Live recording taken straight from the desk at the awesome Don't clubnight @ Five Miles Tottenham.

LUKE'S ANGER - LIVE @ DON'T [9/2/18]

a first test of the avalanche run from earthquaker devices in mono.

source is a makenoise 0-coast, played via midi from a yamaha reface cp and looped with a tc ditto. avalanche is in reverse mode with manual adjustment of delay tone/mix + reverb decay/mix.

the patch on the 0-coast utilizes the midi b gate signal to trigger the random voltage generator (via the tempo input). this signal is split using the voltage math section and used to randomly adjust both overtone and balance. this produces timbral variations (with adjustable depth) with each press of the midi keyboard.

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February 10, 2018 (avalanche)

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fractal garden - crossing over

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Capricious

I'm going to have to get another Mangrove, this has given me some ideas that I can't currently execute.

Control

The Nonlinear Circuits modules are incredibly satisfying. More are on the way.

Ice Parlor

This is the Matriarch running through an Avalanche Run V2 in stereo.

I was going to name it "The Mother Of All Earthquakes", referring to both the Matriarch and Earthquaker pedal, but then I decided to google that and the top hit was Zechariah 14:3,4 which contains the line:

"And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives"

The music itself feels more like a landscape piece until the earthquake at the end so this title felt a lot more poignant.

Zech 14:3,4 
(The Mother of all Earthquakes)
Then the LORD will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.
And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.

On The Mount Of Olives

As I'd set up the loop and started recording (using the Dark Star, Mood, and Avalanche Run mostly), I left the studio to get a phone call. When I came back it was still playing with those lovely textures having changed and continuing to change ever so slightly. So I left it running and the result is this track.

Enjoy!

autoplay mush - eternal version

A short improv, one pass, one track.

Enjoy!

2020

Bird's Eye View

Short meditative break with the sounds of my synthesisers... Enjoying a moment of sonic incidents, fate, randomness and destiny... 

Hope you can enjoy this too and perhaps use this track for your own meditation break... I will be happy for your feedback. Thank you. Enjoy... OM

Tech / How: Playing and toying with independent tape loops of different lengths, live manipulating the relative volumes of the loops as well as their directions, some of them playing in reverse from time to time... The sounds are made with my Prophet 12 and Digitone. Octatrack is the tape looper...

20210130 Incidental Tape Loops (Live Ambient Meditation)

Amateur hour inscrumental music for prickly pears. This is a space for ideas, experiments, rough drafts, and audio doodles. 

I love to play... and experiment, explore and learn... playing my piano, synthesizers, shaman and meditation flutes, kalimbas and sansulas, guitars... exploring sound magic... I am only interested in the present moment, playing live... here and now... peace

ambient/postrock/experimental/lofi/indie/electronic and whatever else

Abstract sample sculptures, minimal/maximal, weird beats, broken ambient.

Latest: "Clique Plaisir" on BC: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/clique-plaisir

"Crown Shyness" by encym & Wodwo: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/crown-shyness

JOSEPH BRANCIFORTE is a multi-instrumentalist, recording + mixing engineer, and composer based out of New York City. 

As engineer, he has worked on over 200 releases for some of the most well-respected names in NYC's creative jazz scene, including Ben Monder, Tim Berne, Vijay Iyer, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot, Mary Halvorson, Steve Lehman, Mark Dresser, Jen Shyu, and Matt Mitchell. Branciforte‘s credits also include a growing number of classical, electronic, and alternative projects ranging from Florent Ghys to Son Lux and The Lumineers.

Albums he has produced, engineered, and/or mixed have been included in the NPR Jazz Critics Poll's Top 10 and Downbeat Magazine's Albums of the Year, and have received praise from publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and All Music Guide. His engineering and production work can be heard on ECM Records, Sunnyside Records, Pi Recordings, Cantaloupe Music, Cuneiform Records, Cryptogramophone, and Skirl.

He is also the co-leader, co-composer, and drummer of the the cellar and point, a "garage-chamber" septet formed in 2010. The group, which combines aspects of modern composition, jazz improvisation, and pop/rock songwriting has been called “one of the most interesting bands of the moment, perhaps able to answer the question ‘where is music going?’” (All About Jazz) 

The band’s debut record, Ambit - produced, engineered, and mixed by Branciforte - was released on Cuneiform Records in late 2014. All Music Guide lauded Ambit as “one of 2014's finest albums of challenging, engaging, and genre-defying contemporary music,” and John Schaefer, host of WNYC’s New Sounds, included the recording on his Top 10 Albums of 2014. BBC Radio commented on the album’s production merits: “Sonically, it's a fantastic record... well worth your listening on headphones. It's really well-engineered, beautifully produced.”

Branciforte similarly played the role of producer, recording engineer, and mixing engineer on Ben Monder's Hydra (Sunnyside, 2013), “an eight-song set of impossible, beautiful, mind-melting music” (The Village Voice / #3 Jazz Album of 2013). JazzTimes called the project “technically brilliant and radiantly produced,” while Stereophile Magazine awarded it five stars for sonics: "The sound captures every intimate string squeak, fat bass tone, warp-speed ensemble passage, and ghostly vocal swell.” 

Joseph is also in-demand as a location-recording engineer. He has engineered multitrack recordings at dozens of NYC clubs, halls, and stages including The Village Vanguard, The Iridium, The Stone,  Roulette, Issue Project Room, The Jazz Gallery, Central Park Summerstage, and Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concert Series. 

He has recently begun contributing as a writer for TapeOp magazine.

All tracks are improvised live takes unless otherwise noted.
Contact: looplinndrum @ gmailDOTcom

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