Travelogue Album
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- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936


1 - Little Island
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1Lwdm9k52ZZpCwKleQ2Wtx?si=K9d0U20TS9yq0b5SyubcAQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/little-island/1808904936?i=1808904940

2 - Family Complex
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6GA5O8CGCxvvILrwdRaW8Q?si=UIZD0T3DT-a8Mnx9575rgA
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/family-complex/1808904936?i=1808904943

3 - antennas to god
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1GRM2bECvCIuJocqyxdOo4?si=Qo8OaUwIRfiFGrAGP4ZlIg
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/antennas-to-god/1808904936?i=1808904947

4 - Ding Dong Express
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2hvS3b7kxraPT09OQiy5nA?si=CwkWcYB0SqKSa8BI4InCHw
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/ding-dong-express/1808904936?i=1808905283

5 - Watch this Space
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1IuOTS4USX08njJzF8qAEp?si=NhcKYwxfSGStZa52Ay_RTg
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/watch-this-space/1808904936?i=1808905287

6 - Seoul Train
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3fP48fJYmlhVDgI8IAfx1l?si=8y2XiDpzTzWhM0-cQdmGqQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/seoul-train/1808904936?i=1808905293

7 - BrutalUSt
Spotify: 
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Q1L1OY00jBnnjjFGgyEQf?si=NAtGH6aCQgeJR4X1CFauHw
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/brutalust/1808904936?i=1808905301

8 - Tokyo Rift
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3JPOzHtsM1zkOK4SSF5mds?si=8IrPkU5jTJ-imjlTFqWBVw
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/tokyo-rift/1808904936?i=1808905307


Travelogue (8 tracks)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: Wooden hand-cranked music box, uKORG, Launchpad, SMK, Bloom, Audio Kit One, Logic Pro X
Samples: Skywave schedules, selected North American broadcasts from a 10Mhz scan.
** An XLab3 production **

antennas to god (excerpt)

Kit: Photophore, Animoog Z, uKORG, Mynth, Logic Pro X
Acknowledgements:
Vocals - Modified excerpts from “All of Everything” by Katy Kirby (2015). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (4.0) license (CC-BY).
Cover Art - Still from video “Jabiluka U02” by Bonita Ely (1979)

.... Conceived during the Cobnash lock-down sessions (2021) ....

Everything (ft. Katy Kirby)

Kit: Hammerhead, volca fm, uKORG, Jamstik, Air (eno), Teraverse, SynthMaster One, Logic Pro X.

Acknowledgements:
Vocals - 
(1) Modified excerpts from “I Am Stretched On Your Grave” traditional 17th century Irish folk song (unknown) sung by queeniemusic (Kimberly Steele) (2009). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (4.0) license (CC-BY).
(2) Field recordings from Valencia. Hotel rooftop bar guitar duo, church choir, accordion busker, people.

Cover Art - Detail from “Far from here” by Klara Kristalova, which features “Beast” (2019) and “Watching the sleeping woman [after Rousseau]” (2017).

Stretched On Your Grave (ft. queeniemusic)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: Korg iMS20, Synthmaster KV331, Loopoperator, Hammerhead, uKORG, Logic Pro X.

Samples: Modulated waveforms: Found TV audio snippets and themes, band rehearsal in the Royal Military Chapel -
 London, Illinois school band.

Cover Art: Detail from "Black Chapel" (2022) by Theater Gates. Constructed at the Serpentine Gallery.

Watch this Space (excerpt)

Kit: uKORG, Animoog, Fugue, Volca FM & nubass, Audulus, Mono/Poly, ODYSSEi, Hammerhead, Logic Pro X.

Acknowledgments:
1) SackJo - modified vocal stems from
 a) "The Haunted Hotel" [2013].
 b) "White Out (Shade of the Moon Mix)" [2009].
Both a) & b) - Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license (CC-BY).
2) Josh Woodward, "Follow the Road" [2014] - modulated samples, mostly vocals. 
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (4.0) license (CC-BY).
3) Rukmani Devi {1923-1978}, "Dushmantha Aho" taken from a 2017 compilation of single tracks - Public Domain from the Free Music Archive website.

