Title:
Earth

1: "Earth", 05:02 (00:00)
2: "Parting", 06:22, (05:02)
3: "Trees", 05:28, (11:24)
4, "Insects", 1:35, (16:52)
5, "Visitor", 04:23, (18:27)
End (22.50)

Dates:
01-Nov-2025 (inception), 01-Nov-2025 (finalised), 04-Nov-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund
Music Video by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/earth

Description:
After recording "Granie Demo3 - Lyra Dreams The Halloween Edition" (Ref. [1]), I had to have a wind down session just jamming out, or was it going more hyper -- you be the judge.

Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 were recorded DAWless on the Granie, feeding it the Soma Lyra 8. Granie is my granular synthesiser Ref. [2].

Track 1 used a definite tuning library, whereas for tracks 2, 3 and 4, it was all modified and improvised. The tuning is listed below, negative frequencies meant play backwards, these were the grain play-back frequencies, which may differ to the human perceived frequency.

Grain Bank 1 frequencies [Hz]:
1: -1.635
2: 0.265
3: 0.985
4: 1.465
5: 2.165
6: 2.865
7: 4.165
8: 12.465

Grain Bank 2 frequencies [Hz]:
1:14.
2: 3.
3: 13.
4: 20.
5: 25.
6: 32
7: 28.
8: -2.4

Grain Bank 3 frequencies [Hz]:
1: 3
2: 14
3: 17
4: 22
5: 23
6: 25
7: 41
8: 47

Grain Bank 4 frequencies [Hz]:
1: 117
2: 122
3: 125
4: 129
5: 131
6: 136
7: 141
8: 40

The tuning was determined one grain bank at a time, all by ear, ensuring each new bank's ith note worked well with the next bank's ith note.

For track 5, I was curious what the tuning of track 1 would sound like with a fixed discrete tuning instrument, so took the raw track 1 tuning and put it into Ableton Live, an exact replica of tuning but with no granular synthesis human perceived tuning corrections. Some selective octave reduction was also used, this tuning is shown below:

ID, Bank, Local, FreqRatio, Cents
0, 0, 0, 1.000, 0c
1, 0, 1, 0.162, -3150c
2, 0, 2, 0.602, -877c
3, 0, 3, 0.896, -190c
4, 0, 4, 1.324, 486c
5, 0, 5, 1.752, 971c
6, 0, 6, 2.547, 1619c
7, 0, 7, 7.624, 3517c
8, 1, 0, 1.070, 118c
9, 1, 1, 0.229, -2549c
10, 1, 2, 0.994, -11c
11, 1, 3, 1.529, 735c
12, 1, 4, 1.911, 1121c
13, 1, 5, 2.446, 1549c
14, 1, 6, 2.141, 1318c
15, 1, 7, 0.183, -2936c
16, 2, 0, 1.835, 1051c
17, 2, 1, 8.563, 3718c
18, 2, 2, 10.398, 4054c
19, 2, 3, 13.456, 4500c
20, 2, 4, 14.067, 4577c
21, 2, 5, 15.291, 4721c
22, 2, 6, 25.076, 5578c
23, 2, 7, 28.746, 5814c
24, 3, 0, 1.118, 193c
25, 3, 1, 1.166, 266c
26, 3, 2, 1.195, 308c
27, 3, 3, 1.233, 362c
28, 3, 4, 1.252, 389c
29, 3, 5, 1.300, 454c
30, 3, 6, 1.347, 516c
31, 3, 7, 0.382, -1665c

I used a bell instrument, ok, this is weird, the tuning, not the instrument, but it worked, 8 notes for each of the Granie banks, strung together into 32 notes and just stuck with only using those 32 notes. I realised I needed a timing track, so picked a drum set and set the Push2 midi controller into 1/16th repeat note mode and improvised some drums into a 21 bar section. Improvised on the Bells track into 18 bars. Put the percussion and bells into looped playback and improvised on the Lyra 8 -- one take, improvised tuning oh ya.

This was all done in the session view of Live, then bounced into the arrangement view ready to play back and do the mastering by putting in volume swells for interest.

You can hear the whole album on my YouTube channel at:
https://youtu.be/Dd1BKzmb1hU

References:
[1]	Granie Demo3 - Lyra Dreams The Halloween Edition, Link: https://youtu.be/5HTL0VaQpvI
[2]	Granie, Granular synthesiser by Norman Freund, purchase at: https://normanfreund.gumroad.com/l/granie


Visitor

Episode 1 of my monthly show on NTS Radio out of the new LA studio with special guest Andras!

