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| Welcome to my (musi)cLog. This cLog is populated with outpourings from my electro-musical id: things I'm working on, things that suddenly occur to me, accidental discoveries, etc. All excerpts are copylefted. I welcome your comments: email
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| 10-25-2005 - lullaby.mp3 a beautiful lithuanian lullaby in sacred time (past, present, future all rolled up in one). 10-20-2005 - resovative.mp3 a lyrical melodic line generated by didier leboz's Resovative II and edited by me. 10-15-2005 - fLown.mp3 a submission for a KVR one-minute halloween piece contest. 2-25-2005 - beat_1.mp3 the fruit of my initial labors with david dayneko's fabulous Delivery drum machine. it needs mastering and editing, but there's definitely something there. 2-24-2005 - glitch_itch.mp3 my contribution to a rant-prone thread on glitching in the reaktor user forum. (almost) everything is derived from the spoken word "glitch." groovesters, be sure to listen to the entire thing, there's a happy surprise for you at the end. ;-) 2-15-2005 - forSpoom.mp3 a wedding gift to Kev Hopper (aka Spoombung). Name that tune ... 2-14-2005 - valentime.mp3 a happy valentine's day plunderphonic. 12-30-2004 - beats.zip a handful of loopable beats made in acid. this is me pushing up against my aesthetic boundaries, foraying into uncomfortable territory, seeing if i have it in me to do groove-centric music ... ? 12-29-2004 - crumble.mp3 a double serving of britney squeezed through spoombung's lovely new noise engine, Crumble. it's the best work she's ever done, i think: unrecognizable. ;-) 12-22-2004 - elegy.mp3 yet another piece from Morpheus (see below), this one a short, minimal, pianissimo elegy. 12-21-2004 - morpheus.mp3 another study from my new ensemble (see next entry), which i've decided to call Morpheus (god of sleep and dreams, seems eminently fitting). just exploring the width of breadth of this beast, seeing what kind of personality it has. 12-20-2004 - aurora_australis.mp3 i used a soon-to-be-released new ensemble (not yet named) to create this drone-y freeform-trance-y abstraction. it's one of my ensembles that uses recursion (sine waves feeding back into sine waves) and randomized automation to create its own flow, its own "composition." dozens of parameters changing continuously (sometimes quickly, sometimes very slowly) over time: heaven! i basically turned it on, let it run for five minutes, adjusted a few controls in real-time, cleaned it up in sound forge, and declared it "finished." ah the joy of sketching ... ;-) aurora australis is to the southern pole as aurora borealis is to the northern pole. when i was listening to my ensemble "play itself" i was reminded of the eerie glow of the southern lights. 12-17-2004 - eucalypso.mp3 is this a *piece* ... rather than a fragment of a piece? i think it is. it fully engages my listening, takes me on a compelling journey ... not a roller-coaster-y, high-drama journey, rather a subtle journey in which the little details provide the drama, tension, release. but some listeners might hear this as *part* of a piece, i.e., a groove background in search of a melodic/vocal/whatever foreground. this is something i struggle with in my composition. a simple, single line (like euCalypso) can be a fully satisfying listening experience to me ... whereas it can leave my listeners scratching their heads. and i care about my listeners; composition is, for me, exalted communication. if you have an opinion on whether euCalypso is a full piece or part of a piece, please let me know. i will value your opinion. :-) 12-16-2004 - michelle.mp3 this is me "singing" michelle (beatles), feeding it through vocoStörung (a different setting for each verse), feeding it through traumDelay, editing (just a bit) it in sound forge, and mixing with a 750%-stretched, traumDelay-modified excerpt from the original beatles song in sonar. the piece begins with the most distant variation and moves (over the course of four iterations) to the least distant variation: theme and variations in reverse. :-) 12-15-2004 - autumn_leaves.mp3 i took autumn leaves as recorded by miles davis (gorgeous), put it through one of my desamplers, divided the resultant audio file into 9 "moments," loaded these moments as a sample map into a prototype i've built of the Sound Garden that will appear soon on this site, let it run for a while in auto-wander-about-the-garden mode, then edited this a bit in sound forge. i'm playing with recognizability here: how much of the tune, autumn leaves, and of miles can one recognize when listening? i'm also playing with time, the idea of "sacred space" where differences in location/time cease to exist, a kind of holographic approach to music. 12-14-2004 - fern_hill.mp3 took the poem fern hill, as read by its creator, dylan thomas, and ran it through my vocoStörung ensemble, moving gradually from the teMpus fuGato settings of fLangula, to mOOshler, to deLaay, to ecHoHoHo ... and back again. the idea is to move from intelligibility to non-intelligibility, back to intelligibility. sort of, anyway ... a good form is never quite what it seems or looks like "on paper," ja? here's
the text to fern hill, so you can read along with the piece. |