I’ve been revisiting an old recording technique I named - “Dragged Mics” - it is what it’s called! I drag two dynamic mics behind me on various surfaces. This one is from my lawn this morning, where the grass was frosty. No edits to the recording. Works great with headphones so you get the full effect of the crazy stereo perspective.

Dragged Mics Frozen Grass

was testing computer-modular integration last night (via Expert Sleepers), stopped the sequence for a moment and thought that the drone by itself sounded good, so just played with that for a while

wavetable oscillators + reverbs = <3

basically, Piston Honda and ShapeShifter wavetable oscillators going through Springray spring reverb and ZDSP running Valhalla reverb card

hyperthreading

From the forthcoming digital album release "Objects of Dissociation Volume 1", this selection is a recent live-in-the-studio rendition of a track recorded for the "Revisionist History" CD (2016).

iBlue (Lithic Version 12 - 17)

Sadly due to a computer error it was not possible to finish production on this track. This is the last mixdown I managed to do before the error.

Incomplete

Cylinder

Excerpt from the new album of Adam Majdecki-Janicki, "Eimi" (Snow in Water Records, release date: 06/18/2020).

"Adam Majdecki-Janicki offers outstanding music, like an archive noise, an open breath on a film from another era. An experiment that makes sound a landscape, a sound/space continuum. Yuri Morozov is the great inspiration, the clever and resourceful electronics of these studios piercing the solitude of the bands and official orchestras. There is no commemoration in this tribute to the great Russian composer. Perception alone, the memory of a burning film, a stalker in search of a mirrored universe. Adam Majdecki-Janicki makes textures-cassettes, sound worlds buried in the memory of a sky full of stars. Eimi, or the open sound of a walking talent."

EPK: https://spark.adobe.com/page/adJbPV1Vtzts4/

Adam Majdecki-Janicki - Dayuurada Qorraxda

"Other" or "Others" sonopoetry recordings given to me by Ilaria Boffa towards creation of a piece that ultimately issued as Arpeggios of Silence. On this and the last rainy day I reviewed and recombined acousmatic sources with new materials arriving at this new arrangement. I didn't remix so much as dance with the sounds or juggle them lightly into a new configuration.

Others Rainy Day Redance w Ilaria Boffa

This is the world premiere of the new work for double-bell horn, developed during the Virtual Brass Academy with Christine Chapman and Ensemble MusikFabrik, July 2020. This performance took place on July 30th, 2020 - in Cologne.
I am indebted to Ensemble MusikFabrik and the fantastic work they did with us in introducing us to the worlds of double-bell instruments, and to the ever-expanding repertoire of new music for these instruments they are bringing to the world.

The work explores a sense of dual forces that act and react upon each other, and how the relative mediator (the performer) indeed interacts with the score, the instrument and it's two bells, and finally how the theatre of the piece - both through actions and the position of the instrument - is transmitted to the audience. In the four sections of the piece that each explore a different facet of the manipulation of the horn - first through the use of a contra-bassoon reed to produce aggressive yet fulfilling multiphonics; then in the second and third exploring the two bells and their range of possibilities. The final section condenses the instrument down to only it's single-bell form and the mute and interacts briefly with it to express a settling within the performance. Gasping, grunting, growling and grandeur are all some of the ideas explored in this short miniature.

Image: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/1/15721268/gravitational-waves-ligo-future)

Understated Matter - for solo double-bell horn [premiere]

Cath & Phil Tyler play Anglo-American folk music using guitar, banjo, voice and fiddle. Coming together musically through a shared love of traditional narrative song, full voiced sacred harp singing and sparse mountain banjo, they have performed on stages as diverse as the Royal Opera House in London and a dank tower in the old city walls of Newcastle. 

For this release they've kindly shared with us 5 new works written & recorded in the heat of the summer 2020 lock-down, taking in traditional tunes, workers songs and laments crafted with words from the past and present. The stripped-back selection offers an intimate portrait of the duo alone at home in the North of England, singing ghostly tales that echo from their bedroom through the empty pubs, folk clubs and spaces where people come together to listen, meet, drink and dance. A selection that pulls at the heart strings and offers some much needed respite in these trying times.

TR075 - Cath & Phil Tyler - 'Old Churchyard'

Pistoche

All sounds coming from the Nested Vector Oscillator simultaneously. More info on the NVO here: https://shop.73-75.com/nested-vector-oscillator

NVO Buchla Bounce

i write music and code that writes music. all tracks with a very few exceptions are under CC license and downloadable, so remixes / overdubs / collaborations are always encouraged.

hyperthreading

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