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Signaling

by Jeff Stadelman

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Deidre House
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Deidre House Jeff makes use of synths in ways you rarely hear and you'll wonder why not. His approach feels almost alien, uncanny. Favorite track: Milwaukee.
robtrotman
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robtrotman These sounds are a feast for the ears!

Can anyone tell me how to access the Loopwall app mentioned in Jeff’s bio?

Thanks
Rob
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The News 04:51
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Relaxation 05:01
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Exercise 04:25
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Milwaukee 06:34
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First Norn 03:10
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Whelmer 08:07
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Ham Shack 10:03
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White Potato 02:51
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about

Amidst a career of composing mainly for traditional orchestral instruments, Jeff Stadelman releases SIGNALING, his first album of entirely electronic, beat-oriented music.

Working in Williamsville, New York, oddly just a few blocks from where his first Micromoog synthesizer was manufactured in 1977, Jeff recently began re-exploring analog and digital synthesis, favoring the compositional limitations of small hardware devices like the Elektron Digitakt over the modern practices of laptop-based production. Using various hacks and adaptations, he creates uncanny musical vignettes that feature fat, bass- heavy hip hop and hauntingly otherworldly melodies, while evoking music boxes, retro VHS training videos, and mid-century advertising jingles.

On SIGNALING, Jeff embraces a quasi-minimalism dwelling in memories of radio, including the often synthesized intros, outros, stings, and bumpers of Norwegian [NRK], German, and U.S. public radio in the early 1980s. In addition, the album celebrates the culture of ham radio, the international shortwave radio spectrum, and all these entail: broadcast politics, noisy interference artifacts, and the musical interval signal beacons broadcast repetitively, often for hours on end, by international shortwave stations in order to identify and mark their positions on the dial—and in many cases their political positions as well.

With the majority of the album composed during the early months of the pandemic on small, self-contained grooveboxes, SIGNALING sees an artist working in physical isolation reaching out—much like ham radio enthusiasts—through technological windows to the outside world. Jeff's musical signals extend geographically in space— alluding to German kosmische Musik and Detroit hip hop—and backwards in time, through sampling obscure, forgotten records, and exploring the recesses of personal and cultural memory.

The Bandcamp release of SIGNALING comes with free access to loopWALL, a Mac/PC app by Jeff that allows users to creatively and performatively re-sequence some of the 128+ loops on the album.

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released June 15, 2021

Written, produced, and mixed by Jeff Stadelman
Composed March-June 2020
Mastered by Thilo Schaller
Cover artwork by Lavidhi Arsyad

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Jeff Stadelman Buffalo, New York

Jeff Stadelman grew up in rural Wisconsin. He earned music degrees from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and Harvard; and taught for 23 years at the University at Buffalo. Amidst a career of composing mainly for traditional orchestral instruments, he recently began re-exploring electronic synthesis, adapting small hardware devices to create haunting loops and uncanny beats. ... more

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