Driven by the intersection of Alexey Titarenko's photography and Timothy J. Keller's reflections on Tolkien.

Kingdom of Shadows

Recorded in three takes (keys, drums, then bass) using an M-Audio Trigger Finger I had in my backpack, around 2AM April 6, 2004 on a platform floating on the bank of the Hudson river in Troy, New York, at approximately 42.733579, -73.690824. The location was memorable, but the only reason I recall the date is because I saw Dan Deacon perform at Artie's Riverstreet Stage earlier than night. At one point in Dan's set he dropped the mic during the bridge of a song, ran around the block, and tried to pick up where he left off. But someone had hidden the mic.

Hudson

Watashi

The intro from "Men Techiyé Medritu" by Alèmayehu Eshété (Éthiopiques vol. 22) prompted with "Oldschool boom-bap hip-hop beat" on Suno v3.5.

Bolo Bolobo

there are 17 people on the wireless network. \
someone is using dropbox to transfer a file. \
it's a pretty big file. \
250 megabytes so far. \
they've been to starbucks before. \
they’ve also been to J F K airport. \
the file transfer is happening on port number eighty eighty. \
hey, someone just walked in with an apple device. \
it looks like it might be an iphone. \
they just post something to twitter. \
and they’re using facebook. \
someone else just started up skype. \
now they're grabbing an image from news.bbc.co.uk

Wifi Whisperer

Generated with https://github.com/MattVitelli/GRUV using a 60 second jungle-style Amen break, reversed and resampled to fit in about 1MB of WAVE data. The GRUV output is then reversed and resampled, which is why the ending sounds more coherent than the beginning. Generated on 8/20/15.

GRUV x Amen Break

Two Thousand Something

samples from 808, circuit bent keyboard <a href="http://www.freesound.org/people/charliecrash/packs/486/?page=2#sound" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.freesound.org/people/charliecrash/packs/486/?page=2#sound</a> , shaker. in reason. it's a rainy winter day in stuyvesant heights and people are yelling on the streets. it's a couple dozen cents out of tune (tuned to keyboard). the first two notes were an accidental combination of too many samples from the keyboard.



Stuyvescene

trying to get something more ambient worked out. turned into house music instead. working from think coffee near fourteenth street.

Fourteenth Street

Recorded for Caitlin during the summer of 2009 in Imperial Beach, San Diego.

Swingset

working with the same glitched keyboard sample again, plus some speak and spell, rhodes. getting more minimal.

Say it

super minimal now, just some reverb-y noise from a horn loop, kick, rhodes.

Sun and rain

5/4 wip, originally played with a single finger on the guitar.

Leaving

Just saw waves. Sound design for an installation with Joanie Lemercier. Listening to too much Mark Fell recently.

Just square waves. Sound design for an installation with Joanie Lemercier.

Square

Recorded in Faro, Portugal and composed in September, 2009 during a residency at DeVIR-CAPa working on 3D scanning.

Faro

Experimenting on the plane back from CLICK festival.

Kyle McDonald

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