A clip of my piece Send Receive for the series Central Asia PhoNographic Mornings (Each Morning of the World / Chaque Matin du Monde, curated by Espaces Sonores).

Find the whole piece on Bandcamp https://chaquematindumonde.bandcamp.com/track/send-receive. All receipts will be donated to the WFAE (World Forum for Acoustic Ecology http://wfae.net).

Broadcast on Resonance Extra at 10am on Sunday 4th April (https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/central-asia-phonographic-mornings-11-vortichez-send-receive-sunday-4th-april-2021/). I'm also featured doing the voice intro / outro for the series. On other stations Radio Grenouille (Marseille), Radiocarbono podcast (Argentina), and Radio Panik 105.4 FM (Brussels). 

The project also has a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/commeundimanchematin

"Most residents of Astana spend their time largely in new, large internal spaces, designed for this capital city built only in recent decades and continuing to expand. Work, home, and recreational spaces have sounds from all of these life areas bouncing around these vast walls. This makes Astana a new and unique sound world, full of sounds both familiar and seemingly imaginary. During my time in Astana in 2017, I was completing my Deep Listening® Teaching Certification, and held a study group with my two students Lena and Katya on Sunday mornings in the communal area of my residential tower, which was hollow in the centre, allowing sounds to take a long journey and to be followed on their way. The recording that I have manipulated is of a Pauline Oliveros Sonic Meditation, “Send Receive”, which we performed with a poinciana pod (myself), a mouth harp (Lena), and a plastic comb (Katya)."

If you're interested in hearing the original recording of the sonic meditation, it's here on Freesound to download and use creatively as you wish (with an attribution credit!) https://freesound.org/people/Vortichez/sounds/432450/

Central Asia PhonNographic Mornings

Send Receive (from Each Morning of the World - clip)

I made this mix during my 7 weeks living in Jambiani on Unguja (Zanzibar) in early 2014, without a soundcard but with a cracked laptop screen.

1) Yotam Avni - Pentimento
2) James Holden - Renata
3) Koreless - Sun
4) Levon Vincent - ???
5) Karmon - Wowshit
6) Huxley - Box Clever
7) Betoko - Raining Again
8) Craig Richards - Sleeping Rough
9) Omar-S - Nelson County
10) Jessy Lanza - Against the wall
11) Nora en Pure - Come with me
12) Jimpster - Porchlight and Rocking Chairs (KiNK remix)

Toe Tappin

My thoughts on and analysis of Underworld's Dubnobasswithmyheadman on its 20th anniversary. 

Featured in Underworld's fan commentary selection: https://soundcloud.com/underworld/sets/dubnobasswithmyheadman-fan

Dubnobasswithmyheadman 20 year reflections

A few of my highlights of the year...and a couple of glances back. 

1) Presk - Saluki
2) Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw cuts 5 (Recloose Remix)
3) Head High - Think it
4) Kerri Chandler - Sunday sunlight
5) West Norwood Cassette Library - (We have to live) In the future
6) Franz Costa - Sweeten thy soul
7) Marquis Hawkes - Life Struggle
8) Omar-S and Shadow Ray - Oasis #13
9) Donnacha Costello - Rubine Red (A)
10) Lord of the Isles - Fyne
11) Aphex Twin - Ptolemy
12) Answer Code Request - Zenith
13) Tinman - Vertigo (vocal)
14) Inigo Kennedy - Petrichor
15) Orbital - Straight Sun



Finger Snappin

Empty Monuments EP released on Obs 26/2/17

I. Leaving Suzdal
II. Empty Monuments
III. Burial in Venice

http://abser1.narod.ru/index/obs_065/0-293

I recorded the main tapping sound at the Sibelius Monument in Helsinki.

Empty Monuments

Made with sounds recorded on the London Underground, Berlin Metro, Moscow Metro and New York City Subway. 

Featured on Framework Radio show 590 www.frameworkradio.net/2017/03/590-2017-03-19/

Some sounds used are from the Art on the Underground Victoria Line sample set by Matt Rogers.

http://art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/sample-set/

Thanks to the following freesound.org users for their contributions: 

http://freesound.org/people/nannygrimshaw/
	
http://freesound.org/people/Motion_S/	

http://freesound.org/people/kwahmah_02/

http://freesound.org/people/blaukreuz/	

http://freesound.org/people/Emanuele_Correani/	

http://freesound.org/people/qubodup/

http://freesound.org/people/varm/ Vadim Kolosov https://soundcloud.com/e240

http://freesound.org/people/micadoe/

http://freesound.org/people/LG/

http://freesound.org/people/frederic.font/

http://freesound.org/people/limitedheadroom/

Concrete Victoria I: Concrète

A field recording from a subway station in Brooklyn which closes off A Sagittariun's album Elasticity.

https://soundcloud.com/elastic-dreams/sets/a-sagittariun-elasticity-clips

https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/18981





Transmission From Myrtle Avenue

Soundscaping of part of Jesse Jackson's 1988 Democratic National Convention address, for A Sagittariun's album Elasticity.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/18981?comments=1



Transmission From Jesse

Released on RMN Classical, Electroacoustic and Beyond Vol 3.

Look Down manipulates sound clips from NASA, ESA, LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and LHC (Large Hadron Collider). Sonifications and recordings of massive black hole events in the observable universe, large events in our solar system, and quantum activity of Higgs Boson particles are brought together in one composition, combining those realms of general relativity and quantum mechanics which cannot yet be joined by human scientific knowledge. 

Clips used: 
- gravitational waves sent out from a pair of colliding and merging black holes, more than billion light years from Earth, converted to sound waves 
- the sonification of the light curve of Kepler star KIC7671081B (in the search for habitable planets)
- radar echoes received by Huygens during its descent onto Titan converted into audible sounds
- comet 67P emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field
- cometary dust particles pelting NASA Stardust-NExT space probe, recorded by the Dust Flux Monitor which measures sound waves and electrical pulses from dust impacts
- a ‘trail’ of the Leonids meteor shower from November 2000, blown around Earth’s atmosphere by the winds before being eventually dispersed
- renderings of simulated Higgs Boson events in the ATLAS detector.

Composed partly with Trevor Wishart's CDP software (Composers Desktop Project).

Featured by ESA https://soundcloud.com/esa/sets/esa-editors-picks-space

and by CDP http://www.composersdesktop.com/people.html

See the CDP forum for the processes I used http://unstablesound.net/cdpforum/index.php?topic=132.msg596#msg596

Image: a simulated Higgs boson event (CERN)

Electroacoustic and Beyond 3

Look Down (clip)

Stereo version of the octophonic piece (French layout, first speaker 22.5 degrees) made after attending the Stockhausen Course in sound projection in Summer 2017. 

Includes manipulated clips from Michael Atherton's Ankh: The Sounds of Ancient Egypt.

Made mostly with Trevor Wishart's CDP software. 

Performed at BEAST FEaST late night concert on 27/4/2018 on over 60 speakers in the Elgar Concert Hall. 

http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/beast-feast-2018/

Hatshepsut's Harem

Electroacoustics project of VorticeX

Performances: BEAST FEaST (University of Birmingham) / Arts & Science Days (Bourges)

Releases: Observatoire / Elastic Dreams / Bivouac Recording / RMN Classical / Espaces Sonores

Featured: Framework Radio (Resonance FM) / Each Morning of the World (Resonance Extra)

use this link https://plantwave.com/?ref=VorticeX
to get $15 usd off your Plantwave device

Vortichez

Popular tracks