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Michael White - Temporal Agitation

from Modulisme Session 073 by 3 Year Itch Birthday Session v.1

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Born in Vancouver Canada, MW’s teenage years were spent playing trumpet, synthesizers and hockey. Moving to Toronto at 19 to study music at the University of Toronto, he took a deep dive into classical music, avant-garde jazz and contemporary concert music. These diverse interests and influences have shaped his unique and eclectic approach to performance and composition throughout his career. MW is known for a distinctive style, creating hybrid musical structures by chaining together modular synthesizers and outboard processing with live performance on acoustic instruments. As a composer, MW has scored radio drama, television series, and feature films, always looking for projects that have allowed a high degree of creativity and collaboration. Improvisation on cellular fragments combined with editing of the material extracting themes, textures and anchor points that connect to the flow of the storytelling are the mainstay of his style and method.
In addition to composing, MW is known for being a session musician. His detailed approach to performance, composition and sound design has led him to work with film composers including: Andrew Lockington, David Buckley, Jon Goldsmith, Joseph Trapanese, Christophe Beck and Harry Gregson-Williams.

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This piece is about obscuring time, dividing it to create streams and relationships between the voices and events that may not at first seem connected. As the piece unfolds pulses emerge, they only last a short time and then disappear or become obscured by the next one that seems to take precedence. The unheard underlying pulse stream holds the piece together despite being obscured by the many layers of division.
Technically the patch uses multiple divisions of a fast clock almost at audio rate for its’ overall micro and macro timing source. The harmonic content is produced and controlled by a changing mix of oscillators shaped by the TWS (triple wave shaper). The TWS was modulated in various ways while the index was being manually controlled in realtime. Mixing the levels of the oscillator bank and its’ routing was also manually controlled via a matrix mixer. The audio stream was divided and processed in parallel with the WAD, FS and a filter set and dynamically controlled, allowing a secondary dimension of timbre and space to the various sound objects. The piece was recorded in 3 passes: the bed tremolo and sustains, the rhythmic agitations and then finally the brief melodic gestures.

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from Modulisme Session 073, released October 21, 2022
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