"Crossing the equator implies a change of rotation described by the Coriolis effect. In the upside-down world everything is inverted but masked by gravity.  There too, there are imposed and plutocratic rules. But there are a few singular people who swim upstream, avoiding the turns or simply strangling them; they know how to swim much faster, surrounded by the ocean. And they know how to break the rules."

David Chesworth (@david-chesworth) is known for his distinctive and diverse explorations of high and low brow themes via synth wave, electronics, ensemble music, experimental opera, installations, video artworks. Performances at BAM Next Wave, Bang on a Can Marathon, Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, Sydney Biennale. Co-founder of post-punk group Essendon Airport. Early solo albums recorded for Innocent Records in late 70s early 80s.

https://davidchesworth.bandcamp.com/

HOCast #64 - David Chesworth

Hanna Tuulikki - Seals'kin

I built this new composition ‘polytonal wander’ from five recent recordings using different methods and devices for each.   F

irstly, a new modular element in my small Eurorack mix is an ERM Polygogo polygonal synthesis generator which allows very interesting signal creation using multiple control voltages applied to eight different parameters. For this recording I patched randomised CV in from a couple of BASTL Kastle instruments.   

Secondly, I used my MakeNoise Morphagene to generate manipulations of various field recordings and thirdly collected new EMF recordings with my trusty SOMA Ether roaming over a collection of electronics comms and security boxes that have gradually accumulated on a mundane wall in a staff kitchenette at the school where I teach experimental drawing.   

A fourth sequence was generated with very low frequency waveforms output from a Mordax Data unit that allows fine grain control of shapes, hertz and overlay modulation of pairs of waveforms.   

Finally, fifthly, for a deep analogue element I tied a pair of small kalimbas together, one facing up one facing down, so I could play them simultaneously held in both hands. Each has five steel tines but one, made in Germany, is very sweetly chromatically tuned and the other, made in north Africa is, let’s say, intuitively tuned and has buzzing rings of tin fitted onto each tine which is a traditional and sonically important element of many African instruments. I used one of my Tascam recorders to capture an impromptu performance in the bathroom with this ad hoc assembly.  

As ever, this composition, constructed over a couple of days from the five original tracks, is offered as an experimental divertissement, a strange, hopefully intriguing gift of sculpted sound, something to accompany your creative making or as a transport into unknown imaginaries.

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