GESMI, featuring Awkward Stranger

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0x0e GESMI, featuring Awkward Stranger: Science Mud Comfort (Awkward Stranger's Precipitate Mix)

Drum roll, please...

Teaser for track 2 of RissEP, out February 27th

RissEP taster: Setris Drop by MCLD

Slub live at Maison Rouge, Paris, 30th August 2011

(C) Slub 2011
(P) Chordpunch 2012

Slub Live in Paris

Imagine if you could program a robot to make acid house music. Imagine if that robot’s brain was made of fractals. Imagine melodies and beats constructed by rules, science and art intertwined in an act of pure robot love. Here is the result of such a robot, fed on a steady diet of hypnogogic algorithms, transcendental numbers and two step garage to create music made for legions of robot feet.

Iso-butyl-propanoic-phenolic acid

Sc2012 troubldnimphormx by Csaba Fejes

Meister Submarine Remix by A Burke

CP0x09 Mico Rex: Rico Mex EP track 2 teaser: Quiero Vivir

Mico Rex: Rico Mex EP track 2 teaser: Quiero Vivir

CP0x09 Mico Rex: Rico Mex EP track 4 teaser: Bombón

Mico Rex: Rico Mex EP track 4 teaser: Bombon

CP0x09 Mico Rex: Rico Mex EP track 5 teaser: No Quiero Na


Mico Rex: Rico Mex EP track 5 teaser: No Quiero Na

Human responds to algorithm; A triptych of covers. Melody and harmony often true to the original sheet music. 

Push Button Bertha EP Track 1: Sick Lincoln: Babe Hunts Truth Op

Neural Bertha Oscillator plays the changes of the original Push Button Bertha track with a network of neural oscillators. We can think of this as a bio-inspired species of generative counterpoint.  The track is a live recording of the network in action. 

Push Button Bertha EP Track 2: Alice: Neural Bertha Oscillator

<a href="http://siliconebake.lurk.org">Silicone bake</a> are two
musicians from Sheffield trying to reconcile the voice+guitar with the
live coding laptop, respectively Jake Harries and Alex McLean.  They
work with semi-improvised, experimental pop, often weaving found
poetry of spam into the music, but this time covering Push Button
Bertha, connecting with algorithmic pop from the past.  Recorded in
ICSRiM and the School of Music, University of Leeds.

Credits:

Vocals/acoustic guitar - Jake Harries
Harmony vocals - Hope Bullard
Live coding - Alex McLean
Machinic sample (c) 
<a href="http://freesound.org/people/melack/sounds/13809/">melack</a> 
(<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC-BY 3.0</a>)

Push Button Bertha EP Track 3: Silicone bake: Push Button Bertha

Trace, Pasadena

Everything in this four and a half minute piece has been created from only three musical fragments: a rendition of Push Button Bertha, performed on a sampled carillon (a mechanical, automatic music machine) and two phrases from the lyrics, presented as spoken word. Only towards the end of the piece does the source material become fully apparent. Elsewhere, the sounds have been repitched, layered and sliced into random cuts, using the graphical sound programming language Max/MSP. Once I’d written a couple of Max/MSP patches and set up the parameters, I tried to be as hands-off as possible and leave the code to rework this 1950s machine music. I wanted to create divisions on the original theme that weren’t entirely filtered by my own human aesthetic (although I couldn’t resist selecting the most promising outcomes to create the final piece). Push Button Bertha is arguably a plain, saccharine melody but it was the start of something: the era of generating and manipulating musical sounds with code. I wanted to cut through the diatonic structure and evoke the underlying strangeness of this piece – a trace that whispers in every line of code we write today. 

Sarah Angliss
www.sarahangliss.com 

Push Button Bertha EP Track 4: Sarah Angliss: Trace, Pasadena

Algorithmic pop and experimental computerism

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