Rough Mixes And Reruns!

Digitalizing my old cassette tapes I came across demo tapes dated from 1997. A chance to share “in this third chapter” new song material that was being worked out!  For improving performances. With titles as “I Don’t Know”  - Orchestral “Blindness Sees” and “Always On The Road”.  I  do inspire you to listen to a live recording for audible energy and expression in action. 
Enjoy “Rough Mixes And Reruns” demo releases of this to short lived former Belgian band. So step 2 “The Chapter"

Band members:
Mechissedec Vocals
Ayco Van Leemputten Backing Vocals
Tom Commerman Guitar
Dries Jordaens  Bass Guitar
Tim Vleminckx Drums
Yannick Heeren Keyboard

Rough Mixes And Reruns! Step 2: This Chapter III

Yttre Arasjon

1995. First exploratory steps in Jazz harmony & composition during my early studies at the Jazz studio in Antwerp. Sometime in 1994.

Quacho & Natchos

The Room of Six from 2018
Piano strings, guitar strings, plastic barrel, electric engines, wood, stones, plastic tubes.
Variable dimensions
In collaboration with Domenikos De Visser

Landscape Set To Music

SOUND IN SPACE -SPACE IN MOVEMENT

Anna Godzina The Room of Six soundscape

The Runner’s Body from 2019
Tree trunks, speakers, electronic amplifier.
Variable dimensions.
In collaboration with Domenikos De Visser

Anna Godzina The Runners Body soundscape

Landscape Set to Music/ pressure, vibration and resonance  from 2019
Wood, saw blade, electric engines, electric guitar parts, strings, led lights, clock bell.
Variable dimensions

Anna Godzina Landscape Set To Music soundscape

I Sing the Space Electric/ Rainscape from 2019
Metal bars, stone fragments, electric engine.
2.5m x 0.25m x 0.24m

Anna Godzina Rainscape soundscape

30 second sample based on a kinetic sculpture by Anna Godzina.
An exploratory survey on how to score for a kinetic sound generating sculpture and unaccompanied instrument. Preview of the upcoming Online and Offline release (27/9/2021) of the album "Landscape Set To Music".

Sound In Space

Excerpt The Runners Body

Excerpt Room of Six

Excerpt Rainscape 3

Excerpt Rainscape 2

Excerpt Rainscape 1

Excerpt Landscape Set To Music

The solo piece “Room of Six'' has been developed in such a way that the musician has the necessary tools to reproduce as faithfully as possible the “Room of Six” kinetic sound sculpture created by Anna Godzina. The main goal of this composition is to explore the alliance between the audible sounds of the sculptures and the musician’s ever-changing human perception.

The bassklarinette focuses on the research of various anharmonic sound components, irregularities in pitch and rhythm patterns produced by the kinetic sculpture, providing musical patterns with any nuances, tensions, repetitions and pitchless melodic properties transcribed into a graphic score.

The performer is presented with an 8 measure non-linear modular score; permitting slight variations that would not interfere with the gestural profile of the sculpture just reinforce it. 

The overdub track with only breathing sounds simulates the installation balancing barrel. On this, the extractable modules were carried out using extended techniques such as: slap tongue pizzicato. dyads, multiphonics, singing or humming sounds. Air flutter, smear and valve sounds. 

The piece should give the impression of a continuum or dialogue between the instruments and the sculpture.

Landscape set to music

SOUND IN SPACE - SPACE IN MOVEMENT

The Room of Six composition

The Runner's Body solo piece has been developed to provide the musician with the tools needed to accompany the kinetic sound sculpture "The Runner's Body 2019” made by Anna Godzina. 

The main goal of "The runner's body for drums" is to explore the alliance between the audible sounds of the sculptures and the human musician’s ever-changing perception.

This percussion piece focuses on the research of various sound components and irregularities in rhythmic constructs produced by the kinetic sculpture, providing a pattern with nuances, repetitions and compound time signature  properties, transcribed into a score.

The performer of the piece is presented with a transcribed score that provides the same  rhythmic profiles used by the machine for regulating purposes.

