Jamuary 2024

I woke up this morning with "Cardboard Lamb" stuck in my head. Hmm, the Circle K image doesn't quite make sense as a still. You need to see the video.

Jamuary 11

Still getting the hang of the Oxi One. I think about 80% of what I do on it is on purpose, the rest are accidents - mostly happy accidents.

Jamuary 12

For jam 13 I did some banana patching. I suppose you could call this an exercise in peculiar panning.

Jamuary 13

For jam 14 ebow guitar with a bitwig rack with four parallel looping delays

Jamuary 14 - ebow and looping delays

For jam 15 I wrote a normal-ish tune and then remade the instruments with Synplant2's resynthesis engine. I then warped it to noise by modulating the grow parameter. Apologies for stray high freqs. I tried to come up with a clean way to tame some of the highs that resulted from the growing the sound.

Jamuary 15 - synplant decomposition

Jam with my Serge system over a bed of sputtering Pulsar 23.

Jamuary 30 - serge and pulsar23 jam

Jonathan Zorn works as a composer, performer, and curator of experimental, electronic, and improvised music. His electronic music pairs improvising musicians with interactive computer systems to create hybrid, human-machine ensembles. Zorn's interest in vocal utterance has resulted in a series of pieces in which spoken language is interrupted by electronic forces, drawing attention to the gap between speech and sound. Zorn has been active as an improvisor on bass and electronics for 15 years and has performed at Red Cat, the Walker Art Center, the Verona Jazz Festival, the Library of Congress, the Seattle Festival of Improvised Music, Line Space Line Festival, and the Chelsea Art Museum. His work has been published in Ord und Bild, the SEAMUS Journal, Notations 21, and UbuWeb. 