Drone Archive I, by Yorkshire Modular Society

Drone Archive I

by Yorkshire Modular Society

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Richard Richard A set of drone pieces seemingly made of ancient oak from the Round Table. Almost medieval.

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Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, in the White Pillar Workshop. Five white 5" recordable discs, printed and duplicated via an Imation D20, held inside a black plastic multi-disc box (about the size and shape of a VHS tape) with a wraparound kraft paperstock insert bearing custom text stickers on the front, back and spine. Contains ten YMS drone pieces, totaling 5 hours, 35 minutes and 37 seconds of audio.

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	1.	YMS 2 34:54
	2.	YMS 8 30:14

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Psoma Psi Phi has the honor and the pleasure of formally/physically introducing the extensive and expansive recording work of Yorkshire Modular Society to the world, in a five-disc box set canvassing ten different longform drone works from the first year of the project's sessions. YMS is a secondary moniker of Dom Schofield, elsewhere known as Oxynucid within the braindance, techno and acid circles he travels in, and represents (as the name would imply) his explorations with an ever-evolving and expanding modular synthesizer he has built.

Sonically, these drones recall some of the most evocative and essential drone recordings of decades past, from Eliane Radigue's Adnos to Alvin Lucier's Music On A Long Thin Wire, as well as fitting contemporaneously and comfortably alongside modern pioneers like David Burraston, Eleh and Richard Chartier. Further still, seasoned drone listeners will connect the humming vibrance of Yorkshire Modular Society's studies to elements of work by Yoshi Wada, La Monte Young and Folke Rabe. For us here at Psoma, these recordings are destined to become just as perennial as the aforementioned, vividly elemental yet temperature-universal recordings that can be installed as a utility for therapy, sleep, meditation or simply an alternative to a "too quiet" environment. They are able to impart impressive low-frequency output at higher volume levels, and they are able to remain as discreet as a whisper at lower volumes - much like our recent five-part Noyzelab series of Cell Meditations, these are flexible audio tools that yield many possible presentations and experiences to many different types of listening.

A second archive of five more discs is forthcoming, and we would also like to suggest that the public look into YMS on Bandcamp, which offers a subscription that yields regular installments of synthesized excursions: yorkshiremodularsociety.bandcamp.com . We raise our glass to Dom and his pulsating ever-growing modular system that broadcasts from Yorkshire, long may they generate the frequencies that massage our brains into contented submission.

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released July 5, 2019

W/P by Yorkshire Modular Society. Recorded with an ever-expanding modular synthesizer in England. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. This is Psøma Psi Phi number ØΨΦXI. Text and design by ABM&D.

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Sleep fictions, lucid maps and gnostic states. Asemic systems designed by night smokers, bedroom alchemists and oligolaliacs, for intimate applications. Est. MMXVII.

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