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Acousmatic composition, February 2024

Gesang der Sterne was premiered on September 7th 2024 at the Supersonique Festival in Marseille, France - with a large acousmonium with 36 loudspeakers.
Performance and interpretation: Sarah Ouazzani

Published by Musique moléculaire label on the CD "Lautgedicht", August 2024

https://musiquemoleculaire.bandcamp.com/album/lautgedicht

Program Note
Stars have had their sights set on me for quite some time. 
In 1989, I set to music the poem Crazy without you by the American poet Anne Waldman in which a whole series of stars are described in their various colours. In 2006, L1014 for percussion was created, inspired by Reginald Smith-Brindle's percussion composition Orion M42, and in 2022, the electro-acoustic work Albireo, which was inspired by the vastness of space. The piano composition Beta Lyrae (2023) and the electro-acoustic composition Jezero (2024) - named after a Martian crater - both received their astral titles in retrospect. And now Gesang der Sterne (Song of the Stars)! 
Since 2020, a NASA team has been working on making space tangible with the help of music. In what is known as data sonification, elements of an image are assigned pitches and volumes. Whether this process does accurately reflect the actual sound of the Milky Way can only be guessed. In space, there is nothing that can carry sound. There is absolute silence there.
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Akusmatische Komposition, Februar 2024

Gesang der Sterne wurde am 7. September 2024 beim Supersonique Festival in Marseille uraufgeführt - mit einem grossen Akusmonium mit 36 Lautsprechern
Aufführung und Interpretation: Sarah Ouazzani

Veröffentlicht vom Label Musique moléculaire auf der CD "Lautgedicht", August 2024

https://musiquemoleculaire.bandcamp.com/album/lautgedicht

Programmnotiz
Sterne haben es schon seit längerem auf mich abgesehen. 
1989 vertonte ich das Gedicht Crazy without you der amerikanischen Poetin Anne Waldman, in dem eine ganze Reihe von Sternen in ihren vielfältigen Farben geschildert werden. 2006 entstand L1014 für Schlagwerk, das von Reginald Smith Brindles Schlagzeugkomposition Orion M42 inspiriert ist, und 2022 das elektroakustische Werk Albireo, bei dem die Weiten des Alls als Anregung dienten. Die Klavierkomposition Beta Lyrae (2023) und die elektroakustische Komposition Jezero (2024) - benannt nach einem Marskrater - erhielten beide ihre astralen Titel erst im Nachhinein. Und nun Gesang der Sterne! 
Ein Team der NASA arbeitet seit 2020 daran, das All mit Hilfe von Musik erfahrbar zu machen. Bei der sogenannen Datensonifikation werden Elementen eines Bildes Tonhöhen und Lautstärken zugewiesen. Ob dieses Verfahren dem tatsächlichen Klang der Milchstraße gerecht wird, lässt sich nur vermuten. Im Weltraum gibt es nichts, das den Schall tragen könnte. Dort herrscht absolute Stille.

Gesang der Sterne

ticket to the subconscious

Disquiet Junto  Project 0644: Event Horizon 
The Assignment: Record music for a party of your choosing.

My subconscious celebrates a party, I am not invited to. 

Composition: patterns, textures and small melodic captures assemble around a dancing theme.
Gear: Fiel recordings, Bruel&Kjaer lock-in-filter and noise generator, Roland D-50 (theme), SLATE + ASH cycles, Lea Bertucci Acoustic Shadows

Enjoy!

More on the 644th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Event Horizon — The Assignment: Record music for a party of your choosing — at https://disquiet.com/0644/

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PIKTELLIOM

Of The Armies

The palace of night

different takes recording with same configuration played randomly
as they are with no further editing  

work in progress

I. Silenzii E Voci Lontane

YT Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/DIaG5yxGTEU?feature=share

erase again-naviarhaiku557

TRANSMISSIONS   ZX -  6      -     2024

Soundscapes & Soundtracks

Constant Revelation

Sonic collage created in response to:

Through a world of sound
the only filter I have
my discerning ear

Naviar Haiku challenge 562, details here; https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

In a change from my usual live method this track was very much assembled. That said each synth element was improvised in conjunction with and added to the existing material as the track evolved. 

I started by taking a long ambient drone (Borrowed from another project), generated with Points And Lines* and processed it through the Free Ghost  Radio VST plugin from Quilcom to produce the short wave radio like sounds, details here: (it's near the end of the list): https://flowstoners.com/quilcom

Then in conjunction with that I assembled the field recordings that open the track. A bit of a mish-mash,

Circus Atmosphere,
brixton road, london, busy afternoon with voices, passing busses, traffic,
11 o' clock bells from the catania cathedral of st agatha, sicily.

All from this sound pack sold in aid of WWF Denmark: https://www.luftrum.com/free-field-recordings

And a dog from Freesound: Dogs barking in small town by BonnyOrbit -- https://freesound.org/s/442485
 -- License: Creative Commons 0

With the opening set I then recorded the rhythmic pulses and sequences using a small virtual modular VCV Rack patch that I'd prepared earlier. With that done I went back and added the synth surf, separate VCV patch, synth wind, Bento* and random chirps and synth whales to swim in the synthetic sea, Creature From Then ID.* 

Points And Lines, Bento and Creature From The ID  are stand alone virtual instruments by Giorgio Sancristoforo: https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net

A World of Sound - (Naviarhaiku - 562)

we were walking too fast towards the doorway and [BEBOSH sucks so does we like to you everyone/thing absfsg bxfgc   but guess what? i was wrong. we became upside doomed.....OR LIVE TIL YOU ...    magpies are cool

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