An Index Of Possibilities

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

Realized with the twistedtools.com Reaktor ensemble ‘Vortex’

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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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