Weird Message

adapterEvery so often I save certain voice messages. Usually because they are entertaining, strange, or sometimes infuriating. I eventually end up deleting them after a while. I decided to preserve this weird message from a friend who might identify himself after hearing this, because he is a regular reader and is also not the shy type.

I had not tried to preserve any sort of voice messages for a long time, remembering that it had been arduous process. However, I had purchased an adapter to listen to FM radio with normal headphones for my Sony Ericsson mobile phone. All I had to do was connect the adapter to the mic-in on my MacBook Pro and record away. I was even able to attenuate the levels via the volume adjust on the phone itself. Here’s the recording. I’ve left some of the sounds around the message in place to put it in context.

Weird Message

Warped Korg MS2K Noise

Tomato SoupHere’s a loop that I played on my Korg MS2000 during a recent jam session. I was sending the MS2K an external synchronization signal via MIDI and it sounds as if the instrument was laboring to lock in with the clock.

I added some warp markers to tighten it up a bit, but it still has a warped and distorted quality from the processing on the MS2K. John Cage said, “There is no noise. Only sound.”

Warped MS2K Noise

Automated Mysterious Instrument

fernI came across this set while browsing through my Ableton Live documents. Glitches and clicks slowly melt into metallic tones, back to glitches, and finally auto filtered before fading out. I could not find this experiment from last October posted on ACB, so it must have fallen through the cracks.

Mysterious Instrument