The randomness actually carries a lot of sensitive timbres, I think.

This is a Tribute to Louis and Bebe Barron. Bebe passed away on April 20th, 2008. Her anniversary is my Birthday... but I was abroad, away from my studio, and laid up before then, hence the delay.

I tried to build a software version of Todd Barton's (https://soundcloud.com/user7621213) popular Krell Patches for the Buchla synthesiser - lovers of Science Fiction will spot the connection. I was  searching for original timbres which don't sound too bad when I compare them to Todd's mastery of his Buchla. I ended up with quite an original new instrument in my toolkit. It can probably be called an AM Synth: simple cascades of multiplied sine waves - no filters or other modifiers involved. Todd will hopefully tell me whether this qualifies as a Krell patch.

The Nerd info: This is the first couple of minutes of a self-generating (automatically composed)  8 minutes long piece, one take, no edits, no added effects.  A "Chaos Metronome" drives The Thing: Two controllable pulse generators, one modulating the other in an intricate manner, and each of them additonally controlled by its own very low frequency oscillator with an arbitrary complex wave shape, create the "beat". This goes into a sample and hold which can sample any signal (filtered noise for this piece) to create the control signals for the audio. Most of the routing for each control signal is determined by an algorithm built around two random generators. Nine sine waves interacting with each other make all the sounds you hear... anyway, enjoy!

Foreboding Planet (tribute to Bebe and Louis Barron)

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

Foreboding Planet (tribute to Bebe and Louis Barron)

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