Whistle

World has slowed down. 
Hidden beneath a skin of fear.

All Silver was created during the first days of the Corona shutdown.
Made with passion and modular synths.

Sound and artwork by Thomas Breuer

All Silver

all silver

embark2 excerpt

recorded at galerie pfund&dollar,
hamburg, winter 2020

-- 1047

https://glorprecords.bandcamp.com/album/glorp-records-fall-2018-compilation

This is a track I made as result of a collab with Unsaved aka Motorwrists.

https://soundcloud.com/motorwrists

Savez

From psr-049. Out August 2020 on limited LP.

Echolog - Modular

Release: 4. September 2020

In 2015, Lemur started a collaboration with German pianist Reinhold Friedl. Friedl is the leader of the international ensemble Zeitkratzer, working at the intersection of improvisation and composition. In this respect, Friedl's experience and working method have much in common with the ideas and working methods Lemur uses. Not least through an interchange between work with large and small ensembles.

In collaboration with Reinhold Friedl, we focus on the use of extended playing techniques, form experiments and utilization of both the entire quintet (Lemur / Friedl) and the individual musicians put together in solo, duo, trio and quartet format. Alloy contains the result of this collaboration.

The title reflects on the meeting between two strong expressions, and between five musicians who together create a musical alloy of different input and ideas. In this way, we see the studio as a factory where different elements can blend together and create something new.


Bjørnar Habbestad, flutes
Hild Sofie Tafjord, horn
Lene Grenager, cello
Michael Duch, contrabass
Reinhold Friedl, piano

LEMUR + Reinhold Friedl: Component III

Press release
Title: First room
Artist: Martin Taxt
SOFA 582 (CD/DD)
EAN: 7041880999803
Release date: 18th of September 2020.
First room is the debut solo album from microtonal tuba player and composer Martin Taxt. The album is the first in a series of works investigating possible relations between architecture and music. First room is a tribute to the Japanese tearoom and the tatami mat. The floor plan as shown on the cover has been used as a foundation for the musical score, performed by Inga Margrethe Aas on viola da gamba and double bass, and Martin Taxt on microtonal tuba and sine waves. The album is an intricate mix between a studio recording and a live performance, both recorded in the same room over two days. The live musicians are often shadowing the recorded material, and with subtle changes in pitch and timbre the combined sound of live and recorded sound create an ambiguous and
at times fragile sound. The performance included live video from visual artist Kjell Bjørgeengen. Video stills from the concert is printed in the attached booklet.

Martin Taxt: First Room (excerpt)

The Wizard's Scarf

SuperCollider patch show-casing the Mi-UGens (some UGens based on eurorack modules by Mutable Instruments): 2x MiTides + MiRipples.
This one is inspired by Lightbath's Loom 4 :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uojFtozPynE
Get the UGens (compiled for macos) from vboehm.net/downloads/
Sources on github: github.com/v7b1/mi-UGens

Mi-UGens Demo:  Lightbath - -Loom 4 - -inspired

I've recently discovered (at long last) the music of Danish composer Per Nørgård. He developed a compositional techniques based on what he called the "infinity series", which is a simple formula for developing a series of numbers based on an interval such as a minor second. The series takes the initial interval and then slowly expands upon it both upwards and downwards in pitch, getting broader in scope as it progresses. This idea can be used to generate melodies, rhythms, or other aspect of a composition.

I decided to try playing around with this, but applying it to microtonal intervals, using Csound and a Python script to generate the Csound score according to the series. I ended up with this brief study, which takes the first 256 terms of the series and applies it to three of my favorite intervals simultaneously:
 - 9/8 (major whole tone from the 9th harmonic)
 - 11/8 (unidecimal tritone,from the 11th harmonic)
 - 7/4 (septimal minor seventh, from the 7th harmonic)

The starting tone (240 Hz) plays throughout the piece as the other notes unfold above and below it. I used sine waves processed with a touch of tanh distortion to add a slight amount of harmonic content.

Csound and Python source code: https://github.com/DaveSeidel/music-src/tree/master/infinity-study

References:
 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_N%C3%B8rg%C3%A5rd
 - https://web.archive.org/web/20071010091253/http://www.pernoergaard.dk/eng/strukturer/uendelig/uindhold.html

Infinity Study

SOFA is a Norwegian record label for experimental music run by musicians Martin Taxt, Ingar Zach and Kim Myhr.