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This is an excerpt from a live session with https://soundcloud.com/hems on KORG SV-1 and myself on guitar and effects.

Now available through Neotantra on their fine tʌntrə VII compilation: https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/album/t-ntr-vii


Recorded in 2016 at New River Studios, London N4.

Sound engineer: Joseph Martin-Kelly

tʌntrə VII

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As already done previously, in this particular jam session I again experimented with something I would call "time-synchronized sampling of percussive sounds". I played back a list of pre-recorded Hip Hop drum breaks at 100 BPM through my humble Eurorack which was also set to 100 BPM. The next step was feeding the drum sounds through the Make Noise LxD module (which is a dual low pass gate that can function as a filter, and also be pinged to produce percussive sounds) and modulating it by a collection of different Eurorack modules. Due to the imperfections in the synchronising, the already percussive sound was "forced" into a slightly skewed percussive structure which results in these intricate glitchy raw rhythms in the first part of the track, and also towards the end. Additionally, an LFO at audio rates in conjunction with the LxD, and also the Beat Thang were used to create auxiliary drum and percussive sounds.

I often end up playing back a Youtube video during my jam sessions, which may or may not fit the session's narrative. This time, I settled on a lecture by Karlheinz Stockhausen, who is considered to be influential but also somewhat controversial composer. Additionally, he is known as one of the pioneers of electronic music. Some of the samples, I was not able to playback in a proper synchtonised fashion, so I added these samples in post-production. For example at 2:03, Stockhausen's voice is imitating electric pulses. Curiously enough, the percussive rhythm that is heard from 0:50 onwards was produced randomly by my humble Eurorack, and it is only when I played back Stockhausen's sample, I realised that his voice matches my electric pulses rhythmically. However, I simply could not play back the sample so that his and my rhythm are perfectly in agreement, even after several attempts; so I had to "fake" it in post. 

As so often the case, this jam session took a couple of hours, and I experimented with a vast amount of sounds, settings and samples, and recorded the result in stereo in Audacity, which I used in post-production to extract the best parts from that jam session in order to create this track. As always, I only used basic audio editing techniques like simple crossfades. Only a touch of soft limiting was applied, no elaborate approaches like mastering were used whatsoever. Thus, the result is raw and highly dynamic in nature, so put on your favourite headphones and turn up that volume knob, because the Loudness War is for losers!

Samples from the following material were used:
- 100 Classic Hip Hop Drum Breaks At 100 BPM FL Studio (Product Of Tha 90s) [www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxLURvusYD4]
- Lecture 5 - (Part 1/3) Karlheinz Stockhausen - Four Criteria of Electronic Music [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xyGtI7KKIY]
- Several videos from the "Worship Pads" series 
[For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRf0KcTScKI]

MAB logo by @maxim-lichtenwald, check him out!

I would like to thank you very much for coming to listen!

Organised Sounds [Jam session sections: RAW2020 - 7]

After recently remixing in a 2020 collab Travelling (https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/travelling), track 3 in my 1st album, Return to Equilibrium, 2016 (soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/sets/alex-m-return-to-equilibrium), Tom and I attempted our 1st music-creating collaboration on a brand new track! I am so glad to present it here. The SoundCloud page of Tom, @user-675973110, provides access to his own fascinating tracks. Do visit his page and enjoy his music!

Artwork cover based on an image provided by Tom, cropped and annotated by Alex M (in Preview) and saved in its final version on 1 August 2020.

Completed in collaboration on 30-31 July and 1 August 2020 (with final mix and recording by Alex M in Logic Pro X) and posted on SoundCloud on 1 August 2020 (by Alex M).

Thank you so much, Tom!

Duration: 4:30 minutes

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Tom & Alex M

Happening all the time: mad rush to travel...even in these locked down times. 
Manic saxophones follow a flute dawn.... Electro-melodica /flute mayhem.
(photo of railway vent).

RUSH HOUR

22Oct20

My naviarhaiku35 submission
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/10/21/naviarhaiku355-wind-tunnel/
wind tunnel . . .
a hummingbird fans
the morning glory

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Boson Spin - Hummingbird in a wind tunnel [naviarhaiku355]

2020-11-13

walking On Very Thin Ice

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Another track in the Fast Fourier Transforms series. This track features my Neptune Lindo electro-acoustic guitar playing into the Roxsyn guitar synth app 
through a Bleass Chorus and Enventide Blackhole and also playing some sounds into the Monono app.

Fast Fourier Transforms V

Lenambient_Troton from Abandoned Zone album https://lenambient.bandcamp.com/album/abandoned-zone

Abandoned Zone

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Live fully indulgent experimental drone noise fest.
Downloadable for open collab. All are welcome you use any content to create whatever may inspire you. Bring on the noise! 
Playlist of contributors to the Ark- 
https://soundcloud.com/blink-twice-archival/sets/ark-dambient-open-collab
Please refer to original track and pm me so I can repost yours.

Have fun.

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