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wintering

by Edward Breitweiser

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1.
I. ...again... 04:48
2.
I. ...& again... 10:32
3.
II. ...forever... 09:48
4.
II. ...& ever... 07:22
5.
III. ...small season... 11:43
6.
III. ...long calendar... 10:56

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Where I live, the seasons are a recurring mark of time. The emerging seasons bring familiar natural patterns - specific weather, perennial flowers and plants, migrating wildlife - and human habits - outdoor activities, viable clothing, abundant food. We learn and inherit these patterns, yet they feel new and fresh with each recurrence.

At their peaks, the seasons stand in sharp contract to one another: the biting cold and echoing, dormant landscape of winter; the soggy, lush green and colorful singing of spring; the thick, humming heat of summer; the auburn preparation of fall. Sometimes, they blur into one another. Other times, they collide. But, reliably, they return, and return, and return, marching us toward the next while the last is left to our memory.

I've grown more fond of winter, when life "pares back to the very basics of existence in order to keep living." [Katherine May, "Wintering".] With each return to these essentials, I am comforted by the subtle flickers of life that surround us. I'm reminded that nature is dormant, not dead, and that this period of rest is a necessary phase in the vibrant return that lays ahead.

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"wintering" is a improvisational piece composed over the winter of 2021-2022. I designed an integrated modular and Buchla synthesizer system with various self-performing "sub-systems" (a subtly-shifting drone, pitched percussion, dry clicks, chirping '70s oscillators) that influence one another in direct, but unexpected, ways. These sub-systems loop and morph slowly over time, and the performer can improvised to alter how they interact and blend with each other over the course of a performance.

Like a seasonal cycle, the system settles into repetitive patterns and returns to recurring sounds; during winter, the surface sometimes appears static, but the subtlest changes soon grow into new life.

"wintering" was inspired by the essay "On Cycles" by Julia Falkner: syllabusproject.org/on-cycles/

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released April 25, 2022

All tracks written, performed, and recorded by
Edward Breitweiser between October 2021 and April 2022.

Album artwork by Edward Breitweiser

Some rights reserved under Creative Commones Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

All proceeds will be donated to PATH Crisis Center (www.pathcrisis.org), YWCA McLean County (www.ywcamclean.org), and the Immigration Project (www.immigrationproject.org). These are non-profit organizations that are fighting for suicide prevention services, immigrant rights, empowering women, and cash bail reform.

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Illinois-based artist, musician, and writer. Incorporating models from various intellectual traditions and bodies of knowledge, Breitweiser organizes particulars (software, electronics, audio/visual signals, text, networked distributions, improvisational music, performative activities) into arrangements whose products are the macro-result of the emergent interactions of all components at once. ... more

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