An Index Of Possibilities

Rhythms derived from the integer sequence ‘wobbly’. From Jason Freeman’s description (as included in his ‘Metamix’ software):

“This sequence is based on a sequence first described by B. Reznick. It seems to wander around a bit unpredictably, beginning like this: 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, -1, 0, 1, 1, -2, -1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, -3, -2, 1, -1, 2, 1…

This sequence is self-similar; it contains infinitely many copies of itself and is invariant under scale. If you create a new integer sequence by using every other term of this one, you end up with exactly the same sequence!”

The recursive formula for this sequence varies depending on whether each term is even or odd, causing the somewhat unpredictable behavior of the terms.”

Wobbly Player

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Crackles, pops, pocks, combustions, gurgles, buzzes, amplitude tautening, powerspikes, voltage differentials, colliding pressure fronts, patterings, jump-splices, fax connections, silent interjections, hums, murmurs, switchbacks, clunks, granulations, fragmentations, splinterings, roars and rushes…these a just a few of this 21st century schizoid man’s favorite things.

21st Century Schizoid Loops Player

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Continuing studies of  singularly unique ambient hits in duet with the constantly mutating rhythms of electronic glitchy percussion.

New Maps Of Purple Player

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Avant garde turntablist vs. a close mic’d  ’Twister’ (a maker of balloon animals).  ’Chopped and screwed’ meets ‘weaving and stuffing’. Dedicated to j.fox.

Records and Balloons Player

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An electronic avant garde trio gig while experiencing delirium tremens (colloquially, the DTs, “the shakes”, “the horrors”, “the heebie geebies”,”the fear”, “the abdabs”, “the staggers and jags”, “the jimjams”, “jazz hands”, “the shakes and the heaves”). Dedicated to Deiter Zobel (musical sperm bank deposits).

Club DTs Player

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‘Wheels Within Wheels Drumming’ meets ‘Chaotic Oscillator Integer Sequences’, creating a B-movie horror underscore.

True ChaOsc Strikes Player

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‘No, I am not from outer space…I only work there’. Ambient stingers duet with cracked and broken microbeats.

Captain Kirk Saves Whales and Hunts Ghosts Player

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Left behind on the forbidden planet, one last call to home from the the sole remaining Krell communicator…which strangely resembles the chance meeting of a Gameboy and a Toyota accelerator pedal on a McDonald’s grill during the breakfast rush. Concept reference was the electronic tonalities of Louis and Bebe Barron meets The Future Sound Of London (ala ‘Lifeforms’ period).

Proof Of Life Player

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Prepared ’skitter’ drums + ‘unprepared guitar’ + your basic Steven Stapleton ’sewing machine meets an umbrella on a dissection table’ mix. A special thanks to Chet Singer for his ‘Prepared Guitar’ Reaktor ensemble, and Igor Shilov for the specially commissioned Reaktor ‘loopscanner’, used here for drum ’skittering’.

Unprepared Guitar + 2 Player

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Loopscanned,  skittering plasmatic audio.

Oscillators Made Of Plasma Player

Oscillators Made Of Plasma (2 Tracks/Long) Player

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The gravitational chaos of a body falling down the stairs reproduced as AMM free improv instruments and setting?

A Body Falling Down The Stairs Player

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Glass Armonica Chorales based on integer sequences and a low dopamine quotient. The ‘steam punk‘ ambient drone thematic equalivent of Ennio Morricone’s ‘The Mission’ if  played in a Peruvian garage by Ben Franklin and remixed at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studio 200 years later?

Black Glass Duos Player

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Chapman stick improv’s, fogged and dispersed via multiple processing and ideas from the heritage and thinking of a ‘once guitarist’ in the now-future of an ‘any and all stomp boxes you want’ virtual playground.

The Chapman Drones Player

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Further transmissions and transgressions. Vintage soundtracks from across generations and styles, played in a ‘duet’ form. *** Player FIXED 022010

Plays Vinyl Duos 060609 Player

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Inspired by the ‘Mutant Sounds’ of Seeselberg. Part of the ongoing ‘faux mutant sounds’ series.

Detroit Vortek Player

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Robert Fripp/Brian Eno ‘Frippatronics’ inspired stylings played ala the custom glass instrument/sculpture, Bernard and Francois Baschet’s ‘Le Cristal’. Also, a few more percussive-based  improv variations on same instrument sprinkled in (can glass be sprinkled?). Sampled version of  ’Le Cristal’ instrument courtesy of SonicCouture. Actual note performance based and expanded upon from the integer sequences found at Integer Sequence Encyclopedia.

Le Frippatronic Cristal Couture Player

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Special thanks ‘Twisted Tools’ designer Igor Shilov for the creation of the specially commissioned integer sequencing note generator.

Guitar strums meet Reaktor improvised drum cum Rick Scott’s ‘randrum’.

ranDrum sTrums Player

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Ace In The Snow Hole Player

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For Cordell…

Bubblegum 4 Vampires (the underscore) Player

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

Wheels Within Wheels Player

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

Cholagogues Player

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Two impressionistic ‘paintings’ of found sound percussive gestures.

Per Imp Player

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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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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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‘Loopscanning’ experiments with ethnic percussions

AfroFractals Player

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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

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

Witches Dirt Player

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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

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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/

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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

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

111009 Lady Was A Vamp Player

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Nancarrow inspired glitch.

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

Decembering Player

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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

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

103109 ASD Harm-oXos Player

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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’.

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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) .

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

Ambient Cyclings Player

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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

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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

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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An evening’s ‘Alchemy’.

Big Tone Player

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

Oscillators Made Of Polaroids Volume 2

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Ancient future avant garde broken loop faux play trios.

090509 Guitar Trio

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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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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

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Continuing the series, guitar textures in an experimental context.

Avant Garde Dubplate#7:Guitar

See also:

The African Guitar Variations

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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

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Laminal improv taken for a ‘loop’.

Laminal Lockgrooves Player

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Technical description of  experimental concept and implementation to come.

Points And Lines Player

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Technical description of  experimental concept and implementation to come.

Sine Language Player

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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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Technical description of  experimental concept and implementation to come.

Tourettes Syndrum Player

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