hayashi

My main composition and production project for the next few months is a substantial "Rhapsody" inspired by repeatedly reading Nova Express by William Burroughs. This is the first one of several related pieces of music towards it which I am giving away online, like I do with most of my music. For the final piece, I'll try to come up with something better.

There is also going to be a Net Label "EP" release of perhaps six related miniatures.

I am composing and producing this entirely using my "home made" granular synthesis tools (with the help of MaxMSP). Doing granular synthesis means extracting tiny bits of sound from a recording or a stream, up to thousands every second, even, and re-arranging them while modifying them in a number of ways, creating grain clouds. This seems to reflect the "cut-up" method (used for writing the book) nicely.

The source material for the grain clouds are my Cork City Gamelan samples: sounds made with ordinary everyday "things" which can be found around most cities. I also used a recording of Phil Spector reading from Nova Express - for THIS piece only, it won't feature in the finished work.

enjoy!

Subliminal Entrainment (inspired by repeated readings of Nova Express)

Creepy score slow strings with musicbox. Composed by Lionel Schmitt. 
All can break. Puppets, glass, your soul, yourself...
Feel free to use the track in your project. Use the download button.

Horror Music - Shards (Sad Mysterious Drama With Musicbox)

Image by  Philip Matthews:(http://philipmatthews.deviantart.com/)

Traveling through the dangerous desert

Live Mix tracklist:
Carmina Burana - Orff
Revenge of the Big Bossa - Danny Breaks
Where is my mind (Bassnectar Remix) - Pixies
Hit That Jive (Original Mix) - Gramatik
Life in The Rain - Quantic
Apollo Throwdown (Star Slinger Remix) - The Go! Team
Genesis - Justice
Kalimba - Mr Scruff
Shelter (The XX Cover) - Hercules and Love Affair

Mixdown Sessions: Foreword

My first Audio Project involving only sound, no dialogue. Enjoy

The Purging [Audio Story - Teaser]

Another piece of music for life performance - it would be cool to do it with a real kitchen sink - or perhaps with water dripping into one of my Waterphones. The sound of water dripping was all it took to create this soundscape.

A while ago, Fluxus was mentioned on my favourite radio show (Nova - http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/nova/). Rendering some of the Fluxes scores (curated by Danny MacCarthy) in the 1980s at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork City (Ireland) was one of the activities which started me off on my present musical journey. This mention of Fluxus inspired me to compose and perform a fluxus-like event score.

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Capture and play the sound of water dripping. The drops may be evenly spaced or not.

Make it so that the sound of each drop falling selects an electronic effect according to a selection algorithm of your choice. Any or all of the effects may be null effects, making no changes to the sound.

Route the sound of each drop to its selected effect.

Capture each of the resulting sounds into a continuously repeating loop of arbitrary length, sound on sound, while continuously playing back the contents of the loop

Add further effects or not as desired. 

When the output reaches the desired density, fade or cut off the sounds as desired.

Repeat as many times as desired.
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I used four different delay effects and an envelope follower in order to side-chain a bass sound into the mix. To perform this music back in the 70s or 80s would have required at least five (ideally nine) tape machines and four synthesiser modules. I used a small computer and Max/MSP software for this single take recording.

Please feel free to perform or to record your own version and to credit me as the composer.

This is a tribute to the few survivors from those days with whom I am still in touch, and who are still making music: https://soundcloud.com/chewedupsounds , https://soundcloud.com/mixile , and Danny himself. It is inspired by the drip music of George Brecht, and it somehow seems resonate with Ligeti's piece for Metronomes.

A Kitchen Sink Event (composed from only the sound of water dripping ...)

minikui bi

Last night the experimental music duo with no name, which is Alison "Little" Forbes and I, augmented by the incomparable Denis O'Sullivan (https://soundcloud.com/denmus), played a short improvised music set at the Zolala Klub (https://www.facebook.com/ZolalaKlub/), Siopa Gan Ainm (https://www.facebook.com/siopaganainm/), Cornmarket Street, Cork, Ireland. Here is the whole set, raw and unedited (excuse the overdriven Waterphone near the beginning): Denis and Little on Waterphones, yours truly on a home made Sample Player and Sound Processor, loaded entirely with sounds which Little and I recorded in my kitchen sink. Enjoy!

Apologies to my followers on Soundcloud: my account had been vandalised by a hacker, and I was keeping a low profile for a while.

A Kitchen Sink Event Live Feb 8th 2017

This is a recording of legendary pianologist, Dr. Thumbs Pianeer, performing on a Hugh Tracey Karimba, a style of thumb piano with little metal rattles on some of the keys. Enjoy the interlaced ryhthms of rattle and tone in this delightful short piece. This was recorded in the "Five Points" neighborhood of East Nashville, Tennessee, which is where the piece gets its name. Copyright free -- use as you please. Photo courtesy of https://www.kalimbamagic.com

Dr. Cornelius Pianeer Plays the Karimba

Five Points - Karimba Thumb Piano by Dr. Cornelius "Thumbs" Pianeer

I worked with this fantastic indie game about an entire year. All the music was composed by using analog and digital synthesizers and hardware effects.

