Name: Arcata Marsh Recording 1 by Benjamin Zuiderweg in Field recording
Duration: 26 s
Description: I recorded this very early in the morning at the Arcata Marsh with a Zoom H6 and an SM 57 microphone.

Field recording

A live set recorded at the 9:30 club in Washington, D.C. on April 19. 2013. This was one of 4 dates with Papadosio, which was a leg of the 'My Heart is Love' tour.  Featuring the live rhythms of Mathias Sayour on drums, and played for a nearly sold out crowd, this set showcases a selection of music that appeared on the album as well as some remixes and unreleased exclusives. 

Released alongside an artist feature our good friends at Lost In Sound did for us (http://www.lostinsound.org) 

Check out the exclusive Interview, a new Music Video, & Live Set @ http://lostinsound.org/2013/09/04/aligning-minds-exclusive-interview-music-video-live-set/ 

Music Video @ https://vimeo.com/aligningminds/am-promo

Tracklist - 

Leftfield -A Final HIt (Aligning Minds Remix) (Unreleased)
Aligning Minds - Weeping Willow
Aligning Minds - Ether Perfect
Aligning Minds - Bright Flames
Aligning Minds - Zeke (Unreleased)
Aligning Minds - Solid Stance (Unreleased)
Aligning Minds - Based on a Memory (Unreleased)
Aligning Minds - Awake Within The Womb (Unreleased)
Aligning Minds - A Noble Truth
Aligning Minds - One at a Time (Unreleased)
Aligning Minds - Hadron Phase (Unreleased)
Skytree - Ten Thousand Oaks (Aligning Minds Remix)
Aligning Minds - Meet My Blurb (Unreleased)
Aligning Minds - Nebulous Arousal (Unreleased)

Aligning Minds Live @ 9:30 Club w/Papadosio - Washington, DC - My Heart Is Love Tour - Lost in Sound

Sway

I recorded this very early in the morning at the Arcata Marsh with a Zoom H6 and an SM 57 microphone. 

Arcata Marsh Recording 1

Date: 2013-07-05; Time: 09.42 am; Location: Kallaste; Length: 07'32

Kallaste, Estonia - Market. 

Listen to this recording at aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=19814 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2013-07-05 Kallaste, market

Walk down Henry Street, Dublin. March 2013.
Binaural recording. Headphone listening recommended.

Henry Street Dublin

Botanic Gardens, Dublin.  3 sections- outdoors, by the stream in the rockery, and at the Wittgenstein steps (inside The Palm House greenhouse).


At the Botanic Gardens

Link to the video of the patch, recorded in one take here: https://vimeo.com/139872178

download the free wave file :-)

Patch experiment using the Noise Engineering Variatic Erumption x 2, and Minigorille CV graphic modules x 2. Clock output from the Tiptop Circadian Rhythms into the CV Graphic input 1, left side (purple). Then another output from the TipTop CR taken to the right side (siliver) CV Graphic module. Output 4 from the Tiptop CR sent to the left side Variatic Erumption (ext gate to the hit jack input) which would send very slow burst of random gates. The CV Graphic CV output (PONG sequencer mode 2) A and B would output bouncing ball like CV voltages to the Variatic Erumption CV Pattern, and Time/Division input. This created some very organic scattered sequencing taking one output that was triggering a Snazzy Fx Ardcore running custom frac drums patch.

The other output was running into a trigger input on the Mutable instruments clouds, which is causing the light granular scattering in between the beats. Another output from the V.E. running into the Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas, for the FM pluck like percussion sound. Next output from VE running into a 4ms RCD, random triggering spaced out burst to the clock input. From here, the output was taken (4)out to the MakeNoise Optomix set slightly open, which was running a ALM's new "Akemie's Castle" dual voltage controlled oscillator, running out the chord output (OSC A). From the Akemie's Castle the output is going into a Tiptop Z-DSP processed with the The Halls of Valhalla card running program 7 (Asgard). Mult output also taken to the Strymon Big Sky pedal running in "Chorale" mode mix completely wet for delicate melodic swells. Making the rich choral timbres. Another gate output from the Noise Engineering V.E. running into the Mutable Instruments (mystery) module. Output from here sent to the Qu-Bit RT-60 effect module, which is also being triggered (for effects program change) via by the 5 division output from the 4ms Rotating Clock Divider.

Kick drum created using the MakeNoise telHarmonic module, running into a Optomix. Snare and hi-hat sounds courtesy of two Ladik D-333 Rom players. One running the Snares card, and another running hi-hats. Both outputs being summed into the Synthrotek DLY module. The delay input being modulated by a modcan QuadLFO output 1 slow S&H. First sequenced notes via the Mutable instruments Braids running the new "HARM" additive harmonics mode. The quantization was set to "Oinian". Second Braids for other harmony running the "OPSK" smooth sine like melody, VCA mode set to on, with short decay for pluck like quality. Signal for both braids are being sent to another Qu-Bit RT-60 running program number 1-Reverb. Quantization set to "Oinian". Bassline sound created with a Intellijel Shapeshifter output 1, then being run into intellijel uVCF filter in LPF input, then the signal goes out a Qu-Bit RT-60 in program 1 Reverb. 

