An Index Of Possibilities

‘Sometimes, cutting into the present releases the future’

Thursday, January 1, 2004

An Index Of Possibilities – Introduction

Sonic Fictions 2

 My ‘Sonic Fictions’, sketches and miscellaneous ideas, concepts, tracks in progress. An aural semi-daily journal of recording arcana and artifacts.

 I am posting my various activities as I create them to see who (if anyone) might be interested in some creative trade/play as in file exchange/dubs?

One of my basic premises is one from theatre/movies, that of ‘Three Actors’. The idea that the human mind is ideally engaged with any three things at a time on a given ’stage’ informs everything from photography, to animation, to pop mixes.

I have consciously created many of my tracks over the last years with up to two ‘actors’ present, anticipating either my own removal from the process for the third part or, at least, the seeming removal from ’self’ by ‘time passed’. This, then becomes an ‘open mic’ session if there are those inclined.

Various keyboards, bass, guitar, beat manipulations, laptop dsp, composition, recording, mixes, and most art by Loopy C (Chris R. Gibson) unless otherwise noted (mash-ups, sound design contributions, etc.)

 

 

PLAYER INSTRUCTIONS

Clicking on the link ‘Player’ in individual posts will allow you to select playlists and/or tracks.

-The > before a list name in the player is a track (click to play if it doesn’t start up immediately).
-The + before a list name in the player is an individual complete playlist, click to open playlist and then click the first track in list that appears to begin.

Some playlists do require some time to load! depending on your connection speed so allow for this or you can use the ‘down arrow’ following each track’s name to directly download to your hard drive. All files are 320 kbps mp3’s.

Additional ‘Help’ can be found on the player itself via ‘hovering’ over a control.

Many ‘Players’ operate in an ‘endless playlist’ mode, that is to say they are filled with more tracks than a average listening session and shuffled upon each page refresh so as to make each visit to that player a ‘new’ experience in material and sequence (mimicking the ‘randomness’ of tuning into an unknown radio show on some late night road trip, at least for me).

 

Enjoy and thanks for stopping by.

 


 

“Amatuer – Someone who does something because they LIKE TO!, not because it is their profession”

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Bubblegum 4 Vampires (the underscore)

For Cordell…

Bubblegum 4 Vampires (the underscore) Player

posted by cgibson777 at 8:31 am  

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Wheels Within Wheels (Ezekial’s Drums)

Conceptual software modeling of literally, ‘wheels within wheels’, as a drum triggering device.

Wheels Within Wheels Player

posted by cgibson777 at 12:00 am  

Monday, February 1, 2010

Data Bent Acoustics

A decomposition of various traditional stringed and struck instruments, their  sampled ‘essence’ exploded onto a sonic topography and then ‘foraged’ back into playback by a hungry, wandering dot. The ‘Circuit Bending’ of acoustic sampled instruments? Special thanks ‘Leafcutter John’ and ‘Bolder Sounds’.

Foraged Strings Player

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Tempo Surface Disruptions

Tempo as surface disrupted, ‘drawn’ by ‘on demand’ synthesized sound DNA manipulations/mutations. Guided experimentation in the quest for kinetic physical simulacrums. This study constrained to a duo of ‘wheel triggers’, offset in small differences in ’tilt’ and ‘warp’ of each device’s wheel.

Tempo Surface Disruptions Player

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Cholagogues

Single theme electroacoustic free improv. Personal study of gesture translations in multi-tracked form. Dedicated to Rafael Toral.

Cholagogues Player

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Per Imp

Two impressionistic ‘paintings’ of found sound percussive gestures.

Per Imp Player

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Trios For Russolo

Luigi Russolo’s ‘The Art Of Noise’ concept as realized by modern day electronics in free improv trio form?

Trios For Russolo Player

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Friday, January 1, 2010

Drum Solo Duos

Drum Solo ‘Duos’, virtually realized in the garage that is my mind. Dedicated to all my early rock heros (and garages!), especially the king of ‘loose’, extended drum rock solo…John Bonham. Part of my continuing studies in ‘hyperperformance’ simulated players/machines.

