Name: Alien Languages By Richard Devine by moog music in soniq destroya
Duration: 7 min 12 s
Description: Alien Languages, is an experimental Acousmatic acoustic piece done entirely with just one iPad and Animoog. No plug-ins, editing, or extra sound sources were used for this recording. The demo track was to show how the sounds might be used for creating new sound effects, and electronic textures.

This whole thing is so jaw dropping good!

Nice!  I'd like to do something like this, I just haven't mastered animoog yet. :D

just purchased your expansion set on Animoog... I had no idea

Yes, I understand the languages! Wonderful words.

what was done to make that sudden buzz sound?

Crazy cool stuff!  So glad I got an iPad, Animoog, and the Devine Expansion Pack. :)

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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

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MARCHROMT30A EDIT 2B 96 MASTERED

Very few musical acts achieve the levels of unanimous acclaim of Autechre. The English duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth are not an act you simply like; they are an act you love, fawn over and dream about. They’ve got themselves here over the course of the last 28 years, and have done so by amassing a discography that’s about as perfect, influential and accomplished as could ever be possible. A key Warp label act from day one, they have released tens of albums, well over a ten EPs and have featured on a dizzying amount of essential compilations, mixes and remixes in that time. Without their contribution to the IDM canon, its fair to say the modern musical landscape would look very different. 

Rhythmic but experimental, absorbing yet abstract, cerebral and psychedelic, their ever evolving output is up there with the likes of fellow luminaries Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin as some of the most important in all of electronic music. As well as being fine craftsmen in the studio, Autechre are also revered live performers who really manage to conjure up captivating and otherworldly soundtracks that marry heavy bass with ethereal melody. The pair themselves do not care for genre, but suffice it to say that they have mastered everything from hardcore to ambient to glitch and plenty of indescribables in between. 

When the pair recently laid down an impressive set at Dekmantel Festival, we asked if they might be up for a doing an early inspiration mix, whereby they put together a collection of the sort of electro and hip hop tracks that turned them on as youths. At first they hesitated, pointing out that "we don't do strictly retro stuff, it's too corny.” But alas, a few days later, a huge file landed in our inbox… That file is a 4 hour and 18 minute mix that basically encapsulates not just Autechre’s own influences, but also acts as a fine anthology of the greatest electro sounds of all time. Every sub genre imaginable gets touched upon along the way, with nods to forefathers like Kraftwerk, killer cuts from Man Parrish, classics from Newcleus and retro gold from the likes of The Beat Club. It is a thrilling ride and a truly rare treat that reminds us just why we love Autechre, as well as shining a light on a vast genre that often pays second fiddle to house and techno.

Dekmantel Podcast 035 - Autechre

Track List:
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Daylight - Monsta
Bobby Savage - Lady Killer feat. Alexandra Kane {Fear The Priest Rmx}
Unknown Artist - Guarana Spy
Martijn Schmit - Sk8te
Datamnesia - Minimal Techno Bootleg
Dandi & Ugo vs Piatto - Techno Cartoons
Master Enkel - Output
Unknown Artist - Werktitel 5 Pressure
Unknown Artist - Monochord
Bryant Autrey - That Mix
Bryant Autrey - Saltines
Unknown Artist - Push 31
Krachen - Summertime
Santiago Ciapuscio - Techno Or What
Unknown Artist - Techno 6C

Quantum Dynamics 16


TRACKLIST:

1-  Shambok - Heroin House 3
2- Zombie Nation - Momplays
3- Radio Slave - The Clone Wars (K-Lagane rmx)
4- Hackler & Kuch - Bring it
5- Fear The Pries† - If You Don't Believe I Love You Just Ask My Gf
6- Fukkk Offf - Suck This
7- Phutek - WTFDD
8- Fear The Pries† - I Keep Forgetting I Forgot About You
9- Fukkk Offf - Boston Dynamics
10- Alek Drive - Future Music
11- Fukkk Offf - U.R. Techno
12- Olson - Disturbance (Adam Remix)
13- Un:Code - DRKNSS (Sovnger Remix)
14- Olson - Disorder (Atix Remix)
15- Linda Lamb & Gipsy Family - Ground Punkrocked (GEDEØN rmx)
16- Equitant - Body Vehement
17- Eliot - Tuberculoyd
18- Crystal Castles - Year Of Silence

BL∆CK TECHNØ DJ MIX

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Techno-rhythmic emancipator Russell E.L. Butler adopted four Mother-32s and one week later, “Sirens From a Distance” was born.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slY-F8VJrg0

Sirens From a Distance | Russell E.L. Butler

Oh Holy Night recorded entirely with the Moog Animoog iPad app. if you like it please go here: http://www.facebook.com/moogmusicinc?sk=wall&filter=1 and "Like" it for the Moog Holiday Contest. thanks!

Oh Holy Night Animoog

Christmas Eve (Moog Style) 2011 Animoog Holiday Song Entry

Short jingle mad using Moog animoog. Drums come from Moog filtatron on ipod touch.

2011 animoog holiday song entry

The Vince Guaraldi holiday classic...
HONOURABLE MENTION in Moog's Animoog 2011 Holiday Contest
LOOK FOR the new Mr.PETE HOLIDAY album at https://petedako.bandcamp.com/

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Sevivon (Chanukah)

Alien Languages, is an experimental Acousmatic acoustic piece done entirely with just one iPad and Animoog. No plug-ins, editing, or extra sound sources were used for this recording. The demo track was to show how the sounds might be used for creating new sound effects, and electronic textures.

Alien Languages By Richard Devine

BLIND BLUE,,,

Artist and musician Emily A. Sprague creates a calming multi-sensory experience set to the ambient sounds of an original arrangement crafted with the Moog One polyphonic synthesizer.

“Chasing Light” is from a short film inspired by the beauty of nature and the joy of connecting with one’s surroundings through sight and sound. To accompany Emily's dreamy soundscapes, this piece (shot primarily with Super 8mm film) takes you inside the artist’s world—her home, the ocean, the mountains. It represents a day in the life of Emily, as she shared her favorite places with us, capturing them through the lens of a camera the same way we captured her adventure.

Watch the film here: https://youtu.be/IzJ9dgGabuo

Photographs taken of and by Emily, along with an in-depth interview about her creative process, are featured at https://www.moogmusic.com/news/chasing-light-emily-sprague. 


More about Emily A. Sprague: https://mlesprg.info

More about Moog One: https://www.moogmusic.com/products/moog-one

Alien Languages By Richard Devine

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