Preview of material from the forthcoming cassette 'DRN4' by NYZ aka David Burraston 
BUY HERE : https://m3ds.bandcamp.com/album/drn4

FM EXPLORATIONS AND MICROTONAL DRONES FROM NYZ (AKA DAVE NOYZE, DAVID BURRASTON, NOYZELAB, BRYEN TELKO) 

This is the first release by NYZ and is a superb musical collection of research areas classified to internal Noyzelab operations. Not even .MEDS label were informed of the secret processes underlying its creation, excepting that we know it involved Frequency Modulation (FM) synthesis! We have not been given any information regarding when this work was recorded, but we suspect the material spans at least a decade of David's FM algorithm research on numerous synthesizers, as well his own custom built ear deceiving gear... 

According to one reviewer of David's previous musical output he "gleefully disrupts just about every standard convention of musical form you could think of, including those of so-called experimental musics." Other reviewers have written that : 
"His music is a bizarre, yet compelling journey investigating the outer realms of music generated on ancient & contemporary machines." "It's strikingly original audio that doesn't really sound like anything else I can think of." "Utterly sublime. So there you go, a life-affirming slab of mind-altering sound to reawaken you to the terrifying possibilities of creation." "absolutely wreaks havoc" wrote Keith Fullerton Whitman on reviewing David's last release (T. H. Cycle cassette on Important Records/Cassauna). 

BIO: 

David Burraston is an award winning artist/scientist working in the areas of technology and electronic music since the late 1970s. His experimental arts practice encompasses field recording, landscape-scale sound art, chaos/complexity, sound synthesis and electronic music. He performs, lectures, conducts workshops and creates art installations in Regional NSW and around the world. David also designs and builds sound synthesizers based on his theories of chaos/complexity science. 

He has previously released his highly original form of experimental research music on numerous cult labels such as ALKU (in collaboration with RUSSELL HASWELL), IMPORTANT RECORDS/CASSAUNA, TAIGA, .MEDS, CATACLYST, ENGRAVED GLASS, TOCHNIT ALEPH, BETA BODEGA COALITION, SEVCOM EDITION and featured in THE WIRE MAGAZINE Below The Radar series. He has worked with many diverse collaborators such as Aphex Twin, William Barton, Alan Lamb, Chris Watson, Russell Haswell, Robin Fox, Oren Ambarchi, Garry Bradbury, MIT Media Lab and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2014 he independently published the legendary "SYROBONKERS!", the most technical and in-depth interview ever given by Aphex Twin. 

David had an innovative role in the foremost UK telco’s R&D laboratory in diverse areas such as Artificial Life, Chaos and Complex Systems, Spatial Audio, Virtual Reality and Data Visualisation. His 2006 PhD thesis (Generative Music & Cellular Automata) developed and applied fundamental new concepts, arising out of generative music practice, to a key problem in complex systems. This has served as a foundation methodology for creative practice and complex systems research. 

His current work is aimed at tackling more key questions in complex systems from a creative practice perspective, drawing inspiration from natural and artificial complex systems. These key questions address the definition of randomness, structure and high level descriptions of information processing in complex systems. 

David is a founding member of the Electronic Music Foundation Institute (www.emf.org). He was part of the team that designed and built long wire installations at The WIRED Lab and is a member of the Board of Directors (www.wiredlab.org). He has been operating Noyzelab as an independant art/science music studio since 1981 (www.noyzelab.com) and to the surprise of many is even on twitter @noyzelab

NYZ - DRN4 - FRACTAL COMPRESSION MIX

Preview material for "DRNH", the first release on Gamma Mine from NYZ aka Dave Burraston.
Pre-order now at Gamma Mine's BandCamp:
https://gammamine.bandcamp.com/
or from Norman Records:
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/162676-nyz-drnh

Gamma Mine: True explorations in electronics + mathematics, presented in aural form.

