evora

live recording of the Swiss premiere on Nov 22, 2021 in Grosser Saal, Musik Akademie Basel

flute – Phoebe Bognár
bass clarinet - Ábel Fazekas
cello – Caspar Johannes Walter

Outside (2021) | for flute, bass clarinet, and cello

17-out-of-19EDO bright objects

Distant Memory----Happy Birthday Chris

Le moniteur silencieux / Silent Monitor

Outplant is a new podcast from the Data.Wave webzine that features releases sent to our magazine by artists from various places of the world.

The episode 2 contains work of German sound artist Thomas Köner, electronic project Växtfolket, Michel van Collenburg aka nobuka, a track from the fresh release of A Strangely Isolated Place label and an unreleased composition by the New-York based musician Andrés León.

For musicians and labels: send your tracks to our email: datawv.office [at] gmail [dot] com

Tracklist: 

01. Thomas Köner - Substance (Suicide) (Mille Plateaux, 2020)
02. Växtfolket - III (Auditive Abstraction, 2020)
03. nobuka - Bluebird (Self-released, 2020)
04. Wanderwelle - Decay (A Strangely Isolated Place, 2020)
05. Andrés León - Variations (Unreleased, 2020)

Outplant #02

Deer Funeral

ANIMISM's first foray into the world of underground warehouse techno. Once again featuring the Sun Moon Sea peace orchestra.

Animals are essential to human industry and survival, from feeding workers to pulling machines. Yet, instead of sit as equals at the table of our shared universe, animals are human commodities; billions of animals are slaughtered, caged and abused each year. Will nature intervene? Will human ego continue blinding and distracting ourselves from self-extinction? The animal factory could strike (back).

TIERFABRIK

Day 1 of #7DaysofVGM
A small shuttle lifts off an abandoned toxic planet, it's passengers watching aggrieved over the destroyed environment.

Lift-off - 7DaysofVGM September 2020 Day 1

Grace Blakeley joins PTO to talk about the current state of the UK economy, whether the era of austerity is over, and why even in the face of a no deal Brexit the UK is unlikely to experience an attack of the bond market vigilantes. We also talked about Grace's excellent new podcast, 'A World To Win'.

PTO Extra! The week austerity died? w/ Grace Blakeley

I've recently discovered (at long last) the music of Danish composer Per Nørgård. He developed a compositional techniques based on what he called the "infinity series", which is a simple formula for developing a series of numbers based on an interval such as a minor second. The series takes the initial interval and then slowly expands upon it both upwards and downwards in pitch, getting broader in scope as it progresses. This idea can be used to generate melodies, rhythms, or other aspect of a composition.

I decided to try playing around with this, but applying it to microtonal intervals, using Csound and a Python script to generate the Csound score according to the series. I ended up with this brief study, which takes the first 256 terms of the series and applies it to three of my favorite intervals simultaneously:
 - 9/8 (major whole tone from the 9th harmonic)
 - 11/8 (unidecimal tritone,from the 11th harmonic)
 - 7/4 (septimal minor seventh, from the 7th harmonic)

The starting tone (240 Hz) plays throughout the piece as the other notes unfold above and below it. I used sine waves processed with a touch of tanh distortion to add a slight amount of harmonic content.

Csound and Python source code: https://github.com/DaveSeidel/music-src/tree/master/infinity-study

References:
 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_N%C3%B8rg%C3%A5rd
 - https://web.archive.org/web/20071010091253/http://www.pernoergaard.dk/eng/strukturer/uendelig/uindhold.html

Infinity Study

This is my demo account, meant only for listening & sharing feedback. Use the links to go to my main account.

I write soundtracks for games & video, especially the fantasy & adventure genres.
I'm also the songwriter for Belgian symphonic metal band Worlds Beyond.

Lift-off - 7DaysofVGM September 2020 Day 1

Timon Matthews