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.

Various keyboards, bass, guitar, beat manipulations, 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  

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  

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Party In My Samples Folder

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Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:03 am  

Monday, September 19, 2011

Misc Prototypes/Collages

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Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 11:50 pm  

Monday, September 12, 2011

The Abstractum Sessions

 

 

Player 1

Player 2

Player 3

Player 4

Player 5

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 11:39 pm  

Monday, September 5, 2011

Neu Zeppelin (Loopy Blimpy Motorik)

Glitchy shoe gazing guitar, Camel Audio ‘Alchemy’ morphing prototypes, and a trashy, zep-like Stylus RMX drum vibe come together for a late night jam session of variations on a traveling theme.

 

Neu Zeppelin Player

Neu Zeppelin Alternates Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:56 am  

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Milky Bell Craft On A Drum Warped Sea

A Friday’s morning/afternoon diversion…What would Brian Eno do (or not do) next?  Sugar Byte’s ‘Turnado’ fx on drums in parallel/duo form.

 

Milky Bell Craft On A Drum Warped Sea Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 2:00 am  

Sunday, August 21, 2011

The Dream Of Arting

“For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length–and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.”

Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings Of Don Juan

 

Part 1 Player

Part 2 Player

Part 3 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 10:09 am  

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Repetition and Difference

Difference resists inclusion within the symbolic network which it produces as its destination and even “discovers” as its origin. Qualities, especially when taken as signs, present us with these same two faces. For on the one hand, they indicate “an implicated order of constitutive differences”; but on the other hand, the quality “tends to cancel out those differences in the extended order in which they are explicated.”

Difference and Repetition. Gilles Deleuze

 

Part 1 Player

Part 2 Player

Part 3 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 9:58 am  

Sunday, August 21, 2011

The Lighted Space Of Recognition

Both Hegelian and the Heideggerian models understand art as a situation, a predicament, a “clearing,” within which the self approaches itself from out of the darkness of misrecognition into the “lighted space” of recognition. This understanding of art refuses Kant’s injunction that art be purposeless and disinterested, recognizing instead that, at the point of production, the purposiveness of art is not without purpose, the purpose being its own becoming as a work.

Gary Peters. The Philosophy Of improvisation

 

The Lighted Space Of Recognition Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 9:31 am  

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Road Trip Number 9

The wind and a longing road. The Arizona autobahn gets ‘these boots were made for walking’ treatment. Preliminary jam ‘underlayer’ in the vein of a vintage Mike Oldfield vibe.

 

Road Trip Number 9 Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 9:47 am  

Saturday, July 30, 2011

The Art Of Dreaming

Phlogiston of the nagual. Solo full-length tracks from an earlier post….Chronic sans Riddick. Visits to nonordinary reality and leaps into the abyss of aural hallucinations. Ambient dubplates volume 6.

 

The Art Of Dreaming Player

 

Once again special thanks Simon Stockhausen for his ‘alchemical’ sound designs.

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 6:11 am  

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Hesperus Is Phosphorus

The knowledge of something necessary  can be discoverable rather than known a priori. Eight variations on an ambient theme,  ambient dubplate vol. 5.

 

Hesperus Is Phosphorus Player

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 2:23 am  

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Band From A Razor

Rare groove moves and rubber band mock rock, with modal synth accompaniment.

Band From A Razor Set 1 Player

Band From A Razor Set 2 Player

Band From A Razor Set 3 Player (coming soon)

posted by cgibson777 at 5:32 am  

Saturday, July 23, 2011

The Wind Cries Mercury

Unquiet village of avant garde space exotica for the bosons and bourbon crowd.

The Wind Cries Mercury Part 1 Player

The Wind Cries Mercury Part 2 Player

posted by cgibson777 at 4:35 am  

Friday, July 22, 2011

The Chronic Of Riddicks

From the Multiverse’s bong comes neuron-fired rhythms and alchemical synthesizers, morphing in the dust and smoke clouds of Hubble hallucinations. These are the initial ‘prototype/Music Minus One’ versions, further development being considered (I am currently trying to teach Einstein to sing for future versions!) 

 

The Chronic Of Riddicks Player

The Chronic Of Riddicks (Alternative Versions) Player 

 

*Special thanks Simon Stockhausen for his ‘alchemical’ sound designs and Poul Vestergaard for his ‘NeuronDrum’.

**These are unmastered versions for remix usage

posted by cgibson777 at 1:29 pm  

Friday, July 22, 2011

Where There Are Skitters, There Are Mechs

‘Another Green World-influenced’ mutant electro-acoustic funk jams. Euclidean rhythm programming meets granular basses* (my ‘virtual Percy Jones’?), semi-language-removals, and eviscerated reanimations in a quantum entangled improv session.

 

WTASTAM Vol 1 Player

WTASTAM Vol 2 Player

WTASTAM Alternative Versions Player

 

*Special thanks Low North RTG-X 3.1

 

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:05 pm  

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Torture Waits

A Kraken takes piano lessons from Tom Waits and typical cephalopod meets avant garde cabaret broken beat hi jinx ensue. Rhythms implied but not guaranteed. Part of my research stage for a contest submission at Hiss and A Roar sound fx libraries website using the free set of ‘Tortured Piano’.

 

Tortured P1 Player

Tortured P2 Player

Tortured P3 Player

 

Special thanks ‘Petri’ by Sineqube.

posted by cgibson777 at 1:20 am  

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Haunted Toy SETI Soup

Sinister toy and ET transmissions DNA left to sit in a petri dish and then served as a cold and cracker-less Zappa-esque SETI soup.

Haunted Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 1:00 am  

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Chamberworx (for Dieter)

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Chamberworx Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:46 pm  

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Tron Bloody Tron

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Tron Bloody Tron Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:37 pm  

Saturday, June 18, 2011

His Sobbing Missiles

At the wailing wall of clocked gristle, the hounds of hell are skateboarders…granular disco for digipunks on cat food.

 

His Sobbing Missiles Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:33 pm  

Saturday, June 18, 2011

In A Gaga Da Vader

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In A Gaga Da Vader Player

 

 

posted by cgibson777 at 12:28 pm  
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