The Runners Body composition

Landscape Set To Music / Pressure,  Vibration &  Resonance

Is an exploratory survey on scoring a kinetic, sound generating sculpture. The video scoring of Anna's first landscape (original trial), posted on Facebook on June 30th  2019, is the basis for my musical approach into the inner workings of kinetic sound sculptures, by using Cubase (digital audio workstation software) and creating a practicable user template.

The score editor renders a visual representation of the sound, for preservation, replay and analysis. The fundamental overtone, “from the first landscape original trial” undulates on a frequency of 466.164 Hz, in the key of B-flat major or its relative minor key in G. 

The 5200 RPM of the mini electric motor is synchronized to 172 BPM by using the Cubase tempo track. Rhythmically, the best possible transcription has been sketched. Melodically, it is harmonized to chord and scale progressions related to the musical scale of B-flat with a subtle hidden pitch modulation towards the SubV7/ii in D-major.

The Landscape composition has a fixed tonal center due to the RPM of the electric motor and the 3 clock rods. The small divergences observed in the resonances of the rods, hit by a swirling rubber hose, were my first steps into this exploratory survey.

It is - after all - listening to the hidden music within those industrial sounds.

Landscape Set To Music composition

Radio documentary in Flemish about the origin of Musique concrète.

La Naissance De La Musique Concrète

Beijing (Field Recording)

Blauw (Short Film Soundtrack)

Soundscape recorded in Luc Deleu - Orbino Container - 2004
Luc Deleu ( ° 1944 Duffel, Belgium ) is a Belgian architect, philosopher and artist. His quest to break with the traditional vieuw of things, is his driving force. This search often leads to surprising designs and proposals always with the idea of creating a better world for humanity.

This work of art can be seen at the Middelheim museum in Antwerp.

Geografie der lage landen

Orbino

Prepared piano like composition with integrated sounds recorded in the Luc Deleu  - Orbino container. ( ° 1944 Duffel, Belgium ) is a Belgian architect, philosopher and artist. His quest to break with the traditional vieuw of things, is his driving force. This search often leads to surprising designs and proposals always with the idea of creating a better world for humanity.

Title of the work: Orbino

Au Bout des Doigts 

A Room with a View

A 4Fold-collective event presents all possible acts with words and their absence, silence, noise, intuitive, invented or with any form of communication expressing poetics of space. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to speak, play, interact or just sit in unspoken space and soak it all up... 

4fold is an interdisciplinary project focused on intertwining movements, sounds, visuals and words.
It sets up a composite work fusing all branches of art in an artistic unity.

Amoeba

4 Fold Collective Act 1

4 Fold Collective Act 2

4 Fold Collective Act 3

Repetitie De Vlinder Van Pierrette COffrée 22/10/2017

Commissioned by Parlangi.net (social learning network) I pre-edited the podcast. As well composed an intro and outro tune and Jingles. For commercial branding purposes I chose a recognizable, recurring theme that could also be used for the jingles.

Parlangi Podcast

Parlangi Podcast (short version)

Commissioned by Parlangi.net (social learning network) I pre-edited the podcast. As well as composing an intro and outro tune and Jingles. For commercial branding purposes I chose a recognizable, recurring theme that could also be used as a jingle.

Parlangi (Main Theme)

Parlangi (Main Theme Version)

Commissioned by the University of Antwerp a sound design composition that audibly reproduces the "museum to scale" mini-installation by the Belgian Conceptual artist Arne Quinze: "There is no chaos only structure".

This unique art project at the University of Antwerp spans over a 100 mini-rooms with original work from contemporary Belgian artists, from paintings to complete installations.

The Museum to Scale  (Arne Quinze)

This is one of many experimental improvisation behind my prepared piano. This recording session was edited and designed to make a prevading background. Usable as an Ambient sound effect.

A Prepared Piano (short track) Ex. 1

Digitalizing my old cassette tapes I came across demo tapes dated from 1996.  A chance to share “Step 2: The Chapter”.

It was launched by Lead vocal rapper Melchissedec; outlaying his social criticism on politics, society and life in his lyrics.

