track 5 from “Yosde” by Betts(JP) @japanese-betts
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"The wind had died down and the waves had become completely quiet. The moon was lighting up the water beautifully. I looped the sound of things hitting the shack on the water, the cries of creatures too dark to see, the sound of the quiet waves, and the sound of a car signaling a left turn toward home. I used minimal guitar phrases, imagining the moonlight shimmering on the rippling waves."

Yosde

Betts(JP) - Yosde 05

From little Rayhat Reef (4 miles from our shore) before sunrise at 03.40 am. with Herring Gulls awakening. The microphones were placed in a Buckthorn where a flock of young Starlings kept night. (4.00>) (The low rumble is from a very distant ship. From 15 hours of recording, the noise is here as lowest)

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(MKH8020 ab80cm, MixPre3 32float>24/48, no processing, Flac)

Sunrise with Herring Gulls - 15/7/2021 - Rayhat Reef

It's Over (DEMO)

This work for cello is derived from ideas associated with change ringing.

If one has, say, 6 bells, and one wishes to ring them in some sequence, then one has 720 possible sequences ("rows") to choose from.    Performing all the possible "rows" in some sequence constitutes an "extent" or "full peal."  A traditional desire consists of have every two consecutive "rows"  (or "change") in an "extent" differ only by swapping order of two consecutive bells.   So give any particular starting "row" of 6 bells, only 5 "rows" can legally complete the "change." 

That "extents," legal in this sense, even exist follows from non-trivial mathematical constructions, but these constructed extents tend to have a very mechanical character (and advantage for "method ringers").  

I (re?)discovered that one can make new extents from old by exchanging two consecutive segments AND time-reversing just one of them.  Call this a "twist."  "Twisting" one of the mechanical extents 2000 times (for an extent of 720 "rows") seems to produce reasonably random or organic "extents."   Philosophically these "twisted extents" lead double lives, being both highly structured and constrained, but given that, also as capricious as possible.

Four random "extents" govern this work.  Most simply, one "extent" controls the 6 dynamic levels in each row statement, one "extent" controls the 6 durations, and one "extent" controls the sequence within whatever the current collection of pitches.  

The final "extent" gets used go generate the pitch content.  Instead of ordering events, the permutations get used to order  the intervals 2/1, 3/2, 4/3,  5/4, 6/5 and 7/6, thus building up a scale (or perhaps a chord, depending on how you care to think about it).  So unlike actual bells that each carry a fixed pitch and collectively establish a fixed key, here each "row" of the 720 has its own "key."  Thus the music constantly modulates, and since each "change" modestly changes just one note in the scale (because consecutive intervals swap), the music manifests an emergent sort of voice leading, albeit a very distant relative from the voice leading of common practice music.

Simultaneously Follow Four Twisted Paths, for cello

'PEAR LAB' the brand new project where me & my mate Peter Baldwin seek out synth engineering anomalies + probe past lives on palm-fringed islands.
Live improvised session written on the fly utilising strictly hardware synths & samplers.

PearLab Live Session 290422

Pacharaco

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Kremlin Krunk - Soviet Synths From Mars

a study of gentle and lilting arpeggiation, through repetition and subtle variation. Working with this material, I was drawn to treating it with delicate care and an intuitive sense of humanity. The kindness and patience of others toward their art became a stimulus for my approach in this music.

Performed by Mira Benjamin and Philip Thomas at Music We'd Like to Hear in London on Friday 5th July 2019. 

Mixed by Adam Webster.

kindly, softly

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Kremlin Krunk - Soviet Synths From Mars

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