An Index Of Possibilities

Le Corbusier Modulor numbers affecting relative loop pitching (thus cyclic periods), then sent to multiple parallel frequency shifting  modules.

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Tropical improbabilities…triggered 60ths of a beat vs. actual seconds within a variable tempo space.

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As per usual, -6 dBFS un-mastered, compositional mock-ups/demos as open source tracks, for free use. ‘Loopy C’ technology/loopology vs. Mayan cosmological thesis.

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Generative Debussy Field Theory (with Jazz Loops) P1 Player

Generative Debussy Field Theory (with Jazz Loops) P2 Player

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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

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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)

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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.

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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

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PART 1
PART 2
PART 3

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Four sets of ‘loopological’ studies based on four different pools of  material. The infromedia audio gas resists….and pushes back.

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Player 4

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An aural Krumbein phi scale, where size in Φ = -log base 2 of size in mm. Rock & roll (and gravel) beach time fun!

Wet Sands Vol. 1 Player

Wet Sands Vol. 2 Player

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Walkman looped rubber audio, fingers in the reels

If out slide, Out it or end

…on step loop securely, tape case scotch plastic art

Downstepping the ‘When’

You are the see change, these are the layers

Handheld Tape Looops

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Or more appropriately, a ‘pair of’ Peter Dine’s ‘Paramdrum’ Reaktor ensembles, here as loop players (as opposed to the intended single hit probability drum machine). Special thanks Peter Dines for the inspirational programming and support

A decidedly ‘wonky’ take on 50′s electronics, lo-fi, lo-brow circuit bending, avant garde turntablism collage, and IDM beatologies.

ParaDines Player

(A ‘cornucopia’ of vintage electronic recordings and vintage impulse ‘re-amping’ simulation/combinations were also accessed and applied in this essentially ‘live duo’ configuration via Audio Ease’s ‘Speaker Phone 2′).

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Oval Process Misc Player

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Some most curiously angular and ‘closety’ looping vinyl abstractions…

042310 New Closets Player

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Painting (literally) with loops. For each track, a graphic ‘score’ was ‘painted/drawn’ on the computer  screen and interpreted by the re-synthesis (via several thousand! dedicated oscillators) of a single loop in RGB/pixel space.

Laminal Looping 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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Loopscanned,  skittering plasmatic audio.

Oscillators Made Of Plasma Player

Oscillators Made Of Plasma (2 Tracks/Long) 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) .

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

Oscillators Made Of Polaroids Volume 2

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Laminal improv taken for a ‘loop’.

Laminal Lockgrooves Player

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Collected my various ‘Avant Garde Mash Ups’ and Loopy C ‘Plays’ tracks together as consolidated sources/pages:

Avant Garde Mash-Ups Master Track Player Index

Loopy C ‘Plays’ Master Track Player Index

(also visible to right in ‘sidebar’ under ‘Pages’)

These are rebuilds of pages from my former blog (at blogger), I will slowly be updating the accompanying info but for now all the track player links should be active for ‘Discover/Encounter’ sessions

Also note that the page of ‘Master Players’ allows access to EVERY track on this site, (whether it currently has it’s own dedicated post or not):

Master Playlist’s Players

Audio photocollage in the vein of David Hockney’s ‘joiners’.  A joiner consists of a series of photographs taken from different viewpoints, arranged (overlapping) to form a single piece. By taking the pictures from carefully selected viewpoints, and arranging them in the right way, Hockney was able to change the apparent shape of space and introduce the element of time into the work.

Here, layered time, space, and narrative is attempted through a mathematical presentation of ‘chunks’ and layers of sound bytes in a vein related to Cubist concerns. The challenge is then of two ears (as opposed to two eyes in Cubist theory) in slightly different moments of time.
 

Oscillators Made Of Joiners Player

The above image is probably the most well known of Hockney’s ‘Joiners; and in a bit of fate happens to been created only miles from where I presently live!

Also related:

Oscillators Made Of Polaroids

Further excursions into ‘looping’ music.

021608 Player

Glitche’s & Rasa (in six parts)

“…there is art, and there is entertainment. I have done both, I have enjoyed both, and I DISTINGUISH between both. When you are after that innermost ‘self’, the person you become AFTER playing in the dark for hours and running out of practiced ‘riffs’, then you are practicing what is yours uniquely, self expression; thus, art. When your intention is to try to find a common, universal link and emotion between yourself and some unknown and unquantifiable ‘audience’ (thus ‘generalising’ the ‘signs’ of music to appeal towards more known quantities based on particular characteristics) then you are attempting entertainment/communication. Entertainment (a subset of communication) depends on cliche (familiarity), redundancy, and previously agreed upon ‘rules’ to convey ‘messages’…not exactly a ‘hotbed’ for creative innovations

I see no problem with either, as long as YOU know which one you are practicing. I continue to enjoy both with that perspective (as segregated). If the two segregated forms do occasionally collide successfully as to incorporate strengths of both I consider it a lucky exception, which it appears most artists who have succeeded in creating a new ‘entertaining’ form out of both didn’t know until much later.”

And YES, this is MY idea of a Friday night

Glitch & Rasa (Player playlist in six parts)

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111207 Player

Captured time as source unit/sample for oscillations. Frozen moments made to unfold over time, a snapshot (polaroid) becomes aural environment. Initial idea concieved as an sonic analogy to the idea of the ‘Mona Lisa’ made of thousands of ‘Mona Lisa’s', now called a ‘Mosaic’ portrait/picture.

The ‘beginnings’ of my original web presence, a tribute to the Mobius Loop as musical narrative ‘set design’.

Oscillators Made Of Polaroids Player

art by c.gibson