Apt Mope, by Distant Fingers

Apt Mope

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Pieces that I made in 2020 and 2021 and released on Metapop, which will be shut down as of April 30, 2023. To quote Dan Bejar on the Destroyer song 'Rubies', 'All good things must come to an end / The bad ones just go on forever' (destroyer.bandcamp.com/track/rubies).

'Encrypted Clarinet' is made with bits and pieces from various Juice B Crypts tracks for the Remix This #226 competition in 2020 (web.archive.org/web/20221127062741/https://metapop.com/pages/promos/battles-juice-b-crypts). I played an actual bass clarinet and added a recording of an actual person speaking.

'Kitchen' is my response to the FLUXUS-inspired Instruction Music challenge, also part of Ableton's 2020 Loop At Home (web.archive.org/web/20210228071251/https://loop.ableton.com/loop-at-home/daily-challenge-instruction-music/). It's made with recordings of a Sodastream sparkling water maker, a cupboard door, and a beer bottle. You can hear these in mildly processed versions, more heavily processed using Granulator II and also transformed using Wavetable in Ableton Live.

'PRES1' and 'PRES2' are my responses to the Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES) challenge during Ableton's 2020 Loop At Home (web.archive.org/web/20210123040747/https://loop.ableton.com/loop-at-home/daily-challenge-radio-rework/).

'Glebe Tamarisk' from 2021 is my entry for the Produce This #119 Community Drive for Girls Make Beats (web.archive.org/web/20220819192322/https://metapop.com/pages/promos/community-drive-2021).

released April 20, 2023

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Distant Fingers Brisbane, Australia

Now working alone in a small room, having played a range of instruments in various bands of different kinds since 1999.

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