In this second volume of Between Lines, the duo Seuil Optique reenacts wanderings with closed eyes from electric flashes. This album is similar to the passage of the nocturnal hours which open imaginaries modulated by a principle of uncertainty. The plans, the lines, the hapax make us cross subtle borders dammed under the creases of the eyelids. Each piece retains the retinal imprint of a chance burnt by electronic transmissions. Between Lines 2 promises to be a trajectory that transforms each of our inner pulsations into so many refractory, impromptu and incandescent dialogues.

Sig Valax : Persephone, Modular System, Synths.
Nicolas Tourney : Drones, Synths, Pure Data System.

Seuil Optique - Between Lines 2 - Gathering Space

Track 7 from the album 'Zijn'

About the album:
I have continued to work with A=432Hz tuning, exploring the possibilities of sustained sounds. I have been working towards an even more static atmosphere than on my previous albums.

I'm very interested in the role of time in this kind of music. The sounds have a different effect and meaning depending on how long they last. To me, the music becomes a vehicle to accomplish a meditative state.

released November 15, 2021

Instruments used on this album: Acoustic guitar, Acoustic guitar with ebow, Sustainer guitar, Soma Lyra 8 synth.
Recording, Production, Photography and Design: Simon van Weelden
© Geluidenfabriek, 2021

Inkeer

Lost Tracks 1

And now for something completely different. 

Sonics: Fuzzy House

Visuals: White (blue?) Tower and golden-ish clouds

w-i-p-

Tower Golden Overcast

I went back to my old DAW (EnergyXT2) for this ambient piece, because I wanted to use a particular 32-bit VSTi. This mix (with different mastering) features on Ambient Online Compilation: Volume 18, which contains almost 6 hours of excellent ambient music, and is available from BandCamp at a price of your choosing, which represents excellent value in these days of hyper-inflation.

Sophism

Paramnesia

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This is an ambient piece, featuring delay and lots of reverb. It was probably influenced by a late-night B movie (whose name I am unable to recall) which featured people running through a booby-trapped forest at night (hence the irregular percussion).

This mix (with different mastering) features on Ambient Online Compilation: Volume 20, which contains over 5 hours of excellent ambient music, and is available from BandCamp at a price of your choosing, which represents excellent value in these days of hyper-inflation.

Edit:20221030 - I remixed it, dropping the level of the theremin-like synth by 2dB and mastered using the earlier project settings. The remix was done in a new version of MuLab.

Orders of Magnitude

Tripwires

a jam in the newly discovered bespoke-synth (https://www.bespokesynth.com) - an incredibly great, modular sound design environment! some effects and automation added in ableton. hope you enjoy!

#jamuary2023 (IV) - RingModulation

naviarhaiku473 
sudden breeze
every strand of the spider’s web
in tune

Mark Miller is an award-winning poet and photographer who has published four books of poetry, the latest being Light and Counterlight (Ginninderra Press, 2020), a selection of his haiku from over 400 that have been published in international journals and anthologies. His haiku have been featured on buses and trains, on the walls of a public swimming pool, and on art installations in parks and malls. Mark lives in Shoalhaven Heads, Australia.

The spider's web (naviarhaiku473)

Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve

The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves.

Step 1: You’re going to record a piece of music informed by evolution. Think of stages of evolution, perhaps choosing a specific animal or other life form that evolved over time.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that evolves as it proceeds, based on the patterns (phases, stages) you explored in Step 1. And yes, animals that went extinct are a potential subject.

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Track notes:

I took my inspiration from the long evolution of insect species on the planet, considering the vast scale of evolution from primordial epochs up to the present, where insect species are front-and-centre in the Sixth Great Extinction of the late Anthropocene.

SuperCollider came to mind again as a tool for realisation, since I had ‘traditional’ forms of ‘computer music’ in mind - especially Bernard Parmegiani’s epic La Creatione De Monde (1984)

Now, obviously I don’t have a) a year up my sleeve; and b) the coding faculty in SC to pull off such a gargantuan feat, but I thought it might be a cool point of reference that I could fold into my current understanding (as a beginner) in the SC environment.

Recently I got to grips with buffering audio samples and using sequences to control various patterns - both melodic and percussive. I created a couple of dictionaries of short percussive samples (kalimba, woodblock and guiro) as well as instantiating a couple of Synth objects that produce pure waves. The percussive sounds turned out well when triggered, sequenced and manipulated and I liked the interplay with the pure waves.

My track is a bit longer than my usual submissions (~6 mins) but I thought I needed a decent span of time to realise a time compression of a few hundred million years of evolution.

For the realisation, I live-coded from the initial script (see GitHub link below) and then adjusted various parameters, arguments and variable throughout. The idea was to start amongst the matter of the cosmos and then gradually render a semblance of life on Earth. Eventually, an abundance takes form, before the insect population starts to diminish at the close. It not strictly a linear progression; rather, a fairly wobbly negative exponential progression. I’m still getting to grips with controlling instruments on the fly in SC, but I think I’m improving.

I was happily surprised when I saw the spectrogram of this track. Its progression of blobs, smears and flurries of activity over a time series seemed fitting!

https://github.com/TristanLouthRobins/Supercollider/blob/main/junto0580-evo_compressor.scd.scd

[Disquiet_Junto_0580] Evo Compressor (w/SuperCollider)

An evolving electronic sequence created with Samplebrain using original input material, with some subsequently added reverb & slight gradual slowing of tempo.

More on this 580th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Evo Evol Evolve (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve – Disquiet

More on the Disquiet Junto at: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

Subscribe to project announcements here: Disquiet Junto by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet.com)

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0580-evo-evol-evolve/

Organic (disquiet0580)

A necromancer cast into the ocean as punishment for his practices immerges from the depths months later, returning to his tower set on a remote island. The many decaying corpses littering the stone hallways begin to reanimate at his presence as he walks its passages.

The Tower (old)

Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental animation videos.
It is my aim to create and/or edit my tracks & videos using free or open-source software only.
Influences include: J.S. Bach, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Wolff, Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Bernard Parmegiani, Ana-Maria Avram, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Renaissance Polyphony.
All my work is published under a Creative Commons licence & can be freely downloaded (as wav) or remixed.

Organic (disquiet0580)

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