Thurstday

1: White Socks - Monday, 06:05 (Granie, Soma Lyra 8, Soma COSMOS)
2: White Socks - Tuesday, 04:09 (Granie, Soma Lyra 8, Soma COSMOS)
3: White Socks - Wednesday, 04:36 (Granie, Soma Enner, Soma COSMOS)
4: White Socks - Thursday, 05:18 (Granie, Soma Pipe, Soma COSMOS)
5: White Socks - Friday, 03:39 (Granie, Soma Lyra 8, Soma COSMOS) 
Total 23:47

Dates:
15-Dec-2025 (inception), 17-Dec-2025 (finalised), 18-Dec-2025 (released)

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

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/white-socks

Description:
Whilst on a my daily walk around the neighbourhood, I looked down at my white socks and wondered what sounds would be heard if I slipped my iPhone into my socks and pressed record? My initial thoughts were granular synthesis using my Granie synthesiser. It was very much a case of expecting weird stuff not knowing what sounds it may pick up. Five passages in White Socks: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. All using the sounds from the white socks passed through the Granie granular synthesiser to provide inspiration for performances on Soma hardware synthesisers Lyra 8, Enner and The Pipe. The Soma COSMOS provided the echo chamber that talks to the musician, the musician responds. Both the Lyra 8 and Enner were driven by my human hands, turning dials or activating sensitive touch pads. The Soma Pipe was driven by my human voice. Final multi-track recording by my Granie and FindTheBeat digital software based synthesiser/recording systems. Keeping it human, no AI used here!

Track 1: White Socks - Monday
Sounds of foot steps as heard by socks,
Slow at first,
Every crackle and creak,
Other ambient sounds,
Pace builds up,
Sock sounds enter Granular synthesis,
Sounds re-imagined,
Lyra 8 interprets.

Track 2: White Socks - Tuesday
Echos of granulised sock sounds,
Shifting delays,
Tentative touches of Lyra 8,
Like shifting sands,
The Granular socks come and go,
Washing over Lyra 8.

Track 3: White Socks - Wednesday
Tides of granular socks,
Swaying rhythms of the Enner,
Walker journey continues,
Is it bird song,
Or is it Enner speaking?

Track 4: White Socks - Thursday
Tidal remnants of the grains float past,
Walker responds through the Pipe,
Grains answer back,
Ever present steps of the walker,
Stirring the grains.

Track 5: White Socks - Friday
Grains intertwine and reverberate,
Lyra 8 interrupts,
Pauses for a moment,
Walker contemplates,
Lyra beckons.


Granular synthesis in Granie release 6.2 using the new graphical sequencer. The Soma COSMOS played the roles of reverb and taking fragments of sounds from the Lyra 8, Pipe and Enner replaying them in creative ways as directed by the performer. Each of the five passages of a continuity of theme, using the rhythmic choices of the previous passage as a starting point, then changing them. 

Tuning of the granular synthesiser was a simple harmonic series of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 with the master reference frequency of 6 Hz. Because it was granular synthesis, this 6 Hz was the replay frequency of the grains, length of grains (in milliseconds) was varied. There were up to four voices with their root notes as follows: voice 1 tuned at 6 Hz, voice 2 tuned a perfect fourth a 4/3 ratio at 8 Hz, voice 3 tuned 4 octaves up a ratio of 16/1 at 96 Hz. Occasionally a fourth voice came into play at 0.346 Hz, again tuned in a harmonic series, with the root tuned 4949 cents below the master reference frequency of 6 Hz. The negative 4949 cents (4 octaves and 139 cent), seems like an odd ball tuning, it's root note was tuned by ear, I liked it, so kept it.

The Soma Pipe algorithms used were Orpheus (twin resonant reverberators), Filtera (resonant band pass filter) and Drum #1.

The Granie synthesiser can be purchased from my GumRoad site at:
https://normanfreund.gumroad.com/l/granie

White Socks - Monday

Residency Tape 1 
The sound on this release has been examined and produced throughout August and September 2018 in Frankfurt am Main during a music-residency initiated and hosted by "Künstlerhaus Mousonturm" and MMODEMM.

It is advised to listen to "Narrow Slits" and "Defector (3 Movements)" on stereo speakers.

Jung An Tagen (Stefan Juster)
Frankfurt am Main, 2018

Residency Tape 1

Jung An Tagen - Defector (3 Movements)

POLAKA - Oh God

Track from NE60 CA2+ – Lonely Hearts Club
Out on cassette and digital on August 2nd

Recorded by Andreas Lübeck in Stockholm, Sollefteå and Berlin 2017-2019
Photography by Andreas Lübeck

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4PLAY: 6 tracks exploring acid, electro, techno, footwork, and ambient.

Link for digi: 
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BODY SWEAT

LEONARD LAMPION - ROCK N' ROLL BAD BOY

UNSEE 002 - Mickaël Halley

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GUESTS 126 – Ab Uno

janky crushed mix inspired by and gift for Stella, Elly, Celeste, Lily, all my pals, and all the other crushers out there
being pulverised by the weight of world

“Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency”  tiana reid 

many mistakes


trax:
ASMR HONEYCOMB Crushing Sticky Sounds | No Talking - ASMRtortoises
Crushed - Dean Blunt
Ccrush - mu tate
I’ve Got A Crush On You - Ella Fitzgerald
Crushed Cream - CS + Kreme
Crush On You - Lil’ Kim
Crush ft. Usher - Yuna (Josh Pan & Whethan Remix)
First Crush - Bladee, Ecco2k, Yung Lean
crushed - DJ Kuroneko
Body Crush - Golin
Crush - Boy Harsher
Crushed - Cocteau Twins
Vanity Lights (First Crush) - Varg ft. Ecco2k
Crush On U - Bored Lord
Crush and Burn -DJ Plead
U Control the Ocean (Second Crush) - Varg
Crush On You - Nero (J-Varn Remix)
Crush On U - Noah Tucker
crush (ft. hatsune miku, tayparadox & evalina) - dazegxd
Hand Crushed By A Mallet - 100 Gecs (Ratzest remix)
Zourry mix outro --- Girl Crush - Harry Styles at the BBC  x Crush - Jai Paul  x  Crushing asmr crushing crunchy dry seaweed asmr - R Ahmed  x  Crushin’(Yeeeeaah!) - J Dilla x  Four Tet - Crush

being pulverised by the weight of world ⚬◦º・∙ crushed mix gift for u

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