Ambientronika (0..o)

The Transient Hour

a track made in 2007 for the wonderful label slaapwel-records

wouter van veldhoven - stukke rust

Ambient Xll

STYLUS : I VOW TO THEE, MY COUNTRY : THAXTED
A discredited theorem on celestial electromagnetism + astrologic mythology overlay before the Graduate Student Forum, Princeton 1953

Saturday 20 July 2013
Lucy and Vernon Wright Theater 
The University of Baltimore Student Center, Baltimore MD USA

Worlds in Collusion, a project of High Zero Foundation supported by The Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts and University of Baltimore present a live performance from Washington, DC-based STYLUS turntable ensemble, using prepared vinyl recordings + live digital editing in a score informed by Morse code, musica universalis + failed research methodology.

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"In Jupiter and its moons we have a system not unlike the solar family. The planet is cold, yet its gases are in motion. It appears probable to me that it sends out radio noises as do the sun and the stars." Immanuel Velikovsky

I VOW TO THEE, MY COUNTRY : THAXTED uses the Morse code transcription of Immanuel Velikovsky's comments on radio noises from Jupiter as notation for each turntable part, which is then played staccato + legato on vintage Classical recordings. The records are variously inscribed with block letters spelling C-O-L-L-I-D-E + J-U-P-I-T-E-R. Radio wave drones, Morse code, MIDI piano + live mixing/effects are also interspersed with the punctuated vinyl outbursts as turntablism roles/responsibilities shift between the players, in subtle mimicry of the transitions + transferences of radiographic energy. The piece closes with a melancholy epilogue for transistor radios, piano + cello.

STYLUS performs with multiple vintage classroom turntables as their instruments, using locked-groove + prepared vinyl to create a sound that is minimalist, pulse-like + hypnotic, yet also dynamic + punctuated. 

STYLUS participants for this performance: JS Adams (artistic director); Jeff Bagato; Michael Denny; Chester Hawkins; Guillermo Pizarro (live mixing + loops); Gary Rouzer + Jeff Surak. 

STYLUS warmly embraces the modern compositional elements of turntablism + the contemporary sound-art of Christian Marclay + Philip Jeck. Other influences include such historic constructs as the Futurist manifesto L'arte dei Rumori, Dadaism, Automatism + Russian Constructivism along with Louis Braille, Samuel F.B. Morse, Milan Knížák's Broken Music, the graphic scores of Cornelius Cardew + Fluxus performance, plus the prepared instrumentation + happenstance of John Cage.

WEB: www.stylus.adams-dress.com

THANKS! Chris Videll (audio recording); Raquel Leone (photograph); Jeff Carey : High Zero Foundation (Baltimore MD); Sonic Circuits (Washington DC); James L. Roth (MIDI); Doug Poplin : BLK w/BEAR + Bach Sinfonia (cello); H. Paul Moon : Zen Violence Films

© + ℗ 2013 Trace Music

STYLUS : I VOW TO THEE, MY COUNTRY : THAXTED : LIVE @ WORLDS IN COLLUSION

From the 0020 Survey of Classwar Karaoke:

http://www.classwarkaraoke.com/survey-0020/

Hobbler's Reel

Seesorr

Invited by Sir John's publisher Music Sales Classical in 2009 to consider a project with him in the future I created a series of rewordings and deconstructions of his work.

Here is one demo which I offer as a gift to his spirit on the day of his passing, 12 November 2013. That collaboration will never happen in the form we intended but very soon more will be revealed. RIP sir.

Mother of God (Sir John Tavener Mix)

untitled 06

koan ll

Yet another experiment with choral layering.

Choral Explorations No.3

Below the surface (edit from 4 AM CDr)

Ghost (edit from 4 AM CDr)

tonight's sound is simple but has a lot of potential if done right, which i will continue to explore. all i've got going here is a few sparse notes from a nord wave sound that i made going through a patch on an eventide h3000 that i call "warm freeze." it's based off the 'swept reverb' algorithm which i believe may actually be a very diffuse series of digital delays acting like reverb. i've set the feedback to 100% so it basically never dies away. in beautiful eventide fashion, even a reverb that is constantly added to rarely becomes too thick or overbearing…. it just keeps going.

and what i love is that the reverb tail contains all of the previous harmonics from the notes played.. add enough notes and it could start to turn to noise. you can hear it 2/3 the way through to the fade start to modulate as frequencies within the reverb begin to beat against one another. really cool.

i think with a really quiet sound and a proper eq and mix i could definitely use this technique to do something we could all drift off to.

