side.dark

This is just a catch-all playlist for all of my Soundcloud tracks. 

My Tracks: Experimental Ambient Noise Groove Industrial

dream about drones

bass + looper total improvisation during a bbq jam in a nice atelier place in Storkowerstr, Berlin.  Theres also a video featuring the energy drink empty can   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZch8-zNIQ&feature=share&list=UUN9YnkC-wEXLqlDdna-smww

Storkower

From the forthcoming album "Batalha" issued by Old Bicycle Records.

Nuno Moita & Matteo Uggeri - Machine Help Humans

Extracts from "Gongs of Cambodia And Laos" double vinyl LP recorded by Kink Gong (Laurent jeanneau) on Tiger Gong Records 2013 , order from : tiger.gong@free.fr

C1 - Brao Taveng in Cambodia (5 flat gongs-3 nipple gongs)

OTO is a the trio of Pedro Lopes (turntables & sampler), Pedro Sousa (guitar & electronics) & Mush Von Namek (laptop & mainframe) // the record was sold as a DIY & limited edition in Trem Azul (home of Clean Feed Records) // oto is winner of the serralves em festa grant for experimental music, 2008

I fear the sounds of crickets at night will be replaced with the sounds of industrial noises... (Use headphones or stereo speakers!)

This track was the result of building a Multi-sample looper with PD Pure Data. There are 2 samples used. One is "clunk" by user spukken on Freesound, played in reverse, speed increased, with an auto-pan effect, with another sample "Metallic Pipe Rolling on Concrete in Basement" by Rutger Muller on Freesound, played back at variable speeds. 

The code and both samples are available in Version 0.1: 12/14/2014 of BHPDToolkit: http://TinyURL.com/BHPDToolkit 

Fear Of Industrialization

FIRST EXTRACT FROM THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM 'CUTS' ON THREE:FOUR RECORDS.
Available in february 2015.
http://www.three-four.net/releases/TFR028

“I explored for years the use of repetitive structures within different perspectives. In many cases, these figures involved long developments. ‘Cuts’ is the effort to merge this attitude with concise forms and tight evolutions. Vertical exploration of sound needs time; I tested this exploration in shorter times. Good part of the inspiration for this record came from works by Mario Benedetti, Roberto Bolaño, Julio Cortazar and Juan Carlos Onetti.” R.D.W., September 2014

Riccardo Dillon Wanke - Gallos Blancos

LANGUAGE WARNING! Live Remix using "Looper-Reverb" PureData patch. Performance and patch by BH.  Story is here: http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/227437/caught-on-camera-tom-omara-apologizes-for-outburst/
Original audio: https://archive.org/details/TomOmaraOnLPGSenecaLake

My PD Patch is here:  http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-first-substantial-pd-patch.html

"I've had enough" Tom Omara ReMix#1

Live Long & Prosper, for Leonard Nimoy, 2/27/15

Produced using my Sample-Looper 2.0 custom instrument library written in PD (Pure Data). This uses one sample of a guitar plucking 2 notes. The "Teeth brushing" effect is by sending a Saw-LFO to the Noise Amount, which is sent though the 3-band formant filter. The various bands are then scratched. 

Live Long & Prosper, for Leonard Nimoy

Here I use the voice of Cheryl Lafleur to make beautiful music. In this way, I hope she may become transformed, from using her voice to do terrible things like ordering the destruction of millions of trees. 

This is a little experiment with my constantly evolving custom PD Pure Data sampler.  From Chair of FERC Cheryl Lafleur's speech at the National Press Club. It's a short sample, saying "Environmental Activists", which is held, looped, scratched, and passed through a 3-band resonant formant filter. One band is self-osciliating. w/Reverb and a "dub" regenerative delay.  A melody is played on this filter. The patch is available in my "Sampler-Looper Toolkit V2.0" This audio and patch are CC-BY-NC. All other rights reserved. Commercial use must be licensed. WilliamAHuston@gmail.com 

430,000 Trees: The Transformation of Cheryl Lafleur

Getting in touch with my inner elephant. This track was created by playing with Martin Brinkmann's Pure Data patch called "ChaosMonster1". I believe I used 3 oscillators (of 6). This was fed into Freeverb. Played live, captured with Audacity. Spectrograph visualization (of the ending) made with Adobe Audition, captured with GIMP.  (H/T: Adrian Belew, and Jon Hassell, who made noise beautiful). 

Patch: http://www.martin-brinkmann.de/pd-patches.html

Elephantosity

This is a demo track for my "Ultimate 12-Band Flanger" patch written in Pure Data (PD) available in my BHPDToolkit on Github. This is dedicated to my friend and colleague at ShaleshockMedia, Cris McConkey, who was instrumental in documenting the history of the movement to Ban Fracking in New York. I know Cris would appreciate the technology I used, that I built a custom musical instrument for this.  Cris is on his way to Cuba to get an experimental cancer treatment. Peace be with you, mi Amigo. (WARNING! This audio contains subsonics, piercing pure tones, and overdriven, full-spectrum sound. Please turn down your speaker volume until you find a safe listening level.)

Comb Your Filters (turn down your speaker volume!)

Tom Waits (on Jim Wilson): "Wilson, he's always playing with time. I heard a recording recently of crickets slowed way down. It sounds like a choir, it sounds like angel music. Something sparkling, celestial with full harmony and bass parts - you wouldn't believe it. It's like a sweeping chorus of heaven, and it's just slowed down, they didn't manipulate the tape at all. So I think when Wilson slows people down, it gives you a chance to watch them moving through space. And there's something to be said for slowing down the world."

Source: "Woyzeck to run at Freud Playhouse". Daily Bruin (USA), by Andrew Lee. December 3, 2002

Find more on the recording on this link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023815586

Tom Waits on Tom waits talking about this recording - http://gloriousnoise.com/2008/tom_waits_interviews_tom_waits

More on the recording - http://hearingvoices.com/transcript.php?fID=142

You can buy original recording here - http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Chorus-Crickets-Jim-Wilson/dp/1932192077?tag=viglink124132-20

Original recording from the author - http://www.constancedemby.com/godscricketchorus_f.html

And more: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/10/13/weekend-diversion-is-this-an-amazing-chorus-of-slowed-down-crickets/

Jim Wilson | God's Chorus of Crickets | crickets audio recording slowed way down

ZNGREE@Metasonic Culturgest2012

testdriving the RoadMusic patch, http://nujus.net/~petesinc/roadmusic_autosync/
chauffered by Adam Parkinson

RoadTest

from 'Modern Movement - The Compilation' on [aufnahme + wiedergabe]
http://aufnahmeundwiedergabe.bandcamp.com/
photo by Viviana Druga

http://www.reliqremains.com

CUTTHROAT

Unix System Admin, Caregiver, Researcher, Videographer. I mostly do public service work these days. I hack Pd "Pure Data" (awesome free music software) in my spare time.  