Drum Solo Player

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Sunday, December 20, 2009

AfroFractals

‘Loopscanning’ experiments with ethnic percussions

AfroFractals Player

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Improvising Sampler

Further experiments in prototyping an avant garde performance ‘machine’ via multiple realtime MIDI controllers, systems theory, and interactive processing in realtime  direct to disc.

The Improvising Sampler Player

posted by cgibson777 at 7:18 am  

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Witches Dirt

Posting remotely tonight, a ‘hidden’ post revealed and one last ‘Samhain’ indulgence.

Witches Dirt Player

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Himalaya Drifts (Electric Himalaya Pads Vol. 1)

An evening’s initial experimentations and performance of the new Alchemy Sound Bank by Electric Himalaya. Really, REALLY great sounds, if you own Camel Audio’s Alchemy highly recommended. Each track is one solo patch from the bank, nothing else except a touch of compression and liberal application/performance of the included ‘NI Kore’ controller assignments. Big fun, small price ;-)

Himalaya Drifts Player

posted by cgibson777 at 4:46 am  

Monday, November 16, 2009

The Dusty DNA of Dr. Caligari

Mechanical music box Gamelan hymns.



Antique musical machines meet Celemony Melodyne’s ‘DNA’ technology for a re-scaling session of dissonant intervalic reinterpretations and dusty flavorings suitable for the good Doctor’s bad ‘practice’. Extra old fairy dust patina courtesy of Audio Ease’s ‘Speakerphone’.

The Dusty DNA of Dr. Caligari Player

Special thanks to ‘A Closet Of Curiosities’ for the original vinyl sharity ;-):

http://closetcurios2.blogspot.com/

posted by cgibson777 at 6:42 am  

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Freetec (Free Techno Drums)



Free jazz mindset via generational algorithm tweaks as applied to techno drum machinery with convolution colorings. Influence ala Autechre’s more ‘out’ releases.

Freetec Player

posted by cgibson777 at 4:26 am  

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Lady Was A Vamp (Sunny & Chill)



Sunny and Chill sessions part 1. Time meter drum duos fed into convolution drones.

111009 Lady Was A Vamp Player

posted by cgibson777 at 11:46 pm  

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Conseqwinds

Nancarrow inspired glitch.

Conseqwinds Player

posted by cgibson777 at 6:39 am  

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Decembering

Basic ‘prototypes’ of winter solstice moods, via an icy glass of electronic chill math-related harmonic sinewaves.

Decembering Player

posted by cgibson777 at 5:43 am  

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Pumpkincore

Nasty scraping squash killers, bottom scrapers of the granular sort. Custom loopscanning software featured against extreme guitar simm (ala Jimmy Page live ‘Dazed and Confused’ aesthetics) and assorted transfluxing resonate lithophonographies. Happy Samhain! (which basically just means November )

102709 Combos Player

posted by cgibson777 at 4:53 am  

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Loop Scanned Illbient Avant Garde

Additive tunneling collisions meet scanned avant garde in superconducting church spaces where particles spell ‘lol’ under electron microscopes…lol

103109 ASD Harm-oXos Player

posted by cgibson777 at 4:48 am  

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Someone Saved My DJ’s Drum N Bass Tonight

Imaginary DJ with his father’s ‘left in the sun’ jazz record collection, meets ‘eclectic electric bass slinger (with obligatory goatee of course)’ sessions. Could have happened, shouldn’t have happened (part 1).

103109 Player

Special thanks to Rick Scott for his ‘Plastique’ and Spectrasonics for ‘Trillian’.

posted by cgibson777 at 4:33 am  

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Shoe Finding Loop Grazing

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Loop Scanning – the slow forward movement of a short loop progressing through a longer audio file with a subtle effect not unlike the transformational metamorphosis of Steve Reich’s ‘It’s Gonna Rain’, which is, technically speaking, the altogether different implementation of two loops played at slightly different speeds and the offset ‘difference’ between them producing the final result. Conceptually though, a similar ‘mono’ version of the mood ‘It’s Gonna Rain’ creates  is realized with the scanning technique.

