Time Bandits

Atelier Mini-Series YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSKk9TL2TheyuTwqA-aZJTxQD81vCgUks

“This space between French and English is, for me, a perpetual torment…”

Philosopher Alain Badiou reflects on Beckett — and on the strange torment of thinking and speaking across languages.

In this halF unusuaL piece, his voice becomes a sonic poem: shattered, dissolved, and reassembled through GRM Tools Atelier.

A tribute to Musique Concrète, to the friction of thought and sound, and to an uncertain space between sameness and otherness.

— created in GRM Tools Atelier

More experiments in sound, language, and philosophy coming soon.

Watch the whole lecture - Alain Badiou. Theater, Poetry and Philosophy. 2003 - at https://youtu.be/p6SmRlSqFrM?si=V8XQwU_yX5vcxJ2Y

visuals (YouTube)

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ATMOSPHERIC   STUTTERING   IS  JUST   A  PARABLE     5

Shih-Lin Hung:  “L'intrus” (2025)
Composition acousmatique d'après la partition graphique de Ju-An Hsieh

Composition acousmatique : Shih-Lin Hung (洪世霖)
Partition graphique: Ju-An Hsieh（謝茹安）

“L'intrus” （2025）

From the album MITOCHONDRIAL REDOX, listen at : https://peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/mitochondrial-redox

02 MR Two

VLF receiver, sw radio, meadow insects, distant motors/vehicles, step transformer recorded in the mountains near Băile Herculane, Romania  in July. Zither in Swarmandal Mode and synthesizer added October 30 in Poznan, Poland

Spherics Over Băile Herculane

transmission from afar

2025-11-09

vibration

Mesh

Track 1: Trunk, 02:19 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8)
Track 2: Leaves, 04:14 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8, Soma Pipe)
Track 3: Rings, 04:49 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8)
Track 4: Vines, 06:43 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8, Soma Enner, Whistling)
Track 5: Roots, 02:15 (Tree Hum, Soma Pipe)


Dates:
17-Nov-2025 (inception), 19-Nov-2025 (finalised), 19-Nov-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/album/mesh

Description:

A twisted tale of synthesiser dreams, aspirations and dreams meet reality. I have been intrigued by hardware synthesiser the Soma Lyra 8 for some time now, dating back some 3 years or so. Back in December 2024, inspired by the design concept of the Lyra 8 with it's two stage hierarchy tuning system and importantly before I purchased a Lyra 8 late 2025, I wrote down some sketches of my own synthesiser concept, which later became to be known as Tree Hum. This album celebrates the meeting point of the Tree Hum and the Soma Lyra 8.

The description here is a shortened version, see my FaceBook page (Norman Freund) or my BandCamp site for the full description.

Having a back ground in structural vibration analysis, makes one aware of coupled resonances, how the structure, stiffness and mass all interact to bring about the final vibration response. On the other side of my creative brain, I let my imagination drift to a tuning system inspired by trees, a four stage hierarchy tuning system, starting from the trunk, to branches, smaller branches and finally to the leaves -- the voice of the synthesiser. The tuning system is based on frequency ratios, starting at the tree trunk, the master, then as each level is passed through it adds it's own frequency ratio to the frequency ratio inherited from it's predecessor. Do real trees behave like this? No, but let's not let reality get in the way of creativity. Nature, engineering, mathematics and human imagination inspire synthesiser and music composition.

The tuning system used here was inspired by the work of Neil Thornock Ref. [1]. For the full details of what Thornock's tuning system was changed to, see https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/album/mesh and https://www.facebook.com/norman.freund.545/.


References:
[1]	Neil Thornock, 13 Nov 2025, FaceBook Group "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory", Icicle, JI tuning based on harmonics 24 to 48, Link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14T7Tyhcky3/


Vines

Almost all tracks are free to download and covered by a Creative Commons license. Collaborations / Remixes are welcome so feel free to experiment - no need to get my permission first. Just send me a link to your track when you're done :)

I love listening to & creating ambient, dark ambient, avant-garde & experimental electronica (and the occasional beatscape). I have no professional aspirations  - I just really like creating music / manipulating sounds. It's my way of relaxing after a hard day at the office. All my tracks are produced using monitoring headphones (Audix A140) so I recommend that you listen to my music through headphones. My DAW of choice is FL Studio. I also use Reason every now & then. 


To the artists I follow; I do my best to try to listen to as many of your tracks as possible each night (I listen to each track all the way through - you went through the effort to create a track so you deserve to have it heard in full). If I miss a recent upload of yours, please forgive me...

Thank you for taking the time to visit my little corner of the soundcloud.

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