Name: Sounds from a can - Art's Birthday by APickard in Art's Birthday 2021 - Piece for objects found in the street
Duration: 4 min 46 s
Description: Based on a text score by Anne-F Jacques as part of Art's Birthday 2021 with NAISA. Sounds recorded with mics inside a tin can and open placement. Found objects. Post production - noise reduction only, no effects, no EQ, no compression.

This is a playlist of sound art interpretations of Anne-F Jacques' text score "Piece for objects found in the street" realized for NAISA's celebration of Art's Birthday 2021.  NAISA is New Adventures in Sound Art. Enjoy more albums and playlists on soundcloud.com/naisa or at naisa.ca.  You can view a video of Anne-F Jacques' own interpretation of the piece at https://youtu.be/lbKPTOHgXkM

Thanks to the many contributors and participants of this project.  Happy 1,000,058th Birthday Art!

Piece for objects found in the street
Text score for Art’s Birthday by Anne-F Jacques

Even though Art's Birthday 2021 has passed NAISA welcomes more interpretations of this piece. The instructions below suggest a way to perform and record an audio piece using found objects. You will need a recording device (digital recorder, phone, etc) and headphones. The completed piece can either be an audio or video file of 5 minutes maximum, and uploaded to a media sharing location (YouTube or Soundcloud). Share the link to your realization by email to outreach at naisa dot ca. You can also decide to keep it as a private experiment.

 1.   Go for a walk. Look around for abandoned or unclaimed objects. You may consider getting yourself a coffee. Bring back:

   - a disposable coffee cup
   - a dense heavy object
   - a long, thin object
   - another object of any shape or characteristic that interests you

2. Place the cardboard coffee cup over the microphone(s) of your recorder or phone, covering it/them if possible. You may use one of your hands to keep the cup in place, or find another way of securing it. Start recording.

3. Gently roll the dense object on the cup, attempting to have every face of the object be in contact with every face of the cup (not at the same time).

4. Remove the cup, replace it with the plastic lid secured over the mic. Insert the long thin object in the drinking hole of the lid and slide it in and out.

5. Remove the lid. Open the closest window. Do something with the last object (or do nothing with it).

6. Stop the recording.

7. Edit and Mix as necessary, and if you wish, share as instructed above.

Art's Birthday 2021 - Piece for objects found in the street

If you haven't heard of Nikki Nair at this point, we'd invite you to come out from under that rock you're living in. But jokes aside, the last 12 months have been the Atlanta producer's year. He's toured seemingly endlessly, has found his way into a number of local scenes and has put out records for labels like Dirtybird, Lobster Theremin and Scuffed Recordings. If that weren't enough, he's also been putting out an illuminating series of monthly singles on his Bandcamp that show off both his restless muse and his seeming ability to both perfect and put his own stamp on any sub-genre or style he tries.

People usually use some form of the word "bass" to describe Nikki Nair, because of the way his music flits between dubstep, drum & bass, electro and more. One moment he's making staggering hip-hop instrumentals that would have fit right into the old LA beat scene, the next minute he's making pneumatic techno or uptempo stuff that would fit right in one Juke Bounce Werk. 

His voracious appetite for new sounds comes across on his RA Podcast, which is a sprawling two-hours-plus of genre hopping and careful mixing, hopping from mood to mood like a 2-D video game platformer. It starts off perhaps a little slower than you'd expect, but weaves through countless Nikki Nair tracks, older selections from Wolfgang Voigt and Drexciya and mind-melting club tracks from newer producers including DJ ADHD, Despina, Limewax and more. If you want to know what the hippest, most inventive dance music sounds like, bridging continents and oceans, this mix is it.

@nikki-nair

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/848

RA podcast

RA.848 Nikki Nair - 2022.09.05

Recording of Call Super's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

"Thank you for letting me do this, and much love to those who joined me. This set is dedicated to the memory of Steve Bronski."

Call Super at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Donato Dozzy at The Labyrinth 2014.

Venue: Naeba Greenland, Gunma, Japan.

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To celebrate 20 years of building Labyrinths, we have decided to release one set from each of the last ten years. I've chosen ten timeless moments that both document the history of the event and provide a historical snapshot of underground electronic music over the past ten years.

We have chosen a broad range--from closing techno sets, to morning ambient sets, to experimental sets to close the night. Each set represents a different side of the event. Taken together, they present a portrait of a decade of music.

The Labyrinthの20周年を記念して、過去10年間を振り返り、それぞれの年からひとつのミックスをピックアップすることにしました。イベントの歴史を記録すると同時に、過去10年間のアンダーグラウンドエレクトロニックミュージックの歴史的なスナップショットを提供します。今聞いても色褪せない、タイムレスな極上のミックスをお楽しみください。

テクノのクロージングセットから、朝のアンビエントセット、そして夜を締めくくるエクスペリメンタルセットまで幅広いセレクトですが、どのセットもThe Labyrinthの欠かせない側面を表しており、ここ10年におけるエレクトロニック ミュージックの全容とも言えるでしょう。

The Labyrinth 2014 - Donato Dozzy (closing set)

For her Fact mix k means holds us at a constant simmer, slick with sweat and dense with smog, burbling between unease and release, murk and steam.

https://www.factmag.com/2022/10/17/fact-mix-879-k-means/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 879: k means (Oct '22)

A variation of the 17th Century Christmas Carol pushed into a 4-4 time signature, rather than the original 3-4, for the sake of EDMness.

Happy Christmas everyone.

Purchase/Stream at Amazon:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/music/player/albums/B0BQN4ZXLS

Stream on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4PB2aflfYNssml3yFEUOU1

The First Noel - Variation (EDM 134bpm)

Releasing on TS Records soon.

