Some more recording with some pre-existing loops. Not expertly recorded and a bit quiet as it wasn't recorded for posterity - certainly better heard on headphones than through speakers. But fun to do and a bit of a learning experience.

Belewe Moon

Soundscaping with a Taylor T5 through an RC-300 Loop Station via a TC Electronic G Natural and a Zoom GFX-8

Ascending

An imagining of a bitter cold, foggy day on the North Norfolk Coast in December.

Deepdale Marsh

Picture yourself in a boat on the river..... recalling those programmes you used to watch at school, rowing boats, still waters, discovering nature and idyllic summers.

The Kingfisher (Programmes for Schools)

For some reason John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 came to mind as the initial inspiration for this piece although it's not the same at all. Tangerine Dream doing one of their 1980's Film or TV soundtracks. Possibly closer.

Assault On 1985

When you've been recording some guitar into your computer with onboard effects, when the internal microphone is picking up the sounds from around your desk and you just start hitting things. A little effected voice and further tinkering thrown in for good measure.

Metal Bean Dream

In my mind at least a mood piece with a cinematic quality. The soundtrack perhaps to the emergence of something mean and menacing from the still waters of a remote lake in the forest, at night, close to the cabin where 6 high school students are staying for the weekend.

From Still Waters .....

A re-interpretation of a longer piece still in progress.

Sentinel Bones

This piece has been constructed from sounds made in Max MSP and mixing a number of variations in patch speed and character together in Pro Tools. I was working with MIDI notes in Max, possibly in ways not intended and thus overloading the data processing a little, giving unpredictable results ; or as someone suggested - causing Max to malfunction ! I rather liked that description, hence the name.

The Malfunction Room

This piece was originally conceived as a Max MSP patch. Using midi notes overloaded to create an interesting sound and that sound created 13 times - all semitones in the 12 tone scale including the octave. The objective of the patch is to slowly introduce the first sound with its rise and fall on a timed basis, introducing the next tone randomly from the possibilities so that it rises as the other falls and so on. The idea is to have two to three different sounds pitched against each other randomly to create interesting tonalities as a generative piece. The patch does not yet work perfectly. It needs further work. This is a reconstruction, selecting the order of the notes using a Max randomiser patch and then overlaying and mixing the selected tracks in Pro Tools. So, a representation of a work in progress.

Infinite collisions ( A Reconstruction)

A Musician from SE England recently moved to Glasgow. Currently studying for a postgraduate degree in Sound for the moving image.

Mike Harper

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