Jan 20, 2014 (warm freeze)

Marsen Jules-(02) Während

Originally conceived as a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration between composer Max Richter, choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie, Max Richter’s gorgeous score to ‘infra’ is deservedly given life of its own in this album-length release from FatCat’s instrumental/orchestral imprint 130701 Records.

The initial setting for ‘infra’ was as a ballet - written in autumn 2008 and premiered in November of the same year at The Royal Opera House in London – although here Richter’s score is given the full scope of a standalone new album. Expanded and extended from the original piece, ‘infra’ comprises music written for piano, electronics and string quintet, including the full performance score as well as material that has subsequently developed from the construction of the album – more a continued reference to the ballet than as a “studio album” in the strictest sense. The composition resonates with Max’s characteristic musical voice – majestic, involved textures; fluent and sweeping melodies; an enigmatic and inherently intellectual understanding of harmonic complexities that compels and mesmerizes.

Richter’s work on the ballet came initially from McGregor’s invitiation, a request for 25 minutes of music for his piece, inspired by T.S. Elliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ and named after the Latin term for ‘below’. This eventually became more collaborative as the project developed – Wayne would ask for Max to extend or alter certain passages of music in accordance with his own amendments to his choreography and concept, whilst logging the whole process for a BBC documentary (broadcast, along with the ballet in full, on BBC2 in November 2008). The dance performance was backed with digital images created by Julian Opie – observational scenes of street life, haunting and curiously balletic despite being of the everyday – and Max’s score is an appropriately close reference to the traveling theme:

“I started thinking about making a piece on the theme of journeys. Like a road movie. Or a traveler’s notebook. Or like the second unit in a film - when the scene has been played, and the image cuts away to the landscape going by. This started me thinking about Schubert's devastating and haunting "Winterreise" (Winter Journey), so I used some melodic material from Schubert as a found object in parts of my new piece.“

The recording of ‘infra’ took place in one day at London’s AIR Studios – recorded onto 2” tape, engineered by Nick Wollage and overseen by Max - before a return to the mixing studio (Max’s StudioKino and Trixx in Berlin) for Max’s typically intricate and lengthy process of crafting completed pieces from the recordings.

Infra

Journey 3

2 x JRF hydrophones in the pond, South Gare, Teeside.

STE-033

Schamperballing

A Retrospective Collection of Sensitive Instrumentals from Scandinavia.

Sailboats on a lake in autumn. Late summer and the coming of the winter in the air. Music Video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eZFxKAGS6Z0



Pearl Track 01

from the album 'ravedeath, 1972'. available feb14th.

tim hecker 'hatred of music I'

001 SODIUM PENTOTHAL 00:00
002 IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE 06:49
003 HONOR CODE (TO NEITHER LIE CHEAT NOR STEAL) 17:30

BLK w/BEAR
JS Adams: loops; prepared vinyl; turntables
Doug Poplin: cello; effects
Renée Shaw: live video mix
+
Bernard Welt: narration (SODIUM PENTOTHAL)
Chris Videll (Tag Cloud): source material (SODIUM PENTOTHAL + IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE)
Michael Denny (Human Food): source material (SODIUM PENTOTHAL + IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE)

SONIC CIRCUITS presents
QUEERING SOUND 13 : FIN DE SIÉCLE
Saturday 01 June 2013
Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center
Silver Spring MD USA

Live Audience Recording: Chris Videll
Thanks: PD Sexton; Mark Beazley; Joseph Dress; Melissa Mullins; Rich Morel; Jeff Surak + Sonic Circuits volunteers; Pyramid Atlantic + Washington Printmakers Gallery; and to all QUEERING SOUND contributors + audience members

(c) + (p) Trace Music

BLK w/BEAR : LIVE : 01 JUNE 2013

(( x__o)) Hy! .·´¯'·.¸¸// [o_Ó] .·´¯'·.¸¸ // [o_Ó] ·.¸¸.·´¯'·.// [o_Ó] .·´¯'·.¸¸
 日本を愛する世界のツイッター達が、たった１週間で作り上 Anarchist Post-materialist Existentialist

Ambientronika (0..o)

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