The soundtrack album can be entirely previewed and purchased here:
https://panutalus.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-game-soundtrack

The game itself is available here on Steam (Also on GOG and Humble store):  
store.steampowered.com/app/311010/  

Here's the game trailer I composed as well: 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb0V0RDlKyA

Many songs required a lot of work but there are also moments of instant, spontaneous improvising. Particulary "Proceeding forward" song was entirely improvised in one single take!

For fellow gear nerds, here is list of my setup used for the game soundtrack: 

Synthesizers/sound sources: 
- Yamaha CS-50 
- Roland RS-505 
- Sequential Circuits Pro-One 
- Generalmusic S3 Turbo 
- Technics WSA1 
- Roland JV-2080 (+ Vintage Synth, Orchestral, World) 
- Roland JD-990 (+ Vintage Synth) 
- Korg X3R 
- Yamaha EX-5R 
- Korg O3 Symphony Module (choir) 
- Akai S2000 (Spectrasonics - Symphony of voices) 
- Yamaha CP-60M 
- Simmons SDS8 

Effects: 
- Lexicon 224 
- Lexicon PCM-70 

All the sequences were performed in live, triggered and transposed with Zyklus MPS-1 - Midi Performance System. Oberheim Systemizer handles the advanced master keyboard functions.

Desert

The legendary Thumbs Pianeer was captured in his natural habitat at the Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the edge of the Huron River. Dr. Pianeer plays a Hugh Tracey Alto Kalimba from KalimbaMagic -- "best place to get yer thumb pianeers." There are no rattles and the sound is soft and subtle. Turn it up! The tuning was put on by Dr. Pianeer. The master of the thumb piano is accompanied from the start by a cicada, then a dog, people in canoes going by. At 9:00 he's in a duet with a woodpecker! The bird gets the last word! Enjoy! Copyright Free!

Nichols Arboretum

Nichols Arboretum - Ambient Thumb Piano, Cicada and Birds by Dr. Cornelius Pianeer

dal cd autoprodotto "l'albero dei canti"- musiche tradizionali dell'Epiro, da un disco Folkways.
Vladimiro Cantaluppi Violino, Laura Francaviglia bouzouki e darabuka, Raffaele Amenta clarinetto. Registrato a  novembre 2011 a La Barberia-Bologna, dal tecnico del suono Fabio Iacobucci. Il Cd vede anche la partecipazione di Daniela Vivarelli al corno francese e alla grafica.

Kapetan vasile

This delightful ditty begins with Dr. Cornelius "Thumbs" Pianeer test-driving a new Erin treble kalimba. About 30 seconds in, a train passes in the distance, blowing its horn. Then, about 3 minutes in, a wren is attracted to the tune and joins in. Dr. Pianeer and the Wren then duet for the remainder of the tune. A wonderful ambient recording! Image used with permission from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tawny-breasted_Wren-Babbler,_Cherapunjee,_Meghalaya.jpg

Wren I Call Your Name - Thumb Piano by Dr. Cornelius Pianeer

324 Records introduces Rafael Teixeira, and his 6 tracks, some nice inspiration from Jazz and House Minimal.

Rafael Teixeira - Lentos (Original Mix)

Rafael Teixeira - Minibar (Original Mix)

Virtual Meditation

Following a stellar vinyl release, Classic’s remix package of Folamour’s ‘Re-Interpretations #1’ has now been given a digital release, featuring three mixes of the blissful tracks from the French DJ/producer. First up is Afrobeat producer Austin Ato’s jacked up version of ‘Ivoire’ where a disco-infected groove seamlessly intertwines with a slow sax and soft drums. The unwavering groove of Folamour’s production is paid due respect with thatmanmonkz 8 Minutes Of Funk Remix of ‘Ya’ll Right’, where the Classic contributor brings the tempo up and weaves in some heavy percussion. Finally, Byron The Aquarius brings his jazz-house sound to the release, giving the exquisite ‘Look At Me Or I’ll Steal Your Eyes’ a new velvety smooth funk.

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Folamour - 'Iviore (Austin Ato Remix)'

Recorded with: -
SE4 stereo Pair overheads
MD421 snare
D6 Kick
D112 Floor tom
SE2200a room

Jeremy Cooper playing

Minimal

Instruments made out of trash, processed using ableton live:
Kalimba (out of bike parts)
Marimbula (an old heater chopped up)
Trashpet (kinda trumpet made out of milk box)

Hood group project - Marimbula electrified

click + like (or not). pic miami arts district. 

hayashi

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