Really great stuff. Love the asymetric interaction between the low blows and the metallic srambles.

That's excellent! I feel like I'm in the studio of a mad guy who try to build a spaceship with paperclips!

A sketch towards a kind of musical sorting out of my thoughts, feelings and ideas set in motion by reading and re-reading Nova Express by William Burroughs since the 1980s. It is my main music composition project for 2014, the Centenary Year of William Burroughs.

It took me almost four years from conception to getting started: In order to reflect the cut-up method which Burroughs used to create the text, it is entirely a granular synthesis project. Doing granular synthesis means extracting small "grains" of sound from recordings or from a live feed, re-combining them to create "grain clouds", and shaping those clouds to make music.

I found the available software programs too restrictive for what I had in mind. In order to move forward, I needed to learn Max/MSP, a function graph data flow programming language, to create my own granular synthesis tools. I made this sketch entirely from sounds scraped and beaten out of objects I found in the streets of Cork City. The actual piece I have planned should also include sounds made from recordings of some text from Nova Express. Getting permission to use that text seems to be the most difficult aspect of the project …

Escalate, Walk Away ... And Say Nothing (Granular Synthesis, based on Nova Express)

kurzes Nachtlied für den besoffenen Mond

September Seeds 
This is the first of 2 album preview pieces.
Download the full album here...https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/september-seeds

This was the 6th gathering of the “Oak Creek Ensemble.” 

…..crescendo-decrescendo, density shifts, tone color shifts…raspy, smooth, angular, 
ballad-like,…………..close listening and close responses…. 

This setting of the Oak Creek Ensemble was recorded in Jason Wietlispach’s recording studio in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, 9-7-2013. I am thankful for Jason’s generosity to recording us and for mixing the pieces for us. I added a small amount of reverb. 

There have been two previous releases of work by the Oak Creek Ensemble, each in a slightly different grouping.

Oak Creek Ensemble (9 - 7-13) 1

a walk along 16th St and a train crossing it

16th Street San Francisco

Faced TIme

Faced Time

BPM = 119.9632
Part One: 0:00 - 6:14
Part Two: 5:28 - 12:54
Part Three: 12.52 - 19:19
Part Four: 19:02 - 24:02
Part Five: 23:40 - 30:34

Virtual Music Two_[Headphones_Recommended]

Noiseness II

'Achinet' (2017) was written with the talents of clarinettist Cristo Barrios and bass clarinettist Sarah Watts firmly in mind. This chamber double concerto takes inspiration from Barrios' home island of Tenerife, particularly the mythology surrounding its historical inhabitants the Guanches (who named the island Achinet) and the legend that they were descended from the people of the sunken city of Atlantis - the music begins in the lowest depths and, eventually, sinks back down there.
Another important inspiration is the whistling language 'silbo', found on Tenerife's neighbouring island La Gomera -- silbo is used to communicate over distances by farmers and shepherds (the section between 8'53" and 11'55" is partly based on transcriptions of actual silbo phrases, even requiring some of the players to double on 'Swanee' whistles to more closely imitate the sound of whistling).
A final element which the music references is a thematic connection with American artist Robert Motherwell's painting 'Beside the Sea no.22' -- its brilliant blue and energetic gestures find a mirror in the colours, textures and contours of the music both the soloists and the ensemble play.

'Achinet' was commissioned by Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast with funds from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Lottery Unit. The work is dedicated to the Crescent’s director Keith Acheson and to Greg Caffrey, the director of the Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble which premiered the work.

Achinet (chamber double clarinet concerto)

Don't you just love it when the dust settles. Hope you enjoy

Tuesday Yellow

First 2018 remix of ‘Dead Animals’ 
*Happy New Year* paypal.me/linkemc

Dead Animals

Michael Noonan’s DEAD ANIMALS (Chilled To The Bone Mix)

A vision of Macbeth in life and death: four dying gasps release a torrent of sound. In part one we meet the man of evil, a rich setting. The second part presents the eternal Macbeth, now he is a she, tormented by self hatred. The end returns the beginning.

Bernard Clarke (1967). Radio broadcaster by day, radio creature by night.

The Deep Wireless 14 Online Album was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2019 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The contents of the album were curated by NAISA from an international call for submissions on the theme Off the Beat(en) Track.

Editions 9 through 14 of the Deep Wireless Compilation are available on NAISA's Soundcloud site. Previous compact disc editions can be heard online at naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/

Copyright of the works belongs to the artists who have agreed to have their work on NAISA's Soundcloud page.

Note that Deep Wireless 14 is not available for download. Community and public radio or internet broadcasters should contact NAISA directly for access to the works for airplay. Contact naisa@naisa.ca for more information.

Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Image Illustration: Prashant Miranda

Escalate, Walk Away ... And Say Nothing (Granular Synthesis, based on Nova Express)

Cork City Gamelan

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