An Index Of Possibilities

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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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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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

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

Greasy Airplanes Player

Airplane Trios Player

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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

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‘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/

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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

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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

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

061309 Player 

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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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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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052509 Vinyl Trios Player

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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

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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

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Tesla Bongos On A Kubrick Moon Player

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

032609 Player

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

Hard Hives Player 

Mystery Meat

Mystery Meat Player