In honor of Pi.  This is created from the sound of a wine glass being rubbed by a wet finger and the sound of a tabla drum.  There are three loops.  Each loop goes through the first one hundred digits of Pi where each digit of Pi controls the pitch and amplitude of each note.  In the first loop, there are 3.14 seconds between each note.  The second loop starts 3.141 seconds after the first.  In the second loop, there are 3.1415 seconds between each note.  The third loop starts 3.14159 seconds after the second.  In the third loop (the tabla), there are 3.141592 seconds between each hit.  Finally, the duration of this piece is 314 seconds (and some change).  I hope you enjoy it. Peace.

A Tiny Sliver Of Pi

An ensemble of three sounds:
https://freesound.org/people/Koops/sounds/17871/
https://freesound.org/people/abbahoot/sounds/221649/
https://freesound.org/people/ragamuffin/sounds/186363/

Sound Ensemble #15

From a recording I did of a rubber band banjo (a couple of rubber bands stretched over the top of a cardboard box); a recording a door closing (https://freesound.org/s/346267/) ; and a recording of an orchestra tuning (https://freesound.org/s/324595/).

Photo credit: By Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100785478

Elegy For Rubber Bands, Hinge and Strings

Combines the sound of a squeaky door hinge (https://freesound.org/s/119724/) and tearing paper (https://freesound.org/s/67786/)

Image credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microstructure_of_a_stainless_steel_A961.jpg

Study For Steel And Paper

From https://soundcloud.com/user-957729823/the-faucet-and-the-pipe

Trio For Faulty Pipes

From a recording of a screen door opening and closing: https://freesound.org/people/snardin42/sounds/45643/

Keeping The Flies Out

A live coding session using Sonic Pi.  Samples are mostly recordings of metal on metal.

Live Code Session 09/19/2022

Study For Silent Movie #9

Sound source: https://freesound.org/people/8ahpu/sounds/238303/

Photo credit: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=362454&picture=subway-tunnel-station

Transit Study #5

From a recording of an empty water tank: https://freesound.org/people/gokalp_gonen/sounds/640563/

Metal Study #21

From sound:  https://freesound.org/people/HeyItsArnold/sounds/515098/

Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/exfordy/2616434075/in/photostream/

Sound Ensemble #21

From a beautifully resonant recording of a metal windmill: https://freesound.org/people/spoonbender/sounds/269462/

Windmill Variations #5

Sound source: Paracelsus "Sound of an old radio" (https://freesound.org/people/Paracelsus/sounds/32266/)

Photo credit: "Fireside Chats" by Tony Fischer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonythemisfit/2861046706/in/photostream/)

Fireside Chat (for Ansound)

From a short segment of Scheherazade recorded by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1928: https://archive.org/details/78_the-sea-and-the-vessel-of-sinbad-2nd-record_philadelphia-symphony-orchestra-rimsk_gbia7005112  

Combined with a few seconds of a gate squeak: https://freesound.org/people/The-Sacha-Rush/sounds/398006/

Sound Ensemble For Vinyl And Steel

Polka For Feedback And Grinding Steel

It's a very sad day.  We lost our dog. She had a brain tumor and is finally in peace.

For Ginger

From a 78 recording of the 'All Star Stompers'.

https://archive.org/embed/78_as-long-as-i-live_the-all-star-stompers-wild-bill-davison-albert-nicholas-jimmy-arc_gbia0104533b

Extended Stompers Riff

Vinyl Variation #17

From a great recording of industrial sounds by LG on Freesound: https://freesound.org/people/LG/sounds/102120/

Metal Study #25

Trio for Wood, Steel and Vinyl

Windmill Variations 10

All sound is from a recording of a fluorescent light.
Source sound: https://freesound.org/people/dudamix_98/sounds/712468/

Moth Party

Sun Dog

Source sound is a very nice recording of a bathroom stall hinge: https://freesound.org/people/Valk17/sounds/706939/

The Love Of Three Hinges

Sound source: https://freesound.org/people/newlocknew/sounds/720911/


Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Compost%27Tout1.jpg

Compost #1

Sound source: Speech by FDR after Germany invaded Poland in 1939.

Speech Study #9

From the sound of a washing machine being dragged on a concrete floor: https://freesound.org/people/relwin/sounds/676272/

Ode To A MetalBox

Damaged Artifact

From a recording of mechanical squeaks: https://freesound.org/people/LG/sounds/102120/

Ghost in the machine #1

From  a recording of an iron hinge: https://freesound.org/people/smidoid/sounds/147670/

It All Hinges On ...

Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/candiceecidnac/3744216555/

Partial Eclipse

From a short recording of a tuning for humming and buzzing: https://freesound.org/people/vrodge/sounds/119499/

Photo credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuning_fork_on_carbon_black.jpg

Meditation for Tuning Fork

Shuffle Scrape #5

Recorded sounds provide a rich and extensive palette of colors and textures.  I like to glean what I can from single short samples of sound.  I particularly like squeaks and creaks.  Lately, I've become enamored with the enormous selection of vinyl records available on archive.org.

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