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the video of my flash crash performance from yesterday, which shows the same patch that I used for this entire album. The only major difference is that I played the last voicemail i received from my grandma, about a year ago, shortly before she passed. She was my moms-mom and in preparing for this flash crash set, I was thinking about the silly sweetness of that birthday message, and about how I don’t have any recordings of my moms voice — who also passed around this time of year, 7 years ago now. Looping my grandma’s voice through thyme was one of the things that inspired me to make this album — although I ultimately decided to save the voicemail for the FC performance.

@Jet the process of making this was approximately 2 hours on a saturday afternoon. I was supposed to be flash crash practicing but it suddenly felt like i had a lot to say so i pulled out norns and hit record. Tracks 1& 2 are actually seamless, i simply chopped them directly at the moment where i pressed the “half-speed” on Thyme. (I also reloaded the scene in teletype so nothing carried over from the previous track). “seals” is the most different, because I incorporated DFAM (though the high gain input on mini-drive) which I was clocking from teletype. “unsealed”, “redolent”, and “skin” were also all recorded together (reloading teletype at transitions, or during the track), and I think the transitions are mostly pretty close to being seamless/as recorded — although here there was a little bit of finagling to make the song lengths perfect :wink: but the transitions are fairly true to how they were recorded. Also everything was recorded in what ended up being the final album order.

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