electronic circuit, piano, bowed string, cymbal, toy piano

don't tell me

When I was a kid, I used to sit for a long time watching whirligig beetles skitter in circles on the still surface of a pond.  (Okay, okay, I still do it.)

Ukulele tuned g-c-f-a

Image: aquatic insects from the Hengistbury Head Nature Reserve Supporters Group website: http://www.hengistburyhead.org/index.html  Looks like a great place to explore!  Special thanks to http://soundcloud.com/wheelwright for directing me to this picture.

And in breaking news...the ever-creative "all n4tural" has taken this recording and a few others to create something new and delightful: http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural-firehose-ii/hanklebury-shufflebug-hoedown

Waterbugs

 Here is a track featuring one of my favourite vocalists and good friend Ohsowhy. https://soundcloud.com/ohsowhy. 

The melody is influenced with much love and tenderness by Ohsowhy, from a track by Jazz legend Archie Shep entitled "Sea of faces" featuring the beautiful voice of Bunny Foy.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZbGD8Uu0rk#t=76.




Hope y'all enjoy. 

Tom x



Precious Metals EP

Tomjuno feat Ohsowhy- Metals

OhTheChallenge! My magnificent friend https://soundcloud.com/discography asked me to try to sing this beautiful melody. It's  based on an amazing track by Jazz legend Archie Shepp entitled "Song for Mozambique, Poem a sea of faces" featuring the stunning voice of Bunny Foy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX_UoZ7mdhA

The lyrics have been adjusted from the original by Tom to fit in with the message he wanted to convey in this track, which is kind of a celebration of sound....there's a lot of kettle banging happening too!

Hope you like it! Happy holidays to you all!

Artwork by one of my favorite photographers: https://www.instagram.com/margaretdurow

Metals - Tomjuno feat. Ohsowhy

This is unfinished, and part of something longer (most of the songs I post are). I decided to put this up in the hope of finding trumpet players to contribute to it.

Started with me stomping around my living room, singing the repetitive background part like I was doing some kind of mentally-challenged rain dance. Eventually I'll tone down or take out some of that, but I'm keeping it there for now to guide the rest along.

It's both making fun of, and reveling in, open-3-5 guitaring; the entire guitar part never leaves those frets. Plenty of other associations mixed in there too. The clip at the beginning is from 50s-60s era cartoons... I'll figure out where the hell I got it so I can give credit.

Changing some of the lyrics, but the bulk is right:

"No
I won't be long now
figured out what to play/say
0, 3, and 5
Oh my...

From a young age
Was tripping over the pain
Doctor took my brain out
Got it out of the way...

Slow down
You're burning up like the sun
Now you know so
Hang on
It's far too early to run
Now you know
You need it
Move on
You oughta know by
Now it's gone
You'll never get it again...

0hhh, 3, and 5!
Turns out I'm not quite alive
No, I found out I need you
To get it out of the way..."

"Kitty cat
Under the lilac bush
Would you like to play with me?
(oh no)

They tend to frown upon it
When you dig up your pets
And play with them

You know I am right
Right where I belong"

Toonstomp

snout

Enter - V

step back to zero


Balls, rubber bands, small metals and wood, and double bass, courtesy of
≡ University of Iowa Musical Instrument Samples http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html

Vocals courtesy
≡ Yuko Parris https://soundcloud.com/yuko-parris

thanks!
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live coded in SuperCollider (http://supercollider.github.io)
something like this: http://sccode.org/1-4Rs

with some post facto amplitude tweaking in Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org/)



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pic by Petra Bensted: https://www.flickr.com/photos/chillmimi/15638691169/in/faves-48773669@N02/

step back to zero (2016)

This piece celebrates the sounds of clocks, from the tiniest whirring of the bedside alarm clock to the grandest tower chime, through an exploration of these sounds' similarity to sounds of liquid. It has been meticulously constructed from tens of thousands of very short clock recordings, often aggregated at high density to produce gestural shapes that last sometimes only one or two seconds.

Its composition was made possible by the Dias de Música Electroacústica artist-in-residence program, and it premiered in November of 2016 at the Ecos Urbanos festival in Mexico City.

Clock Waters

for Disquiet Junto Project 0326: Wave Turntable
In collaboration with composer Danny Clay, make music for his exhibit with artist Jon Fischer using only sine waves and turntable surface noise.

Assignment: Compose a short piece of music using only sine waves and the surface sounds of vinyl played on a turntable. 

Process: I had a look at the work of the artists mentioned above. I saw the point and wondered how can I make sine waves that are played by unusually surfaced records? Some time ago, I got an old turntable on the flea market because I wanted to somehow listen to tiny records that I found on my mom's attic. They were from a speaking toy parrot, that had a little toy record player inside. This however, was lost. With a diameter of about 5cm only, the mini records were of course not suited for a regular record player. anyway I tried to play them and recorded the noises, which were very scary. At the end, the records were just skipping and these parts I took out of the recordings (to leave out the scary parrot voices) and glued 4 of them together to a 1 minute wav file. This I used instead of an impulse response for processing in convolution reverb. I fed short sine waves of different frequency into the convolution reverb and let the reverb bounce about as it pleased. I EQd it so that the record noise is still audible as well. 


More on this 326th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Wave Turntable: In collaboration with composer Danny Clay, make music for his exhibit with artist Jon Fischer using only sine waves and turntable surface noise) at:

https://disquiet.com/0326/

More on Clay and Fischer at:

http://dclaymusic.com
http://feather2pixels.com

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0326-wave-turntable/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by artist Jon Fischer from his exhibit with Danny Clay.

step back to zero (2016)

all n4tural firehose II