Summer of '23

Kit: uKORG, Moog D, Volca FM and nubass, TerverseLogic Pro X
Acknowledgements:
Cover Art: Detail from "The Deluge" (1920) by Winifred Knights
Samples: 
a) London Underground, train announcements included the "See it, Say it, Sorted" slogan..."We are now approaching London Liverpool Street where this train terminates.... please mind the gap when leaving the train...please take care when leaving the train..."
b) Channel hopping using Skywave app focused on North American Short Wave radio broadcasts (9-10 MHz range) from "Brother Stair"
"The cost of following the truth, no matter what the cost, is everything... Go to hell, Satan... This is eternal life... Praise the Lord, this is a glorious thing...the world is hovering on the brink of disaster... the world's food supply will be decimated...the demons will impersonate extraterrestrials... many lives will be lost during these series of events...there will be martyrs....Empty the Earth.... you have to get yourself ready...the truth is, you can't...   ...no one can"

The Third Coming (XL3)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: uKORG, Fugue Machine, Launchpad, Mono/Poly, Teraverse, Volca FM, Boss Waza Delay, TCP:Reich, Logic Pro X

Acknowledgments:
Cover Art: "Mathematical form: Surface 0005" (2004) by Hiroshi Sugimoto (rotated 90° about X-axis).

Ding Dong Express (excerpt)

From The Trees (XL3)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Experimental Electronica
Parts I:1'58" / II:2'02" / III:2'14" / IV:2'25"
Kit: Hammerhead, Fugue, volca fm, Minimoog D, AudioKit Synth One, OMG Guitar, Teraverse, microKORG, Sector, beatwave, Hilda, Logic Pro.
Acknowledgements:
Audio Samples: Emergency vehicles, police and car horns. Pedestrian crossings, conversations in cafes, on the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), Chelsea district and streets of Manhattan. Busker music from Union Square and MTA platform. All field recordings captured in New York, Christmas 2023.
Music: Thanks for the classic intro (5 seconds) from "Good Morning USA" by Walter Murphy, Seth Macfarlane, Mike Barker, (c) Fox Film Music Corp. et al.

Little Island [I - IV] (excerpt)

Acknowledgements :
Kit: uKorg, Fluss, Sampletank for piano and cello, Drumcomputer, Minimoog D, Logic Pro X.
Audio Samples:
1) "Debris on the Scioto River" (2014) by Kelly Latimore is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 : CC-BY.
2) Modulated and mashed samples from the Choral Matins service at the Royal Military Chapel, London, February 2024.

Cover art: Detail from "Dream – Spontaneous Combustion" (2008) by Olaf Brzeski

Debris, filtered and mutated (ft. Kelly Latimore)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

family!.. you can't choose your relatives! Inter/racial inter/esting, rich in culture, complex in nature, reflected in music.

Kit: uKorg, Volca fm & nubass, Hammerhead, AudioKit Synth One, iMS-20, Hilda, Animoog X, logic pro X...
Acknowledgements:
Audio Samples: Singing vocals sampled from background music in Luogo Cafe, Taipei.
Cover art: family photo c.2000, manipulated.

Family Complex (excerpt)

Kit: po33, volca fm, uKORG, Minimoog, Logic Pro X.
Acknowledgements:
Audio:
1) Sampled and processed excerpts from "Heraklion Strut" (2021) by Pierce Murphy. Licensed under 4.0 International License, CC-BY.
"Don't run like you want to, through the light to the sea, don't run, it can see you, it'll be there, so will we..."
2) Sampled and processed excerpts from "Seven Chimes" (2021) by Pierce Murphy. Licensed under 4.0 International License, CC-BY.
3) Processed stem excerpts from "Alaska" (2021) by SackJo22. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, CC-BY.

Cover Art: Detail from "Innocent (...ma tutti cio Che sei lentamente svanirà)" by Raffaella Ceccarossi (2015). ["But everything you are will slowly fade away"]

You can run but you cannot hide (ft. Pierce Murphy)

Non - Friction (XL3)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: uKORG, volca FM & modular, Hikari monos, Minimoog D, Sector, Logic Pro X.
Acknowledgements: 
Audio from Seoul (2024)
a) Modulated church service hymn at the Jeoldu-san Martyrs' Shrine.
b) Various field recordings along the Seoul Metropolitan Subway transport system.
c) Voices and motorbike from Gyeongdong Market.
d) Traditional Korean folk music (processed excerpts) at the Korea Traditional Culture Experience Center at Incheon Airport featuring the haegeum and gayageum instruments.

Cover art: The Closest Church, Seoul.

