A single frog who was away from the rest of the crowd. Used noise reduction to take out the background so there are some artifacts. Was trying to take out a train in the background, it still peeks through at some times. Makes a nice ring tone :).

Singlefrog

My impression of the Chinese New Year parade taken from samples off of a tape I made of the parade in San Francisco in 1987.  Created during that time while I was an MFA in electronic music student at Mills College.

ChineseNewYear

Brief sample of interactive crystal meditation using crystal singing bowl and struck crystal sounds, using Sonic Pi on Raspberry Pi 5.

Crystal Meditation

sacred_nature_scape

Sacred Nature Meditation

This is an example of work for the upcoming Spectral Slumber event

DreamDrone

Live performance at 1st Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit, December 18, 2016

Solstice Reflections

Live performance with the Drone Boat and looped E-bow fretless guitar, Tympanum, Warren MI, June 22, 2018

Tympanum 062218

Bugs recorded in stereo on a hot august moonlit night.

Hot August Night Bugs

Bug sounds on the night after equinox with a bright Harvest Moon. Noise Reduction and spectral gating in Audacity worked well for this material.

HarvestMoonbugs

Steven Curtin is a Wisconsin born Detroit area musician/engineer/psychologist, who started building his own modular analog synthesizers in the late 70s and continues building and playing hybrid digital-analog electronic music instruments.  One possible description of his sound output is experimental ethno ambient with an old school meets newer school approach.  He also plays bass, including fretless and upright, and anything else with strings that doesn't run the other direction, guitar looping etc, and plays Djembe, Doumbek, and Bodhran in various drum circles. For the past several years he's been playing and studying the ancient Mbira, learning and communicating with a teacher and Mbira builder in Zimbabwe Africa.

Steven Curtin

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