01 is a quick little scalar tune, direct from the Zoia buttons.
02 is a test using the Little Fugue Machine.
03 is a classical guitar pushing Roli Equator softsynth
04 is the same as 03 using some harmonics on the guitar to test the audio conversion to MIDI.

MIDI-Out Test 01

The slow traversal from 2022 into 2023, as expressed by the generative magic of Wotja...

Old Year's End, New Year's Begin

Experiments with Zoia and Wotja playing together with some soft synths. Raw captures, no edits...

2216

2203

2150

2137

2124

2111

More testing of Zoia and Wotja playing together...

15JAN2023

Zoia meets Wotja_1251

Zoia meets Wotja_1244

These two tracks comprise my work for the (Inter) National Solo Album Month effort — http://www.nasoalmo.org/?q=content/fall-verb-intransitive  for the truly curious. No guitars were harmed; as for my MacBook and iPad, well, that may be a very different story, indeed!  

As I will be working further with some of this, I have disabled downloads. Not to worry ...

SineDance

The Earth is Blue and Far Below

On 8 January, a field-recording was done in the kitchen to capture the making of "Dutch Babies" for breakfast. A four-microphone configuration was used, mixed down using a Rolls field mixer to two channels and recorded using a TASCAM DR-100.
 
FILE #01 -- 13:57 in length
Coffee beans being poured from bag and into the grinder, beans being ground, the water being heated on the stove top.
Preparations for the Dutch Babies batter (two eggs being cracked and put into the bowl, eggshells being tossed into the sink, flour bag being opened)…
At roughly three minutes in, the "combined/processed" file begins to fade in ...
FILE #02 -- 24:30 in length
(this file is a combination of the two field-recording files, run through a Plogue bidule configuration that generated MIDI output from the audio in the individual files. The bidule utilized a MIDI delay line as the MIDI signals drove separate instances of Alchemy and Kore Player. Additional processing involving various reverbs and other effects such as stereo panning and pitch-shifting were applied as well. The two audio files were in loop players, and allowed to run two full cycles, at a minimum. The output was recorded directly to disc. Afterwards, a simple fade-in and fade-out were applied to the file.)
Orange juice pulled from the fridge and bottle shaken to stir up contents.
…batter in the blender running.
Putting the cooking dish into the oven.
FILE #03 -- 7:29 in length
At 23:04, FILE #03 begins
We hear the dish being removed from the oven, placed on the trivet, and dishes being placed for serving. 
Yogurt, blueberries and other accompaniments are being taken out of the fridge and laid out, along with silverware, coffee mugs…
The coffee is poured from the pot into the mugs, the excess going into a carafe for later.
One coffee mug goes into the microwave (she likes her coffee very hot), sugar and milk get stirred into another.
She puts sugar into her now very-hot coffee and stirs.
Spooning the last of the yogurt out of the containers, tossing the empty container in to the sink.
Opening the jar of chokecherry syrup, spooning the syrup on to her dish, then takes her dish to get sit and eat.

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The files were rendered together as a 24-bit .WAV file, using Reaper, the resulting file processed using Amadeus Pro to apply an "Ambience" filter and to apply a "fade-out" at the end. The file was then converted an MP3.


CosmicDutchBabies

From the live performance at "Everything Bends" held at The Bandit Gallery, Echo Park, Los Angeles CA on Saturday 1 August 2009 ... Sarah Palin? William Shatner? Birds? Yeah ... it's ALL there ...

Zadar Sunrise: North, To The Future

Finishing my bowl of "morning gruel", sipping coffee, grabbing the Godin and getting it started...Godin=GI-20=Guitar rack(Lexicon MXP200, tc electronics G-major)=Boss VF-1 (custom patch by me, thanks to Mark Sottilaro for that inspiration!)Boss GigaDelay DD-20 #01=Mixer=TASCAM DR-100=your ears ...&nbsp;single live take to disc, 20-sec single loop of arpeggiated harmonics and an ebow...my friend John Duval complained about a recent track, that he wanted to just hear the "exquisite licks" of the guitar, so here ya go, John! Enjoy...



Cool Licks For JD

Track #7 of the Ambient Collective's "Serene, Part One" collaboration; with the volume level how it should have been on the mix. And yes, this is the full , correct title...sorry, Vini.

Contemplation of Soft September Sun

The "first" release of a generative track created with leafcutter john's "forester" software ... created by using the software to traverse a folder of .WAV files being created using some sounds from Kore and a previously recorded "forester" track utilizing some earlier improvisations ... the software was manipulated in real-time; the only remaining post-processing was to add a a brief fade-in, a "round pan" filter in two passes on sections of the track and to add a 4 minute fade at the end. The "reverb" in last 4 minutes is an artifact of the "forester" software, nothing I did.

Stepping Into

Some sonic experimentation...A Man, an iPod, a Melodyne demo, and time stretching.

284-001 aaa

Not for late-night listening; best served at 115*F, in bright sun.

SlowSleep

Non-pop-, non-genre-specific experimental music coming out of a classical background and a heavy dose of Eno & Fripp-influenced/induced sense of ambient music...listen closely and make your own conclusions. Not afraid of using software or hardware to create these things...

I am starting to release material under the netlabel "audiozoloft" which you can find from the Bandcamp link below. Buy me a cuppa beverage!

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