At that time we categorized our style of music as crossover,
Influenced by the old-school rap from “Jay-Z” with Funk,
Acid Jazz and even Symphonic Rock…
Artist like Frank Zappa, P.Funk All-Stars, (FFF French Funk Federation), Erykah Badu, Beastie Boys, Guru's Jazzmatazz, Me'Shell NdegéOcello, Galliano, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and others were sources of inspirations.
As musicians, some of us at that time studying at the “Jazz-Studio from Antwerp”, were integrating what we were learning into the bands arrangements. At times heavy for the listener and commercially not a good idea (hence the reference to iconoclastic Zappa), we called it "Jazz-core Funk Rap".

Listening to it now I feel like my keyboard playing was overfilled and I  should have played differently! Well...It were my first steps into FM-Synthesis with a Roland JVC 1080 and my pride owned Kurzweil K2600 Workstation with SCSI daisy-chaining external CD-Rom and Hard drive. The Kurzweil K2600 was the synth my hero, American keyboardist “Jordan Rudness”, best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, played on. After so many years I finally start to understand how It’s programming works and now I feel some other sounds would have been more appropriated then... The band competed succesfully in various Belgian competitions in the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels region giving us Nice memories, like performing twice at the city festival “Marktrock” in Leuven and a personal high; the jailhouse of Antwerp, where our track “Minority” was much acclaimed.

So enjoy these old-school 1996 demo releases of this to short lived former Belgian band. So step 2 “This Chapter"

Band members:
Mechissedec Vocals
Ayco Van Leemputten Backing Vocals
Tom Commerman Guitar
Dries Jordaens  Bass Guitar
Tim Vleminckx Drums
Yannick Heeren Keyboard

1 Step 2 This Chapter
2 Choose (Don't Loose!)
3 The Answer To The Question Is "Why?"
4 The Story At The Crossroads (Short Version)

This Is 7496! Step 2: The Chapter I

Digitalizing my old cassette tapes I came across demo tapes dated from 1996.  A chance to share “Step 2: The Chapter”.

It was launched by Lead vocal rapper Melchissedec; outlaying his social criticism on politics, society and life in his lyrics.

At that time we categorized our style of music as crossover,
Influenced by the old-school rap from “Jay-Z” with Funk,  Acid Jazz and even Symphonic Rock…
Artist like Frank Zappa, P.Funk All-Stars, (FFF French Funk Federation), Me'Shell NdegéOcello, Erykah Badu, Beastie Boys, Guru's Jazzmatazz, Galliano, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and others were sources of inspirations.
As musicians, some of us at that time studying at the “Jazz-Studio from Antwerp”, were integrating what we were learning into the bands arrangements. At times heavy for the listener and commercially not a good idea (hence the reference to iconoclastic Zappa), we called it "Jazz-core Funk Rap".

Listening to it now I feel like my keyboard playing was overfilled and I should have played differently! Well... It were my first steps into FM-Synthesis with a Roland JVC 1080 and my pride owned Kurzweil K2600 Workstation with SCSI daisy-chaining external CD-Rom and Hard drive. The Kurzweil K2600 was the synth my hero, American keyboardist “Jordan Rudness”, best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, played on. After so many years I finally start to understand how It’s programming works and now I feel some other sounds would have been more appropriated then...

The band competed succesfully in various Belgian competitions in the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels region giving us Nice memories, like performing twice at the city festival “Marktrock” in Leuven and a personal high; the jailhouse of Antwerp, where our track “Minority” was much acclaimed.
So enjoy these old-school 1996 demo releases of this to short lived former Belgian band. So step 2 “This Chapter"

Band members:
Mechissedec Vocals
Ayco Van Leemputten Backing Vocals
Tom Commerman Guitar
Dries Jordaens  Bass Guitar
Tim Vleminckx Drums
Yannick Heeren Keyboard
Wolf Wok Danser

1 Minority
2 Freakin' On The Funk
3 Who Stole The Soul?
4 Who sees (What's It all About)

Circus Funk Flavor! Step 2: The Chapter II

Welcome to my SoundCloud. This is me, YannickH, and I am researching music. Revving up once more with reworked compositions and new content, as well musical activities alongside my work as piano-tuning and maintenance services; as a trained jazz pianist and freelance composer for your projects. 

I am available for musical performance, collaborations and recording. 
Unhindered by my visual impairment and operating out of Antwerp, Belgium, I’ve been tuning and maintaining pianos for more than 20 years, alongside composing and playing piano in various collaborations, including making and advising on recordings for small groups.

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