The unofficial end, of course, was the recording on May 12th; but I didn’t know it at the time.  However, over the last few months, as the podcast went on unscheduled hiatus for the umpteenth time, I’ve gradually realized that it’s stopped serving the needs and purposes for which I started it almost three years ago, and that maybe it was time to pack it in.

Fortunately, during that same period, an old friend made contact, checked out the podcast, and asked whether I planned to release any compilations, and I recognized that as the perfect way to give the show a proper ending.  I’ve been working feverishly on it (I want to say tirelessly, but let’s be honest: I’m exhausted) for the last two months, and I’m very happy with how it’s come out.  It’s telling, if not exactly ironic, that I’ve put more time, thought, and concerted effort into ending Nascent Music than I was able to muster for any of the actual episodes in the last year or more.

nascentmusic.com expires in January of 2009, and I won’t renew it, so this website will disappear after the new year.  After that, if you want to download any episodes, a complete audio archive will still be available at http://shanecarey.net/nm/archives.html.  Comments have been disabled on all posts (including this one) due to the ratio of spam to anything else, but you will still be able to reach me, as always, at the email address included at the end of every episode.

One thing that hasn’t waned in all this time is my gratitude toward my listeners.  I never figured out how many of you there are, or (other than a couple of close friends) who or where you are, or what you get out of listening.  But I know you’re out there and I appreciate you sticking it out even during the leanest times.  I promise there won’t be any more posts after this, so you won’t miss anything if you remove my feed from your reader/podcatcher.  Do check shanecarey.net every once in a while, as I hope I will be updating that more frequently with new and various projects.

And with that, I’m out.  As always, thanks for listening.

I’m proud to announce the release of Greatest Hits and Misses, a 2-disc compilation of the best of Nascent Music.

An excursion into the world of long, sustaining echo. Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello!

A few different explorations over a loop of tapped harmonics.

So, hey, only a week since the last one! This could be a trend or something!

I will, at some point, resume describing the mood and context that influence each improvisation, but for now I’m just focusing on getting back in the habit of recording and posting (while intending to work on a wider variety of sounds).  Hope that’s okay.

It took 5 months to count all the reasons not to put up a new recording. I should have just stopped counting.

There’s some distortion in this recording.  Unfortunately, it’s in the source.  In taking some things apart for travel and putting them back together again, something seems to have gotten louder and I didn’t notice until after recording.  I’ll try to have it fixed by the next improvisation.  Apologies, and thanks for bearing with me!

By Giant-Sized, I mean 48 minutes and 44 MB.  As I did last year, here’s a breakdown of how that time is spent:

00:00-02:15: Introduction and Thanks
02:15-23:25: Improvisation I
23:25-25:36: The Big Idea
25:36-47:03: C + Improvisation I + Improvisation II
47:03-48:21: Conclusion

Thanks again to

• Emmett Chapman
• Bill Binder
• Niranjan Bendre
• Juan León
• My wife

And, as always, you. Thanks for listening!