Recorded March 17, 2022, in Kyiv city, Ukraine

Bayun the Cat - A Point Of Silence 1

Premiered by the vocal ensemble Cantando Admont in Bruseum, Graz, 8th April 2022.

“Innermost Games” is a name of the vocal cycle in progress to be composed in next years.
The whole cycle will be based on a sonic representation of human emotions. I consider each vocalist as an instrument for “musicalisation” of emotions as well as “emotionalisation” of music. There are no verbal elements in the vocal parts, because each emotion can say something without any words.
This is the first part of the cycle named “Giggling Shimmer”. The main point of it is the diversity of many colours of laugh, giggle, chuckle, snicker, gurgling, guffaw etc. We know, laughter can not represent only positive things, and you always must read it between the lines. “Giggling shimmer” is the work of mine, which musically represents us laughter, and each listener can still make his own choice about what sense of laugh he prefers to hear right now.

INNERMOST GAMES for 5 singers - I. Giggling Shimmer

These bitches want my swag

The Butterfly Effect 3 will be out soon!

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

WANT MY SWAG

Entry for the 163rd edition of KVR's One Synth Challenge - everything made using instances of Cardinal.

(Came second - thanks everyone!)

Finding My Voice - OSC 163 (2nd)

Low-fi delirium for alto flute, bass clarinet, vibraphone and electronics
Daniel Alvarado Bonilla - 2022
Œuvre commandée par l'Ensemble Sillages et l'Ensemble der/gelbe/klang, avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture - DRAC Bretagne. 

Julie Brunet-Jailly - alto flute
Hugo Clédat - bass clarinet
Jean-Baptiste Bonnard - vibraphone

Recorded by engineer Alexandre Chaigne at Music Unit Studios (Montreuil, France)

In Low-fi Delirium, most of the electronics consist of sounds that come from real "vintage" keyboard instruments such as the mellotron, the optigan and the Rhodes electric piano. In some ways this piece pays homage to the psychedelic music and delirious times of the sixties. 

The sounds of these analog instruments have always inspired me since I was a teenager and I have always thought of using them outside of their usual musical context (that of rock, pop or jazz). Although nowadays there are very powerful digital keyboards and softwares created to simulate these instruments, there is nothing, in my opinion, like the real machines – with their charming flaws and their analog sound qualities. The mellotron is an instrument in which each key triggers the playback of a magnetic tape which contains a real pre-recorded instrumental sound. It is in a way the analog ancestor of the digital sampler. The mellotron's pre-recorded sounds have a rudimentary "cheap" and almost “kitsch” sound quality. It is precisely this characteristic which, in my opinion, gives the mellotron its charm and potential! I wanted to use these sounds in order to establish an interaction, a dialog with the three acoustic instruments. This is how each instrument of the ensemble will be enlarged by its mirror or by its "low-fi" electronic alter ego. The pre-recorded mellotron sounds will be the electronic doubles of the wind instruments, while the bell or celesta type sounds of the Rhodes will weave a link with the vibraphone. Alongside these electronic instrumental sounds there are other “vintage” and “concrete” vinyl crackle noises, old clocks ticking, radio interferences...

Low-fi delirium

Catching deer on field at all night recording. Eating, rubbing horns in tree....that was almost all night  happening.
Location : Slovenia primal forest

Longer recording available here:
 https://earth.fm/recordings/red-deer-on-the-field/?fbclid=IwAR1BJVMQonsDeTefUmqLjIQz5zXgKHng7qXlRFq8hGe74RDVSIFumX6VAac

deer at night rubbing its horns on open field- primal forest Slovenia

This is a study of a method of generating chords from a single sine wave. Each note of a random melody gets divided into 8 new tones, comprising the first 8 undertones of that note. Plus a bunch of other modulation and stuff to make it sound good (at least to my ears). This is a recording of one "performance" of the patch, and is not edited or post-processed in any way. Made in VCVRack; not my first patch, but my first decent patch starting from scratch.

Annotated video (of a different performance): https://youtu.be/pDN_Zy8sg4w

You can get this patch at https://patchstorage.com/stations-of-the-tide/ if you want to try it yourself, or make it into something else. Click the Run button on Clockd to get it started.

The title comes from Michael Swanwick's novel of the same name.

There's a sample from an earlier version of this patch at https://soundcloud.com/mysterybear/2023-01-01-vcv-rack-study

Stations of the Tide

two contact microphones on thin icemake special sounds

Winter Ice sounds with stereo contact microphones

Chant étonnant du Coucou gris enregistré le 14 mai 2022 à Arcon à l'arboretum des Grands Murcins près de roanne, à l'occasion du rassemblement Sonatura. 
Ce coucou alterne son traditionnel chant à deux notes avec parfois 3 notes ou 2 notes dont les hauteurs varient.
Enregistré avec un couple de Sennheiser MKH 8040 en ORTF et Zoom F6. 
Aucune coupure ni montage pour toute cette séquence. 
Enregistrement Olivier Pichard

Amazing song of the Grey Cuckoo recorded on 14 May 2022 in Arcon at the Grands Murcins arboretum near Roanne, during the Sonatura meeting. 
This cuckoo alternates its traditional two-note song with sometimes 3 notes or 2 notes whose pitches vary.
Recorded with a pair of Sennheiser MKH 8040 in ORTF and Zoom F6. 
Recorded by Olivier Pichard

Photo : cc by sa Vogelartinfo

Coucou gris à 3 notes arboretum des Grands Murcins à Arcon(42)

"sear", premiered by Alarm Will Sound and Alan Pierson at Richardson Auditorium on March 21, 2023.

I spend a lot of time in the kitchen (or at the grill) cooking. It’s something I love to do for myself and others, whether I’m preparing meals for the week or hosting a gathering. In 2018, I read Samin Nosrat’s Salt Fat Acid Heat from cover to cover. At the time, I was more passionate about eating than I was about cooking, but I was willing to learn. 

In the section of the book on Heat, the author talks about an event called the Maillard reaction, a chemical reaction in which heat causes browning of proteins and sugars within ingredients. There are many ways to achieve the Maillard reaction, one of them being the searing method. Simply put, you prepare an extreme heat source (like a 700 degree skillet), you put a raw ingredient on the skillet (like a steak), and then the surface becomes deeply browned (and incredibly flavorful). A few drawbacks of this method include smoking up your kitchen, setting off the fire alarm, sweating profusely, but it’s worth it for the flavor (…sometimes…this is why I like the grill, even in the dead of winter).

sear is a piece based on extreme contrasts, with the idea of blistering heat in mind.

sear

Born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1985, Daniel Alvarado Bonilla begins his musical journey studying the electric and classical guitar. After obtaining his classical guitar degree at the Universidad de los Andes of Bogotá, he enters in 2009, the composition class of Edith Lejet in the École Normale de Musique de Paris. He has also studied with Martín Matalon in the Conservatoire d’Aubervilliers/la Courneuve and has continued his studies with professors Robert Pascal and Philippe Hurel at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Dance de Lyon. From 2014 to 2016 he pursued his master in composition at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris with professor Stefano Gervasoni. In 2017 - 2018, he attended the Cursus program at IRCAM. 

His work has been performed by prestigious soloists and ensembles such as Orchestre de Caen, l'Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire de Paris, Ensemble Alkymia, Ensemble l'Itinéraire, Xenon Saxophone Quartet and the soloists from the Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Low-fi delirium

Daniel Alvarado Bonilla

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