Color 35 | October 3.2024

ascesa

A slow drone with a hint of melody coming through, using only the Terra. I layered two versions of this in Logic, subjecting each of the tracks to different effects and panning - mainly reverb based effects and Arturia's Motion. There is a bit of noise in the mix. At first I struggled to isolate it but then grew to like how it added a bit of grit and also triggered interesting pops and sparkles in the Zoia patch I was using in the initial mix. So, I'm going to consider it an aesthetic choice for now.

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Espaciados

Mayonnaise

This morning's "what if" . . .  what if I played the root note of each shakuhachi in different octaves, in other words, re-voicing the three root notes of B, C & D shakuhachis. Here are the results.

CBD shakuhachi

based around a synth pad from the PS1 game "fluid". i added some lightly hand-edited dub drum loops, and later programmed a second kit to play call and response with the dub drums. a bass pulse was added to keep things moving. the "2001 space" patch from newfangled audio's generate synth was layered in, as was an improvised lead piano line. textural samples from mode audio and another PS1 game, "silent hill", help thicken the atmosphere. some quiet volume-faded guitar emerges before the closing vinyl slowdown effect (unfiltered audio's needlepoint vst).

[naviarhaiku583] out of the blue

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 584:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku584-heaven-and-earth/
Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!
Photo by zenbytes (Germany, 2018)

snow fluttering down - Naviarhaiku584

This week's task is rather serendipitous in that I am actually engaged in some minor wood working this weekend. I recently built a small Buchla 100 system (and its case), consisting of what is shown in the image and the as yet unhoused (and not shown) 114 touch control module, which is what the piece of unstained pine sitting on top of the Buchla is destined for. I selected pine because my woodworking skills are still rather rudimentary so working with higher priced and more difficult lumber makes me nervous. Plus, there is something comforting about pine's ubiquity and approachability. Making a mistake with pine seems excusable. Doing so with walnut or oak less so. That said, I got to thinking about the pine that I picked up at my local lumber shop in terms of the conditions under which it is grown and the vast quantities of trees that are stripped from the land so that people like me can make boxes for their vintage synthesizers. Sonically, I imagined this as a somewhat discordant drone, with peaks and valleys and occasional moments of harmony. The trees grow, mainly in a state or quietude, before they are cut down and processed to the sound of chain saws and saw blades. And then everything goes quiet again as the next crop is planted.  Graphically, I notated this imagined scenario as a series of constant lines, punctuated here and there with peaks, valleys, bright and dark spots, representing in part the knots and impurities in the pine but also the experience of the piece of wood in its transition from tree to commodity. Everything you hear was created on my humble System 100, which was first fed through the Empress Zoia pedal using the "soft focus" effect created by Christopher H.M. Jacques and then further transformed in Logic using "fragments," and "motion" from Arturia, with hints of the unprocessed Buchla emerging here and there. And there was panning. Lots of panning, so headphones are the preferred listening approach.

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First Reeds

experimental/free improvisation, prepared electric guitar, trumpet, electronics

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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. 

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Jukka-Pekka Kervinen