James Ross-Undifferentiated Light (2010)
James Ross-Undifferentiated Light (2010)
Solo electric guitar and Boss RC-50 looper. Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s 1961 MIT lecture, “Visionary Experience.”
Undifferentiated Light by jrossmusic
James Ross at Goodbye Blue Monday, on Fri., August 20.
also performed (on video) were Alex Carpenter and Michael Waller with help technical help from Richard Lainhart, Jim Goodin and the folks at ImprovFriday for helping to make it a great night.
the sea, the sea- My Fun/Justin Hardison (2009)
the sea, the sea- My Fun/Justin Hardison (2009)
My Fun is the slightly eccentric nom de guerre of Justin Hardison, a musician, who uses field recordings, lush electronics and samples to make quite lovely, if also quite bittersweet music. – Rare Frequency
He also runs The Land Of label
when someone loves you no more: Derrick Hart (2010)
when someone loves you no more: Derrick Hart (2010)
fall asleep to this EP via archive.org“when someone loves you no more” begins with a profound wailing on behalf of anyone who has ever suffered before blooming into some incomprehensible sonic victory. it is performed only with his voice, captured with a contact-mic, processed and converted.
With his “fall asleep to this” EP he goes a more experimental and meditative way. The five tracks are mainly based on vocals, even though there are no actual lyrics. “To follow Derrick’s advice: The EP serves as a meditation tool to listen to before sleeping. So plug your earphones in and fall asleep.
Anton Baibakov: Music for Stop Motion Camera (2010)
Anton Baibakov: Music for Stop Motion Camera (2010)
“this track, the dream of fixing time in the conditional space.”
Music for stop motion camera by Anton Baibakov
curated by Heinali
Oliver Blank – We Were Walking in the Rain (2009)
“The album, Karhu ja Tiikerini, tells the story of two animals who come together. We Were Walking In The Rain takes a moment away from the narrative to set a scene and let the listener just be. Unlike the rest of the album, where I tried to move away from electronics, the track’s foundation lies in software processing. A piece of source music was run through the iRedux software (www.iredux.net) to create a noisy melodic bed. The noise was then recut to bring a progression to the piece and Maiju Lempinen’s beautiful violin playing was layered with vocal harmonies and whispered words. Listen carefully and you’ll hear that the piece also incorporates melodic themes that appear earlier and later in the album.”
Play We Were Walking in the Rain
Download We Were Walking in the Rain
via jim perkins twigetticast #2
Jeremy Keenan (Upside Down Umbrella): 4 am Hong Kong Sun (2010)
am Hong Kong Sun: delirious + delicious = deliricious? A recording unit, a stereo pair of microphones, and an excellent Chinese dinner at a particularly strange juncture. Later that night, an MS20 analog synth recording, some editing and a basic structure. The next day, a guitar and bass guitar overdub by Alex Abalos, and some additive synthesis atmosphere. Finally, some live granular overdubs by Edgar Curtis, and a lot of mixing. Enjoy your meal.
Download 4am Hong Kong Sun (clip)
curated by Jim Perkins from his twigetticast #2
Shane Cadman: Music for Insomniacs #3 (2009)
Shane Cadman: Music for Insomniacs #3 (2009)
from his website…
“This page is dedicated to a collection of acoustic ambient compositions I am writing called “Music for Insomniacs.” These pieces are composed on no more than three staves and have no specific instrumentation, so that they can later be orchestrated as needed/desired by the performers. They will each be slow in nature (otherwise how could someone fall asleep to them), and generally five to ten minutes long. These also fit nicely into a concept I have called “realistic music.” “Realistic music” is music that can be performed live at an acceptable level by competent musicians with no more than three hours of rehearsal time.The scores on this page are free to print and perform. All I ask is that you report any and all performances to ASCAP, as well as to Illustrious Music. Also, while performance tempos are marked on the scores, they are there as reference points – the pieces may be played faster or slower as desired by the performers…”
Mark Harris: Still Frame (2009)
Mark Harris: Still Frame (2009)
“an experiment in granular synthesis. created from two notes (a piano and violin tone)“
website
curated by: Paul Muller
Jeremy Keenan (Upside Down Umbrella): All Out Valhalla
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‘All Out Valhalla was created entirely from four 8 bar electric guitar recordings. The rhythmic and percussive elements were extracted from transient sonic moments within the recordings and processed into discrete sounds. The piece contrasts the original recordings with transformed versions, creating an interplay between the abstract and the concrete.’
curated via Jim Perkins from his twigetticast (itunes podcast)
Joanne Gabriel: Daybreak (2009)
[Joanne Gabriel: Daybreak (2009)
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‘Daybreak is the first track from the “Landscapes” opus, recorded for the ‘50 songs in 90 days challenge of Summer 2008‘. Like all the other tracks in this opus, it is a soundscape inspired by contemplation and describing a scene in the form of sound-art.’
