I love all these sounds. If you don't mind, I'm going to try out some adaptations! Was it a good crowd? How long did your set go? Love the Orange Crush amps, too. Just got one back in April.

Tracks I made in 2014. Most are standalone, several are performance recordings. One track is from a CD release (~60 Hz, on Irritable Hedgehog), and one track is from a netlabel release (Absence sleeps between the buildings at night, Stasisfield), Three tracks are submissions to Disquiet projects, and two are submissions to 60x60 projects.

2014

Yann Kifer and Oddrun Eikli.
Poem: by Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)
Piano , keys, and instrumental composition: Yann Kifer @annkifer
Vocal and vocal composition: Oddrun Eikli

Thank you so much for this JOY Yann.

'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight by Emily Bronte (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)

'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
All soft and still and fair;
The solemn hour of midnight
Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,

But most where trees are sending
Their breezy boughs on high,
Or stooping low are lending
A shelter from the sky.

And there in those wild bowers
A lovely form is laid;
Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
Wave gently round her head.

Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published one book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius.

Tis moonlight, summer moonlight . Yann Kifer and Oddrun Eikli

A short sonification based on a photograph by <a href="http://sidsmith.blogspot.co.uk/">Sid Smith</a> as part of Sid's String Quartet project, where he offers photos to be used as graphical scores. Go <a href="http://sidsmith.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/string-quartet-online-collaboration.html">here</a> for details.

I chose a very literal approach that also afforded me the opportunity to play with the very interesting <a href="http://warmplace.ru/soft/ans/">Virtual ANS</a> software. It is possible to treat an image as a sonogram and then translate it to audio. The vertical axis is used for pitch and the horizontal axis represents time, according to the settings one uses. Every detail in the image is represented in some way in the rendered sound. I did some post-processing in Audacity to add some reverb and adjust the amplitude.

The photograph is copyright Sid Smith, all rights reserved.

String Quartet XIV #4 (for Sid Smith)

My first Disquiet Junto submission for 2014 (and my first one in far too long). This project has us take a visualization of the weather in one's local area, and use it as a graphical score.

My process:
- Use the Awesome Screenshot extension in Google Chrome to clip the image from the WeatherSpark site.
- Open the image in GIMP. Transform it by inverting the colors and posterizing.
- Imported the image to Virtual ANS, a program that can convert image into sound. Tweaked the ANS parameters until I was satisfied with the result, and exported it as a WAV file.
- Imported the sound into Audacity. Added a little silence to the end, applied some EQ to boost the bass, applied a simulated plate reverb, adjusted the amplitude, and exported as an MP3.

Additional notes:
- I decided to prepare the image before submitting it to Virtual ANS because it would allow the graphical elements to emerge more starkly.
- There is an artifact at the end the track resulting from the ANS process; I decided to keep it as it seems to work as a coda.
- The weather data came from the Silver Ranch Airpark in Jaffrey, NH, US, which is one of the weather stations closest to Peterborough, NH (where I live).
- The Flickr set shows the original captured image and the altered image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seidel/sets/72157639652552553/
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More on this 106th Disquiet Junto project (“Treat the weather as a graphically notated score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/01/09/disquiet0106-sonarvortex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

0110 [disquiet0106-sonarvortex]

Experimenting with the Shnth in a Hexany 1-3-5-7 scale:

  1/1 25/24 7/6 5/4 35/24 3/2 5/3 7/4

There is no octave as the Shnth has only eight keys/buttons. The opportunity to use tunings like this is one of the main reasons I got the Shnth, where all pitches are specified as integer ratios.

Shth (stereo) into two Digitech Grunge pedals, combined in a Repeater matrix mixer, then though a Moogerfooger ClusterFlux (back into stereo), then a Deluxe Memory Man. Ehdalh Moisturizer in the FX bus. Photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seidel/11939149493/

Recorded in real time. No more than two pitches played at any one time, though with plenty of overlap due to a long decay time plus two layers of flanger resonance (and some reverb).

Image from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Octahedron.svg (Creative Commons).

Hexany Dyads

Recorded in performance at 119 Gallery (Lowell, MA) on January 25, 2014.

I played a <a href="http://shbobo.net">Shnth</a> with processing and looping. The piece is in three sections. To make this version, I edited out the first couple of minutes of playing and added a fade-in at the beginning and a slight fade-out at the ending, but there was no other post-production other than conversion from 96K/32-bit WAV to 48K 320kpbs MP3.