Seoul Train (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
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- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit : uKORG, Hilda, Minimoog D, Drumcomputer, Hikari Monos, Sector, Volca FM, Logic Pro X.
Acknowledgements :
Field Recordings : 
Audio from Tokyo (2024):
Metro, Sensō-ji Buddhist temple, Taito City hustle and bustle, Nezu shrine.
Cover Art: Fuji TV Headquarters, Tokyo

Tokyo Rift (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: uKORG, AudioKit Synth One, CS2x, ODYSSEi, Hammerhead, Sector, Hikari Monos, Logic Pro.

Acknowledgements:
Audio: 
1) Excerpts from a busker near the steps leading up to the Lincoln Memorial.
2) Transportation information and police sounds in Boston and DC.
3) Excerpts from the woodwind quartet from the Band of the Grenadier Guard band (London).
Cover Art: 
View from the Hirshhorn Museum.

BrutalUSt (excerpt)

Kit: uKORG, CS2x, Fluss, volca fm, Seaboard 5D, Logic Pro

Acknowledgements:
Audio:
Vocal Sampling from "As Seen on TV" (2022) by HoliznaCC0; track licenced under a CC0 1.0 Universal Licence (Public Domain).

4th World (ft. HoliznaCC0)

Full Single release on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0gWVDPjKXN66upVmYkX2Wc?si=czJuEWvLT2eVYFzxN6CRkQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/i-seem-what-you-mean-to-see-in-me-single/1804323658

Kit: Noise Maschine, Animoog Z, ukORG, VCS3, PO-16, Logic Pro.

I seem what you mean to see in me (excerpt)

Full Single release on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1DT5ODnDhp5jr0rp4JK8TQ?si=we0Jkj-7R8-QOkyef4YwZw
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/confused-outside-nightclub-eating-doner/1802837996?i=1802837998

A snapshot of "entertainment" on a Saturday night in an English "new town"; in this case Harlow. Crap beer, crap nightclub music, crap atmosphere but so bad that it was good ... and, sad to say, the highlight of the evening was a post-club doner kebab and a melancholy stagger to kip on someone's sofa.... happy days since sick avoided!

Kit: Launchpad, volca fm, Fluss, granulator synth, Hilda, uKORG, Logic Pro.
Acknowledgements - Audio Samples:
1) Modulated "Concerto Grosso in D minor Op 3 Nr 5 HWV 316" by Georg Friedrich Handel (CC-PD) (performed  by the London Baroque Orchestra)
2) "At the Moving Picture Ball" (1920) by Joseph P. Sontly, (CC-PD Public Domain Mark 1.0) sung by Maurice Burkhart.
3) Field recordings: London Lord Mayor's Show, 2023
4) Kebab shop noises - unknown source on YouTube.
5) Bagpipe tune snippet played at a family wedding.

Confused Outside Nightclub Eating Doner (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Anthropomorphism" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7aLiCDH3GGpdnz8eXXifU2?si=d0rv0KhzTrqIoyK2_BfTqQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/anthropomorphism-ep/1805797138

Kit: ODYSSEi, Minimoog D, uKORG, Beatwave, Teraverse, Drumcomputer, Mellotron, Garageband, Animoog Z, Hilda, Photophore, Logic Pro X
Acknowledgements:
Field Recordings: Madrid (church bells pedestrian crossing, El Castro market), Chi Lin Nunnery chanting, heartbeat (echocardiogram).
"My Corn Aches" (c) by Lance Mannion Orchestra (2013) - vocal samples and modulations. 
"My Corn Aches" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 : CC-BY.

Anthropomorphism 4: Literal (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Simfoniyasi" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1uKirufrC1fbyQMrvKqAre?si=-9yZyyavTxCKRteMTlIuug
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/simfoniyasi/1821658241?ls

Kit: volca modular, uKORG, Roland E-4 Voice Tweaker, Logic Pro.
Acknowledgements:
Audio: Modulated sounds from the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku:
a) Waveform modulated snippets from “Dastgar Bayati-Shiraz” sung by Alim Qasimov and Fargana Gasimova
b) Traditional instrument sound samples (TBC)

Do the Caspian Bulvar (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Simfoniyasi" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1uKirufrC1fbyQMrvKqAre?si=-9yZyyavTxCKRteMTlIuug
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/simfoniyasi/1821658241?ls

Kit: CS2x, Kaoscillator, Minimoog Model D, Sector, Volca FM, Kolb Real Bass, Taqs.im, Drone FX, Mellowsound, Boss chorus and delay pedals, Logic Pro...
Vocals: Zutsuri(treated)

Acknowledgements: [Vocal samples]
- “Falling” by Zutsuri(c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 3.0) license.

