Name: 2020 - 07 - 30 Title TBA by belltonesuicide
Duration: 9 min 26 s
Description: Shortwave cut ups, an improvised melody and a brooding metallic loop. Doomy atmospherics for the dog days in the Arizona desert.

Reminds me of the time I was kidnapped and placed in a pit and forced to run lotion on my skin. The sounds I'd hear at night. 

Set Yourself On Fire

Endometrial Carcinoma

New mix from Studebaker Hawk, dropping a bunch of house and Afrohouse records. Track list up at www.acapulconights.net

Afro House mix from Studebaker Hawk

Some recent jams I've been feeling by fantastic producers making music today

Faze Action - Mangwana (A Vision Of Panorama mix) [Faze Action]
House of Spirits - Holding On (Jacques Renault remix) [Let's Play House]
Dusty Digital feat. da Rosa - Eu Não Vou Trabalhar [Soul Clap Records]
Wolf + Lamb feat. John Camp - No Habla [Wolf & Lamb Records]
John Barera & Will Martin - Say It Now [Supply Records]
Nickodemus feat Hassan Ben Jaafer & Innov Gnawa - Mystic Molay [Wonderwheel Recordings]
Bosq feat Tempo Alomar - Tumbalá [Soul Clap Records]
Kokolo - Congo Bongo (Floro & Ale Acosta mix) [Cáñamo Records]
Rumberos De Ayer - Canto del Caribe (Jose Marquez mix) [Basic Fingers]
Sol Power All Stars - Plaza Bolivar [Sol Power Sound]
Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit (Claptone remix) [Wonderwheel Recordings]
D.Briggs - Silver Light [Stray Current]
Plastic Fantastic - Las Salinas, 5AM [Real Balearic]
Jaakko Eino Kalevi - No End (Tom Noble’s Never Ending Story mix) [Emotional Especial Specials]

Some Summer Love, June 2017

Mix for @green-house-recs

David Sylvian- Epiphany
X-mal Deutschland- Eiland
Steve Moore- The Treehouse
Cabaret Voltaire- Golden Halos
In Aeternam Vale- 62,54 HZ
Sutures- Tear
Chris & Cosey- Cowboys in Cuba
Lamaze- A Romantic Solution (Or Charade) 
Borghesia- Jaz (Pesem B)
Severed Heads- First Steps 
Villa 21- I See No
Planetary Assault System- Beauty in the Fear (Silent Servant & Black Dog Remix) 
I Start Counting- Still Smiling
Lower Synth Department- I Failed at Life
Absolute Body Control- Do You Feel It Inside
Ariel Pink- Not Enough Violence
The KVB- Always Then
Decima Victima- Mas Alla del Silencio 
CHBB- Petite Mort
Jean Conflict- Exercise
Gold Zebra- Love French Better
Tuxedomoon- James Whale
Minimal Compact- To Get Inside
SM Nurse

Mix for Greenhouse Records

Computer Music For Dorks: The Charle Dodge Episode

Charles Dodge was making computer music pretty much since the jump. Working with computers at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center and then later at his own studio out in Brooklyn, Dodge saw the possibilities of the computer for the realization of Cagean and new music concepts to great affect. Dodge was also ahead of the game in putting computer music, and experimental music in general, on record bringing sounds that were reserved for academic and scientific institutions to any record store peruser. Dodge's record Earth's Magnetic Field still sounds fresh and amazing to these ears. The concept that lived unnamed until very recently, sonification, was a child of Dodge's and we look at some of the people who used that idea to ends not possible when Dodge first stepped in the game. For all you non-believers praying for my downfall.

APOD0016 Ben Kudler "Computer Music for Dorks" Episode Twelve

An augmented sonification of Kyle Gann's Anatomy of an Octave (the extant condensed version with 580 pitches) in the form of a catalog piece. All 580 ratios are played against a 240Hz base pitch, one at a time from low to high with a duration of 7 seconds each, with additional chord tones derived from the frequencies (combination tones, Pythagorean means, etc.) using my Implication Organ instrument in Csound. I recommend downloading before listening to get the highest quality sound.

This piece is also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=697lo5twu5A

Thanks to Kyle for his work, and for giving me the go-ahead to publish this piece and approving the title.

