Some Kind of Adhesive Excerpt from Live Mix

Here’s another segment from the live recording I wrote about in the last entry. This is an excerpt from the piece Some Kind of Adhesive from One Day to Save All Life (2008, Unearthed Music). If you are familiar with the piece you will probably notice that this excerpt bares little resemblance to the original recording.

This is an example of how far a piece can stray from it’s original structure. The tempo hasn’t changed and some of the same instrument recordings are used, but these elements have been shaped into something new by cutting, stretching, looping, processing, and other forms of manipulation in real-time during the performance. This makes every set different from the next and keeps things interesting for us and (hopefully) our listeners.

Some Kind of Adhesive Live Mix (Excerpt)

Segment of Improvisation from Set Recording

This is one of several little magic moments from a recent performance with Nils Westdal. You can hear the Memory Man feedback come in at about twenty five seconds. Since we were limited to using laptops for this performance I was able to include the Memory Man as an external device as described in More Memory Man Madness. One of the good things about laptop sets are that you’re able to focus on improvising arrangements of the material, and freely experiment with processing.

Segment of Improvisation from Photo Exhibit

Excerpt of New Music

I’ve been working on some music composition and production for my upcoming album so I’ve not been doing as much experimenting with processing and sound design for the last few days. It’s mostly roughs at this stage, but here’s an excerpt from a new work.

This chunk of music happens to be the context for the arpeggio from the previous post and also contains a variation of the audio from Three Phase Oscillator.

Excerpt of Music from Title TBD

 

Blitzen Machine Excerpt #2

I have come close to finishing a track that I have been working on occasionally since September, tentatively titled Blitzen Machine after an ACB entry that contains a few bars of the original concept. What’s nice for me about exposing some of my techniques here is that afterward I have a resource to help me remember them. I have tons of archival recordings with sounds on them that I have little recollection of the process involved in making them. Perhaps another function of this blog can be to remind me what I did to make those sounds. Here’s an excerpt from Blitzen Machine that contains a little bit of the melody.

Blitzen Machine Excerpt

Transdimensional Bypass by ten72

Unearthed Music artist ten72 has completed a luscious album of sonic experiments titled Transdimensional Bypass (full length previews). This gapless collection of pieces has astonishing textural depth and sonic complexity; something that I’ve come to expect from ten72’s music, but surprising in this case since every bit of audio on the album was recorded on a mobile phone.

To make this a possibility ten72 has ingeniously used a profusion of processing to metamorphose the lofi, metallic sputterings of his mobile field recordings into an opulent dream scape of illusory audio. A single part of this anthology out of context is not the best way listen, but here’s Folds of Color to give you a tiny taste. The release will be available from Unearthed Music and major online distributors as a high quality download on January 8, 2009.

Folds of Color
from Transdimensional Bypass by ten72