Elements of Chance

by Ian Boddy

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Cassette + Digital Album
Shrink wrapped cassette featuring the original artwork from the 1981 release.

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	1.	Iaja 04:46
	2.	Natural Motion 03:40
	3.	Four Views 17:53
	4.	Surface Tensions 09:05
	5.	Elements of Chance 12:24
	6.	Lambda (Bonus) 05:55
	7.	So Rare (Bonus) 04:02
	8.	Sneakers (Bonus) 04:23

about

After the relative success of Images I immediately started working on my follow up for the cassette label Mirage. I had acquired a Boss Dr.Rhythm drum machine for my 21st birthday and also a Roland SH2 mono synth and CSQ-100 sequencer. This step up in technology allowed me to expand my musical horizons and certainly this album, Elements of Chance, is a far more musically advanced suite of pieces than Images.

Like my debut album this opens with two short and snappy melodic tracks with the opener Iaja featuring Sid Smith playing bass guitar over a hypnotic AKS sequencer and percussion riff. The second track Natural Motion is the first track to feature my new drum machine and has a charmingly early eighties vibe.

Things step up a gear, certainly in terms of complexity, with the long track Four Views. Opening with some beautiful flute motifs played by David Burns running through Revox tape delays the track evolves through a set of four movements. This track also featured a lovely Korg Lambda which I was able to borrow for a time providing the chordal work most notably in the grand finale.

Side two of the original cassette opened with the slow burner of Surface Touches which has some lovely phased white noise running through an EMS Filter Bank. Then finally we reach the title track which opens with some very weird sounding FX before a chunky rhythm enters and I play a solo on the SH2. The piece reaches a crescendo before sinking back into an ambient end with Sid Smith returning to play some bass guitar harmonics through another tape delay system.

This 2024 cassette edition is initially limited to 100 copies and the original artwork has been reproduced as faithfully as possible including the Zebra front cover and my Letraset tape credits.

The bonus tracks are from the same time period as Elements of Chance and show further experiments from my formative years. Please note these pieces have not been released prior to this edition and are only available with the download version (which comes free with the cassette).

credits

released March 8, 2024

Recorded at Spectro Arts Workshop Sound Studio August 1980 - January 1981.

Recording Equipment:
Tape Recorders: Teac A-3340 & A-3340s 4-Tracks & Revox A-77 1/2 Track
Mixer: Itam 10/4
Accessories: EMS 8-Octave Filter Bank, Boss Phaser

Instruments:
Synthesisers: Jen String Synth, VCS-3, Roland SH09 & SH2, Korg Lambda
Sequencers: AKS, Roland CSQ100
Electronic Percussion: Boss Dr.Rhythm

Thanks To:
Dave Burns: Flute
Sid Smith: Bass Guitar
Paul Gilby for vocals on So Rare

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Ian Boddy Sunderland, UK

Ian Boddy
Composer, sound designer, DiN ambient music label owner
& analogue synth aficionado

discography

Elements of Chance

Mar 2024
Images

Dec 2023
The Deep

Nov 2023
The Uncertainty Principle

Nov 2023
Spirits

Nov 2023
The Climb

Nov 2023

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