An exploration of polyrhythms on the train back to Berlin before Ableton Loop.

4500/003: Upollu

A single-sample composition, of sorts. Made using a strange, detuned piano sample, run through various processors

4500/005: Inside a String

4500/009: Gewürzt

The roller coaster of daily compositions.. yesterday’s was a 1am haste job after recording a bunch of random guitars and spending way too much time on tech setup that wound up not working. Today’s is a midnight slow haste, after experimenting with new iOS apps and effects.

Keep the melody straight-forward. Allow the effects to add complexity.

4500/012: Density Etude

4500/019: Dark Meat

4500/023: Tempest

Sometimes, the composition lies in the corners... I came up with a few other parts that I intended to mix in with this, but I decided to toss them out at the last moment, as it felt like too much to try to develop over 45 seconds.  And even limiting it to these sounds, it still came out almost a minute over time.  It's an interesting feeling to be at a point in the project where full parts get discarded.  It feels like an editing luxury that I couldn't afford in the first days, and possibly won't be able to afford due to time in some of the upcoming ones.

4500/028: Broast

I started on a 7/8 rhythm today, but ran out of time to turn it into a full song, so I granularized the recording a bit into this noise composition.

4500/039: After Hours

Had a chance to borrow my girlfriend’s dad’s guitar for a bit while visiting for the holidays. Put together this little Folk-inspired, off-time tune to kick off the second half of the project.

4500/051: The Hawk Behind the Table

An experiment in blind recording, inspired by listening to @ioflow talk about his process on the lines sound and process podcast.

4500/059: Floater

Today I felt compelled to revisit a chord progression that I’ve been playing with for a couple of years now. This recording is an experiment in accompaniment, though I’m not sure yet how successful I consider it. It’s an “everything but the kitchen sink” approach of sorts, with the main progression slowly introduced as a fade in over the first couple iterations. This definitely isn’t the final phase of this chord progression, but I do think it’s the first time I’ve released it anywhere.

4500/061: Kitchen Sink

The sound of the void, somewhere in between planets.

4500/065: Antimatter

Two-thirds through. Today a piece in the fun-a-day style of some friends in San Francisco that sounds like it could have come from a 90s three-piece with a dead member. ZZ Top Rage.

4500/067: Dead Third

4500/078: Rails over Trails

An experiment inspired by the previous day, turning some knobs in Block Party that I'd never turned before.

4500/081: Oh, Madam

4500/084: Gas Beneath The Crust

Removing some complexity this time. A static drone with “traditional” guitar accompaniment, though still rather noisy

4500/085: Standard

Possibility weaving, in and out, up and down, over and under

4500/086: Poscillation

A track for the Junto. I’ve been meaning to do at least one of these since starting the 4500. I had some deeper ideas for how to manipulate some of the granular stuff into beats, but I both ran out of time, and found the layered modified tones to be their own right.

The source sound is a plucked octave at c# through my usual guitar rig. Various layered effects in Logic

4500/087: Pluck [disquiet0318]

Taking inspiration from Derek Bailey, and a walk through a pleasant neighborhood

4500/089: Improvisation (Manhattan)

10 more days. It’s remarkable how much lighter the source material for this one was than the final output. Blues gone dead. Perhaps a lighter rendition of the guitar parts tomorrow.

4500/091: Underbelly

Number 92. A continuation of the refinement of block party tones. As with last time, the idea started far from the destination. A memento of the adventure, rather than a documentary of the journey.

4500/092: Particle Pirate

Another junto, happily. The prompt: loop a melody, and remove one or more notes each pass through the loop. I came up with a somewhat longer melody, so I decided to cap the loops to 4 passes, to keep the length within reasonable range of the 45 second limit. I added a bit of reversed reverb on top at the end to glue the whole thing together.

4500/093: Dually Floated [disquiet0319]

A remix of sorts; yesterday’s disquiet track distilled through granulation and repetition. Synthesized by looping the melody through a few different patches, and then processed/performed with Block Party.

4500/094: A Floated Sunken Ship

Slightly off-schedule again, and as a result, a morning jam.  Experimenting with no-input cables as a means of producing old-vinyl-like sounds, and exercising in sparseness.

4500/095: Unleavened Sun

As our program comes to a close, you may find yourself browsing for other stations, and perhaps discovering some uncanny emotion in the static between bands.

4500/096: Nothing But Entropy Under The Hood

And on other days, there isn’t do much a melody between the noise as there is a solitary hum, and the occasional intergalactic disturbance.

4500/097: Electromagnetic

A somewhat dizzying state at the end of long haul. As of last week, I was supposed to be done on Sunday, but here I have taken the whole weekend as a break, and now I am finding myself confronted with a somewhat substantial writer’s block for short, one-day pieces. Full of ideas for larger scale projects, but drawing blanks for how to finish this thing.

So today, we spin in a dizzying loop. Perhaps the next two will come out more conclusive.

4500/098: Marathon

Once more with gusto. An attempt at combining the chaos noise with a beat and bass. A non-food item.

4500/099: Finity

As the sun sets on 100 days, I am looking forward to spending some time revamping my performance system, and experimenting a bit more with some new sampling ideas that I’ve come up with over the course of the project.

Thanks for listening.

4500/100: Centaur

First experiments trying out MiRack on iPad, and getting to know Mutable Instruments Stages.

A Place in the Wind

Follower Experiment 1 number 27

Improvised acoustic guitar into envelope and pitch followers controlling soundhack, valhalla, and madrona plugins

Follower Experiment 1.27

a droney eurorack experiment

patch notes:
monome white whale sequencing
- clocking morphagene
- triggering an lfo from zadar
- - - controlling morphagene position, qpas q
- triggering stages sequence
- - - controlling qpas cutoff
- triggering stages AD envelope
- - - controlling qpas input VCA

audio out from euro into ipad, running through Enso, Eventide Blackhole, and Eos2

Scrubbed Lunch

Saturday morning Eurorack drones.

Morphagene with (I think?) the Rheyne Rhodes reel running into Monsoon and Qpas, Clock from White Whale into Zadar (with some very long LFOs, on the order of minutes), and Stages running a 5 step sequence.

I left this patch running for a couple hours, and tweaked it a few times. This segment is the patch free-running, mostly without any input.

Lost in the Leaves

This one he made without a fever, but still in bed

Patch notes: iPad / Aum track
Fugue Machine playing Spectrum (Mutable Instruments clone), EQ'd with FabFilter, and warbled by Gauss; additional send to another instance of Gauss as a quieter, background effect
Particles triggering noise blips in Tardigrain, run through Replicant 2, Shaper, and 6144 EQ
NYCompressor on the output bus

Fugue Meditation

4500: a creative exercise to create 45 seconds of music per day for 100 days.

auxels: ambient/drone/glitch/electro-acoustic music

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