Ascension - Modular Patch

Link to the video captured here in real-time: https://vimeo.com/150015591

Patch Notes:

This was a patch experiment using the new Mutable Instruments Rings/Clouds Modules, and trying to create strumming/plucking guitar like sounds within a patch. The inspiration came from playing around with the Clouds Parasites 1.3 alternate firmware running in the Resonator mode highlighting the "scatter" (or strum) function. The master clock was the Tiptop Circadian Rhythms module, taking the first 4 outputs into my Nord Drum 2 for the Kick, snare, closed and open hi-hats. From there the clock output from the CR was multiplied and then sent to the Modcan Touch Sequencer. First row output from the TS was sent to the intellijel Shapeshifter creating a two note baseline sequence that comes in at 1:58. The second sequence Row2 output from the TS was sent to the "ALM Akemie's Castle" module OSC A output using the chord function, that comes in at 25 seconds. The gates from the modcan where set to a 16th's pulse sequence. Modulation from the synthesis technology E102 Quad Temporal Shifter output 1 modulating the Multiplier input on Operator 1. The 2, 3 and 4 outputs from the E102 where also modulating the Operator 2, 3, and 4 inputs on the Akemie's Castle. This was creating the harmonic timbre changing as the sequence was playing.

The slowly evolving sweeping noise textures that come in at 1:09 is from the Music Thing Radio Music module. The sample was a white noise sampled lightly filtered and then sent to the intellijel HexVCA with the amplitude CV control via a Intellijel Dixie modulating from slow to high rates (free running). The Make Noise Rene was being externally clocked from the Circadian Rhythm, and was sending out a quantized output to the Mutable Instruments Clouds pitch input creating the chord guitar sequence. The strum sounds on Clouds was played by the 4ms QCD running in 32th division output into the Trigger input. The freeze input was also triggered by a Ladik R-110 Random clock module. The combination of the two created the trill chord like strums.

The bass guitar tone sound that comes in at 1:24 are from the MakeNoise Mysteron, that is being sequenced by the Modcan Touch Sequencer, Row Output 3 was programmed in the same key but a lower octave. The "Rings" module was creating slow attack soft high pitched chords in reverb that come around 2:50. There was additional processing of the Clouds output that was sent into the Tiptop ZDSP module running the "Halls of Vahalla" card program 8 "Ginnungagap" creating the high pitch octave deep reverb shimmer effects. The harmonic slow swells that come in at 3:30 where created using another intellijel Dixie oscillator sine output running into an Strymon "Big Sky" pedal being harmonically controlled by an intellijel µScale V1. The output was being played slowly then processed using the "Choral" mode, creating the slow shimmer swells. The entire mix was sent into the Eventide Space pedal using the "Corridors" patch.

Mutable Instruments Rings : mutable-instruments.net/modules/rings
Clouds Parasites firmware: mqtthiqs.github.io/parasites/clouds.html

Strum - Modular Patch

Field Recordings of the Mysterious Ringing Rocks/Montana, music made with rocks. Near Butte Montana, and part of the edge of the Boulder Batholith, is a large jumbled pile of boulders, the rocks in this unique geologic formation chime melodically when tapped lightly with a crescent wrench or mallet.

It is believed that the ringing is a combination of the composition of the rock and the way the joining patterns have developed as the rocks have eroded away, though ultimately a concrete scientific explanation has yet to be arrived at. Curiously, if a boulder is removed from the pile, it no longer rings.

Slightly different pitches and timbres emanate from thousands of rocks in the formation, and in theory Butte's Ringing Rocks could form the basic ostinato for the "Music of the Spheres."(Musica Universalis)

All sounds captured with the Sony PCM-D100 24bit-96khz

Download the Kontakt kit here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/owre3t7wzslqcr3/RingingRock-Samples-RD.zip?dl=0


Field Recordings of the Mysterious Ringing Rocks/Montana, music made with rocks.

I made this sound recording of a frozen lake in the winter of 2005/06 in the area around Berlin. Frozen lakes are known to give off most noise during major fluctuations in temperature: the ice expands or contracts, and the resulting tension in the ice causes cracks to appear. Due to the changes in temperature, the hours of morning and evening are usually the best times to hear these sounds. In my experience, thin ice is especially interesting for acoustic phenomena; it is more elastic and sounds are propagated better across the surface. Snowfall, on the other hand, has a muffling effect and the sound can only travel to a limited extent. The ice sheet acts as a huge membrane across which the cracking and popping sounds spread. Underwater microphones proved especially well-suited for these recordings: in a small hole drilled close beneath the surface of the water, the sounds emitted by the body of ice carry particularly well. The most striking thing about these recordings is the synthetic-sounding descending tones caused by the phenomenon of the dispersion of sound waves. The high frequencies of the popping and cracking noises are transmitted faster by the ice than the deeper frequencies, which reach the listener with a time lag as glissandi sinking to almost bottomless depths.

Dispersion in Ice Sheet

02. Painting

In celebration of our new album 'My Heart is Love' being released today on Gravitas Recordings, we've featured a track for either stream or download. 

IF you want to download this track and/or the rest of the album, it's available for free for the next 30 hours::
http://music.gravitasrecordings.com/album/my-heart-is-love-2/

'A Noble Truth' was written in a few days, and based on the inspiration of
the buddhist teachings 'The Four Noble Truths', which is the central
doctrine. The track both reflects and embodies the idea of utilizing the act
of creation to transcend 'dukkha' (suffering) and achieve a state of connected-ness . 

As you listen to it, you'll hear that it starts off much more frantic and aggressive, sort of representing dissatisfaction - but then it evolves into a meditative state, evoking a sense of serenity that is simultaneously comforting and lonely.  Then, again, it shifts, and the cycle continues.  

This is more about the process of fluctuating duality than some tale of enlightenment. :)


Hope you guys enjoy it!

Aligning Minds - A Noble Truth

Another one from the new album, 'My Heart is Love' - this one's called 'Weeping Willow'...

Get the FULL ALBUM as a pay-what-you-want/FREE Release::
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Vocals by the soulful Born Infinite, check him here: 
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Much LOVE!

~AM


Aligning Minds - Weeping Willow (feat. Born Infinite)

La imagen  pertenece a una obra de Helen Frankenthaler.Southern. Exposure 2005

Arcata Marsh Recording 1

Benjamin Zuiderweg

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