One of my first improvisation with my Chaos Conductor, a Max MSP patch. Sounds of small bells, waves, mother of pearl discs and some electronic sounds.

Noise Wrangling 15 Feb 2023

All sounds extracted from a contact microphone on a creaking gate in Poplar, London
Image by optikfluffel (https://www.flickr.com/photos/optikfluffel/10154261764)

SnoringRobot

Based on the voice of the check-in points in Copenhagen.
Video: https://vimeo.com/186802657

Ind Ud

A bed creaking mixed with the sound of the waves. Image from Wikipedia.

Waves in bed

From samples provided by the Underline art project for the Victoria line.
https://art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/sample-set/
Image by:
By Tom Page from London, UK (09) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Tender Tube

Sampling of the early evening at A Baiuca in Lisbon. 

Drowning Fado

Third experiment with the tracks from the Underline art project for the Victoria line. art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/sample-set/

Image by Hernán Piñera https://www.flickr.com/photos/hernanpc/18562226121


Leaving The Tube

Fourth experiment using the tracks from the Underline art project for the Victoria line. art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/sample-set/ - A rhythmic piece using the sounds of gates and doors.

Image by Chris McKenna (Thryduulf) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Gates Gates Gates !

TheraBand, voice and breath.
Full playlist and description of the project at https://soundcloud.com/jpdrecourt/sets/instant-sound-art.

Voice and rubber tube - Instant Sound Art - 160921

Bose headphones, fruit crate and incidental door.
Full playlist and description of the project at https://soundcloud.com/jpdrecourt/sets/instant-sound-art.

Headphones and door - Instant Sound Art - 160922

Feet on wooden floor.
Full playlist and description of the project at soundcloud.com/jpdrecourt/sets/instant-sound-art.

Footsteps on wood - Instant Sound Art - 160926

Voice. Inspired by Robert Hashley "She was a visitor" (https://open.spotify.com/track/0VzuGjOfNJh768Lsw2P2iu) and the mindfulness concept of thisness, i.e. just the experience a the present moment.
Full playlist and description of the project at soundcloud.com/jpdrecourt/sets/instant-sound-art.

This - Instant Sound Art - 160927

Knife on marble top, cutlery in plastic drying rack, distant bell.
Full playlist and description of the project at soundcloud.com/jpdrecourt/sets/instant-sound-art.

Vibrating knife - Instant Sound Art - 160928

Fridge compressor, passing planes and very distant bells. No editing apart from fade-in and fade-out, some processing (EQ, effects).
Full playlist and description of the project at soundcloud.com/jpdrecourt/sets/instant-sound-art.

Fridge drone - Instant Sound Art - 160929

Creaky wooden table.
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Table beat - Instant Sound Art - 161003

The metal plate from yesterday makes a come back together with a creaking hinge nearby, and some clicks I can't remember how I created.
Full playlist and description of the project at soundcloud.com/jpdrecourt/sets/instant-sound-art.

Plate and creaking hinge - Instant sound art - 161005

Capturing electromagnetic interference with the mike.
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Imperfect microphone - Instant sound art - 161006

Manipulating a guitar and its case
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Guitar and case - Instant sound art - 161007

Continuing the experiments in phasing - Classical guitar and some time stretching algorithms.
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Guitar phasing - Instant sound art - 161011

Attempt at throat singing, phased.
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Throat - Instant sound art - 161012

Short clapping rhythm with delay.
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Short clap study - Instant sound art - 161013

A short experiment inspired by Steve Reich's "My name is". Here is one other interpretation by Als Eco (https://soundcloud.com/alseco/my-name-is)
Full playlist and description of the project at https://soundcloud.com/jpdrecourt/sets/instant-sound-art.

My name is - Instant sound art - 161014

Little rhythmic loop inspired by this 6 word story: http://www.sixwordstories.net/2012/06/red-black-red-red-black-millionaire/
Words extracted using the amazing YouGlish http://youglish.com/
Samples from:
http://youglish.com/getcid/6262274/red
http://youglish.com/getcid/7689325/black
http://youglish.com/getcid/12135668/millionnaire
Full playlist and description of the project at soundcloud.com/jpdrecourt/sets/instant-sound-art.

