Name: Whole Grain Stew by Sleeping On Lotus Ashes
Duration: 11 min 32 s
Description: Extensive experimental piece #3 entirely & exclusively composed with granular synthesis.

WOW - simply W O W. Love how you let the intensity drop, the mind quiet down and then you offer an audio explosive orgasm after another. So exhilarating!

Also, as aways - the creative use of stereo-space is exceptional and keeps the mind interested for a longer period of time.

fantastic transitions,..contrasts and blends, calm and dramatic and the whole ranges between, great as usual! :) WM

"Usul: Aksak Routine"  is an algorithmic  performance of electroacoustic music based on the rythmic system Usul of Turkish music. The term usul, which includes both the concepts of meter (measure) and rhythm, defines the rhythmic elements of all the structured musical pieces of the system. Every usul is a recurrent rhythmic circle – something similar of meter in western music – a model with a name and a pattern. The usuls are performed in beats, known in Turkish as "darp". Also the usuls are named according to the length and form of their beats and they are divided into two main groups, Minor usuls and Major usuls. The minors are those of 2 to 15 beats. The majors are those containing from 16 to 124 beats. The goal of this project is the use of minor usuls to create diffrent major usuls in real time.
The current multichannel (4ch to 8ch) piece consists of 6 sound sources. Each one of them returns a different minor usul, with samples created using the physical modeling software Genesis and SuperCollider. Every darp (beat) produced with graining effects in SuperCollider.  The rhythmic patterns and the sound spatialization are generated with original programs and routines, written also in SuperCollider. For controller in performance I am using a multitouch OSC controller.

Usul: Aksak Routine

Pièce composée à partir de sons d'un atelier de sculpture (Jean-Louis Émond).
Composed almost entirely with sounds from a sculptor's workshop (Jean-Louis Émond).

Released on CEC Cache 2012.
Honorary Mention by Destellos Foundation 2013.
Official selection for the 2012 iFIMPaC, Leeds.
Official selection for the 2011 Ai-Maako International Electroacoustic Music Festival of Chile.
http://aimaako.cl/web_2011/obras-seleccionadas/

Toreutique

"It's too late now. It will always be too late. Fortunately!"
Albert Camus, The Fall 

The Fall was begun during a residency at STEIM in Amsterdam in December 2011 / January 2012. I made many hours of recordings in and around the city of Amsterdam, with the intention of creating this large scale work.

Elements of the work were incorporated into Residual bits of sunlight, by Andersson Dance in Stockholm. 

The first movement of this work, Too Late, Too Far, was premiered at the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt in August 2014. 

The Fall (2014)

Himlen Var was created with the support of EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) during three residency periods from 2013-2015. 

Himlen Var is based upon field-recordings made in the city of Stockholm and the outer Stockholm archipelago (particularly Blidö and Sandhamm), and the analogue synthesizers housed at Ems.

Thanks to:

The staff of Stockholm Public Library and Storkyrkan in Gamla Stan, for out of hours recording access;
Ems, for their support and kindness;
Audiorama, for premiering the work on 28th March 2015.

This is a stereo version of the work, which was written for a 12 channel system. 

Himlen Var (2015)

Extensive experimental piece #3 entirely & exclusively composed with granular synthesis.

Whole Grain Stew

ANATOMIE/DISSECTION - 004 - Fluides

Third movment of my first piece, "Des souvenirs comme horizon"
(some memories as horzion) 

#3 Rage Rouge - Red Rage (Des Souvenirs comme Horizon)

Electroacoustic duo Composed by http://soundcloud.com/jullian-hoff and David Arango-Valencia in 2012

Trompe was the name given to the mouthharp in Montreal last century.
 Idiophone with harmonic sound, this instrument can be found in every corner of the world and it has very ancient origin. Trompe has connected people at all times and in all places.

Trompe

Public Bodies explores the theme of voyeurism, both intentional and accidental. We are private bodies caught in the public gaze, we see things that we would rather not, we are simultaneously hungry for attention and yet crave privacy: we are always seen and yet never watched. 
Public Bodies is a work in three movements. Sonically, the main musical discourse is between the following elements: a human voice (which represents the Self or Inner), the sounds of the city (which represents the Other or Outer) and harmonic and rhythmic material derived from the two. 

Public Bodies (2009)

Sleeping On Lotus Ashes is an experimental audio laboratory amalgamating all sort of unorthodox synthesis & resynthesis techniques to explore the sonic possibilities of sound morphing, manipulated field recordings, sound collages and aggregates of deep transformed sounds.

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Released work:

Crushed Identity - Petcord
https://archive.org/details/pc2011-14

Taking To Pieces, Heaping Together - Ilse 
https://ilse.bandcamp.com/album/taking-to-pieces-heaping-together

Sound Design for the short film Hear No Evil, directed by Josh Bedford
https://vimeo.com/41344793
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Side projects:
http://soundcloud.com/red-fog
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Whole Grain Stew

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