Machine Behaviour
für Algorithmen und 6 Instrumente
[Version 20.08.2021]

recorded live in St.Gallen, mixed by Beat Keller www.lagerstudios.ch

ENSEMBLE ORBITER

Riccarda Caflisch - Flöte
André Meier - Trompete
Simone Keller - Klavier
Martin Lorenz - Vibraphon
Aline Spaltenstein - Kontrabass
Oliver Roth - Modular Synthesizer

Im Stück - „Machine Behaviour“ - geht es darum zu beobachten, wie sich Algorithmen, Daten durch ein nichttriviales System im Medium Musik/Klang artikulieren lassen und dabei dieses artifizielle Verhalten - wie bei einem Lebewesen - zu studieren. Der Algorithmus generiert dabei stets neue Kombinationen, Formen und Abfolgen von Klängen, Gesten und Texturen. Durch das nichttriviale (unvorhersehbare, aber nicht zufällige) Verhalten der „Machine" ergeben sich dabei ganz charakteristische Eigenschaften, welche die Musiker*inne und Hörer*innen erleben und beobachten können. Die Maschine wird so zur eigentlichen „Performerin“ (oder auch Improvisatorin), welche die Noten/Partitur live während der Aufführung generiert und für die Musiker*innen auf den Screens bereitstellt. Für die Instrumentalist*innen bedeutet dies letztendlich, dass sie  zu einer Art „Membran“ dieser Maschine und ihres Codes werden und den Anweisungen folgen.

Machine Behaviour - 20.08.2021 - (mixed by Beat Keller)

Turbolence

Excerpt from a concert of improvised soundscapes at St. John's Glastonbury, October 8th 2022.

From the album of the concert, "Avalon of the Heart", now available on Bandcamp, here:
https://paulstephentaylor.bandcamp.com/album/avalon-of-the-heart-live-soundscapes-at-st-johns-glastonbury
Paul Taylor: Mellotron and other keys.

Written, performed, recorded and produced by Paul Taylor.

Many thanks to Matthew Redman, David and all at St.John's, Glastonbury for making this concert possible.

Special thanks to Paul Weston and Zoe for the Roerich peace banners and for their protection and presence.

Fisher King theme courtesy of Deborah Cartwright.

Artwork by Katie Lock

The Vision of Avalon (excerpt)

d o w n q u a r k - Cosmic Radiation 1 (Urknall)

Paul Taylor: Piano.
Steinway at Sage Gateshead, September 2017.
Written, performed, recorded and produced by Paul Taylor.
Features on Nils Frahm's official Piano Day 2019 playlist
More music is available on Bandcamp: https://paulstephentaylor.bandcamp.com
"A rare phenomenon": International Piano Magazine.
 #pianoday

Nocturne

Appears on the Enceladus ReX album "antigravity":
https://silentloverecords.bandcamp.com/track/beyond-anything-we-understand

photo by Elseh
www.flickr.com/photos/187686180@N02

"Beyond Anything We Understand" by Enceladus ReX

Here is the last part of my 22-01 warm up set for desert maestro Veridium (@jerri-mperdempes) at NASTY red room. 

Hope you feel it <3

@elfenberg
@mira_chris
@kermesselive
@kellerkind
@stereo-express
@nikoschwind
@dahumusic
@oliverkoletzki
@dilbydj
@britta-1
@blondish
@dirtydoering
@danielrateuke
@township-rebellion
@rebukemusic
@cioz
@timgreen
@timengelhardt
@marcus-meinhardt

ZIИ - NASTY, Z-Bau, 2019-01-26

(c) http://www.KLAVIERREFORM.de - On the way home from dancing at Zakk we had to wait at 3 o'clock in the night til the subway arrived so i used the chance to play the public piano (3min) although being drunk (thanx to pernod cola) (c) http://www.NONDUALJAZZ.de ~ Manifest "DIE GEBURT DER MÜHELOSEN MUSIK AUS DEM GEISTE DER ICHLOSIGKEIT" = 1) Es gibt keinen Spieler; 2) Die Finger fallen ferngesteuert aus der Leere; 3) Jeder Klang reiner Selbstzweck; 4) Jede Melodie purer Zufall; 5) Keine Harmonie Absicht; 6) Kein Taktzwang; 7) Weder Anfang noch Ende; 8) Null Komposition; 9) Zuhörer desinteressiert! / MORE ABOUT THE ASPHALT FESTIVAL: https://www.asphalt-festival.de/idee/

1min taken from "PERNODE" (end) @ public piano by asphalt festival (stadtklaviere)

So it was my first time at ZBB and super excited to be playing a downtempo hybrid set with my analogue synth. Unfortunately, I came to the castle with a lot of personal heavy load and was not ready for partying at all. In fact, I was sitting in the morning before travelling from Stockholm to Berlin and was about to write Alexander Paulski (@alexanderpaulski) that I would not be making it. However, eventually I did. So my tension, arriving at Berlin Südkreuz with my keyboard in a reusable shopping bag, was high. But as soon as I saw the first hippies waiting for the bus shuttle I started to breathe. I immediately felt welcomed and home. The shuttle to the castle turned out to be tons of fun but loooong due to the bus driver not really finding his way there. Finally arriving at Schloss Beesenstedt, the entire bus was ready for mysterious magic adventures that were about to start ✨

Back to Friday night and I am supposed to open the dancefloor of the bar with some trippy groovy downtempo, but as it often happens, a DJ wizard (@jamesfish) pulls out his stick and started a fantastic .... upbeat Hip-Hop set! What to do? My thoughts were all over the place. Should I play a totally different genre because nobody wants to hear downtempo after upbeat hip-hop? As it turns out, however, the burners were ready for downtempo and I had the pleasure to play at the amazing dj-booth of the bar in front of a full dancefloor. Thank you to everyone who danced. I was in complete flow during the set and felt so connected with everyone dancing (hope you felt it too) - so much, that I could not remember what had been played. So perhaps you would like to relisten too, then here is the downtempo set from the ZBB bar, Friday 23h00-01h00.

Thank you to the artists for their wonderful music: @innellea, @zuma_dionys, @le_bigz, @nhiimusic, @kermesselive, @fake_mood, @mass-digital, @sheknowsmusic, @ziganaldi, @lunarplane, @desogo, @marcus-meinhardt, @cioz, @dandaramusic, @stevebug, @arutani, @jose_noventa

ZIИ - Zum brennenden Bären [Friday 23h00-01h00] - ZBB 2020

Extract from EVOLUTION
fanlink.to/evolution

Evolution of the World
Evolution of Myself
Evolution of the Sound

Evolutions

Hands

Tom de Toys, geb.  1968 in Jülich/NRW, entwickelte 1986 unter dem Eindruck von Tschernobyl die Klavierreform DAS DESINTERESSIERTE KLAVIER und performt wieder ab 2020 live kombiniert mit Quantenlyrik-Rezitation

1min taken from "PERNODE" (end) @ public piano by asphalt festival (stadtklaviere)

NONDUALJAZZ

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