So when mom told me not to ruin the rubber bands, "They aren't an instrument.", apparently she was wrong! Clever stuff here :-)

Songs that I composed for contest entries or music blogs.

Disquiet Junto: http://disquiet.com/2012/01/27/the-disquiet-junto/
Composer Quest Podcast: http://www.charliemccarron.com/composer-quest/

Photo Credit: Matthew Davis 2006

Submissions

MOON BEATS MANIK AND GHOST KIT

BUY HERE: http://ZRecords.lnk.to/GardenOfLove

The Dutch duo takes us into a glistening lush paradise of warm Rhodes piano, sweltering bass guitar licks, and blossoming synth solos.

Perfect the current sunshine and teeing us up nicely for the coming summer months. Take a walk into the Garden of Love…

The Sunburst Band - Garden Of Love (Dam Swindle Remix)

Recorded live May 2022

Follow @thebrothersmacklovitch on instagram

Track list:
Todd Edwards - Done With You
Jax Jones - Where Did You Go ft. MNEK (Jamie Roy Remix)
Deetron - Glass
Pontchartrain - Cheap Plants
Michael Gray, Kimberly Brown - Brother Brother (Booker T Vocal Remix)
Traumer - Azure
Austin Ato - When Love Is Tender
Dam Swindle - Hey Mister
Adapter - NYC
Goshawk, Erik Rico - Can't Get Enough
Mighty Mouse - The Get Down
Louie Vega, Nico Vega - How He Works
Kristin Velvet - Memories
Robbie Doherty - Steel Bird
Subb-an - This Place (Nic Fanciulli Remix)
Shermanology feat. Conquer Jones - OK, Cool, Aight
David Berrie - Warp 2000
Jamie Roy, Jay de Lys - Something (Sosa Remix)
James Bradshaw, Andy Reid, Savista - Bombo Papi
Classmatic - Toma Dale
Nebraska - Skelp Tune
Rufus - L.K.U.K.
Lenny Fontana, DJ Shorty - Chocolate Sensation (Force Club Mix)
Doug Willis, Dave Lee ZR - Dougswana (Emmaculate Extended Mix)
David Agboola - Boju Boju (Terry Hunter Club Mix)
Juan Laya, Jorge Montiel - Amazonas Secret Kingdom (Atjazz Remix)
Dave & Omar - Starlight (Dave Lee's Club Edit)
Alan Braxe & DJ Falcon - Creative Source
East Coast Love Affair - Chicago

The Brothers Macklovitch Spring 2022 DJ Set

Learn more about the mix at <a href="http://warp.net/records/plaid/download-new-mix" target="_blank">warp.net</a>.

'Reachy Prints' will be released this month, pre-order from
<a href="http://smarturl.it/4sh6cx" target="_blank">iTunes</a> / <a href="http://smarturl.it/h3ucqn" target="_blank">Bleep</a> / <a href="http://smarturl.it/amvelf" target="_blank">Amazon</a> (<a href="http://smarturl.it/kdkk6i" target="_blank">Vinyl</a>)

TRACKLISTING

MAST_ASCENT_APR062
JOHN WIZARDS_MUIZENBERG
MUSIC BOX_NOVEMBER_LYDL008
SAGET_SATELLITE_VLEK13
MAX COOPER_IMPACTS_FLDSCD001
MR OIZO_FLIP BAT
WESLEY MATSELL_TOTAL ORDER OF BEING
LOVE OVER ENTROPY_GROUNDSWELL_SOHASO1
ATOM ™_ICH BIN MEINE MASCHINE_R-N146
RAIN DOG_REGOLITH
AROVANE_VRAIIL
SEVENDEATHS_ALL NIGHT GRAVES_LM020
EDOC_I DONT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING_DBOY16
VISONIA & DOPPLEREFFEKT_DIE REISEN_TRAJECTORY1017
SHATTER HANDS_KNIFIN AROUND
PAUSE_SINK_PLXS003
LAZLO_TURNING TIDE_LYDL009

Plaid Tour

MAY
22 The Soup Kitchen - Manchester, GB (<a href="http://www.seetickets.com/Event/plaid/soup-kitchen/785742" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
23 Village Underground - London, GB (<a href="http://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/13936/chk/689d" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
25 Chill Out Festival - Istanbul, TR (<a href="http://www.biletix.com/etkinlik/RCOFI/ISTANBUL/en" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
29 Conne Island - Leipzig, DE (<a href="http://www.tixforgigs.com/site/Pages/TemplateSystem/EventDetailsTemplate.aspx?templateId=6fa6b976-a95d-4d1e-8068-4a3d26b077f2&eventId=9304" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
30 Gretchen - Berlin, DE

