Processed sound art file of cold hard rain on windshield with digital Theremin processed live through Resonant Filters & LFO's.

Stones Still Standing

WaveDrum Solo. A tribute to the minimalist work of Terry Riley, Rhys Chatham, Phillip Glass, La Monte Young, Steve Reich et al.

Tribute

WaveDrum Solo. Exploration of pattern, texture & sonic events. The usual interests hopefully manifest in a less than usual way.

Persistence

Two tracks of extended technique on digital Theremin w/ live resonant filters, Ring Mod & LFO's. Theremin filter control sent to volume antenna. Arms are literally held wide open for the duration of the composition with subtle position shifts. Controled water flow into metal wash tube sound art track performed w/ Audio Cubes w/ post production effects.

Arms Wide Open

Sound Art & Digital Theremin. Field recordings of scrape yard, Red Winged Black Bird and ocean gurgles, all processed. Theremin performance processed lived w/ resonant filters, LFO's & Ring Mod, cut into 3 parts and over laid with sound art.


Looking

Sound Art & Theremin. Studio experiment of controlled slow water flow and field recording of woodpecker are sources for Sound Art with lots of processing. Digital Theremin w/live processing through resonant filters, Ring Mod & LFO's as well as post effects.

Adventures

Sound Art, Digital Theremin with live resonant filters, LFO's, Ring Mod processing & WaveDrum. Post production effects on 5 stereo tracks.

Depth of Field

The predominant sound is the Fitzgerald Rig in Petrolia Ontario. These two tracks have been processed heavily to sound similar to a piano. The third track is a glissando of stick on broken toy piano tines.

Industrial Broken Toy

Atlantic Ocean gurgles from Conception Bay Newfoundland. WaveDrum processed. Digital Theremin w/live processing through Resonant Filters, LFO's & Ring Mod.

Prevalence

Introducing the "Scratching the Surface Project". Barry Prophet is curating a 6 hour web radio special focusing on Sound Art Practice & theory. Contact @ scratchingthesurfacesoundart@gmail.com with links to your Sound Art and a brief description of practice/process etc.

Scratching the Surface piece. First minute is 4 surface activations. Second minute is the same 4 files with minimal processing. 

Scratching the Surface

Barry Prophet www.pomer-prophet.com
Recording artist with The Sublunar Society. "Sound As Instrument & Art" Vol. 1 & 2. www.sublunarsociety.com/

Sound Sculpture, Sound Art by Barry Prophet
I’ve been making custom sounds since 1979, first exploring micro-tonally tuned glass lithophones, moving into the Percussion Performance Sculpture Series: the Glass Box, Revolving Tone Door, Transparent Tone Arch and Sonic Hereafter and more recently, public sonic interactive sculptures Gathering of Quivers, Black Quiver, Synthecycletron (seasonally permanent interactive cycle powered electronic sound sculpture) and Sound Booth. The Chain Reaction Project is an on going exploration of materials, mechanisms, microcontrollers and their applications to interactive, portable and public sound sculptures. The goal with all these works is to make interesting looking objects that make interesting sounds.
Running parallel, and often in conjunction to making sound sculptures has been the activity of making music and Sound Art. Just as I’ve explored novel ways to make sounds acoustically, I also look for expressive ways to manipulate and trigger electro-acoustic sounds. My electric setup includes HandSonic and WaveDrum percussion synthesizers and Absynth softsynth loaded with sound samples of my field & studio recordings. Until a few months ago the softsynth was triggered by just a padKONTROL & pedal. Now I have two AudioCubes and find the level of sonic diversity has grown significantly.
My Sound Art & Environmental Music incorporates sounds gathered from the environment, interior/exterior, urban/rural. These sounds can be used as they are found or can be enhanced through effects processing or manipulated beyond recognition of the original sound source. Inferences of time, place and narrative seem to be intrinsic. I work from as broad a palette as possible. 

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