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

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

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 Rainscape 1

Excerpt Landscape Set To Music

Excerpt Room of Six

The Rainscape solo pieces have been developed for providing the musician with the necessary tools to accompany the "Rainscape 2019” kinetic sound sculpture made by Anna Godzina. 

The main goal of the composition series is to explore the alliance between the audible sounds of the sculptures and the human musician’s ever-changing perception.

The composition focuses on the research of various (en)harmonic sound components, irregularities in pitch and rhythm patterns produced by the kinetic sculpture, providing musical constructs with nuances, tensions, repetitions and melodic properties transcribed into a score.

"The Rainscape" for viola score focuses on a different strategy of employing and interacting with the sculpture. The original sound recordings of the machines are provided for practice purposes. The performer is presented with a modular, non-linear score which can permit playing, listening and responding to structures heard from the machines at the same time.

The main resonant frequency of the corresponding machine is C#. In order to enhance the resonating qualities of the instrument the piece is recommended to be performed with scordatura [retuning of the instrument]. 

Structure

The beginning and ending modules are fixed (M1 and M24).

Modules M2 - M23 may be played in any order of choice. If needed, modules can be played more than once while other modules may be excluded even though the performer should aim at playing them all.

Modules may be:

• repeated when the musician feels that it serves the flow of the performance.
• played at random or sequentially
• played in succession or separately (when separately, transition modules can be chosen to fill in the time until the decision is made about which module to play next)

Modules have specific rhythmic, dynamic and sound profiles but on repeat, the performer may modify some of these parameters for a more spontaneous interaction with the sound of the machines. 

• modifiable parameters: tempo, dynamics, sound colour (only tasto-pont-legno, half-stopped fingering of left hand)

• non-modifiable parameters: pitches*, articulations (pizz, gliss, tremolo, specific non-pitched effects)

*exceptions for pitch parameter: switching between alto/treble clef (the module may be performed entirely in one or the other)

The performer may aim at slight variations which would not interfere with the gestural profile of the module.

Transitions and spaces between modules:

Together with the machine sounds, the piece should give the impression of a continuum or dialogue between instruments. The performer may choose between different options for transitioning between modules:

• short rest (filled with the drone on C#)
• “breathing” or caesura
• immediate playing of another module
• playing of transitional modules
• playing repeatedly any structures containing 16th notes from the score, e.g., at the end of M6, the opening 16th notes are repeated until a new module is chosen and played.

Notations:

A gradual transition between one technique to the other
less finger pressure in left hand for a slightly distorted sound
left hand finger pizz.
Feather beams – tremolo to be played in accel. or rit.
Slapping sound obtained by hitting the tailpiece with the wood of the bow.

Main transition material: variations on continuous lower C# drone.
Examples of variations are suggested, but the performer may choose any other as long as the sound is continuous.

SOUND IN SPACE - SPACE IN MOVEMENT

Rainscape for Viola composition

Audio guide in Flemish, English for visitors to "De Ruien".  Is a system of 8 kilometers of underground city canals in the city of Antwerp. Audio guide commissioned for the city of Antwerp.

https://ruien.be/en

De Ruien

Sound design assignment for Jana Horálková's Pet

http://horalkova-art.com

Jenka's  Pet

Sound Design inspired work on Auguste Rodin, The Thinker (le Penseur) Auguste work depicts a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand. The pose is one of deep thought and contemplation, and the statue is often used as an image to represent philosophy and is therefore the starting point for this soundscape.

The Thinker (Le Penseur) Auguste Rodin

Stilted Effect 01. (Playing with drum brushes on a aluminum fence)

Composition courte pour une voix féminine interprété par Els Van Laetem.

La voix féminine imaginaire

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

My first reworking of Arnold Schönbergs Pierrot Lunaire for KASKA Sound Design group. Thanks to Laurie Janssens for killing vocals. Basclarinet : Kris Van Aerschot.  Violin: Jeroen Vernimmen.
Editing audio sample from:  Kodaly's  Sonata for solo Violoncello op. 8
Background: La salle d’Armes Grottes De Han
Imiage: Jeff LeFever

10  Raub ( Pierrot Lunaire )

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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