another version utilizing the tristan chord intervals, done with marimba.

Tristan5

a winged victory for the sullen 'steep hills of vicodin tears'

Cut up voices, tuned, with some electronic treatments.
The voices were recorded from radio, I chose most of them based on their sound, emotion, timbre, the melody of speech, regardless of any literal meaning of the words.
New  (non existing) words and phrases were formed with the rearranging of tiny samples.

Available as digital download = http://banabila.bandcamp.com/album/in-other-words
On CD: banabila.bandcamp.com/album/tapu-sampler-2016
On vinyl: https://knekelhuis.bandcamp.com/album/echo-transformations

http://disquiet.com/2011/08/25/michel-banabila-2

In Other Words

buy at bandcamp

In Other Words (Web SDR Mix)

This is the second track I recorded on a bed, in my hotel room, while on a trip to Leicester to perform at the first Dirty-Carter event. It's just me improvising using some of the gear and some sounds I would later use for the Dirty-Carter performance with some low level looping courtesy of my iPhone.

Equipment used:
a regular Kaossilator, a circuit-bent Kaossilator, two mini Kaoss pads, a Tom Bugs WOM micro synth, a Chimera BC8 micro synth, two Zoom PFX-9003 effects, a Boss DSD-2 sampler/delay, a Dirty-Carter E.S.G.I, an iPhone for loop playback, portable Edirol mixer and a Zoom H2 recorder. No laptops or desktop computers were used in the recording.

A photo of a set-up similar to what I used can be viewed here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/4555241028/in/set-72157623967404864/


Chris Carter - While Waiting

Low key live improv.

Equipment used:
Two Kaossilators, two mini Kaoss pads, a KP3 Kaoss pad, a Tom Bugs WOM synth, Chimera BC8, BC9 and BC16 synths, two Zoom PFX-9003 effects, an Eventide Modfactor, an Eventide Timefactor, a Dirty-Carter E.S.G.I synth, a portable Edirol mixer and a Zoom H2 for recording. No MIDI, keyboards, laptops or desktop computers were used.

Rhythms were generated by the two Kaossilators - going through the mini KPs, bass loops were generated by the KP3. The Chimera BC16 synth (LFO and ADSR) was voltage controlling the BC9 synth and the two Eventide stompboxes. All loop syncing and BPM matching was done on the fly using 'tap-tempo' on the Korgs and Eventides.

A photo of the recording set-up can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/4652929120/

This is part of my CCCL project.
aka: Chis Carter's Chemistry Lessons
http://chriscarterchemistrylessons.blogspot.com/


Chris Carter - 'no MIDI no keyboards'

This is a short clip from a live performance by Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti in Brescia, Italy on the 24th May 2010.

Carter Tutti - Harmonic Coaction One (live excerpt)

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The LepLoop
I've used a lot of synths over the years but this one is something different…&nbsp;&nbsp;it's a strange instrument. It's small, much smaller than it appears in photos: it is part synth, part drum machine, part multi-track sequencer. I'm still&nbsp;figuring it all out but initial impressions are that it's very unpredictable and slightly unstable… but in a good way. I had a few issues with it sometimes refusing to work and also it has a tendency to pick up stray&nbsp;signals from my iPhone and iPad if they are anywhere near it. But&nbsp;when it works&nbsp;it is quite rewarding to use and is capable of some amazing sounds - if mildly frustrating trying get it to do what I think it 'should' be able to do - but I will persevere. If you like wonderful experimental noises - accompanied by a simple rhythm (although I'm sure it's very capable of a lot more) then this little unit could be for you.
The LepLoop will definitely become part of my CCCL&nbsp;experimental&nbsp;arsenal and will most likely get seconded into the upcoming Throbbing Gristle experimental sets in October/November 2010.
The short sound example here was performed without a keyboard, just using the internal sequencer and some real-time tweakery. The outputs were processed with a couple of Eventide pedals for some 'tape delay' &amp; reverb.
Photo on my Flikr pages: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/4933901603/

UPDATE:
Apparently my LepLoop is a prototype, which accounts some of the 'issues' I had with it - the production version should run fine.


Chris Carter - CCCL LepLoop Experiment

Taken from : Changing Structures (2010).

Michel Banabila ; tapes, processed voices, electronics & soft. instruments. 
Video project with Geert Mul ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jajtPLEdzNY

In collabs with Audiotong.

In A Language I Can Understand

Modification of second Experimental Intermedia piece.

EI2 MOD10

Taken from : Float (CD - 2014).

Anton Goudsmit ; guitar / Mehmet Polat ; oud / Anne Bakker ; violin / Michel Banabila ; composition & soft. instruments.

Here is a piano version of the same song ; 
http://soundcloud.com/michel-banabila/with-jasper-soffers-lapidarium

http://www.discogs.com/Michel-Banabila-Float/release/5184790

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