The dead and the living

12.14.13 • bicameral shortfall

Shortly after burial, Herr Haydn's head was stolen by an ambitious, perhaps somewhat too earnest phrenologist (and suspected alchemist). So Herr Haydn's head was missing for quite some time.

Some years later, the body was to be moved. The head of course was found to be missing. When pressed for the skull, our dear phrenologist (apparently the only obvious suspect in the crime), presented a false skull (source unknown) for internment with Herr Haydn's body. Herr Haydn's true skull was instead kept in a decorated wooden box, and passed down through the generations.

In 1895, the true skull of Haydn was finally returned. And buried with the rest of him. The substitute skull (source still unknown) was left in the grave, alongside the proper one.

And that is the story of how Herr Haydn ended up with two skulls in his grave.

Downloaded the source, converted that to 16-bit wav.

Permutated into 8 distinct sounds. Used these to make a minimal techno piece (Ableton Live)
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Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn

This week’s project is another in a series of explorations of the concept of genre as a constraint. (The “downtempo” exercise went well several weeks ago, project 79, and this is another in that mode.) The genre this time is “minimal techno.” The source material is from another genre entirely: “classical,” specifically chamber music in the form of a string quartet. The goal of this project is to derive elements from the source material in the service of a track that would fit in the prescribed genre.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Download the MP3 track at the following URL. The track is the third movement of Franz Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

Step 2: Listen through the full 1:55 of the track, noting the time codes of source elements that could lend themselves to a minimal techno track. Aim for roughly between three and six.

Step 3: Extract the handful of elements that you located in Step 2.

Step 4: Compose and record an original track that you feel conforms to the genre of minimal techno, using only the elements from Step 3. You can manipulate them in any way you choose, though at some point in the track they should each be somewhat recognizable from the source material. You cannot add any other sounds.

The source Haydn audio is from:
http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

the curious case of herr haydn's head [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

Frosty B Lyle

a small house in the fog on a cliff overlooking the ocean and shit

this is a track from the POST ROMANTIC EMPIRE ALBUM remix project 
by Alessandro Adriani (Mannequin Records, Newclear Waves)

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Dreams Never End (Alessandro Adriani Remix)

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Written and Produced by WATERBED
Mixed by Lars Stalfors
Mastered by Joe LaPorta


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somethin

Excerpted from Important Records 3LP release of John Oswald's epic "ultimate Dark Star" which weaves together 25 years of the Dead's most sought after live song.
This particular section includes layers of the following performances: 

9/2/68 Betty Nelson's Organic Raspberry Farm, Sultan WA
2/22/69 Dream Bowl, Vallejo CA
10/21/71 Auditorium Theater, Chicago IL

"Dark Star" vocal:
9/13/93 Spectrum, Philadelphia PA
3/20/92 Copps Coliseum, Hamilton ONT
2/28/69 Fillmore West, SF CA
2/15/60 Electric Factory, Philadelphia PA

"Crashes" vocal: 
4/27/69 Labor Temple, Minneapolis MN
9/13/93 Spectrum, Philadelphia PA
5/11/72 Civic Hall, Rotterdam Holland
5/15/70 Fillmore East, NYC


Grateful Dead/John Oswald "Clouds Cast" From Grayfolded 3LP on Important

Rez Abbasi - Nels Cline - Liberty Ellman - David Gilmore - Miles Okazaki - Marvin Sewell (electric guitars and effects); Damon Banks (el. bass guitar); Marco Capelli (acoustic guitar, effects); Jerome Harris (el. guitar, el. bass guitar, lap steel guitar); Joel Harrison (el. guitar, national steel guitar); Kenny Wessel (el. guitar, banjo)
Composed and improvisationally conducted by Adam Rudolph.
Recorded live in studio on December 21, 2014 - Winter Solstice  
Produced by Adam Rudolph.

