JnfH_0123 is an ongoing audio visual project whereby I attempt to create a 4 minute piece of music (with accompanying visuals) for every day of 2023. 365 tracks & video that will eventually add up to 24 hours of work!

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Vocal Abstrations

Tube Music; is an ongoing project that aims to explore the hidden sonic essence of the London Underground via the the capture and composition of the unique electromagnetic signals that are given off by each and every train/line. 

Layering the signal multiple times over its self and manipulating the speed at which the layers played over one another, it creates many different interesting harmonies and seemingly random rhythms with just a single sound source. The signals were captured with the use of EM coil pick ups.

After many hours of travel, and copious quizzical looks from other passengers, I can finally present a few of my sonic explorations. 

Enjoy...

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Tube:Music

Here is a little piece for piano I wrote in the early hours of the morning! 

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The Final Lament of a Nostalgic Piano - Jeremy Hubbard

Another experiment with multiple layering of choral music. See if you can guess the piece i used! :P

Choral Explorations No.2

Here's another Stairwell Improvisation. Again, the recording I have used in this work is myself, improvising in a very reverberant stairwell deep within the bowels of the Guildhall school of Music and Drama , London. Using this same recording, I went about incrementally layering and panning the separate tracks to create this world of sound.

Choral Explorations No.7 (Stairwell Improvisations ii)

Created using the sounds of a Babbling Stream & Passing traffic taken from a short video clip I took whilst walking the dog this morning (02/01/23). Manipulated and layered with additional Dulcimer, Piano and other complimentary parts that all take their notes (roughly) from frequencies extracted from the babbling of the stream and the underling pedal hum of a passing car or two :P. VIDEO to follow!!!

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020123 [River & Road]

Taking 6 separated synth notes. Panning and arranging them, then layering and manipulating the original audio to create a revolving chorus of sorts?

090123 [Celestial Passage]

Created by taking the frequencies of a glass beer bottle picked up as litter on a walk in the woods)when tapped against a sign post... as you do :P 

Listen to the end to hear the raw audio recording!

140123 [Abandoned Glass]

Taking a single aleatoric piano note recording, repeated, layer, manipulated. Sort of to suggest the sound of a ship's bell/flag pole tapping in a swelling storm and then coming out the other side?

150123 [Gathering Storm]

Feeding a short snippet of vocal and string recording through an antiquated piece of spretal analysis software, drawing out the fundamental frequencies and then re sampling and taking snapshots of varying vocal tones which are then layered and manipulated.

160123 [Phonetic Memories]

Using a synthesized flute passage from an old keyboard, layered manipulated and arranged in such a way as to create a sense of scale? Also, multiple punctures on the bike and an extended power cut didn't help today's effort 😛

170123 [Prevailing Winds]

Using a single take of a of a trumpet note swell and flutter to create an unnerving swell of sound of impending doom? .

180123 [Discontent]

Taking two synth notes (recorded in a cabin whilst working in the Highlands of Scotland) and subtly shifting in phase and space then manipulated and layered.

190123 [Tired Eyes]

200123 [Chronosphere]

Using a single electronic piano phrase, Duplicating and anganding in triangle formation sonic space with each version playing back a differing but complementary speeds.

210123 [Pythagorum]

Taking a sustained string chord and manipulating and expanding to create something new :)

220123 [Upon Clouds]

Taking a octave guitar phrase and arranging them in time a sonic space... Visuals to follow

230123 [Falling Dew]

A slight rework of and exiting idea from many years ago. Using two guitar chords and expanding and developing them into an all out wall of sound to reflect a sense of the sun's radiance as we fly through space along side :) ARTWORK & VISUALS TO FOLLOW

240123 [Photospheric Warmth]

Using a gourd kalimba, repeating and layering to create a ovall blend of tonal noise and texture.

250123 [Unsung Canopy]

Dug up some old Electric guitar recordings from 15 year ago...
Played around with them and a tape player/recorder so made this... It's pretty gnarly tonaly (lots of distortion) so best not to blow your ears out :P

260123 [To The Bitter End]

A new beginning... Hopefully an ongoing series of works to bring in  the new year (2024)  

This track is entirely created using a short recording of my own voice singing just two notes. The resulting audio recording is then manipulated and layers in such a way as to create an ethereal, evolving harmony. Best to listen on a good pair of headphones. 

Enjoy :)

Inverted Second

Visuals

Inverted Second (Vocal Abstraction - 001)

Taking a short vocal phrase consisting of a number of varying yet complimentory intervals. Recorded on to tape, playedback a differing speeds and then manipulated further digitally (extending the tonal phonics of each note). The resulting single line of audio is duplicated/layered then fed through the impulse resonance of a nearby motorway underpass... (you know, as one does... :P) Recorded and produced on 29/02/24  

Intercalary /ɪnˈtəːkəl(ə)ri,ˌɪntəˈkal(ə)ri/

(of a day or a month) inserted in the calendar to harmonize it with the solar year.

Intercalary (Vocal Abstraction - 002)

Meaning spring in Latin, "Ver" was created using short recordings of my own voice, layered and manipulated in such a way as to create a sense of calm and to evoke scenes of the transition from the darkness of winter in the light of spring. these short recordings where processed using a cassette recorder and then arranged in order to produce flowing harmonic sequence with interlocking rhythmic motion. it's a little rough around the edges with some slight timing drift but I don't care :p

Recorded and produced on the 15th of April 2024. Visuals to follow...

Ver (Vocal Abstraction - 003)

Original vocal recording recorded in an empty house just before a traumatic move l. with all furniture and possessions stripped away leaving only memories of a better time and the uncertainty are what is to come...

