Photography by PragmatiCuntBrian Grainger performing live in the White Pillar Workshop, using a Blue Marvin analog synthesizerPhotography by PragmatiCunt

Outdoor photography by PragmatiCunt

Limestone Ziggurat is a recording alias for Brian Grainger, gestated during the 2020 pandemic and formally established on June 1st, 2021 at Celebrate Psi Phenomenon.

Materials are published as either Limestone Ziggurat or LSZ, although other permutations of the name are likely to follow as time passes. A detailed manifesto defining the goals and purposes of LSZ was published at Patreon, and a subsequent essay regarding the creative process itself was published at Bandcamp.

Limestone Ziggurat should be considered as, in mathematic terms, a set to contain all sets - Grainger's prior monikers such as Milieu and Coppice Halifax, to name only a couple, exist both within it and apart from it - and so LSZ sessions are able to bypass all expectations or definitions of genre, medium and runtime.

Self-published works are available on Bandcamp: weltlandschaft.bandcamp.com

Contact the artist at brian(at)milieu-music(dot)com

All work is never finished. The statue remains inside the stone.

2021/06/01: A220 (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, part of the PSI-SOLATION +1 compilation album, digital)

Source: R-EW Audioholistics modular system

2021/06/18: Autofugue via Four Operators and Multitrack Tape (Psoma Psi Phi, part of the FM40P::M46tORG_blym_zero / Autofugue Via Four Operators & Multitrack Tape split release with NYZ, a charity album with 100% of proceeds sent to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, digital)

Source: Yamaha TX-81Z

2021/09/21: Laid upon the Slab (aquietroom, part of the Save the Children charity compilation, with 100% of proceeds sent to Save the Children, digital)

Source: Human voice

2021/12/04: A Cold Finger Traced Across an Empty Glass (Milieu Music #ON-21/337, digital)

Source: Sinewaves, Goldwave

2021/12/06: Litho (Milieu Music #LITHO-Z, part of a concurrently issued/separate set of albums, all titled Litho, by Brian Grainger/Milieu/Coppice Halifax/LSZ, CD-R and digital)

Source: R-EW Audioholistics modular system, mobile processing applications

2022/01/05: Heaven is a Glass Forever Machine (Milieu Music #EST-22/005, digital, permanently incomplete)

Source: R-EW Audioholistics modular system, various external machines

2022/01/06: The Violence in Hell is Made of Blood (Milieu Music #EST-22/006, digital, permanently incomplete)

Source: R-EW Audioholistics modular system, various external machines

2022/02/14: OHMM (Milieu Music #LIME-22/045, CD-R and digital)

Source: R-EW Audioholistics modular system

2022/02/14: OHMM II (Milieu Music #LIME-22/045a, CD-R and digital)

Source: R-EW Audioholistics modular system, specifically Behringer 921

2022/02/15: OHMM III (Milieu Music #LIME-22/046, CD-R and digital)

Source: R-EW Audioholistics modular system

2022/03/04: Sunflowers (Psoma Psi Phi, part of the Dürer / Sunflowers split release with NYZ, a charity album with 100% of proceeds sent to the Ukrainian Humanitarian Fund, digital)

Source: R-EW Audioholistics modular system, specifically Buchla 258t & 281t

2022/04/01: Pillar of Persephone (Milieu Music #ONE-22/082, digital)

Source: Pulsar VCO with custom designed wavetables

2022/07/11: Pierce / Coupling (Milieu Music #ON-22/191, digital)

Source: R-EW Audioholistics runoff system

2022/07/30: Aeolian Metals (Machine Tribe Recordings, cassette and digital)

Source: Piezoelectric microphone, Zoom H1, Soma Ether v2, human voice

2022/07/30: Ecce Nihilo (Milieu Music #ONE-22/211, digital)

Source: Buchla 258t dual oscillator and Behringer 150 ring modulator

2022/08/23: To What Green Altar (Milieu Music #ON-22/235, digital)

Source: SSDP AS3340 oscillator (novel waveform), Behringer 921 oscillator (ramp waveform), Tiptop/Buchla 258t oscillators (novel waveforms)

2022/08/27: The Iron Shipwreck Consumed by Martian Quicksand (Machine Tribe Recordings, cassette and digital)

Source: R-EW Audioholistics system, processing prior session recordings that remained unused due to damaged audio

2022/09/15: Amchixtax (Milieu Music #ONE-22/258, digital)

Source: Mutable Inst. Braids wavetable chord algorithm & pin matrix, with feedback and extensive signal processing

2022/09/17: The Night Becomes a Millstone Turning Across the Face of the Urth (Milieu Music #LIME-22/260, digital)

Source: Mutable Inst. Braids wavetable chord algorithm & pin matrix, with feedback and extensive signal processing

2022/10/24: V-2 No. 13 (Milieu Music #ON-22/297, digital)

Source: Roland System 100 LFO & 4x Quadrature LFOs (via Ornament & Crime) tuned in the audible frequency range.

2022/11/03: Bleached (Milieu Music #ON-22/MRMB, digital)

Source: Mutable Instruments Clouds (Parasites firmware, Resonestor mode).

N.B.: Only available as a download code included with purchases of Wind Send from Minimal Resource Manipulation, UK.

2022/12/07: Wind Send (Minimal Resource Manipulation #MRM69, ltd. CD-R & digital)

Source: Two field recordings via the Zoom H1 recorder, processed by the R-EW Audioholistics modular system.

2022/12/18: Upon the Curvature of a Hill (Milieu Music #UR-22/349, digital)

Source: Future Sound System MTX9A active pin matrix (feedback loops).

2023/01/04: OHMM IV (Milieu Music #LIME-23/004, digital)

Source: SSDP Jade series AS3340, Behringer 1004 (ARP 2500 reiteration), Buchla 258t, with additional waveforms generated via Behringer 150/1005 ring modulators.

2023/02/03: Compound Displacement (Psoma Psi Phi #Psoma 46, ltd. CD-R & digital)

Source: Captured spatial and vibrational audio in transit between Franklin and Centerville, Ohio, using a Zoom H1, Soma Ether v2 and piezoelectric microphone.

2023/02/07: 107A-2 (Milieu Music #RAT-23/037, digital)

Source: Audible LFOs tuned to 87.06hz and 88.02hz in Ornament & Crime, alongside other audible LFOs within the R-EW system.

2023/02/16: Impulse (Milieu Music #ONE-23/046, digital)

Source: A softsynth emulation of the SID chip in the Commodore 64.

2023/03/03: Grass to Heel (Milieu Music #UR-23/061, digital)

Source: Future Sound System MTX9A active pin matrix (feedback loops).

2023/04/07: Resistance (Milieu Music #ON-23/094, digital)

Source: ARP 2600 "Blue Marvin" (Behringer reiteration) feedback.

2023/04/07: Ranges Glimpsed (Milieu Music #UR-23/095, digital)

Source: Future Sound System MTX9A active pin matrix (feedback loops).

2023/04/20: OHMM V (Milieu Music #LIME-23/110, digital)

Source: SSDP Jade series AS3340, Behringer 1004 (ARP 2500 reiteration), Buchla 258t.

2023/05/05:The Sun (Psoma Psi Phi #Psoma 50, ltd. CD-R & digital)

Source: R-EW Audioholistics modular system. Fifty oscillators.

N.B.: The first published recording in the open-ended Weltlandschaft catalog, recorded January 13th 2021.