Name: Study For Voice, Bells, And Dissonance by KokoVonKoko
Duration: 5 min 57 s
Description: After a long time of appreciating different kinds of music, I wanted to experiment with Audacity as a creative outlet. It consists of layers of my filtered voice, wave sounds, low frequency bells, and dissonance. After it was finished, it reminded me of a drowning victim.

Love Not Ichika's Pain OST - Her

Love Not Ichika's Pain OST - Hard Hitting Love

Daisuke Tanabe - Vestige

Japanese Breakfast - The Woman That Loves You

Night (Adna)

Bog Bog, The Electronic Ladyland Mixtape

Tracklisting & interview - http://www.infine-music.com/news/374/podcast-024-arandel

Check Arandel´s interview @ The Drone : http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/arandel-bog-bog-the-electronic-ladyland-mixtape/ 

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BOG BOG, the Electronic Ladyland

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PODCAST 024 - ARANDEL : Bog Bog - the Electronic Ladyland mixtape

Kyrielle is based on several Gregorian melodies from the Liber Usualis of the Roman Catholic Church, chants that are associated with Mary: an Agnus Dei, a Magnificat, and the Ave Maris Stella, with an Alleluia.  The three main chants form the three sections of the piece.  I put each chant in violin range, and then surrounded fragments of the chants with ornamental passages, thinking of the violin as if it were a voice that can easily make wide skips from note to note.  The resulting violin part consists of wide-ranging, shaped melismas surrounding phrases of chant.   In the score I include the words of the chants to help guide the violinist play these phrases as if she or he were a singer capable of singing in the enormous range of the violin.  The chants are translated below.   

1. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.  Dona nobis pacem. 
“Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.  Give us peace.”  

2. Magnificat anima mea Dominum, Et exultavit spiritus meus, in Deo salutari meo, Alleluia.  
“My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my saviour, Alleluia.”

3. Ave Maris stella, Dei Mater alma, Atque semper Virgo, Felix caeli porta.  Alleluia.
“Hail, star of the sea, blessed Mother of God, always-pure Virgin, gate of hapiness.  Alleluia.”  
		
The tape part forms a backdrop for the rising melodies of the violin.   I created the tape part on a Macintosh G4 computer, using C-Sound and ProTools.  

Kyrielle was commissioned and recorded by violinist Airi Yoshioka, and is   
available for purchase on Albany Records: http://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY1305

Kyrielle for violin & electronic music (2006)

There are many three-note closely spaced chords presented as melodies, and other textures with three or four voices.  By the end you will have moved through many different soundscapes. 

Triples

After a long time of appreciating different kinds of music, I wanted to experiment with Audacity as a creative outlet. It consists of layers of my filtered voice, wave sounds, low frequency bells, and dissonance. After it was finished, it reminded me of a drowning victim.

Study For Voice, Bells, And Dissonance

For more info on how I recreated this music track, check out my video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq9d_A61_KA

Courage the Cowardly Dog: Boat Chase (Music Recreation)

Daphne Oram is best known for her design of her Oramics system, and also for co-founding the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1958. At the time of writing, the only easily available piece of music by her on CD has been the 8 minute long ‘Four Aspects’. There was also a 7” EP from 1962 on HMV, released as part of the ‘Listen, Move and Dance’ series that was specifically designed to help children dance. Although the short pieces on this record are very basic it could be argued that this was the first ever electronic dance record! 
Now for the first time is a survey of nearly all the major pieces that she produced since her departure from the BBC in January 1959 until her final tape piece in 1977. During this time she worked independently in her home studio, and thanks to a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation in 1962 she was able to persue her interest in developing her own electronic music. In Britain there were no state funded studios other than the Radiophonic Workshop which in its earliest times mainly existed at the behest of the drama studio and was not generally seen as a place to develop personal artistic ideas. There were also no university studios at this time, so it was necessary for British electronic composers to be self funded. Throughout this period she devoted her attention to developing her Oramics ‘drawn sound’ system, which consisted of a large machine that enabled patterns drawn on transparent 35mm film to be converted into sound. This system was eventually fully realised in the late 60’s and several pieces here incorporate its use.
The 2 and a half hours of music on this 2CD set covers the whole range of Oram’s post BBC output. All of the music is electronic with some occassional use of instruments, especially small percussion and piano frame. There is also some use of musique concrète techniques. The works fall roughly into the following catagories: works for TV and cinema advertising, film soundtracks, music for theatre productions, installations and exhibitions as well as concert pieces and several studio experiments. Also included are 4 mini compositions that resulted from an experimental music course given by Oram at a high school in Yorkshire in 1967.

Study For Voice, Bells, And Dissonance

KokoVonKoko

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