Dispossession (Vocal Abstraction - 004)

Created using a recording of a single descending piano phrase which is then thoroughly mangled using various different ways to form an evolving soundscape.

Entropic Bliss [040525]

'Tube Music No. 1' was created using recordings of EM signals produced by a Central Line tube train whilst travailing at speed, both underground and overground, between Holborn and North Acton. The signals were captured with the use of an EM coil pick up. 


Tube Music No. 1 (Central Line)

Threshold: is a temporal musical composition based on a field recording captured on the frozen shore of Loch Insh, just outside Kincraig in the Scottish Highlands, at the threshold between years (2025 → 2026).

Starting at one minute to midnight on 31.12.25, the original recording captures this ephemeral moment in real time and passage across the threshold in to the new year: distant voices counting down to midnight across the loch, fireworks echoing through the valley, geese startled into flight, wind and snow sweeping across the ice, and the resonant cracking of the frozen surface beneath the microphone.

The composition uses an aleatoric heterophonic structure where multiple instrumental voices interpret the same melodic material at different speeds and directions, creating sustained tension that mirrors the liminal quality of the midnight threshold. Musical material is derived from the ice's own resonance frequency (used as the root note), while melodic content is drawn from the notes of Auld Lang Syne, distributed across strings, tuned percussion, choir, and tape processed vocals.

The original ambisonic recording forms the sonic foundation, mixed to binaural for immersive spatial listening. Environmental events, particularly the fireworks, trigger key changes and textural development throughout the piece.


THIS IS AN 8 MIN ABRIDGED VERSION OF THE PIECE. 
Full length version (12 mins) will be releasing on BANDCAMP alongside accompanying visuals on Youtube: https://youtu.be/spUKblfb5ec?si=6z6EknTILHIzDPa7

Future developments may include an interactive web based version allowing listeners to spatially navigate and mix between individual stems in real time, and potentially a live performance score for choir, tuned percussion, and surround audio playback.

Headphones strongly recommended for full binaural experience.

Part of JnfH's Temporal Music series, an ongoing research and creative project exploring the relationships between time and music using site-specific sound and time based compositional processes.

JnfH | Kincraig, Scottish Highlands

FULL LENGTH RELEASE

Threshold | Loch Insh (A Temporal Composition) [Abridged]

Hippocampus (Work in Progress)

'Tube Music No. 3' was created using recordings of EM signals produced by a Northern Line tube train whilst travailing at rush hour between Elephant & Castle and Moorgate. The signals were captured with the use of an EM coil pick up. 

Tube Music No. 3 (Northern Line)

'Tube Music No. 2' was created using recordings of EM signals produced by a Bakerloo Line tube train whilst travailing between Paddington and Waterloo. The signals were captured with the use of an EM coil pick up. 

Tube Music No. 2 (Bakerloo Line)

This piece was created by dangling an Electromagnetic Pick-up in front of a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) television and recording the electro-magnetic signals that are produces by the 'electron gun' that fires down the tube onto the TV screen. 

The resulting mono audio is then processed and manipulated in such a way as to create an evolving and expansive harmonic spectrum of sound resulting in an organ like cacophony at its climax.

VISUALS

CRTV.em

'Tube Music No. 4' was created using recordings of EM signals produced by a District Line tube train whilst travailing between  Monument and Embankment station. The signals were captured with the use of an EM coil pick up.

Tube Music No. 4 (District Line)

This project is an exploration of Electromagnetic Interference/signals and how modern life is constantly saturated with these invisible/inaudible waves. This work started off as a slightly simpler concept, making music using different types of  light bulbs (Hence the name 'Bulb.em'). I built/put together quad E27 socket mounting rig on a goose-neck lamp arm to accommodate this idea.  However, after much experimentation, I decided to expand the piece to involve the use of other common electrical devices to help add texture and expand the timbre and sound as a whole. This also goes some way to help put across the findings of my explorations into the all encompassing nature of electromagnetic signals and electrical interference. 
Using an EM coil pick-up, (sometimes advertised as a 'phone tap pick-up') the EM signals are captured and sent through a Max patch where by they are processed and transposed.

The piece uses a multitude of common electrical devices such as, Smart Phone (changeable noise), Computer Monitor (constant tone and slight noise) Bluetooth Headset (constant tone), Bike Lights (high constant/rhythmic tone), Plugs (rising noisy tone) , Battery Charger (changeable noise & tone) and of course, Incandescent light bulbs (constant tone).

The concept for the '.em' series of work was, in part, instigated by the following piece from my 'Experiments with Time' series.

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Bulb.em

'Tube Music No. 5' was created using recordings of EM signals produced by a Jubilee Line tube train when travailing between Waterloo and Baker Street stations. The signals were captured with the use of an EM coil pick up.

Tube:Music No. 5 (Jubilee Line)

Dim.em

Train.em

This piece is written for 5  speed synchronized music boxes place around the audience and three interspersed Cellos, improvising a series of notes in correspondence with the alternating music boxes. Each box is playing the same set pattern however, they are each, in turn, specifically offset from one another, to create an evolving/encompassing texture.

Five Boxes/Three Cellos

This Piece was created using a recording of a single saxophone which has been stretched using multiple methods. The resulting audio was then layered over top one another at differing speeds to create flowing harmonies. 

Experiments with Time No. 18 (Soliloquy)

The EM signals used to create this piece were captured whilst in transit on a Number 21 Bus traveling southbound Between Moorgate and Old Kent Road. Incidentally, this was the last bus journey I took home before moving out of London in the summer of 2016. 

The sound was recorded via the use of 2 Electro-Magnetic coil pick-ups.

Layering the recording multiple times over its self and manipulating the speed at which the layers played over one another it creates many different interesting harmonies and seemingly random rhythms with just a single 2 channel sound source.

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