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Working somewhere between the ‘broken’ media aesthetics of Christian Marclay and William Basinski’s ‘Disintegration Loops’ with a big ‘tip of the hat’ to Jan Jelinek’s work, I present here some initial ‘loop scanning’ experiments as a test of concept and initial ‘probe’ as to source material suitability and settings. These are the more ambient-leaning experiments, an earlier rhythmic exploratory session still awaits some post production after which I will also post.

Prototyping the concept in several discreet applications running on the Mac desktop (until I can get a proper ‘loop scanner’ module built in software such as Kyma or Reaktor), I did this evening’s work using Roni Music’s ‘Amazing Slow Downer’, triggering it’s ‘frames’ (equaling a 1/75th of a second increment per trigger) via a seperate MIDI trigger (‘Rondo’). As both a polyrhythmic ‘master’ meter  and camouflage to unintended glitches (as oppossed to the intended ones also present) several ‘vinyl simulation’ methods were then introduced into the live chain, either before or after a final ‘patina’ of guitar amplification/fx simulation to properly antique the overall mood. Each performance was captured live via Rogue Amoeba’s ‘Audio Hijack Pro’.

*Best experienced ‘indirectly’, in other words attentions directed elsewhere with track played in background.

102209 Shoe Finding Loop Grazing Player

I have since received some very interesting responses in the Symbolic Sound ‘Kyma’ forum which will hopefully lead to the next level of exploring this territory. Also in current ‘negotiations’ for a Reaktor realization with more flexibility.

All this night’s work was done on a Powerbook laptop in bed (while I recover from a minor back injury) .

posted by cgibson777 at 5:35 pm  

Sunday, October 18, 2009

082809 Ambient Cyclings

Faust jams in the Giza pyramid with John Butcher and a soundman on acid?

Ambient Cyclings Player

posted by cgibson777 at 6:19 am  

Sunday, October 18, 2009

101309 Further Loopology Studies

Raw session output of a further return to loopology studies. New techniques, old infatuation…the march of time within time.

101309 Player It Again Player

101309 Budhha Loops Player

101309 Guitar Loops Player

posted by cgibson777 at 5:24 am  

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Amphetamine Ambients (‘Patches’)

More sketches (duos), again playing with my own? ‘intervalic bpm’ theory. This ’system’ allows a free combination of rhythms derived from the same ratios as a C Chromatic scale.

Also in use here is the intentional margin of  error introduced by ‘AI’ key identification software (made for dj’s and popular dance music) when used with more avant garde based sounds. This matches up (again duets in this case) material that is of different scales and keys by their ‘common’ tones as identified by the software for a ‘different sameness’ than what would be derived by more traditional tonal analysis, allowing the occasional rogue vertical relationship to appear in somewhat sinister moments of key ambiguity.

NEW MIXES 100909

020609 Player

posted by cgibson777 at 12:00 am  

Friday, October 9, 2009

Sounds From Image

My own abstract art becomes ‘glitch’. Mix/comp in emulation of a Robert Rauschenberg continuous ‘walk through’ exhibition. Images/notes to follow.


100909 Player

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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Alchemy Big Tones

An evening’s ‘Alchemy’.

Big Tone Player

posted by cgibson777 at 7:10 am  

Monday, September 14, 2009

Oscillators Made Of Polaroids Volume 2

Dirty little number series (palindromes), deleted but seen, forgotten fenders:

Oscillators Made Of Polaroids Volume 2

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Saturday, September 5, 2009

090509 Guitar Trios

Ancient future avant garde broken loop faux play trios.

090509 Guitar Trio

posted by cgibson777 at 2:00 am  

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Meta Tetras

Dedicated to Simon Stockhausen, whose generous ‘gratis’ donation to the Reaktor community of sounds and sound design made this ‘trio’ session possible. Cheers Simon :)

Three Reaktor ‘Metaphysical Function’ ensembles thematically evolved in a trio form for a meta electro acoustic dramaturgy ;-)


082209 Meta Tetras Player

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Monday, August 17, 2009

Ambient Musings

Of from simply,

Is, his either early 1

His Airports about mind…refer treatments for the ? of !

