An Index Of Possibilities

'Sometimes, cutting into the present releases the future'

Thursday, January 1, 2004

An Index Of Possibilities – Introduction

Sonic Fictions 2

The main index to my SONIC FICTIONS (‘sketches’ and miscellaneous tracks in progress).

I am posting my various activities and ideas here to see who (if anyone) might be interested in some creative trade/play?

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 ‘audition’ if there are those inclined.

Virtual improvisations, synthesized soundscapes, rhythmic transient electronic hyperrealisms, imaginary strings, DSP performances, gestured noise, expanded palettes and conceptual  machines, composition, recording, mixes, and most art by Loopy C (Chris R. Gibson) unless otherwise noted (mash-ups, sound design contributions, etc.) Email me at loopyc(at)loopyc(dot)com.

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

Please note, I am in the process of a complete transfer and rebuild of this site so stay tuned for the ‘real thing’ For a visual/textual guide to the material presently ‘hiding’ in the ‘master players’ below, please see this screen shot of my former blog with descriptions, catagories, and art.

It’s one big jpeg of the entire blog (21 mb) so it will take a minute or so to load/download!

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 trak’s name to directly download to your hard drive.

Additional ‘Help’ can be found on the player itself via ‘hovering’ over a control. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by.

 

**Special note on audio levels.

Most tracks are pre-production/unmastered and are optimized at -6db below 0 db (digital fullscale) so turn up the volume for previewing and enjoy the headroom when mixing in YOUR own tracks :D

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:00 am  

Friday, May 11, 2012

Gamelan For Geeks

Warping prime numbers in the service of keyboard triggered manipulated guitars (via Simon Stockhausen ‘Alchemy’ patches). Dedicated to science.

 

SET 1

SET 2

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 11:37 pm  

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Tom’s Diner At The End Of The Universe

The future sound Of Tom Waits? An electronica set (ala ‘The Residents’?) for the imaginary meeting of Douglas Adams and Tom for a cup of Joe. Special thanks Lazy Fish and Simon Stockhausen.

 

SET 1

SET 2

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 5:04 pm  

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Peter’s Hole

No rabbit here!

 

Peter’s Hole Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:07 pm  

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Deep Breakfast For Doctor Who

Drooling Dalek drummers modulating the rhythm scales of the TARDIS to keep the silence from falling. ‘Avant Wonky Glitch’ for constrained ensemble. Cacaou!

 

Deep Breakfast For Doctor Who Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 11:45 am  

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Narrative Stasis

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SET 1 Player

SET 2 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 5:10 am  

Monday, March 19, 2012

Metamixing

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Metamixing SET 1 Player

Metamixing SET 2 Player

Metamixing SET 3 Player

 

 

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:23 am  

Monday, March 19, 2012

Tabla Playa

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Tabla Playa Player

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:18 am  

Monday, March 19, 2012

Chromascapes

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Chromascapes Player

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:14 am  

Monday, March 19, 2012

Prepared and Hip

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Prepared and Hip Player

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:10 am  

Monday, March 19, 2012

Foursome (for Hang Drums)

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Foursome (for Hang Drums) Player

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:07 am  

Monday, March 19, 2012

ChromaKeys

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SET 1

SET 2

SET 3

SET 4

SET 5

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:02 am  

Monday, March 19, 2012

Followings

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Melon Caulic Player

Tuned Percussion Player

Brass SET 1

Brass SET 2

Brass SET 3

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:44 am  

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Next Steps (For Voice Synth)

Faux 80′s soundtrack underscore ideas, featuring rotating AI interval decisions for  re-synthed alchemical voices.

 

SET 1 Player

SET 2 Player

SET 3 Player

SET 4 Player

SET 5 Player

SET 6 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 9:06 pm  

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Percussion Scapes Volume 2

More prime number experimental percussion solo variations combined/arranged per Cagean principles/aesthetics.

 

Percussion Scapes Volume 2 SET 1 Player

Percussion Scapes Volume 2 SET 2 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 4:58 pm  

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Percussion Scapes Volume 1

Prime number experimental percussion solo variations combined/arranged per Cagean principles/aesthetics.

