Baltazar’s Adventure through the Great Machine 
In early May 2019, composers working in the city of Sheffield recorded sounds in and around the Kelham Island Industrial Museum, using these to create musical works that resonate with the space and place of Kelham Island. In much the same way as one might imagine the transformation of the spaces of heavy industry, such as Brooklyn Works becoming residential accommodation, the ten sound artists transformed the sounds of Kelham Island, giving them a new home. 
This piece imagines the huge machines as if from a child-like fantasy. It follows the journey of fiction character - Baltazar - as he travels into, and through, the greatest machine of all.  Join Baltazar as he journeys through the Great Machine in search of its beating, mechanical heart. As the machine judders and splutters into life, will he avoid the pistons and valves, cogs and bursts of steam?  Warning: contains scenes of mild peril.

For Ozzy, Zac, and Kaia. 


Adam Stanović started composing electronic music some twenty years ago. At that time, early experiments with tape machines and a four-track mini-disc recorder led him discover the potential of recorded sounds, and he quickly started using computers as a tool for music-making. Ever since, Adam has considered the fixed medium as a canvass for his works which, although mostly acousmatic, are sometimes accompanied by instruments, electronics, film, and animation. In all cases, his music explores ways in which both pitch and noise coexist within recorded sound, with musical form often delivering one from the other. Adam’s music has been heard in over 400 festivals and concerts around the world. His works are available on 12 different CDs.

7 Adam Stanovic Baltazars Adventure Through The Great Machine (Prix Russolo 2020/21)

Performed by Ben Clark and Antonin Granier on 13.6.19 at LOOSE, LINE, LAYER in St. Mary-at-Hill, London.

The piece invites a child-like curiosity towards the instrument, and simply investigates its sonic possibilities. The materials arose from working collaboratively with percussionists Ben Clark and Antonin Granier. The first movement explores flexibility, the second looping elements, the third resonance.

Piece for three tuned cowbells (2019)

From the 2nd Album of NONSOUND : "Rock'n Roll Studies"
(Snow in Water Records, 2019)

ETHER

Excerpt from the fifth album of The Library Music Institute, "Modular Drawings" (Snow in Water Records, release date : 8 january 2020).

Modular Drawings - excerpt 02

ambient piano track made on Ipad, list of apps used:
Aum, fugue machine, collossus piano, eventide blackhole reverb, woodlofier,  korvpressor, and tb reelbus

Solo piano 2

Touch

A sonic ode to the electrical substation, maker of superb drones.

Made using only Mutable Instruments Clouds module with out puts patched back in inputs via attenuators.

Ode to a sub stationn

Ode to a substation

Time Slip

I like recording short snatches of radio from my Fieldkit and I used one for this week's project. The brief asked for a tortured sound so I performed a variety of mashing, slowing and speeding up, saturating and reverbing until the string sample became a dirty wall of noise. The track starts with the end result and then morphs into the original sample. The audio degradation then proceeds in the order they were applied with the resulting wavs overlapping a little to give a sense of continuity.


More on this 460th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Creative Destruction (The Assignment: Show how you got to a tortured sound), at:

https://disquiet.com/0460/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0460-creative-destruction/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Chris Smart and used via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/jDndy

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Fear Of What's To Come (disquiet0460)

A River In January (Naviarhaiku 368)

Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0474: Police Action
@disquiet

The Project: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.

I added two tracks of a Volca FM organ patch + Avalanche Run delay/reverb to fill out the bass and add some mid-high overtones and slight counter melody to tracks from @anotherbenjamin and @homeontheland . You can find their first two parts of our trio here:
https://soundcloud.com/anotherbenjamin/jam-time-2-of-3
https://soundcloud.com/homeontheland/jam-time-1-of-3-by-the-land-disquiet0472

More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians – at:

https://disquiet.com/0474/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0474-police-action/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Land, Bow and Stars - [ disquiet0474 - policeaction (3 of 3) ]

The new album of The Library Music Institute is now available : Lovesongs (Snow in Water Records, 2022)
www.snowinwater.com

The Library Music Institute is a collaborative project which is inspired by functional music. The musical trajectories of the albums can be very different: from minimalist experiments to electro-funk, from turntablism to modular explorations. Many albums to discover in this
tribute to the 70's Library Music, between aerial imagery, television soundtracks and cinematic nocturnal pieces.

https://librarymusicinstitute.blogspot.com/