JUNE
01 Tolhuis - Amsterdam, NL (<a href="http://www.ticketmaster.nl/event/129269?brand=nl_paradiso&camefrom=paradiso" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
02 AB Club - Brussels, BE (<a href="http://www.abconcerts.be/" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
08 Exil - Zurich, CH (<a href="https://starticket.ch/0Numberoftix.asp?ShowID=73690&CategoryID=117758&ZoneID=&ShowDetails=1" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
13 Gaité lyrique - Paris, FR

JULY
23 Ten Days Off - Gent, BE (<a href="http://www.10daysoff.be/" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)

AUGUST
01 - 03 Dekmantel Festival - Amsterdam, NL (<a href="http://www.dekmantelfestival.com/" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)

Plaid 2014 DJ MIX 01

Some sound snippets using the Serge ÷N COM module for eurorack. The Divide by N section generates a (voltage-controllable) staircase output that can be use for lots of interesting effects and Gameboy-like sounds. The pulse output is great for rhythmic patterns, but also quite nice to drive a Serge Variable Q or Variable Slope filter for very organic / acoustic sounds.


Serge NCOM

Kitchen_disquiet0265

For this track, I included many layers of different metronomes, typewriters, church bells, mechanical camera sounds, steam whistles, etc. at a train station. I also recorded several bass and guitar parts.

I imagined that the beloved "Society for the Advancement of Metronomic Activities" arrive by train, and once disembarked, commence a groovy party.

I recorded bass, guitar, and some metronomes myself, but the rest of the samples were found various places online. All the pieces were assembled and edited inside Ableton Live using native plugins and some Waves plugins.

While working on this project, I was reminded of the usefulness of gates. At one point in the track, there are 8 layers of different metronome samples playing at different BPMs. By gating each track separately and adjusting the release times, I was able to cut out a lot of the extra unwanted noise in between the metronome clicks, which resulted in a much cleaner sound.

For the beat at the end, I decided that a typewriter can sound pretty metronomic, so I cut out over 50 individual keystrokes from a typewriter sample and lined them up as 16th notes. I split the 1st and 3rd 16th notes onto one track and the 2nd and 4th 16ths onto another track so the downbeats and upbeats could be processed separately. First, I put a slight hi-pass filter on the upbeats to differentiate them from the downbeats. Secondly, I shortened the length of the samples on the upbeats. The keystroke from a typewriter has a slide into the transient and another slide after. Imagine the arm of each letter lifting up to slam into the paper and then returning to rest. For the upbeats, I cut the keystroke short while the downbeats have the full motion.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to fully develop the beat at the end. If I had more time, I would build that section up more and then drop it back down to the metronome clicks from the beginning of the song.

Metronomic Society_disquiet0267

I tried to imagine the feeling of a square room and a square window to look out at the sky. The quarter note guitar line (which is pitched down to the bass register and then reversed and displaced in layers above it) is meant to evoke the geometry of the window. The downbeats and backbeats are the corners, and they were created by dropping a heavy book and opening and closing it near a microphone.

I included vocal samples of a lady singing "Blue Skies" a cappella and me saying "square" which were stretched with various ableton warping algorithms, chopped rhythmically, reversed, and repitched among other process. 

The string scraping is meant to represent Bassel's free-flowing thoughts as he looks out the window. I recorded myself running a pick up and down my electric guitar strings with overdrive. Then I chopped them up and sequenced them rhythmically.


More on this 271st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Prison Sky: Mark the 5th anniversary of open-source software engineer Bassel Khartabil’s detention” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0271/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/prison-sky-disquiet-junto-project-0271/6877

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

Image associated with this project is a detail that Bassel Khartabil wrote to Jon Phillips on January 31, 2014, from the Damascus Central Jail. More on Bassell’s detention at freebassel.org. Major thanks to Christopher Adams, Niki Korth, Jon Phillips, and Barry Threw. See the full letter and information about actions to mark the fifth anniversary at:

http://freebassel.org/campaign/events/freebasselday/2017/03/09/freebassel5years/
Disquiet Junto by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet.com)
POB 210429 San Francisco, CA 94121-0429 USA 


disquiet0271

Square Blue Sky - for Bassel Khartabil_disquiet0271

This track was created for the Composer Quest podcast from October 2016 (http://www.charliemccarron.com/2016/08/composer-quest-olympics). We won 2nd place!

My section starts at 2:05. All sounds sampled from the previous sections.

Relay Race Final

I wrote this arrangement of the Columbian National Anthem for the Composer Quest podcast's Olympic Games Composition Competition in September 2016:
http://www.charliemccarron.com/2016/08/composer-quest-olympics/

I used many layers of electric guitar and electric bass. One of the lead lines in the bridge section was played with a tight spring on the highest guitar string.

Columbian National Anthem

Music for whales.

A tribute mix to Loscil. His best LOoping oSCILators in a chronological music trip. Nothing else to say... Whales would not understand us.