curated via Jim Perkins from his twigetticast (itunes podcast)
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Alan Morse Davies: The Sontaran Experiment in the Style of Jóhann Jóhannsson (2009)
The Sontaran Experiment in the Style of Jóhann Jóhannsson
notes via alan:
“Just a bit of fun… I was playing around with how Jóhann Jóhannsson uses little splashes of a melodic motif bound together with big tracts of connective tissue, and I had the idea of linking it with one of my favourite Dr. Who epsiodes where the Sontarans travel back in time to made DaVinci paint multiple copies of the Mona Lisa in order to make themselves rich in the future. The explanation probably over-hypes the result by some order of magnitude.”
alan morse davies (wordpress.com)
curated by paul bailey
thanks also to marc weidenbaum’s excellent site disquiet.com for introducing me to the music of alan morse davies (and many others)
Drṓwryh Creesp: Tulsan Twilight
Drṓwryh Creesp: Tulsan Twilight
“Formed in 2007. Drṓwryh Creesp is a one man project from Brisbane, Australia. Guitar and piano lie at the centre of the music with the aid of strings, an array of percussion, bass and various others.
Initially called Ulin Vod Naar, and creating dark ambient/industrial sounds, Drṓwryh Creesp changed its direction towards ambient instrumentals and therefore the few works completed as Ulin Vod Naar entered the Drṓwryh Creesp catalogue as an album entitled “Ulin Vod Naar”, as well as the “Beacon” release.”
curated by Shane Cadman
Steve Peters: Mountains Hidden in Mountains (2004)
Steve Peters: Mountains Hidden in Mountains (2004)
“Made in 2004 as a sound installation inside a faux bell tower at the Santa Fe Art Institute. When rung by a visitor, the beater triggers a recording of the bell that fades in imperceptibly as the real sound decays, creating the illusion of an endless tone. The sound changes subtly over 30 minutes (this is a greatly condensed version), slowly mixing in layers of pitch-shifted bell tones that get increasingly lower until they finally evaporate into silence.”
curated by Bruce Hamilton
David Morneau: Where Is Tokyo? (2005)
David Morneau: Where Is Tokyo?
“This piece is the product of a collaboration with choreographer Esther Palmer . My work included the construction of a virtual soundscape as well as a musical score.”
you can read a more detailed description of the dance, stage design, and music here
curated by Bruce Hamilton
James Ross: Winds and Strings (2007)
James Ross: Winds and Strings (2009)
“Winds and Strings” is concerned with the possibilities of composition with a very limited number of pitch classes; each instrumental part has its own pitch material (though there are some common tones), and the entire gamut of pitches was derived by combining the pool of tones. The piece is completely multicyclic–every instrumental part travels in a 3-, 5- or 7-bar orbit of 3/4 time.”
Joshua Parmenter: Cadence (III. Decrescendo) for computer realized sound (2005)
Joshua Parmenter: Cadence (III. Decrescendo) for computer realized sound (2005)
“Cadence for computer realized sound is the third in a series of pieces exploring four musical changes: crescendo, decrescendo, accelerando and ritardando. Cadence uses the last few seconds of Schubert’s quartettsatz in c minor as source material for a large scale decrescendo. Rather then just turning the volume down on the sound, the piece is shaped spectrally over its duration, gradually stripping away more and more of the sound until it disappears completely.”
curated by: Bruce Hamilton
Jim Perkins (Bigo and Twigetti): Feed (2009)
Jim Perkins (Bigo and Twigetti): Feed (2009)
“bigo and twigetti is a collection of musicians from London, who create music which combines elements of folk, electronica and classical music with live laptop performance. Their music can be found under several guises, from individual composers and artists to collectively under b&t; or Ranger3. Their live shows feature realtime use of electronic effects, recording and playback combined with a mixture of hand-made and homespun folk playing and technically complex yet emotive classical performance.”
Jeff Harrington-Agnus Dei Wave (2002)
Jeff Harrington-Agnus Dei Wave (2002)
“AgnusDeiWave is an ecstatic ambient voyage through choral textures in deep space; the culmination of a series of experiments in formant wave synthesis. Vocal analysis from a recording of Josquin’s Agnus Dei motivates a timeless series of crashing heavenly vocal chords. My first piece on my Yamaha FS1R formant synthesizer.”
Richard Lainhart: Autumn Afternoon With Rain (2009)
Richard Lainhart: Autumn Afternoon With Rain (2009)
“a realtime improvisation for electric guitar with laptop processing”
originally posted on ImprovFriday, October 9th-10th 2009
Mark Harris: I Am A Long Way From Home (2009)
“a live improvisation. based around a recoding I did of wind in the trees”