DRNH

NYZ - "DRNH" - RAY01 Preview Material

The Pleasure of Home
Entr’acte mix for Boomkat
First broadcast on 19 March 2017

www.nts.live/shows/boomkat

Eric Thielemans
NYZ
Lepenik
Brian Pyle & Fabio Orsi 
Jacques Beloeil
Tom Mudd
NYZ
Kazuya Ishigami (Dale Cornish remix)
Adam Asnan
Coppice

Entr’acte--The Pleasure of Home

NYZ
FLD RCDR CD (E219)
MCRTNL CD (E220)

Release date: early August 2017
http://entracte.co.uk/projects/nyz-e219e220/

Limited edition of 200 copies each
Mastered by Jacques Beloeil
— — —

David Burraston is an award-winning artist/scientist working in 
the areas of technology and electronic music since the late 1970s.
His experimental arts practice encompasses field recording, 
landscape-scale sound art, chaos/complexity, sound synthesis 
and electronic music. He performs, lectures, conducts workshops 
and creates art installations in Regional NSW and around the 
world. David also designs and builds sound synthesizers based 
on his theories of chaos/complexity. In 2014 he independently 
published the legendary SYROBONKERS!, the most technical 
and in-depth interview ever given by Aphex Twin.
— — —

FLD RCDR

1. FLD RCRDST::On Walden Snow
2. CPM DRNL
3. Lindisfarne Refuge Hut
4. FLD RCRDST::FM80PcellorgNSW [sample; 0'00"—06'00"]

Real and imaginary field recordings, compiled and synthesized in 
the 21st Century by David Burraston at Noyzelab. The pieces on 
this album have been formulated over a period of around five years. 
The main idea for this album was to make sound pieces that would 
appear to be a collection or mix of ‘live’ recordings.

FLD RCRDST::On Walden Snow and FLD RCRDST::FM80PcellorgNSW 
are both real field recordings which also mix studio recordings of 
Cellular Automata playing and sequencing synthesizers/effects units. 
CPM DRNL is a completely artificial simulation of an imaginary space, 
again with Cellular Automata taking on the duties of synth-playing 
and effects modification. Lindisfarne Refuge Hut is a complete, 
real field recording with nothing added, the only one on this album. 
— — —

MCRTNL

1. MTNAM_9_SRi::klunktabunkta
2. MTNAM_7_SRi::station=>MONO
3. MCRTE0
4. MTNAM_3::XNOTNL [sample; 06'00"—14'01"]
5. MTNAM_1::FM60PmacroCellular
6. LM__8101MT
7. MTNAM_6_SRi::stationONE_is_ON
8. MTNAM_2::FM60PP3
9. GRAYMATTA

A series of micro- and macrotonal generative compositions: recorded, 
compiled and synthesized in the 21st Century by David Burraston at 
Noyzelab. This is a collection of pieces designed to take you away 
from the world of 12-tone equal without getting bogged down in any
deep, confusing theories about anything whatsoever.

A pure and simple intuitive exploration of mini sound worlds using 
a variety of different hardware synthesizers, encompassing technologies 
such as modulation synthesis (FM etc.) and sample playback (ancient
ROMplers). Everything on this album has been sequenced using my 
Cellular Automata hardware systems for generating note and control 
data, as well as altering the tuning of individual notes or generating 
complete tuning tables in some cases.
— — —

noyzelab.com

NYZ (E219/E220; 2017)

5 brand new handmade cassette releases from Cassauna in varying editions of 25 - 50 copies each. Letterpress packaging printed at IMPREC using metallic gold ink and a case of Futura type.

1. Florian TM Zeisig "You Look So Serious" 
   The artist spliced a cassette of Enya's "Watermark" album into 426 four second long tape loops and painstakingly reassembled the pieces. The work touches on subjects of mainstream music and popular culture, juxtaposing it and aiming to introduce a discourse on institutional elitism, privilege in the general context of sound/performance art. In the process evaluating its boundaries while staying as close as possible to the original medium.

2. Tom Eaton "Acips" 
    Tom Eaton has been releasing private press New Age albums since the 1980's and is currently the engineer and co-producer at William Ackerman's Imaginary Road Studio. SPICA/ACIPS presents Tom's work with a more stripped down/slowed down aesthetic. 

