About John CS Keston
John CS Keston is an award winning transdisciplinary artist reimagining how music, video art, and computer science intersect. His work both questions and embraces his backgrounds in music technology, software development, and improvisation leading him toward unconventional compositions that convey a spirit of discovery and exploration through the use of graphic scores, chance and generative techniques, analog and digital synthesis, experimental sound design, signal processing, and acoustic piano. Performers are empowered to use their phonomnesis, or sonic imaginations, while contributing to his collaborative work. Originally from the United Kingdom, John currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he is a professor of Digital Media Arts at the University of St Thomas. He founded the sound design resource, AudioCookbook.org, where you will find articles and documentation about his projects and research.
John has spoken, performed, or exhibited original work at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2022), the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2022), the International Digital Media Arts Conference (iDMAa 2022), International Sound in Science Technology and the Arts (ISSTA 2017-2019), Northern Spark (2011-2017), the Weisman Art Museum, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Walker Art Center, the Minnesota Institute of Art, the Eyeo Festival, INST-INT, Echofluxx (Prague), and Moogfest. He produced and performed in the piece Instant Cinema: Teleportation Platform X, a featured project at Northern Spark 2013. He composed and performed the music for In Habit: Life in Patterns (2012) and Words to Dead Lips (2011) in collaboration with the dance company Aniccha Arts. In 2017 he was commissioned by the Walker Art Center to compose music for former Merce Cunningham dancers during the Common Time performance series. His music appears in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012) and he composed the music for the short Familiar Pavement (2015). He has appeared on more than a dozen albums including two solo albums on UnearthedMusic.com.
Something that I have wanted to do for a while, is post a sound without giving away any clues as to what the sound actually is so that readers can guess or perhaps even debate about it until I come along and reveal the truth. So, here it is. I’m not saying what if any processing was applied, where or when, or how or why it was recorded. If you think you know what this sound is, please respond in a comment with your guess. The winner will receive the all expense paid recognition of being the first reader to figure it out. And, no, it’s not a cow giving birth, and neither is the photo any sort of clue. However, I imagine that this one will not be difficult to solve. Have fun!
sounds like a kazoo or something else you blow into like a party horn but slowed down a couple octaves.
i love this mystery sound stuff. check out mine here:
http://blog.califaudio.com/search/label/califaudio%20mystery%20sound
let’s keep doing this!
It’s a bloody **z**
pitched down and slowed saxophone from previous post? :D
cheers from italy!
ps: this is my first comment after several months of lurking. wonderful blog, really inspiring!
A teddy bear with one of those tilting sound boxes?
Partywhistle!
oops was too fast.
It is one of those cow-sound boxes slowed down.
Bada…bing!
squeaky toy.
recorded with a PCM-D50. : )
We probably respond from sounds we are familiar with… Sounds like a corrupt drive trying to spin up. So sorry if it is so.
Thankfully, J. Oscar is wrong! The Prize goes to Jeff Bratteson for guessing squeaky toy recorded with the PCM-D50 (don’t forget down pitched four octaves). Thanks for all the comments!
Very glad to be wrong. Don’t forget your traveling UPS if you are going where there is dodgy electrical….
A cow mooing
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