this is the song why i made a soundcloud account. really good song

the vague memory of a flash games from 10 years ago brought me here

This whole album reminds me of Beck's Sexx Laws or old Of Montreal. Strange and unique ideas throughout!

Composer and guitarist Colter Harper brings together Pittsburgh improvisors to interpret 11 originals. Features David Throckmorton (drums), Michael Murray (piano, accordion), Jim Dispirito (percussion), Jeff Grubbs (bass), Tony DePaolis (bass), Jacob Yoffee (saxophone), and Jeff Berman (vibes).

Dark Days

Drifts is a set of five short pieces for string quartet, written for the JACK quartet in the winter of 2016/2017. The first of the five pieces, Florescences, was originally written for Quatuor Bozzini in 2011 and has been lightly revised and treated as the departing point for Drifts. While these five pieces were envisioned as a set and are ideally played together, each one can may be played separately as a stand-alone piece.
     These pieces explore the idea of “tonal drift,” which is the result of modulation in a just intonation context. In 12-tone equal temperament, a series of modulations by a just major third will cycle back to the initial key after three modulations. However,
the same number of modulations by the just major third will result in landing roughly a quarter-tone below the initial tonal center, having drifted away from an equal temperament tonic.
     Drifts takes several approaches to tonal drift, with each piece focusing in on a different type of cadential movement to create the sense of modulation. The first movement, Florescences, works with a standard tonal V-I classical cadence, modulating to the just minor seventh repeatedly. The second movement, Phrygia, reinterprets the basic idea of a Phrygian cadence, with various small just intervals
heard in place of the usual semitone movement of the flat second to the tonic. The third movement, Organum, draws upon early polyphony, focusing on parallel fourths and creating a sense of cadence through movement to the octave in first species counterpoint. The fourth movement, Floria, plays with florid two-part counterpoint, functioning as a kind of fast movement in the overall form of Drifts and also relying upon the octave as a way to suggest a tonal center. The fifth and final movement, Ars Nova, reworks cadences from the Ars Nova period.

Drifts - Live recording 2017, JACK quartet

Love ballad to the Electric City, late 90's.... Released on cassette 1998. This re-edit is from the Magic Recording Eye CD (2001)

Schenectady Song (1998)

For Eris’s mixtape “Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1”, she uses old records to create a new style out of fragments. Many of the selections have been featured heavily in her live DJ sets, including her b2b sets with Octo Octa. Eris accumulated these records slowly, over decades, but it wasn’t until touring last year that she realized a “sound” coalesced in her bag. What does a rave at the disco sound like? Kinda like everyone took ecstasy at the roller rink. On her ecstatic mix, Eris colleges together a genre by scratching-in breaks with horn samples, mixing Disco House with broken beats, dropping Miami Bass jams with Boogie keys and blending Rave tunes with disco vocals. On the mix Eris utilizes turntable techniques such as “doubles” tricks and “hot mixing”—a fast-paced mixing style inspired by her beloved B96 Mixmasters, Chicago’s most popular 1990’s radio DJs. Like all of Eris’s mixes, she weaves strong narratives of embodiment, defiance, cultural transcendence and personal triumph (a classic disco emotion) into a flow of body rockin’ beats, scratches, drops, and sweet melodies. The result is a bass heavy summertime house mix for the psychedelic bad girls, boys and enbys. 

A limited run of Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 cassettes are available now exclusively from the label’s Bandcamp - http://t4tluvnrg.bandcamp.com

 The recording can be streamed on the T4T LUV NRG SoundCloud for free and hi-resolution versions are available for download on the label’s Bandcamp (donation requested). All profits  from Eris’s mix will be donated to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), which works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence.

Eris Drew Raving Disco Breaks Vol 1.

torsion 004.
a sonification of images from sketches and models by Alejandro Haiek. 
for Ali Eckermann.
Civitella Ranieri, July 6, 2019.

Torsion 004 (2019) for 2-channel fixed media

In 2014, U+1f440 member Angela Washko interviewed manosphere leader, pick-up artist and “Bang” book series author Roosh V. This feminist interrogation provoked a lengthy thread on the pick-up artist’s manosphere forum. U+1f440 trained a text-generating neural network on these posts to produce the lyrics for this song.