The first section uses an 8-note <a href="http://www.billalves.com/porgitaro/serenadetuning.html">scale devised by Lou Harrison</a>, and the tones and chords were actuated by my breath as I blew into the Shnth's built-in mic. The second section moves back and forth between two 6-note <a href="http://anaphoria.com/wilsonintroMERU.html">metaslendro</a> scales played on the buttons of the Shnth. The third section returns to the Harrison scale, also played using the buttons.

The two channels of the Shnth's stereo output went through two Grunge distortion pedals (used only in the third section), and were then combined into a single channel. This mono channel was split up and routed through a Moogerfooger Ring Modulator and a FreqBox in parallel, and then recombined along with the original signal and sent to a Moogerfooger Clusterflux, the stereo output of which went to a Deluxe Memory Man with Hazarai and finally a Boomerang III looper, both in stereo. I used an Ekdahl Moisturizer reverb unit on the mixer's FX bus. The recording was made directly off the mixer. All the nutty routing was facilitated by a Repeater Electronics 4x4 passive matrix mixer -- a very helpful device.

The Boomerang III loops throughout in pseudo-Frippertronics fashion. In the second section, the Deluxe Memory Man is temporarily switched into a similar mode, but with a different loop duration, which allowed me to build up clouds of notes that were only approximately predictable (similar to the technique used in <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mysterybear/collider">Collider</a>). In the first and third sections, the Deluxe Memory Man is used more like a flanger.

Here's a photo of the setup (taken at home before the gig): http://www.flickr.com/photos/seidel/12135979426/

The image is from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DNA-RNA_D-loops,_greatly_exaggerated.jpg

Loop Studies (119 Gallery, 2014-01-25)

This is track 6 from my new release on the Stasisfield netlabel, <i>Absence sleeps between the buildings at night.</i> For more information (including liner notes and full attribution for all field recordings) and to download the entire release for free, please visit http://www.stasisfield.com/releases/year12/sf-12001.html.

Image copyright 2013 John Kannenberg.

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I wish to live with myself (from "Absence sleeps between the buildings at night", 2014)

Recorded live at 119 Gallery (Lowell, MA) on June 27, 2014.

Gear: Repeater Electronics Horndog, Moogerfooger Freqbox, Moogerfooger Low-Pass Filter, Gieskes DEP-2a, Boomerang III, Orange Crush amp.

Picture: http://instagram.com/p/puhkpdukQV
In situ: http://instagram.com/p/pxGrUMukRt

Picture of unknown provenance, appears on several websites without specific attribution (that I have seen), e.g., http://kglyphicsart.blogspot.com/2011/04/ancient-egyptian-wormholes.html

Mesektet (live)

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Another experiment in sound.
(Get comfortable and) Try not to latch on to anything:
just let your brain see if wants to go somewhere..

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Ray Of Shine

Naviar Haiku 532

Wordless
all day long
the shadow of a butterfly

Hōsai graduated from the Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied law. He got off to a good start but decided to give up his home, family, and business to jump from one militant religion of Japan to the other.

Just like Taneda Santoka, Hōsai abandoned the traditional verse form of his time and mostly looked at the austere confines of his life for inspiration.

Haiku by Hosai Ozaki

Picture by sumingliu youyo

Wordless Shadows Speak to Me

Wordless Shadows Speak to Me (NaviarHaiku532)

Programmed and played live with Novation Circuit OG (Factory Soundpack) and recorded direct into Audacity with minimal post effects.

Truth is a Bubble [ naviarhaiku533 ]

Baile Briste

On June 14th 2024, Shuoxin Tan and Congee Rats will give a concert at Honigfabrik in Hamburg. Here is a trailer of this concert with two solo sets.

Shuoxin Tan: https://mewithoutnara.bandcamp.com

ShuoxinTan x CongeeRats Concert Trailer (in German)

A man swallowed [Naviarhaiku 546]

Improvisation III of and by Franck Douvin
Composed on March 2020 and Perhaps my most accomplished piece so far for solo flute…
My playing & recording on Monday, July 1, 2024
Franck Douvin © 2024 Contemporary chamber music
Thanks for listening & sharing
I hope you'll enjoy !

Improvisation III of and by Franck Douvin

Downtown Blues

Experimental electronic music, mostly in the drone category. This is where I put live sets, one-offs, experiments, and excerpts from longer releases.

CD: "~60 Hz" on Irritable Hedgehog - http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dave-seidel-60-hz

All releases, including netlabel items: 
http://mysterybear.net/music

https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/

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