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Drown Blinder (bonus track)

from Now I Do This by Nick Didkovsky

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Recorded at MacColl Studio For Electronic Music using a homemade instrument I built. The instrument mounted a spring between the ends of two sticks that were joined by an axle so I could open and close the sticks to stretch and release the spring. I coiled wire around a speaker magnet, plugged that directly into a tape machine, and positioned the magnet under the spring. The whooshing, murmuring sounds are created by the spring modulating the field of the electromagnet, like a giant floppy guitar string vibrating in wide arcs over a pickup. When the spring hits the magnet, you hear very abrupt percussive thumps (don't play this too loud on your stereo, I remember Shep wincing when I played this for the class and he said he was worried about his speakers).
I recorded one pass improvising on this instrument, then added layers of synth, found and otherwise sounds, to augment the phrases and the form on an MCI 8-track deck.

Drown Blinder was never released until now.

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from Now I Do This, released November 20, 2021

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Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist and composer from NYC

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