A track from the 2021 CD 'Magneto Mori: Vienna' on Canti Magnetici.

Magneto Mori: Vienna

Non - Existent Days

Become Shut, Draw Together (from Days Collapse, Another Timbre)

At HBO if I sound designed or composed something I really liked or thought was exceptional, I made a 1⁄4” copy on my “master” reels. There were MANY different things on these reels for HBO, ESPN, Comedy Central, E!, etc. I then took 10 years worth (1989 – 1998) of these masterpieces home to my studio and surgically edited and removed THE BEST bits of my 10 years of work - I thru them in a huge plastic bucket. This took months and the bucket got very full and as luck would have it, my young son and his friend played “chop- chop” one day on these tape fragments in the bucket, a further unsupervised edit. I proceeded to edit and layer all these pieces together. I found myself telling little stories about creating all this sound, what it was like to be a post production sound designer/mixer day in and day out at HBO, all the things you’d hear, all the very talented people you get to record, and the memories of it all. I was blessed and I hear that in every edit I made here, piecing my masters together – MASTERPIECING. I honestly hope that this helps explain all the sound works I make today – mine was always a life of listening and striving to create the best sounds I can, sound that opened my mind.

MASTERPIECING  (1998)

João MS & Senglar - Ashes (with Senmove)

DS163 - Will Guthrie & Jean-Luc Guionnet - '1.11.21 - Part 2'

Using the Thunderbird to sculpt the bandwidths. Video of this patch here: https://youtu.be/m1frJJ0VkHk

Spectral Thunderbird

Floating

34 Stan Economy

Running miles for days
Looking for a message in your eyes yeah
Cuz somewhere deep in the lies I know
I know I know I know that I'll
See your face yeah
Running in and out of your maze

We went back and forth back and forth
Back and forth tryna find some force to
Stop all the lies stop all the cries yeah
Saying your name at just the right time

We went back and forth
Back and forth for days
Trying to display our love
But it was never the same yeah never the same

Running miles for days
Looking for a message in your eyes yeah
Cuz somewhere deep in the lies I know

mirage

Une voix parcourt le Rhône - I
Cette œuvre de Julie Rousse est le fruit d'une recherche qui a commencé en 2019, travail au long cours donnant corps à la voix du fleuve Rhône. Field recordings, procédés expérimentaux et création sonore.

Une voix parcourt le RhÃ´ne

III - Coeur de Fleuve

a quick test of the nlc dp filter (headphones recommended):

a bunch of chopped up noodles from a doepfer system stuck inside a squid salmple, the mix of which is randomly addressed, reduced, and crushed, then sent to the dpf, and plays alongside a main sine noodle from an a-143-9. the diode half of the dpf has a high-ish q setting (which is kinda tame compared to other filters) and a low cut off, and later is modulated by a low rate of digital noise from the a-117 and a sine lfo from a second a-143-9. the transistor side (which has no input and is internally fed by the diode side via photo-couplers) has a maxed out q  and an even lower cut off, and its cv2 is randomly assigned the 2 oscillators section from the a-117 808 source via a switch, which gives it that wild feedback sound. the output of the dpf is monitored from the sum output, and a tiny bit of reverb is added in ableton.

this filter is very  touchy, and depending on how its built, can have a very narrow range on control (as mine does,) and the transistor ladder only really gets fired up if the diode ladder is hot enough (mine uses MCT9001 photo-couplers,) so you can get all these really interesting 'edge of breakup' sounds, to use the dirt-pedal/guitar amp parlance of the day...and its quite nice if you can dial it in, but it does takes some patience.

it also gets *real* bonkers when you start swapping the q path and monitoring different outputs...but i haven't really figured out how to bend any of that to my will yet...

Untitled XV

John Wiggins is a four-time Emmy winning sound designer for TV and film, living in New York. His work at HBO spanned over 35 years, and in 2017 won honorable mention at MA/IN InterMedia and honorable mention in Luc Ferrari’s “Presque Rien” competition. His works have played at NYCEMF 2019 & 2021 and his CD release “The Listened To Sound”
“All my work is music concrete”. 
Using only sounds he records himself, he assembles short pieces, like films made from the sounds of everyday objects and places.