A short series of patterns in sequenced found percussion, made from one-shot samples of household objects; bowls, cups, glasses and the like. I recorded the sounds on my iphone's voice memos, which gave them a rough, noisy quality.

https://leonlouder.bandcamp.com/album/mechanical-dances-2

Mechanical Dance B1 - 118BPM - MIX 7 FinalMasterVs2

A short series of patterns in sequenced found percussion, made from one-shot samples of household objects; bowls, cups, glasses and the like. I recorded the sounds on my iphone's voice memos, which gave them a rough, noisy quality.

The Octatrack sampler that these were made on permits the user to layer different time signatures, resulting in odd-sounding rhythms, as well as to fine-tune the sounds. This is the only music I had time to make during the first lockdown, at home with a one year old learning to walk, and it fittingly describes the manic feeling of that life, a contrast to the emptiness and quiet outside.

Mechanical Dance A2 114BPM - MIX 7 FinalMasterVs2

Mechanical Dance A1- 96BPM MIX 7 FinalMasterVs2

Habitat is a controlled experiment in electronically-assisted aleatoric composition/improvisation, featuring (mostly) acoustic sounds from pianos, a homemade zither, vibraphone, double bass, violin, radios, found percussion and occasionally synthesizers. The recordings feature collaborators Martin Rodriguez (radios, electronics), Gabrielle Godbout (vibraphone), Rodney Sothmann (double bass), and Samuel Bobony (drums, electronics), and were produced with support from the CALQ and the Canada Council For The Arts.

Leon Louder/Scattered Ensemble - Habitat ( album preview )

04 Plein De Lumiere (Full Of Light)

01 Plumages (Markings)

A club mixtape for a train-wrecking civilization overrun with meme politics and neo-reactionary tech bros, YKMB calls to mind a hyper-populated urban jungle seething with interwoven snippets of mangled melody and meaning, channeling a world growing ceaselessly complex and opaque, not to mention deranged and scary. Created by feeding radio stations into a sampler and editing the samples in realtime, sounds shout and scream at each other, endlessly shapeshifting looping segments interlaced in a race for attention. With drum machine spasms and hisses of static they form a multi-dimensional danceable detritus. — questioning how we process (mis)information, and ultimately, which voices empower or overpower, and ultimately, who is in charge?

7 - Magnetic Enemy

6 - Calm the F**K Down

5 - Clown Life

4 - Ur A Pig!

3 - Autocorrecting

2 - Marginalisé

1 - Nouveau Son

L'Insectarium de Montréal, un des cinq musées d'Espace pour la vie, présente Entomophonie, une Célébration de l'entomophilie par le son avec l'artiste Leon Louder.

The Montréal Insectarium, one of five Espace pour la vie museums, presents Entomophonie, a Celebration of Entomophilia through sound by composer Leon Louder.

Commissioned by the Montreal Insectarium as a live performance on the MUTEK festival's outdoor stage,
The artist used various sampling and sound manipulation techniques to craft music entirely from insect sounds.

Drawing inspiration from an affinity for the harmony-in-chaos of nature, and urgency from the crisis of insect extinction currently facing the world, the tracks present a sensory journey. with attention to naturally occurring irregularity magnifying a miniature world.

11 - Psyche (reprise)

8 - Perce - Oreille

6 - L'Envolée

5 - Psyché

4 - Toccata Tropical

3 - Dialogue

2 - Pollinisateurs

1 - Chorale

Feast

Mockingbird

Rockinghorse

08 Pseudo (24 - 44 Master V1 - Digital)

02 Interlace (24 - 44 Master V1 - Digital)

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