Mixed Friends 44

Fifth in a series of early collaborative tracks by my brother Chris @third_eye_cue and me. Artwork by Chris.

SPECIAL GUEST!  Jason Ganz https://soundcloud.com/neurotransmit-1/tracks on bongos

Equipment used:

•	Roland VS880 Digital Studio Workstation 
•	Alesis QS8 Digital Master Controller Synthesizer
•	Roland MC-909 Sampling Groovebox
•	Korg MS2000 Analog Modeling Synthesizer
•	Roland MC-505 Groovebox
•	Roland GAIA Analog Modeling Synthesizer

IMPROVISE I

Wilder:  Journey of a Tree Frog (improv jam 2014)

Improvisation III

Indian summer:
dragonfly shadows seldom
brush the window.

Poem by Masaoka Shiki https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/shiki.html
Picture by Gabriele Diwald https://unsplash.com/@gabrielediwald

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halF dragonflY [naviarhaiku232]

An all-interval 12-tone row (serialism!) gets repeated over and over (minimalism!), but the tones are gradually revealed as 4th harmonics of implicit fundamentals (spectralism!) that get randomly (aleatoricism!) replaced, in each clarinet's part, by other harmonics.  The result is not midway between tonality and atonality, but rather, paradoxically fully committed to both logics at all times.  The harmonic cloud around the row gradually obscures its structure, and something happens at the midway point that may only seem obvious to the listener who gets to the end and goes back to the beginning.  This imparts a certain approximate symmetry (formalism!).  

The affect of the effect reminds the composer of butterfly flight, and the title refers, casually, to some recent research concerning how that all actually works.   The hidden crucial moment might suggest a "butterfly effect," but chaos theory is not literally implicated in the piece.

The practical score will call for three players even though effectively the work sounds as a mere duet.

Butterfly Waggle Vortex Rings, for clarinets

Boson Spin - Ossmilor

Submission for Disquiet Junto Project 0337: Through Composted
(Create a piece of music that is through-composed, but built entirely from samples.) For more information, see: https://disquiet.com/0337

Having written a through-composed folk song for February Album Writing Month 2011, I sampled my demo from YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My_7VH9PRw4 )and used this as the backbone for my assembled tragedy.

Prince Of Thorough Compost [disquiet0337]

A number of possible grooves...music I make to make myself move.  May you also be moved! Best on headphones...or in your car :D
Thank you for listening!

Wilder: Journey of a Tree Frog (improv jam 2014)

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