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this one came out a lot more atonal than i originally intended. it consists of two layers… the first is a frozen guitar sample in the nebulae eurorack module being scrubbed through by an lfo from the synthtech  e355 and then feeding into a mungo g0 and finally into an intellijel uvcf bandpass filter. the 2nd layer is the e350 oscillator being played by a make noise wogglebug while i manually morph between waveforms.

not quite sure what i think of it, but the purpose of these daily sounds isn't to make great sounds, it's to explore ideas and exercise the brain.


Jan 12, 2014 (qubit nebulae + e350)

Modern Explorer

What would happen if Boards of Canada made a glitch album using iPads and free running modular patches? This, probably. A focus on soundtrack-era aesthetics and interesting tangents, rather than an all-out assault on the brain.

Think of it as 15 tracks on a worldwide journey through faceless airports, industry and rurality, ending up at sunrise on a private beach. Lots and lots of atmosphere, intense and aurally challenging at times [but never tear-your-head-off-glitch], melody and atonality. 

Glitch and IDM albums tend to be atonal, hard-to-listen affairs. I hope this comes in at the more aesthetic end of the spectrum! Note that the first two tracks (up to about 8 minutes) are also the two least tonal!

The art of travel - 45 minute glitch ambient mix

a single 200e patch recorded in a single pass then chopped up and layered in logic.  headphones would be a good idea. . . :-) 

Buchla Color Meditation

A long slowly evolving drone with Maths, Frames and Braids.

Maths + Braids + Frames drone

More experiments with cv controlled spatialization with Qu-Bit Nebulae.  Heavy low frequency drone will not reproduce on small systems/phone/earbuds.  

idea sketch ES 14.63b

this was a nice one to construct and perform. made simply from two loops. one piano line i recorded loaded into the qubit nebulae and another from the op-1 captured into a modcan cv record.

the signals go out to a variety of filters and modulations.. and i let it go for a while....

sept 17, 2014 (two for unknown)

New York/Tokyo based Sawako is a musician, software designer, and multimedia artist whose multi-disciplinary works intermix and pollenate her music with inspiration ranging from nature, science, academia and poetic motion. Following releases on Anticipate and And/Oar, Bitter Sweet is Sawako's 2nd release on 12k after the critically acclaimed Hum (12k1035) in 2005. Her music is fragile and intimate, delicate, ephemeral and resonant. Bitter Sweet is unmistakably Sawako but finds itself moving into much, much deeper territory than her previous works. Building on her past forays into experimental pop, she uses low and mid-frequency drones and soft, melodic highlights to shape beds of stripped-down, shifting into hypnotic and very linear tracks that fill the space they exist. These gentle movements are punctuated by field recordings and acoustic instrumentation with cello provided by Jacob Kirkegaard and guitar by Radiosonde and Ryan Francesconi who also co-write two of the pieces on the album. In what has become a bit of a signature, Sawako lends her own voice to the ending lullaby "A Last Next." These combination produce rich results.

Bitter Sweet's diffuse and hazy soundscaping is Sawako's most mature work to date, relying less on her previous child-like melodies while remaining feminine and tender. She has come into her own after having established herself for a number of years as a New Yorker where she has tirelessly performed, studied and created as an important member of the city's electronic music community.

Bitter Sweet is packaged in a 6-panel digipack with photography throughout by Brooklyn-based artist and photographer Maki Kaoru.

bitter sweet

looped labyrinth, decayed voice

Looped Labyrinth, Decayed Voice

Flying Dutchman

Go Slow

Four musicians came together to perform live as "Atmosphera" at the Electro-Music Festival in Huguenot, New York, on September 10th, 2011. It was the first time the quartet would play as an improvisational ensemble, so the musical course was mostly uncharted as they started their set. The music was recorded live to a multitrack digital recorder and the final output heard here has been only gently mixed to retain the vibe of the original moment as heard by the audience.

Ken Palmer - synthesizers, group organizer
Adam Holquist - electric guitar, laptop and effects
Andy Koenig - electronic wind instrument
Bill Fieger - pedal steel guitar and effects

Atmosphera- Live at Electro-Music 2011

DeadMan'sBeach

Roland D-50 single-partial patch - big sound, then cosmic ambience

Small demo of one of my recently built Shruthi-1 synth in an unusual ambient Pad. As usual, the ValhallaShimmer reverb add a lot of lush to the sound ;-)

Shruthi-1 Pad demo

MaxForLive Vector Mixer

4 Track Demo featuring Akai S-612 and Minimoog Model D.
I was trying to capture the sounds of a place I go to in my dreams

Harmonic

Here is an edited excerpt from my new album Slow Dream.

Slow Dream excerpts

During our little trip to Carinthia we recorded this session. My friend ela_sand did all the rythmic stuff while I was responsible for the harmonic content of that piece. 
There has been massive use of TTA Z300, A-110, WMD GWS, Enorphin.es Furthrrrr Generator, Malekko/Wiard Borg 1, 4ms PEG, Make Noise Maths and lots more ... 

Carinthian Modular Duett

Off of the album "Pastfinder" on Golden Cloud Tapes.

http://goldencloudtapes.storenvy.com/collections/134465-all-products/products/3289635-gct009-sound-out-light-pastfinder-c40

Sound Out Light - Stations

milton

freelance composer - music for film,tv & theatre.

this account mostly contains electronic improvisation pieces and few synthesizer demos.   for theatre scores and contemporary music visit www.babic.com

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Clusterchord