On the Winter Solstice of 2014 – the Northern Hemisphere’s longest night of the year – composer, bandleader & percussionist Adam Rudolph convened 11 of New York City’s finest and most adventurous guitarists in a New Jersey studio for a most auspicious event: the debut of Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra, his all-guitar orchestra. In attendance were guitarists Rez Abbasi, Nels Cline, Liberty Ellman, David Gilmore, Miles Okazaki, and Marvin Sewell, all on electric guitars and effects; Damon Banks on bass guitar; Marco Capelli on acoustic guitar, effects; Jerome Harris on electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and lap steel guitar; Joel Harrison on electric guitar and national steel guitar; and Kenny Wessel on electric guitar and banjo. With Rudolph at the helm, conducting musical charts and creative improvisational energy, the orchestra began to play.  The result is this extraordinary release, Turning Towards the Light.
Rudolph grew up and began playing music on the South Side of Chicago, performing with artists like Fred Anderson. By 1978 he was touring Europe with Don Cherry. Hailed by the New York Times as “a pioneer in world music”, in 1977 Rudolph began his collaborations with kora player Foday Musa Suso, followed by his work with the Gnawa musician Hassan Hakmoun, L. Shankar and other musicians from around the globe. His longest and most significant collaboration was with the great Yusef Lateef; from 1988 until Yusef’s death in 2013 they performed as a duet and collaborated as composers on many large ensemble projects. He has also taken influences from contemporary composers such as Pierre Schafer, Olivier Messian, Bela Bartok & Toru Takemitsu.
Rudolph has integrated and transformed all of these influences into a highly personalized language, a language whose rhythmic component, which he calls “Cyclic Verticalism,” combines polyrhythms (from African music) and rhythm cycles (from Indian music).
Turning Towards the Light is the 10th release in Rudolph’s series of recordings for Go: Organic Orchestra. His previous recordings for Go: Organic Orchestra featured an array of instrumentation to bring to life his rhythmically unique creative music. But for Turning Towards the Light, Rudolph envisioned a new kind of orchestral sound conveyed by a single instrument: guitars, whose strings, coaxed by the right hands, are capable of unleashing an orchestra of different musical sounds. He says: “I try to do something new with each performance and recording. This time I wanted to experiment with a new kind of orchestration. I felt that with their range of sound and rhythm, these 11 electric guitars could generate a sonic palate that had never been heard before. I was looking for a new kind of “Future Orchestra”  – and I think we found it.”

Adam Rudolph / Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra, "Heliotropic" from 'Turning Towards The Light'

Europe '72 Vol. 15: Grote Zaal De Doelen, Rotterdam, Holland 5/11/72

Morning Dew (Live at Civic Hall, Rotterdam, Holland 5/11/1972) [feat. David Nelson, Debbie Eisenberg, Marma-Duke, Merle Saunders, Mouse, Pete Grant & WENDY]

https://open.spotify.com/album/3wZlPFwF8B7DRwJGaNEf0t

if i hadn't met sour i'd have never known sweet

sweet n sour

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Written & Produced by WATERBED
Mixed by Lars Stalfors
Mastered by Joe LaPorta


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where you are

Jim O'Rourke- Pictures of Adolf Again

composed by Baby Dee in 2011 • Cleveland, US
produced and mixed by Andrew W K at his studio in November 2012 • New York, USA

Baby Dee ~ piano and vocals
Little Annie Bandez ~ vocals
Matt Sweeney ~ electric guitar
Andrew W K ~ bass guitar
Skip Shirley ~ bells, whistle, toys and electronics
Sarah Alden ~ violin
Robbie Lee ~ guitar woodwinds and portatif organ
Sarah Nowicki ~ vocals
Matthew Robinson ~ cello

all the musicians recorded live togheter at Trout Recording Studio in June 2011 • New York, USA 

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The House Of The Rising Sun

JAMES BLACKSHAW & LUBOMYR MELNYK
THE WATCHERS

IMPREC375

The Watchers is a historic collaboration between Lubomyr Melnyk and James Blackshaw. Both artists are well known as composers but here it is their impovisational skills that are on display.  First 200 copies of the LP will ship on blue vinyl.  CD version is packaged in a heavy duty digipak.

http://importantrecords.com/imprec/imprec375

Frosty B Lyle

White Rainbow