 

SET 1 Player

SET 2 Player

SET 3 Player

SET 4 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:00 am  

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Tyche, Sedna, & Theia

Various ‘proof of concept’ fibonacci rhythms and prime number harmony experiments.

 

02112012 SET 1 Player

02112012 SET 2 Player

02112012 SET 3 Player

02112012 SET 4 Player

02112012 SET 5 Player

02112012 SET 6 Player

02112012 SET 7 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 4:48 am  

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Ambient Dubplates Vol 9

Presented in a variety of scales and keys, I made these ‘naked’ single instrument soundscapes for my own library. Constant temporally based interval shifting based on Fibonacci number relationships. First part of name indicates ‘key’ per the ‘Camelot System’. Part of the ‘Ambient Dubplates’ series.

 

SET 1

SET 2

SET 3

SET 4

SET 5

SET 6

SET 7

SET 8

SET 9

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:38 pm  

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Constellations (Variations)

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02052012 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 6:44 am  

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Fire Upon The Left Hand Of A Small God

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02022012 Trios 3 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 2:45 am  

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Standing An Orange On A Star’s Cradle

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02022012 Trios 2 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 2:42 am  

Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Moon Is A Harsh Made In Japan

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02022012 Trios 1 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 2:40 am  

Monday, January 9, 2012

Just Some Phase Space

Lines and planes, conjugate generalized momenta, every degree of freedom.

 

SET 1

SET 2

 

Special thanks: Jim Hurley, Simon Stockhausen, and Twisted Tools.

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 5:18 am  

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Myths Cyms Metals

Some brief audio tours of my broken factory of a mind. Initial appearance of currently developing sessions with Simon Stockhausen’s Patchpool Metallurgy samples.

 

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posted by cgibson777 at 2:02 am  

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Dreams Of Numbers

Initial experiments with modulating a master clock via ‘waveshaping’. The initial clock signal is ‘mixed’ with various ‘phase difference’ and ‘type’ periodic waves to create complex, non-repeating shapes/modulations over time.

This was applied to mutating midi triggering of various ‘broken’ instruments and then combined with winter mood sketches via the ‘Dream Voices’ set for Camel Audio’s ‘Alchemy’.

Initial mixes made ‘from the road’ through a portable iPod stereo hooked up to laptop in a guest room so may need revisiting ;-)

 

SET 1

SET 2

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:01 am  

Friday, December 30, 2011

12302011 Trios

Don’t ask me why, but these sets were somehow inspired after watching a series of musical out-takes from Jerry Lewis classic comedy films (‘The Typewriter Song’, Bigshot/Boardroom/Big band, Kitchen conductor, etc).

Some re-use of the material included in the previous 12272011 sets (without ‘errant tone’).

 

SET 1

SET 2

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:00 am  

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

12272011 Trios

Musical machine guns of bent guitar fire at stealthy metal shadows on a Schoenberg serial battlefield . In between, tense periods of pure anxiety stroke at the minds edge punctuated by scurrying fretted mortars and harmonic grenades.

Sometimes it works…sometimes not. An ‘errant’ digital tone wound up in several bounces, per Eno’s ‘Honor thy mistake as intention’, I decided to leave it as a sort-of conceptual ‘pedal tone ‘…though I may revisit that decision when time allows;-)

 

SET 1

SET 2

SET 3

SET 4

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:00 am  

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Before And After Another Green World

Brian Eno visits Stanley Kubrick on the moon circa 2001.

 

12082011 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 4:04 pm  

Thursday, December 8, 2011

12072011

Rhythmic entanglements and black hole ambient vamps for future overlayering.

 

12072011 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 4:02 pm  

Thursday, December 8, 2011

nTwined

Avant ambient dust and scratches soundscape excursions featuring a bass made of twine.

 

nTwined SET 1

nTwined SET 2

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:58 pm  

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Fret Deep

Mapping in between minimalist ‘Reichian/Glassian’ tendencies, ethnic folk musics, and total glitch-cut mayhem of varying degrees and success.

 

Fret Deep Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:53 pm  

Thursday, December 8, 2011

12032011

Rock n Bass Glitch Dubhouse?