This is just a preview of the piano drop.

Society - Jomarkho (Trance 138bpm) - Preview

Recorded, mixed & mastered 02-03 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes

First day - 
- Typed one paragraph from the Black Panther newspaper of 4 Nov 1972 into Google Translate. I went with 51 years ago, instead of 50.
- Sent the German output into a text-to-speech engine, PlayHT
- Paulstretch in Audacity & exported
- Dragged into Live and duplicated two more times
- Set warp markers to produce variations & panned two tracks L & R
- L & R tracks each treated to two instances of Arturia Tape Melo-Fi to get some crud distortion
- Center track treated to some widening in Live

Second day - 
- Recorded a china cymbal. This was run into Ableton Live’s Spectral Resonator and other effects.
- Recorded a short series of walking bass notes using a Turser JTB-402. This was run through a modified Buffer Shuffler, iZotope’s Neutron and other effects.
- I duplicated this track and converted the second copy to MIDI for use in sidechaining.
- I froze/flattened the cymbal, speech and bass audio tracks
- I altered some of the things I did the day before with the speech tracks.
- Recorded a nylon-string guitar that was missing the low E and the D string. I retuned the second highest string, recorded something related to the bass track and enhanced this with Live’s grain delay.
- I split the bass audio track into two for hi/lo processing with some simple shelving EQ.

Artwork generated via Adobe Express Generative AI.

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Black Panther, Vol. 9, No. 3, November 4, 1972

A Matter Of Life Or Death, vote “no” on proposition 17, 4th paragraph, translated into German.

Historically, America has justified its use of the death penalty, both domestically and on a world-wide level with the so-called “deterrent” theory. This twisted logic has resulted in the slaughter of millions throughout the world and the development of more and more ingenious methods of killing human beings.

Historisch gesehen hat Amerika seine Anwendung der Todesstrafe sowohl im Inland als auch auf weltweiter Ebene mit der sogenannten „Abschreckungs“-Theorie gerechtfertigt. Diese verdrehte Logik hat zur Abschlachtung von Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt und zur Entwicklung immer raffinierterer Methoden zur Tötung von Menschen geführt.

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This original version of "Begrabe Das Lied" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede. The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: [disquiet.com/junto/](https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdisquiet.com%2Fjunto%2F&token=d5acd4-1-1699034765763)

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Two-Finger Modal Box."

Begrabe Das Lied (disquiet0618)

A composition based around the sound of ticking (the sound of a metronome), inspired by György Ligeti's Poème Symphonique and also by various theorists' philosophies on time (in particular the theories of Henri Bergson). 

 Composed in 2015.

Tick

NAISA project 

Piece for objects found in the street (2021)
by Anne-F Jacques

realised by Ryoko Akama on 10th January
objects collected between Almondbury Village and Huddersfield town in the midst of national lock down 2021.

My usual scavenging people's skips and picking up litters from street ceased in April 2020. It was an important life routine. In the meantime, I walk more in the deep woods from small to large. 

Objects used here were collected during my one hour walk. not too perfect but did the tasks. 

One thing impossible was 'take-out coffee' so an old and small cardboard box with a lid was used.

Piece For Objects Found In The Street

Music Concrete, Noise, Minimal. For Art’s 1 000 058th birthday and Anne-F

o.t. (pour Anne - F.)

Based on a text score by Anne-F Jacques as part of Art's Birthday 2021 with NAISA. Sounds recorded with mics inside a tin can and open placement. Found objects. Post production - noise reduction only, no effects, no EQ, no compression.

Sounds from a can - Art's Birthday

For Anne-F Jacques "piece for objects found in the street"

1. Go for a walk. Look around for abandoned or unclaimed objects. You may consider getting
yourself a coffee. Bring back:
- a disposable coffee cup
- a dense heavy object
- a long, thin object
- another object of any shape or characteristic that interests you
2. Place the cardboard coffee cup over the microphone(s) of your recorder or phone, covering
it/them if possible. You may use one of your hands to keep the cup in place, or find another
way of securing it. Start recording.
3. Gently roll the dense object on the cup, attempting to have every face of the object be in
contact with every face of the cup (not at the same time).
4. Remove the cup, replace it with the plastic lid secured over the mic. Insert the long thin
object in the drinking hole of the lid and slide it in and out.
5. Remove the lid. Open the closest window. Do something with the last object (or do nothing
with it).
6. Stop the recording.
7. Edit as necessary, and if you wish, share as instructed in the introduction.

on my walk, i picked up a book from the library (Tronti's Workers and Capital), a coffee (cup+lid) and a long dry piece of grass.

tronti coffee cup long grass -piece for objects found in the street

Realization of a text score by Anne-F Jacques for Art's Birthday 2021. The text score required one to use a take out coffee cup and lid over top of a microphone or portable audio recorder - in a sense, taking the place of a contact microphone. I didn't have a paper coffee cup on hand so I used a portable coffee thermos.  The last part of the score asks to open the window or door, allowing some outside sound in.  However, the day of the recording the sound ambience was very quiet - mid-winter in the country.  So this last part is difficult to discern other than the playing of the objects is captured through air transmission rather than through the material of an object such as coffee thermos.

Realization of Anne-F Jacques' "Piece for objects found in the Street"

Hôtel Costes

My funny Valentine (Album edit)

College prof in media arts - mess around with music as a hobby

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a Canadian non-profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Cross Waves and SOUNDplay. 
NAISA's Soundcloud page features the Deep Wireless online compilations. recordings of past performances, and select editions of its Making Waves radio program for WGXC at the Wavefarm in Acra, NY.

Sounds from a can - Art's Birthday

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