So, I've been really busy with music over the last few months demoing and compiling new tracks to go on what was originally going to be a short 5 or 6 track EP... but then I got a bit carried away, and it looks like this collection of tracks is going to end up being another album :) I actually really like the format of an album, perhaps this is because I grew up listening to LPs and Cassette tapes, where tracks always were in the same order... though I have to admit, sometimes the shuffle function on my iPod spits out some pretty amazing musical synchronicity!

Anyway... the fourth as yet un-named Winterpark album is currently taking shape, and I'm really happy with how it's sounding so far... I'm looking towards a mid year release if all goes according to plan.

In creating this new album, I've been experimenting with live looping and the creation of atmospheric textures from electric guitar. The Ableton Instrument I've giving away with this newsletter has been created from one of these Loops. The original guitar loop has a pitch-shifting reverb drenched sound, that classic Eno-esque ‘Bloom’ sound. When I transformed this into a sampler based instrument rack, I noticed that wherever you play it on the keyboard you can get some really interesting and diverse textures. I hope you enjoy it!

Download the Live Pack here: 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9609324/WP%20Music%20%26%20Sounds%20Vol4.alp

Winterpark Music & Sounds Vol.4 - 1010 guitar pad

"Collider" is a collaborative track between Christopher Willits, Heathered Pearls, and The Sight Below made using Splice (https://splice.com/) to promote Michael Cina and John Klukas' upcoming show in Minneapolis.

Public Functionary
1400 12th Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
www.publicfunctionary.org

Opening: Saturday, June 7 / 7pm
Closing: Friday July 13

Closing, Friday July 11

Gallery Hours through Saturday July 12:
Thursday: 12pm-7pm
Friday: 7pm-11pm (PF Takeovers)
Saturday: 12pm-4pm

Michael Cina & John Klukas: She Who Saw The Deep

A stunning intersection of photography and painting amalgamated into something fresh and new, Cina and Klukas present 20 unique and beautiful works resulting in an undefinable medium that can only be described as digitally hand-crafted. She Who Saw The Deep is a collaborative exploration of darkness and light, a seamless combination of the visions of two artists and their personal understanding of what it means to pass through chaos and be reinvented.

Christopher Willits / Heathered Pearls / The Sight Below - Collider

This time we started out with JU-06 samples and documentary snippet about the secret underground sound of sand. All you need is a golden mole, my friends! :) Shout outs to LI for the samples.

M:V Beat Cypher #17 Mixtape

Beat Cypher #22

MORTIN’S SANDALS  (© Lukas Mocnay)

Close your eyes and talk in your sleep
Talk in your sleep to the people you meet
Talk to the preacher with the yellow pair of shoes
Talk to the ugly duckling magic golden goose
One potato two potato three potato four
Five potato six potato seven potato more
Jelly in the belly singing Sally you’re so smelly
I’d love to run so far but my sandals make my feet so sore
Who is that knocking at my door?

Orange people have orange feet
And on their feet Mortin’s sandals do fit
Pick the apple from the apple tree
There is no explanation for the magic that you see
Well sounds in my ears ticking tick tick tock
Tick tick tock the mouse ran up the clock
Yesterday I saw it but today it’s just not there
Mortin took his sandals and left my feet without a care
Orange people do not like to share

Time after time
This line will rhyme
Time after time
This line will rhyme
Time after time
This line will rhyme
Time after time

Close your eyes and talk in your sleep
Talk in your sleep to the people you meet
Talk to the preacher with the yellow pair of shoes
Talk to the ugly duckling magic golden goose
I tell ya one potato two potato three potato four
Five potato six potato seven potato more
Jelly in the belly singing Sally you’re so smelly
I’d love to run so far but my sandals make my feet so sore
Who is that knocking at my door?

Time after time
This line will rhyme
Time after time
This line will rhyme
Time after time
This line will rhyme
Time after time
This line will rhyme
Time after time
This line will rhyme
Time after time
This line will rhyme
Time after time
This line will rhyme
Time after time

Mortin's Sandals (DEMO)

Our final fortnightly challenge round! 

Each of the 6 samples for round 50 were provided by a member of our committee. Check out what we had to say about them!

Roz - "Outer Space inspired my sample mangle and was created with the assistance of the JSON weather max for live patch.”

Callum - "A Synthesised fall with sine and saw harmonics, flanger, reverb, all layered with a bass drone that pitch bends into a field recording."

Matt - "A synthesised and heavily processed synth patch from my Nord keyboard, layered with a rhythmically altered field recording of birdcalls."

Phoenix - "This sample was created using recorded sawtooth waveforms from the Minimoog Model D synthesiser (1970). It is a single sustained note tuned to middle C."

Ben - "A Krell patch made on the Make Noise 0-Coast, add reverb and delay for instant sound track."

Cat - "Tibetan singing bowl tarnished by distortion and lost in the translation of time stretching."

Thank you to everyone who submitted and who has submitted along the way. You all make this community amazing!

BC-50-RY

Beat Cypher 45! Fresh new member Wolfgang (WG) is joining the gang. Lots of isolation sessions produced this prolific edition. Enjoy!

Beat Cypher M:V Mixtape #45

Washed out waves of bliss and uncertainty, glistening explosions and chiming astro-pop.

Winterpark Music & Sounds Vol.4 - 1010 guitar pad

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