So cool. The uke gets through on a technicality I'd say

And here the typical Suinancywort-Interlude. "So what?"

Well this in incredible and unique! Although playing with my cat next to me she things otherwise :)

Interestingly if you take your headphones off and just set them down chirruping away - this doesn't sound like you. Then put them back on and it does. I like both versions :-)

Inspired by the discovery that Chernobyl has bacteria that radiosynthesise to create their energy source. 
This uses Garageband to record loops and direct freestyle recording from the Artiphon Orba, 
Some stay direct, some have been saved as WAV files and passed through the iVCS3.
You also have the “pleasure” of my voice in English and “Russian”

Chernobyl Bacterial Radiosynthesis

Recorded at dawn at Stanton Drew Stone Circle to celebrate the Winter Solstice. Led by Adrian Rooke and JJ Middleway Howell.

Winter Solstice 2021 Stanton Drew ❄️🌞❄️

Solo cello piece premiered April 2021 Live at Royal Academy of Music by Jonah Spindel. Encounter (Three Miniatures for Cello) was commissioned by Royal Academy of Music for their 200 Pieces project launched as part of its bicentenary celebrations when Royal Academy turns 200 in 2022.

Encounter (Three Miniatures For Cello) - Performed Live by Jonah Spindel

Fall By Ali Gayler

Words:
Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness - Mary Oliver
Adrift - Mark Nepo

Music: 
Ombre - Ludovico Einaudi

Performed by Christine Berry

Shadows

This track is made solely from the calls and songs of summer migrants birds to the UK. 

The percussion is Whinchat, Wheatear, Sedge Warbler and Grasshopper Warbler. 

The fluity, synthy and bassy notes are all sampled notes of Blackcap and Garden warbler song.

There is also Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Swallow, House Martin, Sand Martin, Tree Pipit, Spotted flycatcher, Swift and Cuckoo.

I  heard my first yesterday -  a Chiffchaff - always a highlight of the year for me - so this is to celebrate their arrival on my 'patch' - these are species that will be arriving over the next weeks. Blog: http://robymilling.blogspot.co.uk

Samples have a creative commons licence - courtesy of Peter Boesman,  Per Poulsen,  Patrik Åberg


Birds of Summer (entirely bird samples)

Nature Documentary

"Here’s one from my garden at around 5am, the songthrush dominates (as usual for him!)"

Dawn Chorus: Song Thrush (Hayley, Tintern)

"Recording of the 2020 dawn chorus in Bristol next to the Spire Hospital, Blackboy Hill. A male blackbird was next to me - so he dominates." Mitch Turnbull, Bramble Media.

Dawn Chorus: Blackbird on Blackboy Hill, (Mitch Turnbull, Clifton, Bristol)

Face Dance
 
This is entirely sounds made by my face - for 'About Face' - a community arts project to explore the human face.

So the percussion is tapping, rubbing, slapping my face (it starts quietly)
 
I played my ukulele with my face – struck strings with chin and nose.
 
I didn’t want to use any sounds made by my mouth – clicking, hissing or anything like that because then it might as well been beat boxing or even singing.
 
Some of the sounds are more or less raw – but as I had quite a limited musical palette there are a lot of treatments to the sounds – changing pitch, all kinds of effects, guitar pedals etc.
 
I changed the pitch of the ukulele note to get a scale then ‘played’ it on the computer.

There's the idea of passage of time - clock ticking - the picture is a 'clockface' with an amalgamation of my young face / older face, but it's supposed to be celebratory and optimistic  - a dance of life.

See more about the About Face project here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2602235176705849/

p.s.  no faces were harmed in the making of this track :)

Facedance (made from sounds from my face - see description)

A slow number inspired by Celtic and synthesized music.... a battle between simple Morris-type tunes and their synthetic counterpart.
Composed entirely from music created on Artiphon’s Orba synthesizer and played with in Garageband.... assisted by the iVCS3 and Baron [a large black “not quite a tom” cat] who provided the soft skin drum sound.
Song length 7.5 minutes.

Lament for a lost satellite (An Orba song - Celto-space Morris)

BBC 6music  - The Freakzone
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hlh4c
Rob da Bank -BBC Radio1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/robdabank/tracklistingarchive.shtml?081201
BBC 6 Music  - Feb 2015
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0546jl6
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