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Memory Buffer

by HANK THE MASON

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Tom Hall
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Tom Hall Wow, incredible. An amazing album, subtle in approach and without superfluous effects and sounds, there's a core composition approach here that is as complex as it is succinct. It Keeps Going totally floored me and I've listened many times now, I'd love to hear a whole album extending on this track alone. Favorite track: It Keeps Going.
Marjorine
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Marjorine We love a good drum machine love story. These sharp, glitchy and hypersonic experiments in noise from one of our favorite Brooklyn astronauts is just what we needed to get ready for the long winter ahead. Favorite track: Are you a Choir?.
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Beacon 05:21
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Storm Coming 08:19
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CRZN 04:24
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CRZN2 03:28
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Quarantined 05:52
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about

‘Memory Buffer’ is an idea that’s grown out of my 15-year obsession with a drum machine, the Korg Electribe ER-1, which I’ve had since ~2005. These recordings represent a series of snapshots taken mostly in the first half of 2020. Each piece poses a different ‘question’ to the machine, and these recordings document its answers. In this way, ‘Memory Buffer’ works like a set of études, putting forth different challenges and problems to an instrumentalist and their instrument.

Though this project started from a technical line of thinking and questioning, the process itself made me come to think of the machine in a more personal way - as a repository of my memories and experiments over the years, and especially throughout 2020 and its unraveling. Much as some of these pieces explore the storing and releasing of ‘memory’ in a computational sense, I see the drum machine as performing similar functions in a more abstract, intimate way.

Each of these recordings was made in one take recorded live from the ER-1 drum machine, with no overdubs or editing (except for a fade-in/fade-out). I used Max/MSP to communicate with and control the drum machine.

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released October 2, 2020

Hank Mason - ER-1 drum machine, Max/MSP
Mastered by Ryan Ross Smith; Fremont Center, NY

Cover Art by ERIDAN (Eri King and Daniel Greer)

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