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Matthew Ryals // Voltage Scores TAPE

Matthew Ryals // Voltage Scores TAPE

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The latest work released by Matthew Ryals, a modular player in New York, USA, in October 2021 from the experimental label Oxtail Recordings in Sydney, Australia, limited to 10 pieces.

Includes 12 improvised songs in which one person played free jazz in a modular manner. DL code included.

Labels and other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more Oxtail Recordings releases available at Tobira. 

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Edition of 50.

Text by Oxtail Recordings:

"A head-spinning vision of a cybernetic future, Voltage Scores is the second full-length album by Brooklyn-based synthesist and educator Matthew Ryals for Oxtail Recordings. This time around, he brought a free jazz mindset to the modular synthesizer and went deep, cultivating a daily practice over the course of more than a year, and a process that allowed these pieces to bloom in a focused yet free way.

The results --recorded live --combined generative patching with free improvisation and unfixed forms. Unusual yet organic shapes, shifting tempi, and percolating sequences all come together in a kaleidoscopic sound world where the only constant is change. during these explorations (each track includes its take number in the title) --except for the euphoric album opener “suitcase with a mountain in it,” which features cellist Clarice Jensen (Bjork, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Max Richter).

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All tracks recorded live with no overdubs using a eurorack modular synthesizer (except # 1), April --November 2020. Written, performed, and produced by Matthew Ryals at home in Brooklyn, NY. Cello on # 1 by Clarice Jensen. Mastered by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio. Artwork by Gabriela Del Valle. "

Artist: Matthew Ryals

Label: Label: Oxtail Recordings

The latest work released by Matthew Ryals, a modular player in New York, USA, in October 2021 from the experimental label Oxtail Recordings in Sydney, Australia, limited to 10 pieces.

Includes 12 improvised songs in which one person played free jazz in a modular manner. DL code included.

Labels and other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more Oxtail Recordings releases available at Tobira. 

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Edition of 50.

Text by Oxtail Recordings:

"A head-spinning vision of a cybernetic future, Voltage Scores is the second full-length album by Brooklyn-based synthesist and educator Matthew Ryals for Oxtail Recordings. This time around, he brought a free jazz mindset to the modular synthesizer and went deep, cultivating a daily practice over the course of more than a year, and a process that allowed these pieces to bloom in a focused yet free way.

The results --recorded live --combined generative patching with free improvisation and unfixed forms. Unusual yet organic shapes, shifting tempi, and percolating sequences all come together in a kaleidoscopic sound world where the only constant is change. during these explorations (each track includes its take number in the title) --except for the euphoric album opener “suitcase with a mountain in it,” which features cellist Clarice Jensen (Bjork, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Max Richter).

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All tracks recorded live with no overdubs using a eurorack modular synthesizer (except # 1), April --November 2020. Written, performed, and produced by Matthew Ryals at home in Brooklyn, NY. Cello on # 1 by Clarice Jensen. Mastered by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio. Artwork by Gabriela Del Valle. "

Artist: Matthew Ryals

Label: Label: Oxtail Recordings