Name: Improv Owls Variation 3 by Taylor Nuttall
Duration: 8 min 28 s
Description: An improvised performance using iOS apps, Ableton Live and midi keyboards. Field recordings of young Barn Owls still in their nest have been combined with synth layers and granular synthesis to produce eerie textures and a sweeping ambient soundscape.

I'm digging this already. Great sound design!

From the album Mindscape From The 7th Level, released 1st October 2021 through Third Kind Records
Tape / Minidisc / Download
https://thirdkindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mindscape-from-the-7th-level

Mindscape From The 7th Level

Pink Data Crystals

Graham Dunning - Pink Data Crystals

Join Me

The hills look quite beautiful from up here (for eight accordions)

Gear: XAOC Sarajewo; After Later Mults, Pachinko, u_O&C (TB-3P0, Ebb&LFO); Make Noise Morphagene, Mimeophon, Wogglebug; ALM MFX; Noise Engineering Ruina Versio; Ritual Electronics Guillotine.

Mixed using Neutron 4; Mastered using Ozone 10 Advanced. 

Recorded August 23, 2024. 

True noise rock. It all starts with the amplified electric hum of an empty patch cable input into Sarajewo and then further distorted with Guillotine. Feed into Morphagene. Stir vigorously. Stand back.

Copyright (2024) Flock of Nazguls.
License: CC BY-NC

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An improvised performance using iOS apps, Ableton Live and midi keyboards. Field recordings of young Barn Owls still in their nest have been combined with synth layers and granular synthesis to produce eerie textures and a sweeping ambient soundscape.

Improv Owls Variation 3

Desk recordings of my performance with Sonic Labs at the Dougie Arms, as part of Hidden Gem Festival 14/09/24.

Live From Hidden Gem Festival 2024

Counterpunk (Live)

An improvised performance using iOS apps, Ableton Live and midi keyboards. 

A long slow build, deep tones, sonic textures, synth layers and a drifting melodic beat.

Noise Improv Sequence 1

Broken (demo)

A live improvised performance using iOS apps, Ableton Live and midi keyboards. 

Recorded at The Stove, Dumfires, UK as part of Sound Lab Showcase, November 2024.

A more ad-hoc approach to composition. Occasional discordant sounds and quieter moments. In the perfomance the piece responsd to itself over time with differning lements having a conversation.,

Noise Improv Sequence 2 Live

Noise Sequence Improv 2 Live

A new Howlround work produced for WhiteNoise.city, using nothing but recordings of hummed vocals and clapping made in the stairwell of East Tower, part of the original BBC Television Centre complex in West London and, at the time of recording, mere weeks away from demolition.

Photo by Nick Ballon
Thanks to White Noise and Ed Baxter. 
whitenoise.city

Howlround - East Tower Final Gathering

Test for a new laptop based set.
Free download from this compilation of one-minute tracks: 
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/gone-in-60-sec-vol-4

Anomalous Materials

Since moving to Dumfries and Galloway Taylor has  been focussed on improvisation, software based modular and iPad performance tools. Typically resulting in ambient and generative sound design. He is part of Sonic Labs, an improvisation group based at The Stove, Dumfries.

Taylor Nuttall is a composer, artist and sound designer. Seeking to avoid specific genres, his work is often a hybrid of influences that  incorporates found sounds and seemingly disparate though often very personal content. The environment, sustainability and climate change are a constant underlying thematic.

‘Is This Just One Day’, a 30 minute evocative soundscape was produced after winning a commission for the Sounds of Silence program by Aerial Festival, launched in September 2020. Taylor has been involved in a number of collaborative projects most recently working with artist and curator Dominic Smith to produce ‘Triangulation’ an EP released by Etched Traumas in August 2021.

After working extensively in the arts for many years leading multimedia arts organisation Folly and as a founding director of Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Taylor is currently a board member for Full of Noises, a sound art and new music organisation based in a public park on Cumbria’s Furness Peninsula.

Having recently moved from the Lake District to Dumfries and Galloway Taylor Nuttall lives on a small holding near Castle Douglas with a small flock of sheep. 

Taylor Nuttall trained as a visual artist and has an early exhibition career with artworks featuring painting, print, sculpture, photography and installation. In the late 80’s and early 90’s he began to explore the potential of creativity using computer technologies. As well as exhibiting these works in traditional gallery spaces this led to a number of pieces being designed to be experienced online as virtual artworks. These virtual artworks also began to explore the use of sound. Taylor is now working with sound, drawing upon composition and musical skills he learned from playing piano and classical guitar as well as re-learning more robustly about sound design, composition and music theory.

'Is this just One Day?' released September 2020, a new commision for Aerial Festival. https://aerialfestival.com/

Without Visual - April 2021 - https://www.instagram.com/surmise_collective/

EP - ‘Triangulation’ released by Etched Traumas -August 2021 - https://archive.org/details/et132_tn_and_ds_triangulation

The Stove Inprovisation showcase, Market of Possibilities, Dumfries 2023

Hidden Gems Festival, Dumfries 2024

FON 15th Anniversary Concert, Piel House, Barrow in Furness 2024

Sound Lab Showcase, The Stove, Dumfries 2024

Tracks played on:
BBC Radio Introducing - BBC Radio Cumbria
Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cumbria
Space is the Place Radio Show - Cando FM - @SpaceisthePlac9
The Magic Window - MadWaspRadio - https://madwaspradio.com/
Hello Goodbye Radio Show - Resonance FM - https://hellogoodbyeshow.com/
Star & Shadow Radio https://soundcloud.com/tynesidesounds
Eagle Nest Radio - @eaglesmusicnest


@digitaylor

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Improv Owls Variation 3

Taylor Nuttall

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