Bardo Tank

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Ron Miles came to the tank and laid down these tracks in short order, melding the metal of his horn into the deep metal space of the TANK.  

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Hello.  You're more than welcome to use my sound on your site as I'm pleased with how it came out, especially given the short amount of time to play with and the guesswork involved in preparing it.  I don't usually say much about things I record as I don't want to take away the chance of a listener having their own, and quite likely better, ideas.

In this case that's not such a problem as this was made up specifically for the Kickstarter reward with practical rather than artistic aims in mind. Mainly that of avoiding a muddy mess building up for as long as possible. Hence short low thuds to set off bursts of reverb and long high frequency sounds to ring round.

The guitar part is from something I did 19 years ago and not having played it much since then is my excuse for the rather wooden playing! The rest is mainly samples I'm afraid. The throat singing at the start from a Simon Stockhausen library and much of the remaining from Soniccoutre's sampling of an instrument I've long been fascinated with but am unlikely to ever get near, a Cristal Baschet.
And of course I couldn't resist and big smash and a crash at the end to really set things off (for a bonus 24 seconds!).

I've only ever pottered about with sound and for lack of a coherent explanation of my approach am going to have to fall back on an old quote by Thomas Beecham to give an inkling of it, "The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes".
Which does give away partly the answer to where I'm from and indeed where I live, Horsham in Sussex in the UK (generally pronounced 'Orsham by us yokels).

I usually chuck things I'm mucking around with on my Soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/zatapathique/ which is a bit swamped at the moment by old tracks I finally have the knowledge and equipment to spruce up a bit. All roads lead from there to my other internet ports of call

The recording was a lot easier than coming up with a title. Well I like puns and would also prefer something ambiguous but that perhaps gives it a sense of age so how about 'Man Of Arun'.
Man of Aran was a 1934 fictional documentary about life on the Aran islands off the coast of Ireland which the band British Sea Power did a soundtrack for a few years ago. There are also quite a lot of 'man of...' in the UK for example The Old Man Of Hoy in Scotland.

And I live in a town through which the River Arun passes so I think I've covered all the criteria.
How's that?

Rob

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Robert Boole 'Man Of Arun"

Ron Miles came to The TANK and laid down these tracks in short order, melding the metal of his horn into the deep metal space of The TANK. www.tanksounds.org 

Ron Miles - Bardo Tank - 06 Wails

Ron Miles - Bardo Tank - 04 Dirge

Ron Miles - Bardo Tank - 03 Metallic Light

Ron Miles - Bardo Tank - 02 Bardo Gong

Estimated as being created in the first century, C.E., "The Epitaph of Seikilos" is one of the oldest (if not the oldest) complete pieces of notated music ever discovered. Elaine DiFalco sang the song in The TANK during the open house in September 2015.  OPEN The TANK: http://kck.st/1VYAru8    www.tanksounds.org

Elaine diFalco - The Epitaph of Seikilos

Ron Miles, trumpet master, plays his horn in the amazing acoustics of the TANK, in Rangely, Colorado,with Bruce Odland and Mark McCoin on percussion.  The TANK is an acoustic wonder, a giant abandoned steel water tank with up to 40 seconds of reverberation in the high desert of Rangely, Colorado .  www.tanksounds.org

Pacem - Ron Miles, Bruce Odland, and Mark McCoin, from Bardo Tank

"Leaving Eden" Bruce Odland's epic recorded in the TANK is a tale of the love and loss of a beautiful blue green planet. www.tanksounds.org

White Light - Bruce Odland, from Leaving Eden

Child's Theme is from a CD length song cycle, "Leaving Eden"  of love and loss of a blue green planet.  It was recorded in the amazing acoustics of THE TANK in western Colorado. http://kck.st/Y29K9l

Child's Theme - Bruce Odland, from Leaving Eden

Mark McCoin makes the TANK shimmer with his autoharp for Bruce Odland's movie score.  The Tank is an acoustical marvel in western colorado. SAVE THE TANK was a successful Kickstarter campaign that recently was fully funded!!!  Find out about THE FUTURE OF THE TANK www.tanksounds.org

Zitherlandia - Mark Mccoin, from Bruce Odland's movie score, Top of The World

In 1991 after an amazing rafting expedition down the Yampa river with Mho Salim, the survivors gathered at the Tank.  Sam directed us in chanting the words from KING of TIME, syllables from Vladamir Klebnikov's sound language of the future. Meanwhile sounds from Yampa windharps play inside the TANK.  Voices, Doug Young, Bobby, Bruce Odland, Sam Auinger.  www.tanksounds.org

So Se Sao - Sam Auinger, Bruce Odland and Friends, 1991

OPEN The TANK, kck.st/1VYAru8  The first piece I ever made in the TANK, recorded in 1976 on a Nakamichi 550 cassette recorder, then overlayed on a Scully 8 track analog machine.  Mark Fuller remastered it for the SAVE THE TANK Kickstarter campaign which was a success! Thank you all. For info on the tank, go to www.tanksounds.org


Sun Song - Bruce Odland, 1976 (the first piece recorded in The Tank)

When Dexter blows his horn the whole TANK joins in. Close your eyes.  How big is it?  You can hear the whole shape of the tank responding to Dexter's sound.  

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Prelude - Dexter Payne

Elaine DiFalco - Green Boat

There are special nights where the atmosphere  itself, the full moon, the breeze, the clouds,seem to pour through your veins and come out as music or poetry or art. The only thing dangerous is to try to stop it.  This particular night at the TANK we did not try to stop the muses, no.  On a variety of Handland Drums, built by John Hansen, we rang the TANK and the TANK rang us.  Joyful.

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Full Moon TANK Drums - Mark Fuller, Mark McCoin, and Bruce Odland, 1986

Paul Klite plays solo violin in the TANK.  He has been there two days, and made peace with the space.  His notes hang in the air like halo's. www.tanksounds.org

Penumbra - Paul Klite, 1992

Paul Klite plays his violin in the tank, its a duet with Bruce Odland playing Paul's sampled violin.  www.tanksounds.org This comes from the Monkeybirds sessions in 1992.

Angels of the Monkey Wards - Paul Klite and Bruce Odland

The TANK Center for Sonic Arts is a world class reverberant space in Rangely, Colorado. www.tanksounds.org

To experience The TANK is visceral; each person who stands inside finds herself at the center of a world made up of sound. It is transformational.

The TANK, a 60-foot-tall, 30-foot-across, rusted and abandoned steel water tank, was discovered in Rangely, Colorado by sound artist and sonic thinker Bruce Odland in 1976. An acoustical marvel, with a forty-seconds-long, shifting, swirling reverberation, The TANK became a favorite unofficial, off-the-grid recording venue for Colorado musicians for nearly four decades.   

In 2012, the TANK was facing an uncertain future. Friends of The TANK — an eclectic group of artists, sonic explorers, and practical minds, all bound together by the experience of The TANK — was formed to save the sonic treasure from demolition. With contributions from more than a thousand Kickstarter backers over two campaigns, and the remarkable and ever-growing support of the people, businesses, and governments of the town of Rangely and Rio Blanco County, The TANK was purchased, restored, and repurposed, and is now home to The TANK Center for Sonic Arts

Now in its second season, The TANK Center for Sonic Arts seeks to share The TANK through artistic development, sonic research, education, and community outreach; to preserve, protect, and share The TANK; and to offer a unique and transformative audio laboratory for musicians, sound artists, educators, sonic tourists, and the community in a magnificent acoustic resource.

Pacem - Ron Miles, Bruce Odland, and Mark McCoin, from Bardo Tank

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