Nested Forms, by Rayograph

Nested Forms

by Rayograph

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1.	White Gothic No. 5 03:22		buy track
2.	Starlight Scope 00:22		buy track
3.	Die Strassen der Zukunft 04:03		buy track
4.	Students for a Democratic Society 01:32		buy track
5.	A Thousand Cranes 01:36		buy track
6.	Transistor 04:28		buy track
7.	Ici, c'est ici stieglitz, foi et amour 05:24		buy track
8.	Particles (free) 00:17		download
9.	Welcoming Country 02:15		buy track
10.	Phonometrograph 01:30		buy track
11.	Aps Module 03:44		buy track
12.	La vie sexuelle des artistes aux rayons x 02:58		buy track
13.	Paradox Lake 02:24		buy track
14.	Secret/NOFORN 01:36		buy track
15.	Dialogue with a consumer product 02:30		buy track
16.	Dialogue avec un produit de consommation 01:14		buy track
17.	Dialog mit einen Konsum Produkt 01:44		buy track
18.	TheMan550 03:06		buy track
19.	Lavastream 01:04	info	buy track
20.	Twilight 2000 02:19		buy track
21.	Solar Wire 02:22		buy track
22.	Microsounds 01:04	info	buy track
23.	Redaction (2019 Bonus Track) 00:34		buy track
24.	All That In A Hat (2019 Bonus Track) 02:33		buy track

about

Rayograph is the synthesizer and software project of Andy Miles. The first Rayograph recording, “Welcoming Country,” was made in late summer 2007. A full-length album, Nested Forms, followed, with an original release date of November 10, 2009; it was reissued March 15, 2019.

Miles programs synthesizer, percussion and field-sound samples in a little-known open-source sample-sequencing application called Leaf Drums, and sometimes plays an Alesis Micron synthesizer and electronic drum pads. He orchestrates the sounds, programmed and performed, into dense rhythmic and melodic collages, endeavoring to inject in the songs organic qualities that eschew the often-rigid confines of techno (of which he doesn't consider himself an exponent). He likewise demonstrates no loyalty to a genre, electronic or otherwise, wandering from '80s-inflected synth pop to dusky cinematic ambiance, sitar-drenched meditations, serene Eno-esque soundscapes, and more.

Says Miles, a drummer since the '80s,"I think of myself as a song fabricator, and not musician, because 'musician' implies knowledge about chords and scales and things like that, which I have none, and that I compose and record in a linear, conventional way, which I don’t. What interests me is the accretion of sounds into a (more or less) coherent whole."

Sampled sounds on the album include a host of vintage synthesizers and drum machines, the Armenian-Canadian actress Arsinée Khanjian speaking at a Toronto Film Festival press conference, the late afternoon strains of a Michigan Avenue trumpeter outside the Art Institute of Chicago, the Washington, D.C. fire department at the scene of a residential blaze, the clanging together of various steel pipes, the dialing of a rotary phone, static on a shortwave radio -- all of it (and much more) recorded by Miles on Marantz digital recorders. Many of the song titles came from visits to the Chicago Cultural Center, the National Gallery of Art, and the top floor of the National Portrait Gallery.

BASIC INFO:
Personnel: Andy Miles (synthesizer, samples, drums)
Genre: electronic/ambient/experimental
Location: Chicago
Label: Transistor Sound (www.transistor-sound.com/the-label)
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/rayograph
E-mail: hello@transistor-sound.com
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Find out more about Transistor Sound at www.transistor-sound.com/the-label.

credits

released November 10, 2009

All songs written, performed, programmed, recorded and mixed by Andy Miles; mastering by Ryan Gatenby.

Credit (and thanks) to: Arsinée Khanjian, whose voice
is heard on "Welcoming Country."

Cover photo by Andy Miles.
Rayograph logo by Yael Gen.

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