Cricket soundscape in the tall grass at Warbler's Roost in South River, Ontario recorded by Darren Copeland with MEMS ultrasonic microphone array.  

The left channel is an unaltered recording of the environment, the right channel is transposed in real time by passing the signal through a Raspberry PI and Wolfson audio card with software written in CSound by Hector Centeno.  

For technical reasons the two channels had to be recorded at different times (immediately after each other) but what is noteworthy is the layers of cricket sound in the transposed right channel that are not audible in the other channel. 

Ultrasonic Crickets - Recorded by Darren Copeland

Touch Three

Sethwork (21.48, 2003)

WORKS FOR HURDY GURDY and VOICE

Hurdy Hurry

The sounds of "thread zero" were all produced by a Buchla 200 modular analog synthesizer. 

I built complex patches involving extensive webs of intermodulations (at times controlled by computer-generated signals) in order to provoke coherent but unstable and unpredictable behaviors. The resulting sounds, carefully selected and edited, were then submitted to increasingly extreme distortions in Max/MSP.

The piece is built around the coexistence of non-directional, quasi-repetitive variations – circular, semi-static, not "going somewhere," remaining in one place – and a very progressive, continually mounting tension: incessantly augmenting the already-suffocating pressure, relentlessly filling a space that is already full…

"thread zero" was written for the CD "An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music n° 7" (Sub Rosa, 2013 - sold out).

The sound material was recorded at EMS (Stockholm) and edited at Visby International Centre for Composers (Visby, Sweden). The music was composed and mixed at InaGRM (Paris).
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An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music 7

Sub Rosa CD (sold out)

thread zero   (2012)

Transmission (2002) for bassoon and electronics

Benjamin Thigpen. Nomad, born in the United States, naturalized in France. After dropping out of conservatory, he studied literature and aesthetics and travelled extensively. He gradually returned to music though electronic composition.

He creates music for loudspeakers – as a composer and as a performing electronic musician. He composes in various European electroacoustic studios (GRM, VICC, EMS, STEIM) and gives concerts throughout the world. 

He has taught computer music at Ircam (Paris), at the University of Washington (United States), and at the Conservatorio di Cuneo (Italy); he currently teaches at Arts2, in Belgium. 

He has put out two solo CDs – "human for scale" (EMF Media 2005), "divide by zero" (Sub Rosa 2011); a third, "flux," will be released on empreintes DIGITALes in  2017. His music also appears on various compilations. 

He performs in the duo "Rust" with instrument inventor and composer Jean-François Laporte, in "Fluid Identities" with cellist Benjamin Carat, and in "Les Frères Bobine" with composer and electronic musician Stefano Bassanese.

He thinks that music is not a language but a lived visceral experience, and that it is not the art of sound but the art of the transcendence of sound.

thread zero (2012)

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