A collection of creations from the #LoopAtHome Daily Challenge: Instruction Music.

For more details on the music-making challenge and how to take part go to: https://loop.ableton.com/loop-at-home/daily-challenge-instruction-music/

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#LoopAtHome – Instruction Music Challenge

Ludwig

Celestophone

Endless Transmission

Oscar's Arp

Preview sound for a nightwalk called NachtVinder (night-finder) with musicians, dancers, food, poet and yoga teacher 21st of octobre 2022 in Ede, Netherlands. As a soundartist i composed a track inspired on meeting glowworms in the night and asked a soprano singer to give them a voice in this track.

teaser Glimwormen Nachtvinder

little ditty to demo the ultra-rare EMS Vocoder 3000 I had just restored. Nice Soloing by my DYI modular "Wavefreaker"

EMS Vocoder 3000 Demo

Pre-order 'Golden Times 1' on EP/DL here: phonofile.link/golden-times-1

Electronic producer Max Cooper and ambient master Tim Hecker rework Ben Lukas Boysen on his new EP Golden Times 1 – out on Erased Tapes, June 30th 2017.

Championed by many including BBC Radio DJ Mary Anne Hobbs as the standout track from his most recent album Spells, Boysen’s Golden Times 1 forms the very heart of his new EP with the same name. Boysen entrusted none other than Max Cooper and Tim Hecker to meticulously shape and lure the title track plus second single Nocturne 4 into two entirely separate territories, yet never drifting too far away from their original soundscapes. With Evensong the composer himself contributes a previously unreleased piece. It is yet another example that Boysen is still opening new and unexplored doors in a bid to challenge the existing realm of contemporary music he is very much a part of.

Words from Ben and Max, May 2017:

“Spells was somewhat of a conceptual release for me, so the choice of the remixing artists and where the original material could be taken was very important. Max and Tim, both being role models for me ever since I began listening to their work and who delivered this incredible abstraction, I felt were spot on for this release and were dream candidates to work with. Their ability to re-direct and even re-invent the original material, partially subtle, and with an almost brutish sense of imagination, honors the originals deeply.” 
— Ben Lukas Boysen

“Ben has been one of my most listened to artists of the past year or so. His last two albums in particular, have meant a lot to me, and provided me with focus when I needed it. So I was excited to have a chance to remix his work. I felt like I couldn't improve on his idea, but what I could do was take what was the core for me, and expand it. It was just a matter of running with the feeling I got from his original, sticking with his melodic forms and original instrumentation, and letting the growing intensity continue along it's established path to the only possible end point of total annihilation in chaos and distortion. My version is almost a continuation of his original if it was allowed to blossom into percussive format, rather than a traditional remix.” 
— Max Cooper

The golden EP cover art was created by Torsten Posselt at FELD as an extension from the initial album artwork he also created for Spells.

Tracklisting:

1. Golden Times 1	
2. Evensong 
3. Golden Times 1 (Max Cooper Remix)
4. Nocturne 4 (Tim Hecker Remix)

Ben Lukas Boysen - Golden Times 1 (Max Cooper Remix)

DOOR SHUTTER alt mix

Another track from Ableton's Loop At Home contest, more details here: https://loop.ableton.com/loop-at-home/daily-challenge-instruction-music/

This song is made entirely out of samples from the kitchen, I used the fridge door, a clock, a coffee grinder and a sodastream machine.

Kitchen Confessions

A little sound miniature made in some 3 hours for Ableton's daily challenge "instruction music". 
For the drone sound I used my Akai EWI to imitate my refrigerator's hum. Everything else is based on sounds I recorded in my kitchen today. Thanks Ableton - that was fun!

Küchenkram

Day three of Ableton #LoopAtHome and today's challenge is basically to recreate the sound of a fridge (or freezer in my case), sample some items from the kitchen and create a new track from it. And this is the result. 

For the freezer noise, I did my best approximation by humming at the same pitch. This was the same sound I used for the glassy melodic parts, although modified significantly through FX and filters. 

The percussion comes from a beer glass, followed by the sound of a beer can being opened. (I was getting thirsty!)

Once I had the basic fridge noise and rhythm, I added the three interweaving melody lines. They are actually, more or less the same part, just played at three different tempos and three octaves apart. Even if I do say so myself, the finished track gave me goosebumps.

What a fun weekend of experimentation!

Home Time

Out From The Cold

Submitted as part of #LoopAtHome challenge by Ableton. I used my voice as a fridge noise replica and made the drums from the fridge opening noises. The rest of the sounds used in the track are made from a drain protector, water splashes and a glass.

Kitchen Mix (#LoopAtHome Sunday)

Song written and performed (improvised on the spot) by sound-artist Remco de Kluizenaar in the night 6th of september 2020. Recorded with 2 oktava MK12 condensor mic's and an R26 waverecorder in "the Stinger Dome" (de Stingerbol) in Ede city, Netherlands, a sphere-shaped space 23 meters diameter with a particular hall sound. I performed 4 shows on saturday and sunday called "Friend or Foe" about the history of this military structure. The night after the last shows i was there for getting out my stuff and instruments. I was alone in this desolate space on a deserted building area, no electricity, only a torch for light, but i was not creeped out by it. Enjoying the silence there after an artist's residence week, in which i worked hard to write and rehearse this show in a very short time. In the residency i faced a lot of my own fears and doubts: climbing to height to build a string instrument out of the whole dome in this desolate space, having to work at night hours too all being the least. Even invited the local youth or drugaddicts to be my try-out audience and had nice chats with them. I overcame many shadows and most of all my feeling of vulnerability was about doing a first solo show of this 'weight'. So after having seen 4 audiences leave moved by the show, i felt liberated that night. I don't know what the lyrics mean, they just came this way without thoughts or rehearsing, but i think the "friend" and the "foe" in this song are not literally people, it is more about getting in peace with friends and foes inside, or about using the ego-struggle as a way to achieve more consciousness or peace.... i guess. Anyway, i like the atmosphere of this song, was happy with the slightly hoarse voice, due to having to whisper a lot of the texts in the shows, because that was the only way my audience could understand me in the extreme hall sound in there. The mic's are pretty closely placed directional mic's, so the hall sound only plays a subtle background role in this recording. The string instrument is a self built 15 stringed monochord with .73mm zither strings, 56 cm in length.

Friend Or Foe - Song By Remco De Kluizenaar Soundartist

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