Name: distinct by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
Duration: 5 min 31 s
Description: computer (program) reacting to electric guitar and improvising itself, guitar + coding Jukka, realtime recording.

JELLY BRAIN

2022-02-13

Quiet Night In A New Place

From one of my favorite, often-used sounds: https://freesound.org/people/The-Sacha-Rush/sounds/398006/

Metal Study #19

Ice Of The Doll [downloadable now]

Short  Zombie _ Z-nationを全部観ました

computer (program) reacting to electric guitar and improvising itself, guitar + coding Jukka, realtime recording.

distinct

2022-07-22

At Sunset

SenSen are : Senmove & Senglar
Field recordings : Joao MS

SenSen - One 2 Thin

- Texturex

I found a remix contest for this amazing track by Japanese singer & musician Cokiyu.  Unfortunately I was 3 years too late to enter.

Photo: Rushcutters Bay, on Digital Harinezumi taken by Super Magic Hats.

Cokiyu - Your Thorn (Super Magic Hats Remix)

Title:
Whipbird Bowerbird and Lyrebird Meet In A Pub

Dates:
20-Jun-2025 (inception), 20-Jun-2025 (finalised), 21-Jun-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/whipbird-bowerbird-and-lyrebird-meet-in-a-pub

Description:

DUE TO SOUNDCOULD SPACE LIMITATIONS, A BRIEF OUTLINE IS PROVIDED HERE.
See my BandCamp or FaceBook page for the full story.

A Whipbird, Bowerbird and Lyrebird walk into a pub ... the Austinmer Headlands Hotel. They share their ideas about the songs and sounds that interest them. The Whipbird reckons a high pitched crack in the sound is needed, the Bowerbird is distracted by the blue wrapping on the counter and the Lyrebird was busy imitating the Juke box. But soon, the conversation began to be musically more serious and they decided to have a music jam.

I spent most of my youth on the Eastern sea board on the state of NSW, Australia, walking in the forests (or the bush as it's known in Australia) and listening to the natural sounds of the trees and the birds that inhabited them. If you listen carefully, and are familiar with the calls of the Whipbird, Bowerbird and Lyrebird, you will hear where I got some of my inspiration from for this piece. Sure this is electronic music, but it is still played by a human with an organic feel and input.

Instruments featured in this piece are the PulseRectOsc, Soma Enner, Soma Pipe and the Soma Cosmos. Midi input comes from the Ableton Push2.

Read the full story on my BandCamp site or my FaceBook page.

The signal chain was as follows:
Audio:
Soma Enner or Soma Pipe -> Soma Cosmos -> Analogue to Digital Interface -> PulseRectOsc Audio Looper
Digital Synthesis:
Ableton Push2 midi hardware -> USB -> PulseRectOsc synthesiser -> PulseRectOsc Audio Looper

The scale used:
The Tuning is microtonal, combining two one dimensional frequency ratio vectors. The inner most frequency ratio vector defines the basic tuning, a untonal harmonic sequence of eight notes (fits nicely on the 8x8 pads of the Push2):

10/10
10/9
10/8
10/6
10/5
10/4
10/3
10/2

and the outer most tuning vector which transposes the first vector by increasing powers:

1/1
3/2

This is equivalent to tuning an eight string instrument in perfect fifths where each string has this untonal harmonic series.

See my BandCamp or FaceBook page for the final tuning system.


References:
[1] Eastern Whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus, native to the east coast of Australia, link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_whipbird
[2] Satin bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, endemic to eastern Australia, link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satin_bowerbird
[3] Lyrebird, Superb lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae, south-eastern Australia, from southern Victoria to south-eastern Queensland, link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrebird 
[4] Austinmer Hotel, AUSTINMER Headlands Hotel, 1932, Samuel Wood, Wollongong City Library, link: https://wollongong.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/FULL/OPAC/ALLENQ/95517605/17538511,4

Whipbird Bowerbird and Lyrebird Meet In A Pub

Finnish composer, producer, writer and visual artist, focused mainly to algorithmic processes, computer-assisted composition, and various other methods based on cybernetics, chaotic dynamics and stochastic systems, among others. Most programs written by author, various languages. 

Studied musicology at University of Helsinki, computing at OU, Milton Keynes, private studies in composition. Musical genres, from avant-garde/postminimal chamber music to minimal techno, wonky/noskool, IDM, electronica, ambient, experimental. 

distinct

Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

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