Name: PLATO No. 7984 Surveillance State by PLATO & the Western Tradition
Duration: 13 min
Description: Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton, recorded June 17, 2021, PLATO’s PilotHouse, Michiana. PLATO, No. 1984, “Music for Big Brother” (David, & Boyd Nutting, 7/7/10) 00:05-13:05, 17:17-30:17.

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton, recorded June 17, 2021, PLATO’s PilotHouse, Michiana. PLATO, No. 1984, “Music for Big Brother” (David, & Boyd Nutting, 7/7/10) 00:05-13:05, 17:17-30:17.

PLATO No. 7984 Surveillance State

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton, recorded May 17, 2022, PLATO’s Pilot-House, MIchiana. PLATO, No. 2453, “Lord of the Wings” (David, Boyd Nutting, & Jeff Campbell 5/17/12) 00:00-13:00, 06:00-19:00.

PLATO No. 8564 Birdsong's Nativity

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton, recorded May 24, 2022, PLATO’s PilotHouse, Michiana. PLATO, No. 3576, “Rapture, Below Stairs” (David, Boyd Nutting & Jeff Campbell, 12/36/15) 13:00-26:00, 34:00-47:00.

PLATO No. 8576 Wounded Ground (for Uvalde)

Resonant bell sounds made with granular and spectral synthesis.
For Whom the Bells Toll...

Meander - 4-Nova Bells

My paean to the orchestra, Xenakis influenced: a combination of stochastic and serial processes using a whole tone scale as source material.

Stochos For Orchestra

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton, recorded August 30, 2015, PLATO's PilotHouse, Michiana.  PLATO, No. 2633, “Space Infinitely Open” (David & Boyd, with Adventure12 (Josh Bonham), viola, 11-15-2012), with 4:40 to 16:58 of PLATO, No. 2634, “Time without Duration” (David & Boyd, with Adventure12 (Josh Bonham), viola, 11-15-2012), and PLATO, No. 2640, “Challenging Prosthetic gods” (David with Adventure12 (Josh Bonham), viola,11-20-2012).


PLATO No. 3436 ViolaReveries

After So Long (E+M=1.1) at New Buffalo, MI

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton, recorded January 10, 2018, PLATO’s Pilot House, Michiana. From 00:14 to 13:00, and from 25:30 to 38:16 of PLATO, No. 1202b, “Arcanum VI The Lovers, part 2”, (David, Boyd Nutting, & John Richez, 1-10-2003).

PLATO No. 5153 Trees Heard through Fog

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton, recorded July 28, 2018, PLATO’s Pilot House, Michiana. From 00:05 to 13:05, and from 20:30 to 33:30 of PLATO, No. 2004, “Smoke Gets In Our Ears”, (David, & Boyd Nutting, 7-28-2010).

PLATO No. 5890 Mistaken Aphorisms

IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you use this loop in any creation you must remember that is published under a license: 
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Thank you very much for listening to the loop of the day!

The composer of the month of May 2019: I.v. Martinez from Slovakia.

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Thanks for you colaboration!!!

The Daily Loops Project is an idea generated by the musician Marcelo Acosta, also known as "Los Sabios Duendes" (trad: The Wise Elves) All the days composes, records and publishes a loop in this site.
Musicians from all over the world download these loops and create new works from them which are then published on @daily-loops-the-works. The main idea of this project is the creation of a network international creative exchange between composers.

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O1-05-19 (I.v. Martinez)

During the Peace Walk on Sunday, June 7, 2020, all who gathered took a knee in front of the Berrien Springs High School while the walk’s student organizers read out a list of names of black lives taken through brutality and murder by police and vigilantes . After each name was read, the crowd of over 1,000 people responded with cries of "I can't breathe!" When the students reached George Floyd's name on the list and read it out, again the gathered people cried out "I can't breathe" and then fell silent for eight minutes and forty-six seconds—the length of time that Derek Chauvin kept his knee pressed to the neck of George Floyd while murdering him. During this silence, the sound of an arial drone could be heard buzzing overhead, along with the distant hum of vehicles on the village’s streets. 

Two days ago, PLATO & the Western Tradition (who have been creating as a Postmodern Improvisation Ensemble for more than 30 years), raised their creative voices in search of justice and equality by posting this original track:

https://soundcloud.com/plato-3/plato-no-7336-against-brutality

In this contribution to “Weaving Indra’s Net” I have explored a new node through the addition of a field recording I gathered during the Peace Walk. In listening to this new strand you can hear the calling out of each name, but miss the real-time immediate response of “I can’t breathe”. The first time you hear the full call and response of a name and “I can’t breathe” comes after the reading of George Floyd’s name. This is immediately followed by the 8:46 section of amplified ambient silence, where in the first moments you can just make out a voice commenting that “someone has a drone.” Gradually PLATO’s meditation rejoins this amplified silence. After the 8:46 portion, an electronically re-coded version of the crowd’s responses are heard one after another in trio form to conclude the piece. The left channel is sped up by 13 percent and the right channel is slowed by 13 percent, while the middle channel plays out in real time at exactly the pace of the unified crowd responding.

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Please seek out organizations committed to demanding justice for All and support them with your action and donations. There are many possibilities for this including:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory

https://www.naacpldf.org
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This recording includes material from PLATO & The Western Tradition, No. 7336, ‘Against Brutality.’

If you would like to participate in the “Weaving Indra’s Net” project, please see below:

PLATO & The Western Tradition invites others in the Electronic Music Community to participate in the creation of an on-line compilation called “Weaving Indra’s Net.” Here are the “rules”:

1. Download from @plato-3 any of the improvisations by PLATO & The Western Tradition that capture your attention.
2. Use some or all of what you download as a part of your own music making.
3. Post your piece to SoundCloud, and post the SoundCloud link on Plato’s FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/PLATOandTheWesternTradition
4. Please comply with our Creative Commons attribution requirement (see creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) by including in your description of your piece this language: “Includes material from PLATO & The Western Tradition, No. 2811, ‘Limitless Geometries’”. (You should substitute the number and title of the piece that you are using.)
5. PLATO will organize and maintain the compilation as a playlist titled “Weaving Indra’s Net” on the PLATO SoundCloud site.

Please post any questions or comments on the FaceBook page listed above.

PLATO No. 7336 Against Brutality (I Can't Breathe Version)

PLATO & the Western Tradition is a Postmodern Improvisation Ensemble that has been recording real-time improvisations using electronic and acoustic instruments since 1988. The founders and core members are David K. Barton of South Bend, Indiana, and Boyd Nutting of Niles, Michigan. As of December 4, 2016, we have recorded 4,054 improvisations, and would like to share our music.

PLATO & The Western Tradition invites others in the Electronic Music Community to participate in the creation of an on-line compilation called “Weaving Indra’s Net”. Here are the “rules”:
1. Download from http://www.soundcloud.com/plato-3 any of the improvisations by PLATO & The Western Tradition that capture your attention.
2. Use some or all of what you download as a part of your own music making.
3. Post your piece to SoundCloud, and post the SoundCloud link on Plato’s FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/PLATOandTheWesternTradition
4. Please comply with our Creative Commons attribution requirement (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) by including in your description of your piece this language: “Includes material from PLATO & The Western Tradition, No. 2811, ‘Limitless Geometries’”. (You should substitute the number and title of the piece that you are using.)
5. PLATO will organize and maintain the compilation as a playlist titled ‘Weaving Indra’s Net’ on the PLATO SoundCloud site.

Please post any questions or comments on the FaceBook page listed above.

PLATO No. 7984 Surveillance State

PLATO & the Western Tradition

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