BENEDEK & ANDRAS LIVE ON NTS LA - 11.11.16

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/listentothis

∙ JUN MIYAKE - GOOD MORNING YAMANASHI
∙ GIOVANNI VENOSTA - WOMAN IN LATE
∙ LENA D’ÁGUA - TAO
∙ NUNO CANAVARRO - UNTITLED 8
∙ FORREST FANG - THE LUMINOUS CROWD
∙ EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA - CANTUS ARCTICUS I: MELANCHOLY
∙ KURBAN - MASTO A IRAN
∙ MARIA MARQUEZ & FRANK HARRIS - CANTO DEL PILON
∙ IURY LECH - BARRERAS
∙ MARCEL PÉRÈS & ENSEMBLE ORGANUM - OFFERTOIRE "DIFFUSA EST GRATIA IN LABIIS TUIS" (COMP. MACHAUT)
∙ MASAMI TSUCHIYA - NEVER MIND
∙ PALE COCOON - SORA
∙ CONNIE FRANCIS - SIBONEY
∙ KENJI KAWAI - NIGHTSTALKER
∙ JANSEN/BARBIERI - BREAKING THE SILENCE
∙ HIROKO YAKUSHIMARU - TOMEINA CHURIPPU

ART BY NICK SPOLARICH.

Blowing Up The Workshop

73 ◆ Listen to This!

Thanks to Andy Mac, who took over the whole show.

TTT SHOP

TTT NTS – Andy Mac takeover

Tracklist and Q&A: https://www.thefader.com/2018/11/15/lonnie-holley-fader-mix

FADER MIX

FADER Mix: Lonnie Holley

https://worldwidefm.net/show/mle/

Tracklist:
UNKNOWN ARTIST – UNKNOWN
AKIS – ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS [INTO THE LIGHT]
LOWKI HAUNTED LEXICON [UNITED STANDARD]
OPAQUE FEATURING AIR LQD – PLONGÉE [VASTE CHOSES]
SEBASTIAN SWARM FEAT. CHARLOTTE TUESDA – INFLICT PAIN [META MOTO]
UNKNOWN ARTIST – UNKNOWN
IAN HICKES – FALSE AWAKENING [CLAN DESTINE RECORDS]
MILO SNAIDER – SPAZIO INDUSTRIALE (LARIONOV REMIX) [HYPNOTIC CONNECTION]
OBERGMAN – CHRONOSTASIS [BROKNTOYS]
FILMMAKER – LUST RIDERS [DETRITI RECORDS]
SLOWTHAI – DOORMAN [METHOD]

Worldwide FM - May - w/ MLE

Brandon Hocura, head of the Seance Centre label and childhood friend of Dan Snaith's, harks back to the psychedelic obsession they shared in their youth in Canada: https://crackm.ag/caribou-b-hocura

Caribou Curates - Brandon Hocura

Sunrise in Berlin. Wandering through a high-tech street market in Seoul. Sweat dripping from the ceiling of a warehouse rave, neo-jacked swing and off-duty deck jockeys. A picture-perfect, postcard-worthy sunset on a palm tree-lined beach in the Caribbean. A Maori showband legend performing in a smoky nightclub. Wandering endlessly through a computer-animated maze. Daydreaming about utopian futures from the deck of a rotating space station, circa 2001. The flickering evening shadows of a nighttime party in Caxias do Sul. A trio of musicians playing free jazz on a balcony in Paris. Another nightclub, another singer; a Spanish language version of ‘Crying’ by Roy Orbison. Are these my memories, or are they my dreams? Could they be uploaded reconstructions of an algorithmically generated past? Is that a hologram, or is it something I can touch? Did they remember this for me wholesale? 

Tracklist:

Horizont - Light of Darkness
누구의 노래일까 - 누구의 노래일까
누가 당신을/문을 열어주세요 - 문을 열어주세요
LX Sweat - Touch Your Body
ミルキー・ウェイ - 夏の日の恋 = Theme From "A Summer Place"
Connan Mockasin - I Wanna Roll With You
Prince Tui Teka - E Ipo
I.A.O - Places of Soul
Dennis Young - So Far
Bullion - Hula
Seaside Lovers - Evening Shadows
Ana Mazzotti - Feel Like Making Love
Luna e DJ Cri - Acabou como Comecou
Maât - Solar Mantra
Rebekah Del Ro - Llorando (Crying)

Are These My Mem◯ries [Mix By Martyn Pepperell]

Out on Gabriel Giffords Bandcamp this Friday with all proceeds going to the Loveland Therapy Fund.

@gabriel-gifford
@will_memotone  
@niall_greaves

Gabriel Gifford - Dust Rises (Memotone Remix)

Tiff's Joints was back with a mixed selection of hip-hop, jazz and deep house. Soulful selections from the likes of Kareem Ali, Cosmic Vibrations & Dwight Trible, Lex Amor & more.

Tiff's Joints - October 2020

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