Dronescape 6.2: Oneirology 3

Utopia Disco is a looping video installation with dance floor by Clive Holden with original music and surround soundscape by Oscar van Dillen (2.1 track duration 74 minutes, full track version double loop, twice 2.1: one loop 60, another 74 minutes).

See also: 
*http://disco.utopiasuite.com 
*http://z.utopiasuite.com
*http://you.utopiasuite.com
*http://cliveholden.com
*http://www.oscarvandillen.com/Utopia_Disco

A very different musical style was chosen than was used in the earlier parts of Utopia Suite, this time reflecting the disco-music of the 1970's, which I intertwined with odd world music rhythms and Indian melodic structures and instruments. Together with a soundscape using both electronics and tuned samples (an invention of my own: to tune samples to their musical context creates a new kind of “Varèsian consonance”).
The two audio loops include one with melodies, harmonies and soundscape, and the other with the rhythm and beats. Moreover, each of the audio loops includes a 2-channel output, resulting in 4-channel surround sound as well as an additional subwoofer track, for a total number of five audio channels.

This project applies the concept of different, simultaneously looping durations. The installation's four screens each have unique video loops, and the two audio loops are 60 and 74 minutes long each. These six simultaneous video + audio loops always present the materials in a new common context, with continuously re-mixing juxtapositions, thus continuously creating new meanings.

Utopia Disco (2 channel mixdown)

Ciconia is based on the proportion-canon "Le Ray au Soleil" composed by Johannes Ciconia (1370-1412), this version is transcribed from the original manuscript and composed/arranged for the Olduvai Ensemble by Oscar van Dillen (1984/2010).

Instrumentation: Flauto d'Amore, Flute, Bass Clarinet, Guitarra de 8 cuerdas, Bass and Percussion.

See http://www.olduvai-ensemble.com/Repertoire

Demo/Simulation made by Finale with Garritan Instruments, Nuendo and Audacity.

Ciconia (demo)

Ethiopia is composed for the Olduvai Ensemble by Oscar van Dillen (2011).

Instrumentation: Flute, Bass Clarinet, Guitarra de 8 cuerdas, Bass and Percussion.

See http://www.olduvai-ensemble.com/Repertoire

3 min demo/simulation made by Finale with Garritan Instruments, Nuendo and Audacity.

Ethiopia (demo)

Gobi is composed for the Olduvai Ensemble by Oscar van Dillen (2012).

Instrumentation: Flauto d'Amore, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Guitarra de 8 cuerdas, Bass and Percussion.

See http://www.olduvai-ensemble.com/Repertoire

3 min demo/simulation made by Finale with Garritan Instruments, Nuendo and Audacity.

Gobi (demo)

Fes is composed for the Olduvai Ensemble by Oscar van Dillen (2012).

Instrumentation: Flauto d'Amore, Bass Clarinet, Guitarra de 8 cuerdas, Bass and Percussion.

See http://www.olduvai-ensemble.com/Repertoire

3 min demo/simulation made by Finale with Garritan Instruments, Nuendo and Audacity.

Fes (demo)

Elexandria is composed for the Olduvai Ensemble by Oscar van Dillen (2003/2010).

Instrumentation: Flauto d'Amore, Bass Clarinet, Guitarra de 8 cuerdas, Bass and Percussion.

See http://www.olduvai-ensemble.com/Repertoire

3 min demo/simulation made by Finale with Garritan Instruments, Nuendo and Audacity.

Alexandria (demo)

Bharata is composed for the Olduvai Ensemble by Oscar van Dillen (2010).

Instrumentation: Flauto d'Amore, Flute, Bass Clarinet, Guitarra de 8 cuerdas, Tampuras, Bass and Percussion.

See http://www.olduvai-ensemble.com/Repertoire

3 min demo/simulation made by Finale with Garritan Instruments, Nuendo and Audacity.

Bharata (demo)

Derwish is composed for the Olduvai Ensemble by Oscar van Dillen (2011).

Instrumentation: Flauto d'Amore, Flute, Bass Clarinet, Guitarra de 8 cuerdas, Bass and Percussion.

See http://www.olduvai-ensemble.com/Repertoire

3 min demo/simulation made by Finale with Garritan Instruments, Nuendo and Audacity.

Derwish (demo)

a freely licensed contribution to be reused under CCBYSA

this track should allow for a seamless loop

Irregular bass and percussion 5+3 beats loop

Italia is based on the composition "De plus en plus se renouvelle" composed by Guillaume Duafy (1397-1474), this version is transcribed from the original manuscript and composed/arranged  for the Olduvai Ensemble by Oscar van Dillen (2012).

Instrumentation: Flauto d'Amore, Flute, Bass Clarinet, Guitarra de 8 cuerdas, Bass and Percussion.

See http://www.olduvai-ensemble.com/repertoire

demo/simulation made with Finale and Garritan Instruments, Nuendo and Audacity.

Italia (demo)

Composition and soundscape by Oscar van Dillen

Titiana Pintus - violin
John Addison - violoncello
Ann Raskin - bayan

Next to original samples and electronics (Nord Modular), part of the soundscape is a section of Oscar van Dillen's composition Memos for a New Millennium for disklavier and pianist, performed by Maarten van Veen (2002).

This version of Forecast was used as the single audiotrack for the animation movie with the same title by Adriaan Lokman in 2008, see for this film: https://vimeo.com/68173911

Forecast for violin, violoncello, bayan and soundscape (2008)

composer, performer and professor of music

see http://www.oscarvandillen.com

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