(the track here on Soundcloud is the slightly revised 2009 version)
A piece based on sound materials originally generated for another of my electronic pieces. 
These materials are taken through a dramatic amount of transformations and are presented in a more or less chronological manner.
The composer takes the listener on a thoroughly planned 'walk' through the garden or, depending on your appreciation, junkyard of the resulting materials.

This piece was premiered during the 3 day SoniC rhymes festival in The Hague, The Netherlands in June 2003. A slightly more recent play occurred at a concert at College of William & Mary in Williamsburg (VA), USA on the 7th of September 2009.

Original program notes consisted of just the following lines (taken from a lyric by Norwegian Black Metal band Darkthrone):

"A raven sings my last song 
as the wolves howl their goodbyes 
The funeral moon glows strongly now 
for I am nearly there "

Lyset Fra Nedenunder

Made partly in the analogue studio BEA 5 @ Institute of Sonology, The Hague. And partly with help of Symbolic Sound's Kyma & Capybara at the same institute. 
More info later.....

Mutations (stereo mix)

Play loud.
Brutalism a conceptual sound piece researching the borders of electro-acoustic music, psycho acoustic phenomena and noise music. 
Originating from recordings on an analog 8 track tape.
These recordings were mixed down to stereo, 21 times in succession. Since all were running at slightly different tape speeds a huge wall of sound emerges which contains all kind of varieties of psycho-acoustic phenomena. 
This soundfile is one possible variation that can emerge from the material...... 


Brutalism

Field recording made on a ferry between Norway and Denmark in August 2013. The recording is an uninterrupted/unedited walk through the tax free shop of the ferry. This tax free shop happened to situated right above the motor, or at least so it seemed. The audio has been 'helped' a little bit in post processing. 
Remarks: the squeaky sound in the right channel is one of my old sneakers. The recorder is a Tascam DR100mkII, it is held next to my left leg with the internal mics in vertical fashion, right channel down. So basically you're listening at a 90º angle to the tax free shop.  

Tax Free

A little cut out from a long recording of a self generating modular patch.

Clouds & Doepfer a152 - cut out from self generating modular patch

First half of a stereo composition made for diffusion over an acousmonium. This first half was premiered at Electric Audio Unit's diffusion workshop at Sentralen, Oslo in December 2018

Risk Assessment part1

This short composition was made in autumn 2018. It was commissioned by Ny Musikk for the occasion of the TEIP mini festival in October 2018. 
Source material is all derived from the tape archive of Ny Musikk.

Une Bande Magnétique

Edit from a walk through the city centre of my (by now, former) hometown Delft on a busy market day.
Places visited are the Visbanken, the market square, De Nieuwe Kerk hall and souvenir shop and some of the shopping streets. 
Testing the newly purchased Tascam DR 100mkII with a pair of DPA 4061 mics. The mics were hidden in my winter hat, very close to my ears. 
A tiny bit of post processing was done in Logic and Amadeus Pro. 
--- Recording is presented in sequence and no effects other than some slight volume adjustment were employed ---

Delft Walk

LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES!! BINAURAL AUDIO!
"…and this too will be swept away" was made in May 2020. The title is a quote from Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius (121–180). The decision to choose this title initially stemmed from references invoked by the sound materials used — water flowing, ticking clocks, sliding rock formations, etc. The piece also deals with the shift of perspective on the passing of
time in this time of pandemic. Additional interesting fact to mention: Marcus Aurelius died as result of a plague (most commonly thought to be Small Pox). During that plague he wrote his famous Meditations, a collection of his thoughts commonly seen as one of the most important writings of Stoic philosophy. This piece was composed entirely with the aid of WFSCollider in my home studio. I’ve employed my ideas about spatial audio, mostly dealing with the composition of large, scattered “fields” of sound versus small “points”. The piece does not deal with movement as such but rather the scattering of textures in a large sound field.
The form of the piece evolved fluently from the use of the basic materials and processes used. It is the first piece in a very long time where I employ the use of field recordings. These are combined with edited recordings of two electronic improvisations with digital feedback FM synthesis and the Benjolin analogue synthesizer developed by Rob Hordijk. Processing was mostly done digitally in WFSCollider. The field recordings were made at Høvikodden, a small beach headland in the Oslofjord that houses the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and sculpture park and the headquarters of classification company Det Norske Veritas (their building’s ventilation system is sound material in a part of the middle section of the piece). Binaural rendering was done in Reaper using Aalto university’s Sparta AmbiBin plugin.

…and this too will be swept away - Binaural Headphones Version

Safety Analysis is composition for Disklavier (midi operated grand piano)and fixed media ambisonics. It was composed during the 2019 winter residency organised by Stichting Conlon and Gaudeamus. The musical materials for the piano are based on frequency analyses of my acousmatic composition Risk Assessment (2019) and use parts of that same composition for its fixed media component. The audience is situated around the piano and the loudspeakers playing the ambisonics part are situated outside the audience area.

Ernst van der Loo

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