World Premiere and Commissioned by American Composers Orchestra at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 9, 2015, Conductor George Manahan

Sanctum, for orchestra and recorded sound, explores the sound of improvisation in Holiness-preaching traditions. I draw inspiration from recorded sermons, The Praying Slave Lady by Pastor Shirley Caesar, The Eagle Stirs His Nest by Reverend C. L. Franklin, and Reverend Charles Albert Tindley’s hymn, Stand By Me. Included are the voices of Marlene Pinnock and of activists in Ferguson, Missouri from 2014. Sanctum is my artistic response to recent events of police brutality. By employing techniques of layered repetition, rhythmic intensity, sounds of moaning and whooping, and voices of the past and present, Sanctum invokes solace found in the midst of persecution and tribulation.


Sanctum was commissioned and premiered by American Composers Orchestra with the generous support of The Jerome Foundation and The Peter Heller Fund.

http://acosoundadvice.blogspot.com/2015/03/courtney-bryan-native-of-new-orleans-is.html 

Sanctum for orchestra and recorded sound

Ambient Loop For Vancouver is a hypnotically lyrical 54 minute composition featuring Alan Licht, Christian Marclay and William Hooker.
Packaged in a heavy duty screen printed Arigato Pack. Printed at Imprec in an edition of 400.

Lee Ranaldo Ambient Loop For Vancouver (excerpt) Christian Marclay, Alan Licht, William Hooker CD

"Make something playful and sweet? But how can I stroke my goatee pensively while listening to THAT?"

I tried to channel Ligeti in this piece, because some of his most amazing pieces also showed such a sense of fun and playfulness.

To make this piece, I wrote a mostly monophonic melody on piano and recorded it as MIDI in Ableton.  Then I moved the MIDI performance to a new track with a sampler in it.  I went to freesound,org and found a recording of the clock from a MIG fighter jet's cockpit (thanks Mortifreshman!), and sped it up to four times its original speed to remove the "silence" between ticks.  Then I dumped that into the sampler, knowing that the way changes in pitch affect playback speed would create some interesting results.

As it turns out the "silence" between clock ticks was a really interesting static sound, so I took the same sample and then slowed it down to a fourth of its original speed to extend the "silences."   Then I used Ableton's MIDI pitchshift tool to try it in different octaves - turns out 3 octaves below the original produced an interesting result.  The static worked best mixed pretty low, but it's in there.

Original sample is here: http://www.freesound.org/people/Mortifreshman/sounds/237210/

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More on this 194th Disquiet Junto project (“Record the sound of a clock and make something playful and sweet out of it”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/09/17/disquiet0194-clockplay/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Brian Biggs, who drew it specifically for this project, and who provided the project’s timely creative nudge.

Russian Clockpit (Disquiet0194-Clockplay)

Clock used was the Astronomical Clock in Old Town Square, Prague, home long ago to Tycho Brahe, whose detailed observations revealed the orbits of the planets to not be perfectly spherical, after all. The busker on the track was also singing about the sun, although not there, and not then. Track composed for Disquiet Junto #194, "Clock Play." [http://disquiet.com/2015/09/17/disquiet0194-clockplay/]

Time4Tycho-[disquiet0194-clockplay]

3.11 [disquiet0194 - Clockplay]

a piano from a nord wave, through a custom patch on a lexicon PCM81. autumn decays.

october 12, 2015 (a piano in autumn)

The field recording at the beginning is a Bombe (designed by Alan Turing) running at Bletchley Park. The ticking is a vintage Swatch watch clipped to a Mikrophonie contact mic, run through an analogue delay. The main drone is coming from a Moog BFAM, with the filter slightly modulated by a Batumi sine LFO. The KR-55 drum machine is being clocked at audio rate from the BFAM's clock output, which itself is being modulated via a square wave from the Batumi. The KR-55's hi-hat, bass drum, and snare are blended in and out manually. The BFAM's sequencer is finally engaged at the end to produce the bleeps. Additional delay and reverb by Strymon.

More about the Bletchley Park Bombe rebuild:
http://www.bletchleyparkresearch.co.uk/research-notes/the-enigma-busting-bombe-machine/
http://www.bomberebuild.webspace.virginmedia.com/rebuild1.htm

Bruce: Moog BFAM, Korg KR-55, modular, live mixing
Karin: Sony PCM-M10, recording

Recorded live at The Library.

Bombe photo by Bruce.

Number Cruncher

Performed by Weston Olencki at Indexical, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, May 2016. 

For trombone, transducers, materials, fx pedals, feedback

HoneyDripper

I. 2c 
II. Flutter
III. Moments in Love

out 04.28.17 https://boomkat.com/products/grafts

GRAFTS

Recorded on air in one take during my radio show Endless Possibilities on WRSU-FM.  I then processed the audio and layered it in underneath the original. I almost didn't do this because I'm mid-sinus infection and I sound incredibly nasally. 
 
Cheers, friends!

More on this 60th Disquiet Junto project at:


http://disquiet.com/2013/02/21/disquiet0060-audiobio


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:


http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


More details on the SoundCloud "audiobiography" project at:


http://blog.soundcloud.com/2013/02/06/audiobiography/




Doug's Audiobiography  [disquiet0060-audiobio]

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 376: Jake Muir's Bathhouse Blues

Formerly @douglownote, Doug's a trombonist with an appreciation for the digital manipulation of sounds. He also does a radio show called Endless Possibilities on WRSU-FM and would love to hear your new music for consideration on the air. Just follow through to the website for contact information.

Doug's Audiobiography [disquiet0060-audiobio]

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