From Honey to Ashes – Baby Bats
Baby bats is an improvised performance from Jeremy Keenan, Matt Lewis and Edgar Curtis, otherwise known as From Honey to Ashes.The sound world is created through a combination of foley, granulation, comb filtering and audio pops and clicks. Real-time rhythmic synchronicity is achieved between players by using a central network through which patterns are passed around and instruments are interconnected.
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.”
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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.
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curated by Jim Perkins from his twigetticast #2
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)
Scoma: Voice III night (2009)
“The audio piece centers on the thought of the integration of human voice in sonic context. Right now a series called „voices“ is work in progress, reflecting the ways of interaction between music/sonic textures and derivates of the human voice.”