Alpha Game

Full title: 
A-SIDE: Machine Learning Elegy for Christine Margaret Blasey Ford from Her Written Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee

We trained text-generating neural networks on the transcript from Christine Blasey Ford’s testimonial letter outlining her experiences of sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The neural networks created their own new text, pulling from the patterns and vernacular of the original source material – and we redacted the resulting text into a poem and later manipulated it even more to produce this experimental song. This is the A-Side to "B-Side: Machine Learning Hate Poem for Fucking Scumbag Piece-of-Shit Brett Kavanaugh from His Verbal Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee"

A-Side: Machine Learning Elegy for Christine Margaret Blasey Ford

Ambience based on four bars out of Gustav Mahler's Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen. Used for an exquisite corpse piece with CMU's Exploded Ensemble. Uses the stretched piano pad preset from the M4L Pitch and Time Pack for Ableton Live with adjusted parameters, as well as reverb with a relatively long decay and good deal of modulation and delay to the tail.

Mahlerian Ambience

A record of hazmat pop songs written by Jesse Stiles during an unexpected professional detour - shooting forensic videography in a destroyed skyscraper.  The Target Museum was recorded on a former military base in Wendover, Utah and various parts of India.  The Target Museum features lyrical collaborations with Jesse Ball and is supported by videos co-directed by Stiles & Olivia Robinson as well as a startling "music video game" by Molleindustria.

The Target Museum was manifested in 2010 by Specific Recordings as a gorgeous, limited-edition vinyl picturedisc.


The Building

I made this piece of sound for my newborn daughter and she thinks it is chill AF.  We play this in our house constantly and it produces much peace and tranquility.  

I'm new to the newborn thing and was pleasantly surprised to learn that babies have zero interest in lullabies and so-called "children's music" and instead have a strong preference for constant broadband noise, which is what they heard a lot of in the womb, being as they were inside another human being with a coursing bloodstream rushing directly over their ears and whatnot.

There are plenty of recordings and apps out there for babies and stressed adults that present a similar whooshy experience but I wasn't totally happy with any of them for a few reasons.  I didn't care for field recordings of real environments (the ocean, rain, etc) because I find the specificity of them distracting.  Many of the synthetic noise recordings are unpleasant because they're balanced weirdly (it should really be based on pink noise, not white noise, because it maps onto human hearing more comfortably) and there should be some variation or else it becomes annoying quickly.

Thus this.  It's just pink noise running through a low-pass filter that sweeps between 1480Hz and 12544 Hz at a rate of one sweep per 10 seconds.  The code to run in Max is below if you want the never-ending version.  Enjoy.

<pre><code>
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436.3ocsTtsbBBCDF9Z3oHStFYBGDv9pzoSmHlZiESXffUGG8YugMfGZs.in
2XLK6l+7sY2cusEdtbKqDidA8JxxZuskEXp1fUydK7Z51zLZI3FVv9VNeE1w
7IEaqBLuVI+3XqUYkJioT6xYlSFWxWJnYXzaMNvW.AoOnIIsAkSUoexEKeuf
kpLw4m34RbP9jv5kfYlMtjSminZMWnkBtZdmMZt.Fq0FOXaW+iy3XrLklwNh
l3g7PyHHO+36A339A1KNndYVP2.G8rANcWZMvDWu6AznA.ZHrD0Cn9O8W1M8
W75z4+tUBXZWI.RDvbHTTOk3NsqDPvMS.gOtDvBZ5oDvEDDL.BLUoA92ySH4
wQPNW70cM.xueFaJSCRF6.HHNbFW76Ytf101uF7RYUQZKCMkTnypufUp3Bph
KEW3i9QSOfp0GYwBVw+mqezBS9qvdiR3jAH7TCwiRm3AnSycYT5DM.che.53
Ov7105XJPo44aXEkMNCRn6AWIgmyDGXKWX1BE83B1Fdq+FGnE5lIktSpp.tV
3sQgXSnRcggnh2TangSKIzeKnqYk4TCGvX.6C1+.SO..Q.
-----------end_max5_patcher-----------
</code></pre>

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