In a summer dream as a design student at California College of the Arts, Mitch made healing sounds of ambience and trance for an instrument called The Octopus, designed in Chicago while at SAIC. The Octopus is a 64 piece orchestra synthesizer, using contemporary forms of sound generation across a sample-based system made using Max/MSP. A smaller prototype was used to perform as a duo with his partner, Rachel Smith, at Day of Noise at KZSU, a twenty-four-hour experimental music program curated by Abra Jeffers. By allowing a large group of individuals to become the creators of these sounds, which are composed to be within a harmonic pattern, using intuition and experience, a connection between healing and community engagement could be imagined. While it remains a dream, these compositions are captured here in this release.
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released January 15, 2020
Recorded and performed by Mitch Greer in Emeryville, CA in September 2019
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