Collaborations

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)

Artwork: Zenbot, by Malka
This track contains bird songs recorded on the Hallasan and Mudeungsan mountains in Jeju and Gwangju, South Korea. 
Cette piste contient des chants d'oiseaux enregistrés dans les montagnes Hallasan et Mudeungsan à Jeju et Gwangju en Corée du Sud.

Time Zones

Zen, but...

Cellophane-Universe

Loop angels

Recorded live at Sonorium (Salem, MA) on September 6, 2014. There is some background noise from the air conditioning system, but it's not too bad.

Palimpsest: Sonorium 2014-09-06

From the sound of a washing machine being dragged on a concrete floor: https://freesound.org/people/relwin/sounds/676272/

Ode To A MetalBox

Doug (@douglasmseidel): samples (Cyril Ritchard reading Alice in Wonderland; some bird), SuperCollider, reverb thing

Dave: NovaDrone, FreqBox, DEP2b, Deluxe Memory Man with Hazarai, Boomerang III, Ekdahl Moisturizer

Recorded live in Dave's basement and pretty much left alone.


Kwadril (with Doug Seidel)

Fairness

This is the first track to be credited to my latest alias, Occam's Raygun, the alter ego I plan to use for strictly modular synth work. This piece showcases the Moog Mavis module for both the drum and melody line patches.

Occam's Raygun - Cannon Fodder

In The Land Of Seagulls feat. Luigi Manfrin  "Acrylic Mixtures" for accordion solo

Mesmo “Absence and Presence”
Text: James Joyce

Voices:
Leopold Bloom – Ronnie Walsh
Stephen Dedalus – Patrick Dawson

The works Inflowoc, Accraol, Janesem, Rivlinone, Mergerime and Pippinur employ samples from the James Joyce “Ulysses” broadcast which occurred on Bloomsday 1982 when the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ Radio, transmitted an uninterrupted 30-hour dramatized radio performance, by 33 actors of the RTÉ Players, of the entire text of James Joyce's epic 1922 novel, “Ulysses”, to commemorate the centenary of the author's birth (born 2 February 1882).

See: https://archive.org/details/Ulysses-Audiobook-Merged/

05 Rivlinone Minteve

Recorded live at 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA, 20 December 2014. Christos Koulendros: electronics (left), Dave Seidel: electronics (right), Walter Wright: drums and voice (center). All analog, no plan.

Image from http://www.superluminal.com/cookbook/gallery_conference.html

Koulendros Seidel Wright: Conference of the Birds (live)

Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 545.
Sur un haïku de El Wud:
white petals
on the stormy sea -
floating memories

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku545-white-petals/

Stormy Memories (NaviarHaiku 545)

Micoilalacora

T-60-120

Bill Bacon: percussion and penny whistle, Dave Seidel: electronics and cricket & cicada recordings, Greg Kowalski, visuals. You can see a video Greg made for this track at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbRLyIfOEAU.

This was a live performance at the Flopera House (Boston, MA) for the first night of Flestival ("the flestival for the rest of us") on December 9, 2011 - the eve of the full frost moon.


Ouroboros: Frost Moon - at The Flopera House (2011-12-09)

Track 2 from "Sing Men and Women!" by Alan Morse Davies and mysterybear, on the At Sea netlabel.

To stream and/or download the entire release, please visit http://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/album/sing-men-and-women.

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Sing Woman (with Alan Morse Davies) from "Sing Men and Women!", 2013

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

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Ouroboros: Frost Moon - at The Flopera House (2011-12-09)

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