Eternal Flame (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Simfoniyasi" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1uKirufrC1fbyQMrvKqAre?si=-9yZyyavTxCKRteMTlIuug
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/simfoniyasi/1821658241?ls

Kit: Logic Pro, Animoog Z, Gauss Field Looper, Odyssei, Moog D & Werkstatt-01, Sector, uKorg, GarageBand..
Acknowledgments: 
a) Audio samples from “For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit” (2017–18) by Shilpa Gupta
b) Waveform modulated snippets from “Dastgar Bayati-Shiraz” sung by Alim Qasimov and Fargana Gasimova
c) Traditional Azerbaijan instrument sound samples (balabun, zurna and tutek).

Out of the Icherisheher (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Simfoniyasi" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1uKirufrC1fbyQMrvKqAre?si=-9yZyyavTxCKRteMTlIuug
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/simfoniyasi/1821658241?ls

Kit: uKORG, Fluss, volca fm & modular, Logic Pro.
Acknowledgements:
1) Modulated vocals from "Hurrycane" (2018) by Cullah. Licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License, CC-BY.
"I am lost and still not found in the eye of the storm.... I am weary of the still in the air... now I long for the Winds out there, for the days had gone by; here I lied, wondering why I can't feel the howling Winds just outside of the eye and I screamed..."
2) Tsz Shan Monastery monks singing (2024).
3) Captured sounds of wind through railings: Canary Wharf, UK / sky 100, ICC exterior, HK.
4) Waveform modulated snippets from “Dastgar Bayati-Shiraz” sung by Alim Qasimov and Fargana Gasimova

City of Winds (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Simfoniyasi" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1uKirufrC1fbyQMrvKqAre?si=-9yZyyavTxCKRteMTlIuug
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/simfoniyasi/1821658241?ls

Kit: uKORG, volca fm, miniMoog D, CS2x, Seaboard 5D, Roland E-4 Voice Tweaker, Logic Pro.
Acknowledgements:
Waveform modulated snippets from “Dastgar Bayati-Shiraz” sung by Alim Qasimov and Fargana Gasimova
Traditional Azerbaijan instrument sound samples (qanun).

Bakuvian Twist (excerpt)

Kit: CS2x, iVCS3, uKORG, AudioKit Synth One, volca fm, Sonar X1...
Sound source/acknowledgement: "Good Boy, Bad Boy" by Bruce Nauman
Cover Art: "Torre De Babele" by Corrado de Mochis / Giuseppe Archimboldi

Tower Of Babel

They Shall Come

Spectral Analysis Video:
 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdpEYuVL/

Spectral Analysis

Acid Drops on Indian Taxi Folklore

Kit: CS2x, Beatwave, Mellotron, Minimoog Model D, ARP ODYSSEi, iVCS3, Logic Pro X...

Light Intermission

Kit: CS2x, Seaboard, Factory, Poly2, Sample, Aparillo, Launchpad, Logic Pro X...
Vocals: Brad Sucks (treated)

Acknowledgements: [Vocal samples]
- “Work Out Fine” by Brad Sucks(c) copyright 2006 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

Work It Out (ft. Brad Sucks)

Full release on Album: "Anthropomorphism" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7aLiCDH3GGpdnz8eXXifU2?si=d0rv0KhzTrqIoyK2_BfTqQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/anthropomorphism-ep/1805797138

Kit: Launchpad, CS2x, Volca FM & NuBass, MiniMoog D, Sector, Animoog, Logic Pro X...
Acknowledgements (Samples): Animals from Kenya including Laikipia County, LondonOrbit - sounds of London.

Anthropomorphism 1: Metaphorical (excerpt)

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- xmachines: Logic Korg Yamaha Orchid Moog Teenage Engineering iApps ccMixter freemusicarchive field recordings radio
- Header Image Acknowledgement: (my silhouette in front of) an excerpt from the video, 'Plato's Alley' by Charles Atlas (2008)
- Profile Image Acknowledgement: 'Switching Marys' by Mike Kelley (2004-2005)

- History: 
1980s - Casio VL-tone, Wasp synth, Moog Concertmate MG-1, 2 track compact cassette recordings: tape to tape mixing ... emergence of Ding Dong. Revelled in the limitations in lo-fi sonic pallette and student budget...
1990s - Upgraded to 4-track compact cassette recordings... Casio CZ1000.
2000s - finally onto DAWs & xmachines & budget soft/hard synthesis & quirkiness in the Hikari Monos......Cakewalk>Sonar>Logic

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