acousmatic and other live sound manipulation

maximum max

Generative/Noise

from 'kibako ' (2012)
http://www.rustblade.com/

kikoezu mori (0303)

Francis Dhomont - Drôles d'oiseaux

This recording is available to download at: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/merzbow/

Merzbow Boiler Room Tokyo Live Set

LIVE @ AISF

Title track from Leafcutter John's new album, Resurrection(Pathway009)

A panoramic sound world of drifting vocals over a densely-processed terrain of mud-caked percussion and guitar, Leafcutter John’s new solo album, Resurrection, is a characteristically unique blend of the electronic and the acoustic, the hi-tech, the human and the homemade.
Resurrection is the sixth Leafcutter John album and his first solo release since 2006’s The Forest and The Sea CD/LP(Staubgold). In the intervening nine years, John has toured from Vietnam to Venice, appeared live with Beck Hansen and Imogen Heap, and provided the score for Crow, a major theatre project by Handspring (creators of War Horse). 

During this time, John has also maintained his permanent role as the unpredictable, electronic antagonist in Polar Bear, the twice Mercury Music Prize-nominated, genre-defying jazz band.
This new record marks fifteen years of releases by Leafcutter John. Born John Burton in Wakefield (Yorkshire, England), his highly original musical voice was first spotted by Mike Paradinas, label boss of Planet Mu Records. Over the course of his first three albums (2000-2003), John established and developed his idiosyncratic London-based studio, and his skills as an inventor of unusual instruments and extraordinary music software.
Resurrection begins with the sound of a single bell, in homage to one of John’s major influences, Bernard Parmigiani’s De Natura Sonorum (1976). From there, the album unfolds over five cinematically varied tracks, “like floating above a world in constant flux,” in John’s own words. In fact, aerial photographs of the Japanese tsunami of 2011 were a direct inspiration for the record.
“I would create complete, fully-formed compositions,” says John, “then later, I’d come back to them, playing the part of
the destroyer, scraping and smearing away elements, weathering, piling up and re-ordering them, as if they’d been hit by a natural disaster.”
Not content with the usual tools available to the electronic musician, John has created innovative new systems and techniques for both live performance and production. This includes a light-controlled instrument that allows him manipulate his live sound through gesture, flickering candles, flashing torches and pyrotechnics. For the track “Gulps,” John coded special software to layer huge swathes of sound. Using a recursive system, he created 7.1 billion layers of a recording of the North Sea, one for each human alive on the planet at the time of writing.
Featuring a guest appearance by Shabaka Hutchings (Sons of Kemet), “Gulps” is a poignant demonstration of John’s
approach: Hutchings’ intimate clarinet is gradually engulfed by a (literal) ocean of sound. This is sculptural sound design
where technological innovation is always at the service of the emotional impact of the music: deeply human at its root, and
mind-expanding in its ambition.

Desire Path Recordings
www.desirepathrecordings.com | leafcutterjohn.com

Credits
Written and produced by Leafcutter John, with Varpu
Kronholm playing additional percussion on “I Know You
Can” and Shabaka Hutchings playing Clarinet on “Gulps.”
“Endless Wave” contains elements of “Forest Of Spades” by
Strings Of Consciousness, used with permission.
Mastered by James Plotkin
Photography by Max Baillie
Design by Chris Koelle, Leafcutter John, and Varpu Kronholm

Distributed by Revolver

Leafcutter John - Resurrection

Elements Chord Mode

The Brvtalist is proud to present a new mix by legendary artist Cindytalk. Aptly titled "Shadow Time", this is a haunting, psychological journey that takes you to the depths of the soul and back. For more information please visit: www.thebrvtalist.com/newbrvtalism053/ 

