DTRM, by NYZ

DTRM

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Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, in the White Pillar Workshop. A white recordable 5" disc, duplicated and printed via an Imation D20's robot arm, held securely inside a white paperboard jacket with two white text labels on the front and back. Ships in a cast-polypropylene clear sleeve with a flap to keep your new sonic artifact dust and moisture free. Includes the full unabridged DTRM album (63:28).

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For his 11th cataloged release at Psoma Psi Phi, David Burraston offers the NYZ album DTRM. First in a series of in-depth studies of the classic diode transformer ring modulator. Recordings detail a number of circuits all built by hand at Noyzelab by Dave Burraston. Circuit construction used a combination of soldering of diode rings and crocodile clipping up various transformer configurations. The DTRM is likely the cheapest and simplest of all synth DIY circuits, and the configuration spaces of component possibilities is vast.

Sonically, DTRM is a mass of drones, shuddering in and out of focus, a smooth stone wall covered in sand and strange colors of moss that don't seem terrestrial. The more you observe it, the more intensely it vibrates, surrounding you, resisting definition but demanding observation. Similar in tonal personality to the PPLZ SYNF recordings, but warmer and denser.

EQUIPMENT LIST:

Xicon 42TM018 10kohm centre tapped transformer x2
Jaycar MM2534 3kohm centre tapped transformer x2
Maplin VTX-101-007 600ohm centre tapped transformer x2
BAT46 Schottky Diode x4 configured in a ring
LED assorted colours x4 configured in a ring
ALM Akemie's Castle
Intellijel Cylonix Cyclebox II

NOTE: After some confusion from listeners, we'd like to make clear the fact that all NYZ/Noyzelab catalog releases at Psoma are available ONLY as abridged digital versions for name-your-price/free download, and in their full unabridged editions as physical CD-Rs. There is not an unabridged digital version of anything from NYZ at Psoma, and the physical editions do not ship with unabridged digital versions either (that is, if you do not count the digital music present on the compact discs). For listeners only interested in unabridged digital versions, we encourage you to visit noyzelab.bandcamp.com to purchase those directly from NYZ, or even better, subscribe to his Bandcamp output and just get everything.

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released February 9, 2020

W/P by David Burraston. Field recorded live in mono to Zoom F8 direct from DTRM output, December 2018 [tracks 1 & 2] and January 2018 [track 3]. Level mixed January 2020 in mono at Noyzelab, no EQ or funny stuff.
www.noyzelab.com

Thanks to Matthew at ALM for the Akemie's Castle busycircuits.com/alm011/

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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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