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

Meditation For Door, Gate And Strings

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

Study for Guitar and Attic Door

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

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

Metal Study #21

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

Windmill Variations #5

From a recording of a metal pipe falling on concrete: https://freesound.org/s/679206/

Cement And Steel Study #1

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 the sound of squeaky wet glass: https://freesound.org/people/scottemoil/sounds/196394/

and the sound of microphone feedback: https://freesound.org/people/FreqMan/sounds/42930/

Photo credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/rock-pub-mic-music-acoustic-2396123/

Study For Wet Glass And Feedback

From a 78 recording of 'Singing Bird' by the Roumanian Gypsy Orchestra.

Singing Bird Variations

Used Sonic Pi to live code an improvisation from a rich modular synth sound provided by Steve Meyer (https://soundcloud.com/user-684506476).

Live Code Session (6/24/2023) [from source sound by Steve Meyer]

Collaboration between ASDB and Climate-Walker - June 25, 2023

ASDB: https://soundcloud.com/asdb_music

Image credit: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/646715?utm_content=shareClip&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pxhere

Andantino After Walking By Grumman [ASDB & Climate-Walker]

Photo credit: https://www.geograph.ie/photo/3066075

Improv Leftovers Part1

From a snippet of grocery store background music.

Attention Shoppers

Gate Elegy

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

From a recording of the sound of a rubbed balloon.

Photo credit: Takkiln, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Holland_lop_with_balloon.jpg/1024px-Holland_lop_with_balloon.jpg

Balloon Variations #1 For Kyle

Vinyl Variation #17

From a few seconds of a "Surabaya Johnny" vinyl recording from the 1930s.

Akward Dance 4

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

Industrial Meditation

Sound source: https://freesound.org/people/hello_flowers/sounds/30966/

Also includes my own recording of a metal thermos on wet marble.

Metal Study #27

Sound source: https://freesound.org/people/Eelke/sounds/462611/

Door Study #15

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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