Generate, by The OO-Ray

Generate

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1.	Hanami 05:31	buy track
2.	Undo 13:04	buy track
3.	Outside 04:05	buy track
4.	Scattered 08:05	buy track
5.	Middle 03:54	buy track
6.	Sway 12:35	buy track
7.	Generate 04:51	buy track

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For the last three years, I've been struggling with writer's block and perfectionism. Nothing I made seemed worth releasing. The songs from *Generate* resulted from trying to escape this perfectionism. I started working with generative music processes as a way to give up control. I used simple rules of harmonic modulation with random processes to mutate simple musical ideas into surprising pieces. In other words, I used the generative processes to expand my concepts of ambient music and go in new directions.

The result is an expansion of my musical ideas into longer form pieces. *Generate* is the start of a brand-new musical journey, and I'm excited about the new possibilities. I'm extremely excited about the 13-minute piece, *Undo*, that is both minimal and lush. I no longer feel trapped by perfectionism and I'm excited for the future.

I used Eurorack, Cello, Granular Synths, and other instrumentation to make these songs. All pieces were recorded as a single take with minimal overdubs. I hope you enjoy this album as much as I did whilst making it.

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released February 11, 2023

The OO-Ray
I am a data science educator, cellist, bio-informaticist, and composer. I make scientific computing more collaborative, accessible, and less lonely. I also tinker with making generative music using microcontrollers, photography, writing about education, and practicing cello.

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The OO-Ray is the alias of Ted Laderas, an improvisatory and experimental cellist from Portland, OR. A systems biologist by day, he extends his experimental attitude to exploring the outer possibilities of the cello, often distorting, looping, or pitchshifting his instrument beyond recognizability into waves of reverberation and extended drones. ... more

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Generate

Feb 2023
Tiny Fugues

Jul 2018
Astoria

Jul 2013

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