@cindytalk 
Image by Max Kuiper 

CINDYTALK SHADOW TIME MIX Feb/Mar2016

SATOSHI KON INTRO (PAPRIKA)
01 - AKKORD - GRAVURE [ CONTINUUM (FIS HAYFIELD TO NEW MILLS (VERSION) ] (Houndstooth)
02 - SHAPEDNOISE - INTRUDER (Type)
03 - CINDYTALK - I MYSELF AM AN ABSOLUTE ABYSS (Editions Mego)
04 - THE SPRAWL - PERSONALITY UPLOAD (The Death Of Rave)
05 - KERRIDGE - FATAL LIGHT ATTRACTION * 4 (Downwards)
06 - ROLY PORTER - IN FLIGHT (Tri-Angle)
07 - AKKORD - MONOLITH (Houndstooth)
08 - KERRIDGE - FATAL LIGHT ATTRACTION * 1 (Downwards)
09 - THE SPRAWL - FROM WETWARE TO SOFTWARE (The Death Of Rave)
10 - AKKORD - HTH20 (THE HAXAN CLOAK’S CLOUD OF WITNESS) (Houndstooth)
11 - SHAPEDNOISE - ESCALATION (Type)
12 - MUMDANCE - THE SPRAWL (Rinse)
13 - MUMDANCE & LOGOS - HALL OF MIRRORS (Tectonic)
14 - KERRIDGE - SONIC INSTRUMENTS OF WAR #02 (Contort)
15 - ROLY PORTER - MASS (Tri-Angle)
16 - CINDYTALK - SLEIGHT OF MIND (Editions Mego)


New Brvtalism No. 053 - Cindytalk


Inspired by short-wave radio broadcasts, polar expeditions and NOISE.
This track is from part 1, of a 3 part series.
All tracks from part 1 are available on bandcamp.

rotherapoint.bandcamp.com/album/transmissions-i


This project was my main body of work in 2012-2013.

For new material find me on:

Facebook
www.facebook.com/Rothera.Point.Transmission/

Material will be a lot more regular this year as a lot of things are coalescing. New project with 2015-16 material will be nearing completion once all parts of this series have been released.

-Conrad


Download on BandCamp

Transmissions I - Tor Kyrka Håll ii (DUGA)

Taken from the C36 Cassette 'Grey Scale'.

http://alterstock.bigcartel.com/product/alt29-carre-grey-scale-c36-pre-order

https://carre-alter.bandcamp.com/album/grey-scale

CARRE - LFTM #1 (ALT29)

This work is dedicated to Annette Vande Gorne and Musique et Recherches.

A series of memories interrupt, overlap and flow into one another on a summer's day.

This piece is made exclusively from field-recordings taken in Brussels and Ohain in July 2011 and was begun at the studios of M&R and completed in the composer's own studio.

The creation of this piece was supported by the PRS Foundation and the Bliss Trust.

The Sun Warms The Memory (2011)

05 Jonty Harrison EQ

Output from a software patch i'm working on to make music out of user input. The input in this case is any number. All the patterns are generated from this number, there is no randomness used in the software, so if you enter the number twice you get the same output. These examples also use one source sample which i was changing throughout. Still lot's I want to do with this, the melodic parts could do with a lot of work for example...

Generative max/msp patch test 01

Bol-Hydre (2011) is a musical piece by Gilles Gobeil (Quebec) writed for the Bol (Jean-Francois Laporte new invented instrument) and tape music.

The peice was commissioned by Productions Totem Contemporain and receive support by the Canada Arts Council. 

Bol-Hydre

à Bernard Parmegiani

Pièce composée à la demande d'Annette Vande Gorne, pour le concert - anniversaire des 80 ans de Bernard Parmegiani, festival L'Espace du Son, Bruxelles.

Lors de mes premières incursions dans le monde de la musique électroacoustique, je pensais n'y être que de passage. J'étais circonspect, distant, presque sur mes gardes.
Jusqu'au jour où j'ai entendu la musique de Bernard Parmegiani. 

J'ai alors basculé de l'état de visiteur à celui de nouvel habitant, dans un sentiment soudain de compréhension et d'appartenance.

Composer cette pièce a donc été pour moi un juste retour des choses.

Ici, je me suis réapproprié quelques aspects de la musique de Bernard Parmegiani (matières et processus) que j'ai mêlés à ma propre expression.