Name: Sound Monster by Nick Gonnering
Duration: 5 min 55 s
Description: half live half software, all sound. collab with vivical.

Damn, the mix of the sub kick and the acoustic is a really nice mix. Really reminds me of The New Deal, with a little more Europe feel.

Written & Composed by Izzy Bizu & Mika Barroux
Recorded & Mixed by Jay Picasso

Izzy's debut Acoustic EP 'Coolbeanz' is out on 1st September

02 High Road

The new album 'This Is All Yours'
Available on iTunes here: smarturl.it/TIAYitunes
Available on CD - http://smarturl.it/TIAYcd // LP - http://smarturl.it/TIAYvinyl
Listen on Spotify here: smarturl.it/TIAYPlaylist

Breezeblocks (RZA Remix)

Cobalt Rabbit's single "Kori No Namida" comes out on March 31st in anticipation of his second Traveling Sound album "Let Go" coming out soon after :)

Cobalt Rabbit - Taken Time (feat. Nick Gonnering)~(Kori No Namida out March 31st)

half live half software, all sound. collab with vivical. 

Sound Monster

From the album 'This Is All Yours'
Available on iTunes here: smarturl.it/TIAYitunes
Available on CD / Double LP here: www.altjband.com/

Hear more here: smarturl.it/TIAYPlaylist

Forthcoming live dates: showsnear.by/alt-J

Left Hand Free

Dreamscape is a piece I spent about 120 hours working on. It has two large sections that both span about 11 minutes (A and B). Each macro section is roughly broken up in five smaller components; a, a', b, c, a''.Each of these macro sections represent a specific processes and textural shifts that both of the themes undergo throughout the piece. All of the primary thematic material is made clear by the prescense of text.

Both stanzas of text experience gradual change in this linear fashion: the original theme exposes itself, it then repeats with more emphasis on experimental sound design and drum/bass content. Shortly after the restatement of these themes, they dissolve into an orchestral texture spattered with ambience and accessory melodic instruments. Each of these orchestral textures die out into a period of evolving ambience that leads into a marimba cadenza (c). Each marimba cadenza climaxes into a hyper aggressive restatement of the theme it belongs to.

I tried experimenting with a process like approach to some of the harmony in this piece. The harmony for the primary and secondary themes are derived through formalist like treatment of chromatic mediants. The first theme, I sequence maj9 chords up by a m3, down by a M3. Resulting in a maj9 shape that meanders down by halfsteps. When I finally sequence back to the original root that started the process, the harmony begins to tonicize that region to prepare for a cadence to restart or end the thematic content. The second theme is the complete opposite of the first theme, I sequenced m9 chords up by a M3 and down by a m3. Resulting in a completely different sonority shape climbing in the opposite direction.

To emphasize this difference in thematic ideas, I tried to make each macro section polarizingly opposite. For the A theme's orchestral texture, I explored a lot of altered dominants in minor modes utilizing phyrgian and dorian. The B theme's orchestral texture contrasts this by utilizing the major modes lydian/ionian. Each of the ambient sections are also constructed out of contrasting sonority structures.

In short, the piece is constructed from two primary thematic ideas that undergo the same type of gradual change, just in contrasting colors! And as harmony is viewed as tension and release, I tried to organize my sounds in a way that each constructed sound has it's own dramatic shape based on the sounds that precede and follow each other just like harmony.

"A world by code,
dig for answers of who we are.
life flows by,
stand and watch it pass by you.
hauntingly beautiful patterns and symmetry
provide an illusion of intention
discover your place.

Fading in, fading out,
Dreaming while floating down.
I've found a telescope to gaze away
fleeting images fill my eye piece.
weaved throughout each scene
are these beautiful patterns and symmetries
I came across a ring of keys,
to liberate the these stars and galaxies
gazing away in silent self reflection
fracturing pieces of me."

Sound Monster

Nick Gonnering

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