Black Box Orchestra

Experiments with Make Noise Shared System and OP-1 Radio

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I was inspired to create this audio triptych after visiting the Rice Museum of Rocks and Minerals. It envisioned sound on a geologic timeline where the voices of elements freely composed themselves through natural forces and processes, unlimited by human awareness or judgement.

These sounds were created through improvisation on a Make Noise Shared System Plus, randomly intermixing an Elektron Analog Four, Teenage Emgineering OP-1, a Nord Micro Modular, Squarp Hermod, Antumbra Knit, and an ALM Akemie’s Castle and various other handheld tapelooped recordings. The final piece (III) features samples from a slightly out of tune Young Chang U-111 upright piano from the 1970s made into a reel for the Morphagene and fed through the ErbeVerb and Ecophon.

Voices Above The Plane I

Voices Above The Plane II

Voices Above The Plane III

Fragmented vibrations, distorted disruptions

Seismic Phosphenes

Formed within the rhyolitic volcanic ashes, this nodule-like rock, similar to a filled geode, has a candy agate center. Crack it open and look inside.

Thunder Egg Set

A gift to the ghosts of luck. 

This composition is for SOMA Laboratory's Competition Episode Four. It is composed entirely from samples provided by SOMA instruments including, The Pipe, Dvina, Lyra-8, Pulsar-23, and Ether handheld wide-band receiver.

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Eidolon Clovers

Emitting unidentified sounds deep within the subliminal recesses of the Pacific Northwest

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