Naaljos Ljom 2

Rammeslått 2 (gjest: Rasmus Kjorstad, fele)

Rammeslått 1

retire final - alvedon - edit, inspired by spedup/sloweddown

Retire - Final (sadder)

My latest set for Utopia on the 14th of September 2024 at La Caleta opening for Kasango. Enjoy

Utopia Opening for Kasango @La Caleta 14 September 2024

A mashup made for Emanuel Satie's 'Flores' rmx'd by Meera and vocals from Lazarusman.

Not Enough Flores

Dark Matter

Flawed Mangoes - Swimming (slowed)

A sound sculpture initially created in 2004, revised in 2024 with additional sounds.

written by Clark Engebretsen 

Skin Crawl

Always cool to jam on Hendrik's grooves ! Thanks for this @cosmic-ratzzz !
backtrack & final Mix: Mr Ratzzz - Sax: from my side :-)

Lunatics 209 / funky line / Ratzzz & joerxworx

Title:
Clang

Dates:
21-Dec-2024 (inception), 21-Dec-2024 (finalised), 22-Dec-2024 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/clang

Description:
I have been working on an expressive drone, the NOF_ExciteThePipe to supplement my performances on the Soma Cosmos and Soma Pipe. A stable release has been completed, time to put it through it's paces. And it's my Christmas Holidays, so plenty of time to ponder, ruminate, experiment and lay down some tracks with my Soma Cosmos, Soma Pipe,  human voice, and myNS Wav electric violin. The COSMOS was loaded with the Rhythmic Firmware release R1.51.

This is pretty much a one or two take improvised recording three movement piece. Movements one, two and three were recorded into Ableton Live to capture the ideas and final minor adjustments to the mix. Some reverb was added onto movement one as well as a granular synthesiser, apart from this no other effects were applied in Live as the main effect device was the hardware Soma Pipe, switching between various algorithms live during the recording. A touch of unpredictability was added through the memory station of the Soma Cosmos.

Movement one, features the NOF_ExciteThePipe drone feed from a custom programmed (programming and concept by Norman Freund) Max standalone executable to the Soma Pipe, to the Soma Cosmos memory station, then fed back to the drone for the initial recording. This formed track three. Copies of track three were dropped into the granular synthesiser of Robert Henke, the Granulators III, forming a drifting harmony back drop.

Movement two, features the Soma Pipe played through the Soma Cosmos, feeding it human speech articulations and singing. Having all the Soma instrument dials there in front of me and having my hands free, allowed complete artistic freedom, for an organic performance.

The final movement, much quieter now, was played with my electric violin through the Soma Pipe, then through the Soma Cosmos. This comprised of four tracks, recorded in a layer fashion from Live, but each track used the drifting memory station capabilities of the Soma Cosmos, just a bit more challenging to lay down the violin bow to make adjustments on the Cosmos. The third track used the octaver of the Pipe to emulate the Bass and Cello sections. The fourth track used the Orpheus mode of the Pipe,  a twin resonator, where the resonator frequencies were adjusted live during the recording.


Clang

You Are Stronger (Instrumental) - Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers

Welcome to my place of musical experiments and my endless journey of exploring new sound textures, rhythms and melodic ideas. I am a multi-instrumentalist coming from a background of having actively played, harmonica, recorder, piano, organ, clarinet, tin whistle, pan pipes, guitar, violin, Shakuhachi, jaw harp, didgeridoo and accordion. My genre is mostly a fusion of Jazz and Soundscape, however I often seek inspiration from a wide variety of music, Celtic, Rock, Heavy Metal, Classical, Folk, Micro-tonal, just to name a few. I also build my own instruments, various Shakuhachi using them either directly in recordings or sample the sounds to incorporate in pitch shifting tools in Ableton Live. I often set myself a music challenge, taking every day sounds not considered musical, sampling, transforming and moulding them into a virtual musical instrument. Experimenting with evolving polymeters is a favourite feature of my works. I have been classically trained but soon ventured into free improvisation, which is my happy place.

I am based on the South Island of New Zealand, enjoying the great outdoors there. I often take inspiration from this for my music and associated cover art.

I have a no cover’s policy, all my works being original compositions, the only exception would be the odd jazz interpretation of a Bach piece from the Baroque era. My percussion sections do not use any artificial intelligence drum machines, nor do I use auto tuners for my violin playing. Paid likes and plays — none of that either. 

I also participate in musical collaborations, from accepting sound samples to see what I can do with them, to instrumental collaborations. Send me a message if interested.

Please join me on this wonderful journey of music exploration.

Clang

Norman Freund

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