Liner Notes by PEK

I formed Turbulence in 2015 as I started to assemble players for the Leap of Faith Orchestra. Turbulence, the extended horn section for the Orchestra (along with guests on other instruments), also records and performs as an independent unit.  We have had over 20 albums on Evil Clown with greatly varied ensembles. The only musician on all of them is myself. The sessions range from an early duet with Steve Norton and Myself (Vortex Generation Mechanisms) to a 5 horn band with bass and two percussionists (Encryption Schemes) to four albums by the side project Turbulence Doom Choir which feature myself, multiple tubas, percussion, electronics and signal processing.

For this set, we have a band like the 6 horn + percussion show at Outpost 186 from about 2 months ago (Flow Across Scales) with the addition of Albey onBass on electric bass and without 6^th horn player Dan O’Brien…  The other main difference is venue:  Flow Across Scales was in the tiny OP186 space with a bare minimum of equipment and Method of Fluxions was at Evil Clown Headquarters with a full percussion set up.  Most of these players, all of whom have done a number of Evil Clown sessions, are multi-instrumentalists whose vocabularies are substantially extended by the Evil Clown Arsenal more fully available at ECH than typical of shows at outside venues.  I was delighted with the flow through sonorities of this performance as the seven musicians formed dozens of different configurations of instrumentation.

Also, this set marks the beginning of the new era at Evil Clown where ECH sessions are streamed on YouTube (and eventually via other streaming platforms).  I have spent the last month or so acquiring the necessary equipment including a new powerful computer to manage the stream and the OBS software which allows a real time mix from multiple sources.  The stream for this performance marks a modest beginning, since I was having trouble with the video capture card which imports video into the computer from the digital movie cameras.  Consequently, I attempted to use a single webcam for the video source, but I actually only managed to broadcast the audio…  Anyhow, look for a much more sophisticated solution to the streaming problem in future Evil Clown sets from ECH (and perhaps later even at public performances in our other venues).

One final note:  there is a weird anomaly which occurs 5 or 6 times over the length of the piece where a jump cut abruptly happens to some other part of the piece for a few seconds.  Very strange and I have no idea how it happened or how to fix it, but the performance is so good that I’m publishing it to the usual places anyway…

PEK – 11/9/2018