Jam, cut, repeat…aural confetti software experiments across several genres. (What if Captain Beefheart had been techno-based ??)

 

Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:50 pm  

Thursday, December 8, 2011

iN mY ouTboX

Avant-ethno weirdness as yet-undiscovered social network tribes of post ‘occupy nowhere’ chill in an industrial Wabi Sabi club, beating ‘battery low funk’ to autotimed, autotuned ringtones and an uncompleted textings from #Zarathustra:

“…I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star…”

 

In The Outbox Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:47 pm  

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Chromaphone Trios

A four set percussion coloring book (variations on a set of discreet performances), based on Applied Acoustics ‘Chromaphone’, a modeled percussion synthesizer.

Here, used to create a trio under-layer of electroacoustic improvisations for future development and avant-jazz track foundations. References might? be “New York School Composers” (John Cage, Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, etc) for those interested.

Also, greatly anticipating the upcoming ‘Patchpool’ release for  Chromaphone, ‘Chromazone’ by Simon Stockhausen ;-)

 

SET 1

SET 2

SET 3

SET 4

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:44 pm  

Friday, November 25, 2011

Points Of Abstraktion

Pointillistic to the point of having no point (if you get my…)

 

Abstrakt Band SET 1 Player

Abstrakt Band SET 2 Player

 

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 11:31 pm  

Monday, November 21, 2011

Avant Ethno Klang Garden (repost)

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Avant Ethno Klang Garden SET 1

Avant Ethno Klang Garden SET 2

Avant Ethno Klang Garben SET 3

Avant Ethno Klang Garden SET 4

Avant Ethno Klang Garden SET 5

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 4:20 am  

Sunday, November 20, 2011

For A Post Rocker

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For A Post Rocker Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 8:12 pm  

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Putting On Airs (On The G String)

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Putting On Airs (On The G String) Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 7:01 pm  

Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Buddha Channel Vol.1

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The Buddha Channel Vol. 1 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 6:16 pm  

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Bent Piano vs dotdotdot

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Bent Piano vs dotdotdot SET 1 Player

Bent Piano vs dotdotdot SET 2 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 6:11 pm  

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Celtic Techno Atmospheres

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Celtic Techno Atmospheres Sessions Player

Celtic Techno Atmospheres Solo Vox Player

 

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 6:03 pm  

Friday, November 11, 2011

Quirky

quirky |ˈkwərkē|adjective ( quirkier , quirkiest )characterized by peculiar or unexpected traits : his sense of humor was decidedly quirky. Misc drum and guitar (as separate performances) experimentations.

 

Quirky

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:46 am  

Friday, November 11, 2011

The World In My Garage

A vague reference? to the spirit of Richie Havens at Woodstock (ala ‘Freedom’) from the depths of a garage/cassette  jams/recordings nostalgia…meets Smithsonian/Folkways record catalogue ‘granular drop needle dubbing’. For Hal Wilner.

 

The World In My Garage

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:51 am  

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Ambient Limits

Part of the ‘Ambient Dubplates’ series, Volume 8.

 

SET 1

SET 2

SET 3

SET 4

SET 5

SET 6

SET 7

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 6:53 pm  

Monday, November 7, 2011

Che Nerd

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SET 1

SET 2

SET 3

SET 4

SET 5

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:00 am  

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Druid Primes

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Druid Primes Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 2:00 am  

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Chromatic Percussion Rain

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Chromatic Percussion Rain Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:59 am  

Saturday, October 29, 2011

The Guitar Center Chainsaw Massacre

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Guitar Center Chainsaw Massacre Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:36 am  

Sunday, October 23, 2011

For Nancarrow

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For Nancarrow Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:30 am  

Sunday, October 23, 2011

The Lochness Game Chip

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The Lochness Game Chip Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:28 am  

Friday, October 21, 2011

Fur Elaine

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Fur Elaine Player

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:25 am  

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Auras

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Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:57 am  

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Smellraisers

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Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:53 am  

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Deleted Scenes And Forgotten Laundry

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Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:33 am  

Friday, October 7, 2011

Soup and Salad

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Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:21 am  

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Cagney and John Wayne Gacy

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Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 3:15 am  
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