3. David Burraston "Wagga Ham Shack" 
    Wagga Ham Shack is an extensive, ambient recording of the Wired Lab's  Global Communications Radio Club installation held at the Waga Waga Fusion Multicultural Festival in Oct. 2015. The incredible analog/digital sounds of short wave radio Ham's mix with David Burraston's accompanying synthesizer work to create an incredibly useful ambient environment. 

4. QST "2023" 
    QST is the work of Frans DeWaard and its focus is on beat oriented electronic music. DeWaard abandoned the QST project at some point in the 90's but returned to it once he was able to get the drum sound he was searching for. 

5. Perhaps "V & 4"
    Jim Haney's Perhaps is a pounding, dense re-imagining of their recent album for Riot Season.  Includes members of the Acid Mothers Temple.

Cassauna - New Release 5 Tape Mix - Florian T M Zeisig - Tom Eaton - David Burraston - QST - Perhaps

Buchla 200
MANIAC cellular automata sequencer
MOTU Microbook II
MacBook Pro
Recorded in Logic Pro 10 from a mix of the 288v Time Domain Processor outputs, excerpt mixed down using REAPER 5

Recorded May/June 2017 at EMS Sweden during my Regional Arts Fellowship. This Regional Arts Fellowship is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

Thanks to absolutely everybody at EMS!!

RAINWIRE [PROCESSED] EMS Sweden Buchla 288v [Excerpt]

TT RV KzM_2P Shaper 2 #22

TT RV KzM_2P Shaper 1 #03

When John Chowning discovered FM synthesis it was seen as the promised land. Anything and everything could be synthesized, it was said, by use of this brilliant, simple idea: sine waves modulating other sine waves in any number of patch matrices, producing complex combinations of sidebands. And as such; almost infinite spectral potentiality for composers and performers alike! In other words - spectrum splitting potential, which is exactly how NYZ approaches it in this collection of mad and utterly unpredictable pieces. 

Seemingly held together by the determination (or lack thereof) of a chaotic system in a clinical, synthetic sound environment, these pieces are raw and made up of ploddy notes strolling through timbral in-between places from infamous synthesizer presets. Imitating organs, bass guitars and percussive instruments mutating seamlessly into alien non-referential sounds, some notes intensely are sustained and some strung together in vibrant and organic, breathing sequences by Burraston’s MANIAC Cellular Automata Sequencer. 

‘NTE GDN’ is a thoroughly eccentric and expressive musical experience containing melodic interval jumps of what seems to be an algorithm impersonating Schönberg, only stopping to descend into a dronal stasis.

NTW GDN

NTE GDN

NYZ - NTE GDN (from 'NTE GDN', CON018)

https://boomkat.com/products/shftr-frq

+ [Special note for track A9 - SHFTR_CA#BB1] => A huge shout of thanks to Richard D James for gifting me a Sequentix Cirklon sequencer and PreenFM2 synth during my Regional Arts Fellowship in 2017! This was the first track I made using this gear. You can also read up more about my open source Farey Sequence FM programming tool for the PreenFM here => 
https://github.com/noyzelab/FareyPreenFM2

++ Folks interested in using cellular automata can also check out my open source Arduino based synth module here => 
https://github.com/noyzelab/uMANIAC

SHFTR FRQ

NYZ SHFTR FRQ 09_SHFTR_CA#BB1

David Burraston is an award-winning artist/scientist working in the areas of technology and electronic music since the late 1970s. His experimental arts practice encompasses field recording, landscape-scale sound art, chaos/complexity, sound synthesis and electronic music. He performs, lectures, conducts workshops and creates art installations in Regional NSW and around the world. David also designs and builds sound synthesizers based on his theories of chaos/complexity. In 2014 he independently published the legendary SYROBONKERS! the most technical and in-depth interview ever given by Aphex Twin.

RAINWIRE [PROCESSED] EMS Sweden Buchla 288v [Excerpt]

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