Created about Jarre, Muzak references, and who one creates including in or of the two.

Ambient Musings Player

posted by cgibson777 at 5:46 am  

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Avant Garde Dubplate#7:Guitar

Continuing the series, guitar textures in an experimental context.

Avant Garde Dubplate#7:Guitar

See also:

The African Guitar Variations

posted by cgibson777 at 7:32 am  

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Avant Garde Dubplate#6:Portable Squonks

The series is supplemented by these very short ‘modules’ of lo-fi guitar  squonks, screeps, and skanks in various hyperperformance drum machine duos and other semi-impossible situations.

Avant Garde Dubplate#6:Portable Squonks

posted by cgibson777 at 6:00 am  

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Laminal Lockgrooves

Laminal improv taken for a ‘loop’.

Laminal Lockgrooves Player

posted by cgibson777 at 5:00 am  

Monday, July 20, 2009

Points And Lines

Technical description of  experimental concept and implementation to come.

Points And Lines Player

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Sine Language

Technical description of  experimental concept and implementation to come.

Sine Language Player

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Loopy C Plays – Balloon And Needle

Question: Mixtape + Mash-Up?

Answer: Mix Mash Tape Up!


Two mixtapes created simultaneously as a duo…

Mixtape + Mash Up as???

-Prototype (as to templating original material) for the ‘next’ music?

-Theme and Variation (how to do ‘theme & variation with other people’s music?)

-Narrative?

-Overall template for concept album? (the ‘Hal Wilner part)

Dedicated to Jazzyspoon, Jopy, Richard Dunlap, Mr. Bungle, and Hal Wilner.

Source music = various Japanese and non-Japenese ‘improv’ and ‘indy’ labels.


Balloon And Needle Player

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Friday, July 17, 2009

Tourettes Syndrum

Technical description of  experimental concept and implementation to come.

Tourettes Syndrum Player

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Smithsonian Folkways – An Xtreme Re-conceptualization

Four ‘medleys’ of very ‘extreme’ avant garde inspired remixes/improvs via Onkyokei
aesthetics. A virtual re-amping, pitch-to-audio, and other silly trickery of various ‘Folkways’ ethnic albums (1950’s~).

Only the above mentioned original ‘ethnic’ album tracks (via processing) are used here, no other performance or synthesis present.

Onkyokei (translation: “sound, noise, echo”) places much more emphasis on sound texture than on musical structure, distilling elements of techno, noise, and electronic music into a unique hybrid.

Track/Medley One – Old school ‘Glitchshifting‘ improv’s/meditations

Track/Medley Two - ‘100 tap delay*’ processes (in duo form)

Track/Medley Three - Audio-to-pitch synthesis into unusual spectralisms (in duo form)

Track/Medley Four – wrap up/final minutes of Track/Medley Three

Folkways Medleys Player

*’100′ Tap delay via Intelligent Device’s VST :

MegaDelayMass

posted by cgibson777 at 3:22 am  

Friday, July 10, 2009

Greasy Airplanes + Airplane Trios

Industrial ambient land (and air) scapes for Messrs. Mr. A. Smirnov and A Mr. ‘Jazzyspoon’.

Greasy Airplanes Player

Airplane Trios Player

posted by cgibson777 at 12:00 am  

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Pure Land (SUKhavati)

Pure Land (SUKhavati).  Excursions into the spiritual bliss of sound sediments, subductions, and micro geology’s/geography’s. For Jonathan Style (SUKAudio) and featuring his ‘SUKNoise’ Reaktor ensemble.

 

Pure Land Player

 

 

for other Jonathan Style related tracks please see:

http://loopyc.com/?p=601

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:20 am  

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Jah Frazzin Zooks

‘Frippish’, vari-tempo spectralisms meet Ornette Coleman-influenced electronica, hyperperformance machines jamming in the cafe at the end of the Universe (which for some reason look like fractal vaginas? (above)). Duo form.