For more information about the list of ratios, see Kyle's excellent book The Arithmetic of Listening (https://www.amazon.com/Arithmetic-Listening-History-Impractical-Musician/dp/0252084411). Also, listen to his music!

More on the Implication Organ: https://github.com/DaveSeidel/music-src/tree/master/implication-organ

I had intended to publish this on Bandcamp, but the file exceeds their upload limits. But you can consider supporting me by buying one of my other releases at https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/

Image: The Dove, No. 14 by Hilma af Klint, retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5_hilma_af_klint,_the_dove_no_14,_1915.jpg

Gann's Anatomy

While we cannot see small nanoscopic objects like proteins or other molecules that make up virtually all living matter including our cells, tissues, as well as pathogens such as viruses, our computational algorithm allows us to make its material manifestation audible.  This piece is a musical representation of the amino acid sequence and structure of the spike protein of the pathogen of COVID-19, 2019-nCoV (protein data bank identifier 6VSB [1]). 

MUSICAL DECEIT

A virus’ genome hijacks the host cell’s protein manufacturing machinery, and forces it to replicate the viral genome and produce viral proteins to make new viruses from it.  This musical art teaches us something about the fine line between beauty of life and death as an opposite pole.  As you listen to the protein you will find that the intricate design results in incredibly interesting and actually pleasing, relaxing sounds. This doesn’t really convey the deadly impacts this particularly protein is having on the world. This aspect of the music shows the deceiving nature of the virus, how it hijacks our body to replicate, and hurt us along the way. So, the music is a metaphor for this nature of the virus to deceive the host and exploit it for its own multiplication. 

HOW IT IS DONE: 

What you hear is a multi-layered algorithmic composition featuring both the vibrational spectrum of the entire protein (expressed in sound and rhythmic elements), the sequence and folding of amino acids that compose the virus spike structure, as well as interwoven melodies - forming counterpoint music - reflecting the complex hierarchical intersecting geometry of the protein [2].

Scientific references:

[1] Wrapp et al., "Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation," Science, 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.abb2507

[2] Buehler et al., "A Self-Consistent Sonification Method to Translate Amino Acid Sequences into Musical Compositions and Application in Protein Design Using Artificial Intelligence," ACS Nano, 2019, DOI: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b02180

Viral counterpoint of the coronavirus spike protein (2019-nCoV)

Viral Counterpoint of the Coronavirus Spike Protein (2019-nCoV)

Shortwave cut ups, an improvised melody and a brooding metallic loop. Doomy atmospherics for the dog days in the Arizona desert.

2020 - 07 - 30 Title TBA

Vera Rubin has been DJing for over ten years loving techno, post punk, experimental and left field. Her tenure began in Portland, OR with monthly parties, a weekly radio show, and multiple creative collective projects around nightlife. She is currently working on her masters on Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought on a surrealist methodology to understand climate change at the European Graduate School Malta Campus. She is thankfully not stuck on an island and quarantined in her new home in Oakland, CA where she hopes to reunite with the Gays Hate Techno crew when it is safe to do so. She is a numbers weirdo for sure. Music is math. The unknown supports us. Her next creative projects include experimental film on death futures and more anti/post capitalist experimental theory. Follow more on instagram at @ surrealist_fantasies.

"The mix itself is a collection of jams that I have played when the sun was about to rise. The part of the night where it turns into day has been one of my favorites to DJ for others because people are much more receptive to my selections. Lots of international post punk, newer industrial techno off of some of my favorite labels like Northern Electronics and Mannequin. And, some of my favorite cinematic bangers."

Crass- Thachergate 
XNO- Death Boy
Coldgeist- Ambivalent
Acronym- Constant Flow
Varg and AnnaMelina- To the Sea/Hug me like you love me
Jean Conflict- Staki Paki 
Nagamatzu- Der Gute Kamerad (Life ’85 Version) 
Euroshima- Esfumados Suenos
Tuxedomoon- Nazca
Cocteau Twins- When Mama Was A Moth
CTI- Cell(f) 
Martial Canterel- 3 Days
Borghesia- Toxido
Cabaret Voltaire- Haiti
Neon- Spiders
Brian Eno- The Big Shop
Sun Ra- Lanquidity
Nine Inch Nails- A Warm Place
Bandhagens Muskiforenig- Vandpunkt
Gary Numan- Love is Like Clock Law

@verarubin

2020 - 07 - 30 Title TBA

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