1. Loscil - Discrete Entropy [Triple point, Kranky, 2001]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/triple-point

2. Loscil - Argonaut I [Submers, Kranky, 2002]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/submers

3. Loscil - Triton [Submers, Kranky, 2002]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/submers 

4. Loscil – Emma[ First Narrows, Kranky, 2004]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/first-narrows

5. Loscil – Cloister[ First Narrows, Kranky, 2004]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/first-narrows

6. Loscil - Conductivity [Triple point, Kranky, 2001]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/triple-point

7. Loscil – Charlie [Plume, Kranky, 2006]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/plume

8. Loscil – Zephyr [Plume, Kranky, 2006]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/plume

9. Loscil – Chinook [Plume, Kranky, 2006]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/plume

10. Loscil – Fromme [Coast/range/arc, Kranky, 2011]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/coast-range-arc

11. Loscil - Lake orchard [Endless Falls, Kranky, 2006]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/endless-falls

12. Loscil - Endless-falls [Endless Falls, Kranky, 2006]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/endless-falls

13. Loscil – Stave peak [Coast/range/arc, Kranky, 2011]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/coast-range-arc

14. Loscil - second narrow [Sketches From New Brighton, 2012, Glacial Movements Records ]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/sketches-…om-new-brighton

15. Loscil - Cascadia Terminal [Sketches From New Brighton, 2012, Glacial Movements Records ]

loscil.bandcamp.com/album/sketches-…om-new-brighton
16. Loscil – Deceiver [Monument Builders, Kranky, 2016]

loscil.bandcamp.com/album/monument-builders

17. Loscil – Straw Dogs [Monument Builders, Kranky, 2016]
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/monument-builders

Selected and Mixed By Edward Sabine

Music For Whales - Loscil, His Best LOoping OSCILators

About Repulsion

My lucky random track from Disquiet Solitary Ensembles is https://soundcloud.com/theatlasroom/bass-drones-drums-disquiet0430 by The Atlas Room [disquiet0430] using https://soundcloud.com/matthew-thomas-davis/bass-drones?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0429 as his source track. I tried to create a contrast between the drone and some distinct percussive sounds in free time.

And here is the stem for Disquiet 0432 remix: https://soundcloud.com/ausgesuchtestenohren/stem-bass-drones-miniature-for-disquiet0432?in=ausgesuchtestenohren/sets/stems-for-disquiet0432

Bass-Drones-Miniature [Disquiet0431]

Third layer of the Disquiet Junto Project "Solitary Ensembles". Free to download.

SOLO REMIX TRACK HERE:
https://soundcloud.com/winterer/solitary-wave-ensemble?in=winterer/sets/disquiet0431-kk-remix-tracks

All 17 dices showed 6 (surprise!), so I took number 102: “Surf Waves” https://soundcloud.com/matthew-thomas-davis/waves?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0430 from Matthew Thomas Davis (and zoundsabar).

I found this one difficult, because it already felt very rich in details and very finished, Matthew did so many different things with his guitar. I added some subtile pads (at least I hope they are mostly subtile) with the Tyrell N6 VST and tried to follow his improvisation, plus some kind of plaintive solo and two more waves from the original recording. I'm afraid I forced the end too much into something positive and transcendent, but it felt right considering how zoundsabar explains the circumstances of his field recordings in https://soundcloud.com/zoundsabar/vigil-sc-waves-disquiet0429 – I hope you like it anyway, guys.

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More on this 41st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3 — The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at:

https://disquiet.com/0431/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0431-solitary-ensembles-x-3/

Solitary Wave Ensemble [disquiet0431]

I used GijsW's track (https://soundcloud.com/supple_be_disquiet_junto/disquiet0430) for this weeks challenge.

I continued the chilled out feeling that GijsW and mdh had created. Jammed along with a bit of guitar and organ. Seemed like a summer vibe as we, in the southern hemisphere, head into a very peculiar autumn.

Thanks to Matthew and Gijs for laying down the first two channels.

Here's the centre stem I added: https://soundcloud.com/wasabicube/sea-breezecentre-stem-disquiet0431/s-FiilsYqZBiZ
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More on this 41st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3 — The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at:

https://disquiet.com/0431/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0431-solitary-ensembles-x-3/

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

sea breeze (disquiet0431)

Born in San Jose, California. Started piano age 5. Electric and upright bass at 16.  Awarded the John Coltrane Scholarship for Composition and Performance. Studied jazz bass at California Institute of the Arts with Alphonso Johnson, Charlie Haden, and Derek Oles. Taught at summer music camps, K-12 music classes, private lessons. Toured and recorded with The Broadcast (www.thebroadcastmusic.com) from Asheville, North Carolina. Composer. Audio engineer. Live Sound. Recording. Mixing. Bass Guitar. Electric Guitar. Noise.

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