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Light Pulse Earth Grid instrumentals and a few other collections of instrumentals are up on my Soundcloud. For licensing please contact jaybodley at gmail dot com.

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Sun Hammer - Mahamudra

Sun Hammer is an American sound artist who identifies as an Enneagram Type Five, a lover of sweets, and a very active person. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

‘MAHAMUDRA’ – rough translation: “great gesture” – was created in Portland, OR primarily in 2013 and 2014. It was intended to present a shift away from the more esoteric drone music Sun Hammer had primarily created for the previous few years into a more expansive synthesis of tastes and influences. Taking cues from drone, as well as hip-hop, techno, plunderphonics, glitch, post-dubstep mutations and process-based experimental music, MAHAMUDRA aims to present something more broadly accessible to fans of electronic music as a sort of magnum opus for the Sun Hammer identity. The first Sun Hammer release to incorporate elements from his ever-growing personal library of daily musical exercises – a practice which the artist has diligently kept up since 2012 – MAHAMUDRA acts as a master class in modern electronic music production technique. Ever the engineer, Sun Hammer drew on his considerable expertise and knowledge to craft these 12 tracks: drum programming, odd time-signatures, FM, granular and additive synthesis, data-to-sound transformation algorithms, graphic scores, randomized processes, multi-generational sampling, vocoder, auto-tune, breakbeats, trap-style beat tags and more. The end result is a sprawling collection of rhythmic sculptures that calls to mind any number of reference points, while still forcefully asserting an identity and aesthetic all its own. In 2015, after a long delay, the album was mixed by Sun Hammer with Chris Koltay at High Bias Recordings studio in Detroit MI. Software used was Ableton Live and Max / MSP, along with piano, voice and field recordings captured on iPhone.creditsreleased September 15, 2016 Written and produced by Jay Bodley at Sun Hammer Business Campus, Portland OR, 2012-2015. Mixed by Chris Koltay & Sun Hammer at High Bias Recordings, Detroit MI, 2015. Mastered by Andrew Weathers. Artwork by Mike Todd. Layout by Gretchen Korsmo.

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My collaborative project with Guy Birkin, Complexification, has been released on Entr’acte. We are honored to be a part of this highly regarded label known for its excellent curation of experimental music. This album, which was started in spring of 2012 and finished in summer 2014, is composed around the idea of perception of complexity in music. Following is a brief description of our process.

The Complexification project explores musical complexity through a collaborative process based on a set of rules:

1. Make a short, simple piece of music. 2. Swap copies of the pieces with the other person. 3. Modify the given piece to make it more complex  (the given piece must be used, but it can be trans-  formed in any way, and new sounds may be added). 4. IF the result is more complex (as agreed by both  participants), GOTO 2, otherwise HALT.

Says Guy in a blog about the album: “We developed the practice of using rules and constraints through participation in the Disquiet Junto. Some of the audio processing techniques were developed in Junto projects, and the group’s tradition of documenting the creative process led us to do the same in this project. The technical details about the process are available in a PDF via Entr’acte, which also includes spectrogram images of the tracks and a couple of analytical charts.”

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I have released a mixtape of material from my New York beat era. Recorded in early 2010 in Brooklyn NY, the twelve songs on Illuminations 2010 were the result of directing my sound both toward trip-hop and toward industrial.

This mixtape is dedicated to the memory of Phil Schneider (1947-1996). Learn more about Phil's story in the PHILIP SCHNEIDER - UNDERGROUND ALIEN BASES video.

The Illuminations 2010 mixtape is available on a donation basis at the Sun Hammer Bandcamp.

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Track five from the forthcoming "Illuminations 2010" mixtape.

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Only a month after sharing my second remix collection, I'm happy to release this EP of new music. Both songs are exercises in MIDI generation techniques, which are further explored in the remix by my friend Guy Birkin. The EP is available pay-what-you-want for a limited time at Bandcamp, after which it will be released with its two companion singles on the 7-song compilation Underscore Slash Vertical Bar.

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"The oddball, rarely-used keyboard key title of this EP should give you Autechre/Aphex Twin fans an idea of what’s in store with its three tracks. The jitterbugging beats and slushy electronics that Sun Hammer trucks feel positively life-giving, sort of like Ed Harris breathing liquid in The Abyss. Just heavy enough to feel strange upon your first inhalation, but then it becomes so much easier to let sink into the bronchi." - Robert Ham

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tracks 1 & 2 by Jay Bodley. Autumn 2013, Portland OR. track 3 is a remix of track 1 by Guy Birkin: www.soundcloud.com/notl "The oddball, rarely-used keyboard key title of this EP should give you Autechre/Aphex Twin fans an idea of what’s in store with its three tracks. The jitterbugging beats and slushy electronics that Sun Hammer trucks feel positively life-giving, sort of like Ed Harris breathing liquid in The Abyss. Just heavy enough to feel strange upon your first inhalation, but then it becomes so much easier to let sink into the bronchi." - Robert Ham