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river vs synth

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I discovered a little camping spot along the Van Duzen River in Northern California about ten summers ago, visiting it every couple of years. I have always enjoyed the various soundscapes of river and redwood forests at this place. In the summer of 2020, I made a series of recordings by the river’s edge with a Volca modular analog synth, trying and failing to match the complexity and tonal variation of the water’s incredible density of sound. Taking that failure as a starting point, I decided to build some pieces with those recordings and the river as a foundation and/or counterpoint. This little EP is a result of that experimentation.

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released April 22, 2022

Noah Thomas - trumpet, electronics
Van Duzen River - river

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poetic electric Ventura, California

poetic electric is Noah Thomas, trumpet player, and multi-instrumentalist. An anthropologist, Thomas applies a sense of the palimpsests of culture, materials, and nature to create dense sonic landscapes, applying an anarchist tendency toward an equanimity of sound where melody, harmony, and noise exist on equal footing. ... more

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