Millionnaire - Instant sound art - 161019

Inspired by the 6 word story: https://www.reddit.com/r/sixwordstories/comments/201hu3/dot_in_the_sky_dead_pixel/
Full playlist and description of the project at soundcloud.com/jpdrecourt/sets/instant-sound-art.

Dark spot - Instant sound art - 161020

Samples from:
http://youglish.com/getcid/4994964/breathe (Great yoga sessions by the way)
https://www.freesound.org/people/Ama_Dis/sounds/156396/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GibiNy4d4gc (including the final drum)
Full playlist and description of the project at soundcloud.com/jpdrecourt/sets/instant-sound-art.

Cycle of life - Instant sound art - 161021

Mouth clicks inspired by human echolocation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation).
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Echolocation - Instant sound art - 161025

Mouth pops.
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Pops - Instant sound art - 161026

An experimental take on Anne Hathaway by Carol Ann Duffy (http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/anne-hathaway)
All samples extracted using http://youglish.com
Image by Martinvl (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Anne Hathaway

Sea gulls and knife sharpener piccolo recorded in Lisbon.
Image from https://pixabay.com/en/fractal-mathematics-abstract-1621735/

Sea gulls

Sounds recorded in Lisbon. 
Image By SecretDisc 11:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC) (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

Urban scene

An experiment based on laughs I collected from Fail Army videos (https://www.youtube.com/user/failarmy).
Picture from Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/en/laughter-statue-sculpture-laughing-995213/)

Laughscape

This piece is my take on the early phasing work of Steve Reich, and in particular Piano Phase and Drumming. It combines two samples of people laughing taken from my earlier piece Contagion. Each laugh sample is broken into component pieces and each piece is taken to represent a drum beat.

Laughing

Teaser for the performance at the Barreiro Water Tower with Melaina Barnes. (http://www.outra.pt/pt/evento/performance-no-reservatorio-elevado-do-alto-da-paiva/)

Full performance with pictures here:
http://drecourt.com/portfolio/tap-the-rain/

Tap The Rain - Teaser

A little extract of the rehearsal for Tap The Rain at the Water Tower of Alto Da Paiva in Barreiro, Portugal, the 27 and 28 May.

Full performance and pictures here:
http://drecourt.com/portfolio/tap-the-rain/

Tap The Rain - Rehearsal - Teaser

Spacetrip 3000

'In-between, longing' is the sonic interpretation of 'Brise Soleil' written by Michael Langan. The text tells a memory of Michael's husband, the artist Henrique Neves, about an encounter with a boy when he was 6. The groups of words scattered on the page invite the reader to wander around to recreate their own version of the story.
Based solely on recordings of Henrique's voice, 'In-between, longing' meanders infinitely through the possible versions of this formative experience.
The piece is infinite and generated from a code written in SuperCollider using a random seed. This public version is generated with seed 262 (the most uninteresting number according to Wikipedia at the time of publishing).

A longer version is available for sale on Bandcamp (https://jpdrecourt.bandcamp.com/album/in-between-longing-seed-0262).

You can also contact me if you'd like to order your own exclusive version created from a random seed of your choice.

Text: Michael Langan
Voice: Henrique Neves
Sound & Programming: Jean-Philippe Drecourt

In-between, longing (seed 0262) - Preview

Composed from a field recording session in Quinta da Regaleira near Lisbon, Portugal. 

Text: Melaina Barnes
Voice: Melaina Barnes & a very vocal duck
Recording & Composition: Jean-Philippe Drécourt

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Noise Wrangler is an electroacoustic music producer living in Lisbon, Portugal. He combines field recordings, samples and live performance to explore how context can change our perception of sound. He creates sonic experiences at the boundary between the natural and the artificial, that retain the essence of the original sounds.

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