression Control” by schlam to interpret velocity. This was then run through two different delays which would be activated by different note velocities. On the original recording day, I captured two stereo variations and these were allowed to run together throughout the entirely of the piece from start to finish. Using this as it existed, I did some additional stretching on 05 Feb 2023 to make the piece run slower.

The title for this piece came from a head revision of a poem I wrote on a train on 22 Jan 2020 called “Song 92.”

I recorded this in Massapequa, NY for Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories & Blister Pop Unlimited.

I took the artwork photography here as well as some others to be included in an album released centered on 17 Dec 2019 from a car in Manhattan, NY, USA.

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https://youtu.be/DeJkUsjn0QU 9 Jul 2019 was Day 99 in the ongoing 100 Day Project timeline. This was not the “official” 100 Day piece because I recorded 6 things that day.

For this I used Propellerhead’s Thor app and Chris Carlson’s Borderlands Granular on and iPad mini 4. I transferred this to Ableton Live 11 on 06 Jan 2023 and stretched and effected it a bit.

The title for this piece came from an absurd interjection I made in a conversation I was having in Sarah Belle Reid’s Discord about accidents on 6 Jan 2023.

I recorded this for Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories & Blister Pop Unlimited.

I took the artwork photography here as well as some others to be included in a possible album released centered on that day in Massapequa, NY, USA while cleaning up after a painting session on 11 Sep 2019 with an iPhone 7 Plus and edited in Photoshop Lightroom on 13 Jan 2023.

©2019, 2023 Jim Lemanowicz

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