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Heavy Lifting (Lucy Cheesman) has been playing live coded music using TidalCycles and FoxDot since 2016.
Her second album for pan y rosas features songs about weddings, karaoke, getting your head chopped off, the cyclops Polyphemus, bad housemates and lost property. The music was all improvised over two long sessions, and edited down before the vocals were recorded. Most of the sounds are made using a few 90s synths with some samples chucked in for good measure and vocoded/pitch shifted vocals.
heavy lifting (lucy cheesman) has been playing live coded music using TidalCycles and FoxDot since 2016.
heavy lifting’s first album on pan y rosas, mortal springs, is loosely based on the myths surrounding demeter and persephone. the songs on the album were edited down from a live-coded improvisation using TidalCycles – a language used to describe & generate patterns. you will hear: synth & drum sounds, sample collages, and a small amount of vocals thrown in for good measure.