 

Jah Frazzin Zooks Player

 

 

A special mention for my ‘hyperdrummer’, Peter Dine’s ‘Paradrum’:

http://reaktortips.blogspot.com/

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 2:11 am  

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

High Noon In The Garden Of Life

Ancient tunings and scales (ancient Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome) meet various electroacoustic instrumentation (duo and trio). Initial mix with a ‘tad’ bit (24 to be exact) of lo-fi patina. For Cordell Pool (wherever you are?)

 

High Noon In The Garden Of Life Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 8:49 pm  

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The African Guitar Variations

Guitar microtuning and rhythm experiments based on a African theme (but decidedly leaning towards an avant garde outcome). Dedicated to two muses this time, Richard Dunlap and Henry Kaiser.

 

The African Guitar Variations Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 8:46 pm  

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Midnight In The Garden Of The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Early mixes/versions of 11 of the ‘moods’ sculpted from an evening’s sound design experimentation in acoustic modeling ‘hybrids’ and ‘mutations’.

 

11 Sonic Sculptures Player

 

 

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Horrific!

More Loopy ‘B’ budget ‘under/overscore’ rejects. Themes and variations, dedicated to John Ingram/ inspired by Dario Argento  :)

 

061309 Player 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 6:04 am  

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Vinyl Duos – Soundtracks

Further transmissions and transgressions. Vintage soundtracks from across generations and styles, played in a ‘duet’ form.

 

Plays Vinyl Duos 060609 Player

 

 

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Monday, May 25, 2009

Vinyl Trios – Airforms

An ‘ad hoc’ romp specifically through the ‘virtual vinyl’ oddities as found on the amazing and ‘mentor-rific’ Steve Roden’s blogspot:

http://inbetweennoise.blogspot.com/

in a ‘trio’ format. Please visit Steve’s site and find out who he is and what he does (a defining ‘lowercase’ practitioner among his credentials). Terrific artist across many disciplines.

 

Loopy C Plays – Vinyl Trios (Part 2) Player

 

 

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Monday, May 25, 2009

Vinyl Trios – The Tonal Bride

 

 

052509 Vinyl Trios Player

 

 

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Vinyl Trios – A Closet Of Curiosities

A Closet of Curious Record Trios…

Part one in a continuing series of vinyl ‘trio form’ improv’s (meaning three records combined at once). This first part features the fine vine of:

http://closetcurios2.blogspot.com/

…one of my favorite ‘vinyl sharities’ for years now. The set maintains that ‘all is music’ and especially ‘all at once’ is music’. Mainly, avant garde instrumental, computer music, and ethnic styles are heard in releif.

This set goes out to the ‘Closet’ in all of us but especially Mr. Grey Calx :)

Plays A Closet Of Trios Player

posted by cgibson777 at 7:13 am  

Saturday, May 16, 2009

051309 Rhythm-less Drum Machine

Vintage drum machine as rhythm-less textures, rustlings, and transient cacophony-space. Superperformers in hyperrealistic/hyperdramatic settings with open palettes. 

 
Rhythm-less Drum Machine Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:19 pm  

Sunday, April 19, 2009

041909 Tesla Bongos On A Kubrick Moon

 

Tesla Bongos On A Kubrick Moon Player

 

posted by cgibson777 at 4:28 am  

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

The Games Monsters Play

More ‘underscore’ for budget horror films, featuring the nostalgic cheapness of vintage Atari, Commodore 64, and Nintendo chipsounds.

A combination of vintage ‘Game Consoles’ and NI’s ‘Massive’, forming a ‘trio’ of keyboard ruminations on the theme of ‘horrific’ and electronic instrument-fueled ‘B’ movie soundtracks.

From the unused ‘ghostwriting’ sessions of Loopy ‘B’.

 

 

‘The Games Monsters Play’ Player

 

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

032609

 

032609 Player

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:19 am  

Saturday, March 21, 2009

032109 Hard Hives

A glitch study in three parts (for now), of the sound of hard drives failing.

 

Hard Hives Player 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 4:48 am  

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

021809 Mystery Meat Sessions

 

Mystery Meat

Mystery Meat

 

 

Mystery Meat Player

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:06 am  
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