Great combination of short percussive sounds and lingering waves. Captivating ambience.

This track is from the album Night Flower and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/irinamikhailova

Mori Moma Remix by Irina Mikhailova, B.Smiley, Graham Wood

La fragile espérance de l'athée

Title:
Pipes

Dates:
10-Feb-2024 (inception), 10-Feb-2024 (finalised), 11-Feb-2024 (released)

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

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

Description:
Time to experiment with my new music instrument purchase, The Pipe from Soma Laboratory, to see, hear and feel what this mystical instrument can do.

All sounds made on this performance went through The Pipe, then assembled in Ableton Live with some additional effects.

The Pipe consists of a very close up and personal microphone, intended to feed it sounds from your human voice, or via the plug any other electric audio signal; then feed it through it's hardware synthesiser to transform the audio to another sonic world.

For this recording, the sounds feed into The Pipe were, my voice, percussive sounds from my mouth, and my didgeridoo. The didgeridoo was recorded through a Sure Green Bullet mic, through to an LR Baggs Para Acoustic D.I., then to The Pipe.

A combination of directly using The Pipe sounds in Ableton Live and altering them were used. For the latter, either sampling techniques with and without pitch shifting, and via granular synthesis (Robert Henke's Granulator II), Effects used were a custom audio enveloping tool I developed in Max (Cycling'74) as a Max for Live device, Ableton Live Spectral Blur and Live's Convolution Reverb Pro.

The Pipe has several different algorithms to change or re-synthesise the sound it hears, I used the Orpheus, Pulse, Reverb, BassDrum and the Generator (I called it the Radioactive, due to the appearance of it's icon on the control box).

The hardware used was The Pipe, Sure 520DX Green Bullet Mic, LR Baggs Para Acoustic D.I., Native Instruments Komplete Audio 2 (DI interface), Ableton Push2.

Pipes

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Kelly Lee Owens

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.

Pipes

Norman Freund

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