Talk about tension building... brilliant sounds and mix. Can't believe I missed this one.

Awesome realisation.  This short version is almost as good as the full one.

i like this part of the song! very cognitive

A short version of my music informed and inspired by reading Nova Express by William Burroughs.
It had its radio premiere on Sunday a week ago, on the Art and Music channel of our national public service FM radio station, making me feel like a REAL composer for the evening.

The download is uncompressed PCM audio in 24-bit resolution.

The full 21+ minutes version is now on my online busking site on Bandcamp:

https://corkcitygamelan.bandcamp.com/album/pay-back-your-stolen-colours

here are the release notes:

In the 1980s I ran a small recording studio. While working with the performance artists Brian Counihan and Tony Sheehan, they introduced me to Nova Express and the cut-up method of creating original text. I attempted to create an audio cut-up piece based on Nova Express, using tape: too much work ... but I carried on reading Nova Express forever since then.

In 1993, when I had my first computer, I extracted wave cycles from human voice recordings, copied and pasted them together hundreds of times to make notes and music, and became fascinated with the complexity of sounds in the human voice, usually unnoticed, because they come at a rate of dozens every second.

Around 2000-ish, I first heard Riverrun by Barry Truax: a granular synthesis work. Granular synthesis means copying tiny fragments of sound and re-arranging them to create original music - very much like the cut-up method of creating new text. I wanted to use granular synthesis to make a piece of music from spoken words.

Truax had the use of a mainframe system and dedicated signal processor - I manually copied and pasted grains and could not compose substantial music until desktop computers became powerful enough to automate the work. To go past the limits of available software, I needed to learn an audio programming language. Most music makers use MAX/MSP - it seemed to be the easiest for me, too.

Riverrun is inspired by Finnegan's Wake - my own piece was going to be based on Nova Express... and after A LOT of work I came up with Pay Back Your Stolen Colours: An ordering of my thoughts and feelings and ideas while reading the book, rather than a soundtrack for the text.

All the sounds you hear are re-arranged grains of recordings of some of the text, read by a man and a woman. Many thanks to Denis O'Sullivan and "Little" Forbes for the readings, and a big thank you to the estate of WSB for allowing me to use the text.

The album download also includes some short "outtakes" which did not make it into the final arrangement.
credits
released 03 November 2014

the text:
Copyright © 1964 by William S. Burroughs
Copyright renewed © 1992 by William S. Burroughs
used by permission

Music by Günther Berkus, the curator of the Cork City Gamelan 



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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

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