the 2014 studio diary is a project where i will be exploring sounds in my studio on a day-to-day basis (or whenever i'm not too busy to play.) typically i'll be making loops, phrases, sounds... experimenting with different equipment and techniques. no rules, no big goals, just exercising my creativity and hopefully learning a lot along the way.

i originally intended this to be a modular synthesis sound-a-day project, as i have fully  jumped back into eurorack after 10 years away from it, but the creation of a nice loop with some non-modular gear as i was setting up my new studio lead to the start of the project. i will always choose serendipity over most planned courses of action.

please check back to this diary on a regular basis. i will do my best to explain the sounds when i can and if you have any questions please leave them in the comments section.

may your 2014 be creative, productive, and peaceful.

2014 Studio Diary

~ LAAPS 012 ~ [SEQ.02 - LP12]

artist : Federico Durand
album : Herbario
duration : 39.52 mn
 date : June 17th, 2021

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / green colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 07th, 2021 / official release : June 17th, 2021
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Federico Durand: ARP Odyssey, cassette tapes, feedback looper, Sony TCM-459V, Microcosm, El Capistan, EHX 2880, RE-201, sampler, short-wave radio.
 
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.
Artwork by Albarrán Cabrera
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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"Herbario is the Spanish name given to a collection of dried plants and flowers preserved in an album. The collector usually writes with pencil the name of the herb, the place and date of collection, thoughts, and the habitat where the plant was collected from.
 
I live in a place surrounded by mountains and wild gardens which are, to me, a source of inexhaustible beauty. Through them I feel the passage of time: an ancient, circular temporality that follows the course of seasons, dialogues with the dark stillness of the mountain and the moon calendar. Each musical piece of Herbario has the name of my favourite flowers and trees.
 
Through a year of uncertainty, from March 2020 to March 2021, I composed this album in the same way a botanist would have proceeded: collecting and preserving simple, broken and hypnotic melodies.
 
F. D.
La Cumbre, Argentina. "

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records/
https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/

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Federico Durand - Salvia

*excerpted material from sessions w. sam gendel & norns script glut, slewing into a solo bedroom recording using norns script orgnwrms.

GendelGranular -> OrgnWrms

From the album Ocelli available June 21, 2024 on Western Vinyl
pre-order / listen https://lnk.to/ocelli

Ocelli

Blurstem - Frábært Vatn

tonight i just set up a fairly simple sound, though i ended up liking it the more it droned on. it's basically a shapeshifter oscillator playing a static drone .. via a dual oscillator combination.. mixed with a verbos harmonic oscillator being modulated by a synth tech e355 and a vulcan modulator.

these oscillator drones feed into some filters (intellijel and pittsburgh) and through some reverb from a TC m2000.

i was just trying to set up a basic sound to drone along while i set up the tube channel inserts on my new mixing console, an allen & heath GSr24. i just got the insert cables today so it was the first time setting up and playing with the tube channels. i'm really impressed by their sound and what it adds to what goes through them. looking forward to getting a lot of use out them.

not the most complicated eurorack patch today, but my goal was setting up the mixer. i never did have time to really dig into the modular today.

december 18, 2014 (of xylophone and voice)

this is a very rough, first experiment with a process i've been meaning to try for a possible follow up and "sequel" album.... using the same concepts i used a long time ago, executed in a very different way.

this a rough tracking with little or no care taken to the mix. i am, however, encouraged...

december 19, 2014 (sti.ll experiment)

slow music... loops and modulations. don't listen to while driving.

sound sources:
xylophone recorded onto a cassette walkman looped by a make noise phonogene.
verbos harmonic oscillator
piano loop on qu-bit nebulae

modulation by a livewire vulcan modulator

reverb by tc m2000 and make noise erbe verb

december 23, 2014 (slow music)

Tracklist

01. Masaya Ozaki - Evening Regions
02. Glacis - From One Room To Another (So You Leave Me Now)
03. Seabuckthorn - The Lights All Out
04. Federico Durand, Pablo Picco - Nuevos colores
05. Luis Miehlich - Small Scores June
06. Slow Heart Music - Overflow
07. Braulio Lam - Skylight Filter
08. Waldgrenze + Nikita Vasilenko - Mist

375. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Taken from the album "Autumn is a new spring"

Pre orders start 31.5.2024 / Release date: 7.6.2024

shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Recorded, edited, mixed and mastered @Argo Laboratorium by Gm Aprile @Argolab, 2023/2024 
Photographs by Gm Aprile 

Gianmaria Aprile: guitars, effects, guqin, xylophone, field recordings 
Luca Mauri: guitar on tr.1 
Luca Tilli: cello on tr.1 

- always, in autumn, a new spring is hidden - 
gianmariaaprile.bandcamp.com 
garbuglisonori.wordpress.com 

BIO 
I like to smell the woods, listen to music and play it, but I never seem to do it enough. 
I started in the early years of the new millennium to release records by approaching the world of post-rock (Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick), then I continued my musical journey approaching more experimental sounds (Luminance Ratio) and entering the world of improvisation and jazz (Pipeline 3, 5, 8). 
garbuglisonori.wordpress.com/discografia/ 


SHM 305 
Shimmering Moods Records 2024

Gianmaria Aprile - U•N•I

recorded in florida over christmas. a recordable cassette walkman resting inside a cheap upright piano.

i tried to make long, 20-30 minute passages but the recorder kept failing.

december 25, 2014 (tape piano)

as dirty as the christmas tape piano....

testing out the synthrotek dirt filter (kindly gifted to me from marcus fischer for christmas) on a loop playing from the qubit nebulae.

resampled by the phonogene, filtered by an MMG and intellijel korgasmatron. various modulations, various signals, various hopes and dreams ground into the dirt.


december 30, 2014 (dirt loop)

The Distance

T.O.R. (Snippet)

Released 5 October, 2019 by Whitelabrecs: https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/material-forces

Music by Gray Acres
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Design/Layout by Harry Towell

Scars WIll Fade

With over 100 physical releases since its inception by Taylor Deupree in 1997, New York-based music label 12k has decisively defined and developed the concept of minimalism in the realms of electronic music for more than a decade. Fusing elements from Ambient and Electro-Acoustic Composition with carefully arranged digital textures and associative micro-noises, the label's aesthetics revolve around a precisely-outlined, yet deeply emotional concoction of the technological and the organic. Eschewing the typical marketing mechanisms of the commercial music industry, Deupree has sculpted a platform whose influence today extends well beyond the confinements of the experimental community. 12k's integral approach, in which the label's instantly recognizable, elegantly spartan artwork enters into an inseparable symbiosis with the music, has created a timeless audiovisual language respected and appreciated all over the world.

december 17, 2014 (short harmonic drone, tube experiment)

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