To operate a bit more sonically off the books and combine with the coolness of others, I recently created audiokayness (the phantom annex).
Lately, been having fun with Berna some more, using various recordings I've made played at varispeed to feed the Berna beast. Stuff like old 1950s tube intercom feedback. Stylophone and homemade zither run through the reverberant spring-loaded arm of a Luxo lamp via Nicholas Collins implementations of piezo contact mics/drivers.
To post the MP3s directly to the world o' Tumblr, I've kept these improvs [um, relatively] short. A mere 7 minutes each.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Closed Circuit Treadle
Closed Circuit Treadle
Droney & slow with the ebowed beater acoustic, some Casio SK-1 and a touch of nuevo Stylophone.
Names are the devil. Esp. with instrumental music. I might give something a name for all sorts of reasons, but the impulse of many listeners (myself included, when on the other end) is to take the name literally. Or literally enough not to hear things outside of the context of the dread name.
I read somewhere that an action painter whose last name rhymes with Wallach started using numbers to name his stuff. Tempting.
And some folks (one who rhymes with "la tea") go with names so long & whimsical that folks would rather forgo reading them and just suss things out on their own.
But the digital age offers almost all indulgences except that of a ridiculously long file name. And whatever convenient distillation of the really long name that ends up as the file name will no doubt obviate the too-long-to-bother-reading gambit.
Tho' I will offer here the alternate overly long & oblique title of this humble stretch of soundlike music/music-ish sound: The Closed Circuit Treadle Entirely Unseen & Cast Iron & Heretofore Unspoken Of Except As Woven Into The Cold Air The Greenest Grass Conceals Via Those Unclasped Vectors Of The Lost AlChemist Who Sought Uni & Roy But Found Only The Cricket's Face. There, something to read while listening.
Droney & slow with the ebowed beater acoustic, some Casio SK-1 and a touch of nuevo Stylophone.
Names are the devil. Esp. with instrumental music. I might give something a name for all sorts of reasons, but the impulse of many listeners (myself included, when on the other end) is to take the name literally. Or literally enough not to hear things outside of the context of the dread name.
I read somewhere that an action painter whose last name rhymes with Wallach started using numbers to name his stuff. Tempting.
And some folks (one who rhymes with "la tea") go with names so long & whimsical that folks would rather forgo reading them and just suss things out on their own.
But the digital age offers almost all indulgences except that of a ridiculously long file name. And whatever convenient distillation of the really long name that ends up as the file name will no doubt obviate the too-long-to-bother-reading gambit.
Tho' I will offer here the alternate overly long & oblique title of this humble stretch of soundlike music/music-ish sound: The Closed Circuit Treadle Entirely Unseen & Cast Iron & Heretofore Unspoken Of Except As Woven Into The Cold Air The Greenest Grass Conceals Via Those Unclasped Vectors Of The Lost AlChemist Who Sought Uni & Roy But Found Only The Cricket's Face. There, something to read while listening.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
15 Years Ago Redux
15 Years Ago Redux
One fun sideline has beenplaying working goofing with Berna, a virtual 1950s electronic music laboratory created in software.
I don't really use the sundry oscillators, tape decks etc. as the actual units would've been used back in the day. No assiduous sound building or manipulations of the patient lab coat variety.
Just a lot of real time toying with oscillators etc. to "tape" and fun with varispeed playback of the recordings with yet more of the above goofage.
For extra art points, this piece has some fractured versification I hatched out, read & recorded that's looping with the rest.
One fun sideline has been
I don't really use the sundry oscillators, tape decks etc. as the actual units would've been used back in the day. No assiduous sound building or manipulations of the patient lab coat variety.
Just a lot of real time toying with oscillators etc. to "tape" and fun with varispeed playback of the recordings with yet more of the above goofage.
For extra art points, this piece has some fractured versification I hatched out, read & recorded that's looping with the rest.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Daylily Fade
Daylily Fade
Your basic instrumental for acoustic guitar, bass and free range homebrew oscillators.
May someday post pics or other show & tell nonsense about the oscillators. An EE guru/compatriot sent me diagrams many years ago. Maybe his design or taken from data sheets or some of both. Meant as goofy LFOs but somewhat tweaked to allow for audio range play.
Your basic instrumental for acoustic guitar, bass and free range homebrew oscillators.
May someday post pics or other show & tell nonsense about the oscillators. An EE guru/compatriot sent me diagrams many years ago. Maybe his design or taken from data sheets or some of both. Meant as goofy LFOs but somewhat tweaked to allow for audio range play.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Btawak Toglflik
Btawak Toglflik
What happens when a really old beat up thrift store acoustic guitar and some DIY oscillators (built years ago and summarily forgotten) are pulled out of storage and into play? This happens. This.
I forget the chips & particulars of the oscillators, but one accepts something like amplitude and frequency modulation from the other two. With no fancy routing or modular outboard stuff, just riding the cheap on/off toggles on the modulators and various knobs to engender variation.
What happens when a really old beat up thrift store acoustic guitar and some DIY oscillators (built years ago and summarily forgotten) are pulled out of storage and into play? This happens. This.
I forget the chips & particulars of the oscillators, but one accepts something like amplitude and frequency modulation from the other two. With no fancy routing or modular outboard stuff, just riding the cheap on/off toggles on the modulators and various knobs to engender variation.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Gone
Gone
Songish & songlike, being songoid. Let's just call it a song. With very few lyrics. Not a chant. Tho' chantlike. No, a songlike song.
Like 33rd Floor, features the Kay acoustic guitar tuned to something resembling DADGAD except a semitone lower (C#G#C#F#G#C#). And voices, for that songlike song quality. And other usual suspects like feedback from the Dora the Exp. Karaoke Cassette Player and the Realistic Electronic Reverb. The Ashbory Bass. Oh, and a newcomer, the Stylophone.
(And now there's a music video.)
Songish & songlike, being songoid. Let's just call it a song. With very few lyrics. Not a chant. Tho' chantlike. No, a songlike song.
Like 33rd Floor, features the Kay acoustic guitar tuned to something resembling DADGAD except a semitone lower (C#G#C#F#G#C#). And voices, for that songlike song quality. And other usual suspects like feedback from the Dora the Exp. Karaoke Cassette Player and the Realistic Electronic Reverb. The Ashbory Bass. Oh, and a newcomer, the Stylophone.
(And now there's a music video.)
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