Armonica  plz

Valley Girl was inspired by the agriculture and landscapes of Oakland, California and its  horizon of rolling hills. The peaks and valleys of the album's landscape are made of fifteen computer generated tones that cycle through melodies driven by ambisonic surround-sound locations to define space.

Computer tones were treated with phase-modulation of triangle waveforms to control the duty cycle of the sine tone. This created a prickly crispness and coiled release that enabled frequency registers to shift back and forth with various levels of control. I used my voice and vocal harmonizer with a midi arpeggiator to make a gated succession of notes in a more controlled frequency range.

The computer material was recorded live with little editing besides the addition of silence to accentuate vocals as a separate entity. The voice was then placed in the silences - or valleys - between melodies. The vocals were recorded live to tape from a parallel practice of recording processed voice improvisations with electronics.

Valley Girl evolves from the synthetic sounds I have been generating on computers for the past several years. When I perform live it typically involves computer synthesis. With the addition of processed voice in the silent spaces of the album five pieces, I have in a way marked the topography of Valley Girl with human traces.    - Madalyn Merkey, 2014

       

Madalyn Merkey - Archipelago

swing machine

from the album Charles Cohen - "Brother I Prove You Wrong" out on Morphine Records 2015 - doser026LP

Composer, improviser, and Buchla Music Easel master Charles Cohen returns to Morphine with a suite of new material. In keeping with the timbre spectrum of his semi-modular system, Brother I Prove You Wrong is built around pointillist analog tones—Cohen's cosmic "beeps and boops"—that swarm and scatter in mesmeric patterns across four sides. Moving through surrealistic textural overlays and industrial miasma, the album's nine tracks reveal a more introspective and personal side of the artist, following from a retrospective LP trilogy released via Morphine in 2013. Those assembled works, dating back to the late '70s, quickly became essential listening and brought Cohen—at the time largely unknown outside Philadelphia's experimental circuit—to critical renown. 

Brother I Prove You Wrong was recorded in Berlin in September 2014 using the Buchla Music Easel, with production help and support from Rabih Beaini. Mastered by Neel and curated and designed by TankBoys; cover art by Nathalie du Pasquier.

Charles Cohen - The Boy and the Snake Dance

'August 2010' is a 4-track tape recording. Recorded in Chicago apartment during the month of August 2010. The tape features extensive tape manipulation, speed changes, and delay. 

 http://irmaveptapes.com/sc/August2010.wav 
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/9240/

August 2010

From "Transform | Transport | Transcend"
(http://aufnahmeundwiedergabe.bandcamp.com/album/transform-transport-transcend)

DIE SELEKTION - Faust

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GND ∞, live at Berghain, Berlin, 25.05.2013 (excerpt)

GND ∞, Live@Berghain, 25.05.2013

Artists: Hieroglyphic Being
Project: The Universe Next Door
Label: Music From Mathematics
Catalog: MFM CD - 024
Genre: Experimental-Industrial-NOise-Damaged Beats
Release: June 24, 2013
Sounds: 10
Demo: Recorded Live Analog In One take Rough & Raw Glitches & odd Spacing
Publishing: Mathematics Communications Inc (Ascap) 2013.
Limited Edition: 88

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