Squuids 01 - Squids

One Way Display 3.wav

An electric arc furnace running a "meltdown" process. Think of it as a giant arc welder. Three giant electrodes, each 8 feet tall and 1 foot across, create a continuous electrical arcing for melting and mixing ingredients used in industrial steel casting. The electrodes never touch the steel themselves, and it's the radiant heat of over 2400° F that melts the ingredients!
The furnace itself is 20 feet across and spits out tiny globs of melted steel throughout the process. Because of the danger, I could only come within 30 feet. Even at that distance, it's once of the loudest things I've ever recorded. With pads on both mics and the level on my 702 nearly all the way down, this still peaked around -9 when recording. Thank goodness for hearing protection!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_arc_furnace

recording miscellany:
Sound Devices 702
mid/ pressure: MKH8060
side/ gradient: MKH30

recorded at Bradken Foundry in Tacoma, WA
Photo courtesy of Elaine Thomas and Bradken Foundry in Tacoma, WA.


ARC Furnace Meltdown

VINYL, DIGITAL, CD: http://bit.ly/N45-NOTON-SHOP

N-45 - ALVA NOTO - UNIEQAV
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 16TH, 2018

The Uni series began when Alva Noto was booked to play live at the club UNIT in Tokyo, and had to adapt his sound accordingly for that environment.

‘UNIEQAV’ follows-on from and develops the concept of Alva Noto’s ‘Unitxt’ and ‘Univrs’ albums, and completes the third part in the trilogy, whereby each record is both unique and part of the bigger picture. This is also mirrored in the artwork for each release, which when combined form a triptych spelling ‘Uni’.

Described by Carsten as “sonically representing an underwater dive”, the gleaming ‘UNIEQAV’ brings as usual an inherent artistic, conceptual and scientific depth. Mathematics, data, unit systems, grids, rhythms, codes, text, language, spoken word, DNA, science technology and nature are all utilised, for both inspiration and execution.  

As with the last two Uni releases, the French sound poet Anne-James Chaton collaborates here, on ‘Uni Dna’. Where on previous records Chaton first provided a vocal track to which Nicolai composed, this time the duo flipped it; the poet wrote for an existing track, adding his unique vocal approach to recite amino acids that constitute the DNA molecule.

Regarding Carsten’s interest in 3D sound design and building sonic spaces, ‘UNIEQAV’ transports the listener to a modern, spacious and zen-like place for meditative movement. But conversely the album works equally well in a dark club - as for every glistening digital spark and simple, emotive melody - there’s a stealthy bassline, frenetic drum pattern and colossal low-end thump.

@alvanoto

http://noton.info/

UNIEQAV

Alva Noto - Uni Blue

Four short samples, performed live in the Elektron Octatrack mkii, with a lot of micro modulations, neighbor tracks, all through the master track.

Hours Away

I've had my Emu Morpheus years and never found a stable editor until now. I used CTRLR: reliable, decent and VST-based editor.

Morpheus drone

An Erik Satie piano piece, being fed into 4 series instances of the upcoming plugin. The plugin is set for a longish reverb sound, with 3 of the instances also being set to pitch shift the feedback (at intervals of +/- 12 semitones, +/- 7 semitones, and +/- 5 semitones). The results remind me of the Stargate sequence from 2001.


SatieIntoTheStargate

THEORY

This is the main menu music loop for Red Pine Rescue, a GGJ jam game I made  over a weekend with a team of devs and artists. You can check out and play the game here for free on itch: https://ivankaryakin.itch.io/redpinerescue

Red Pine Rescue - Menu music loop

This is the main music loop from Red Pine Rescue, a game made during Global Game Jam 2021. You can play the full game here: https://ivankaryakin.itch.io/redpinerescue

Hours Away

Xtopher Orth