Live Performance at Liquid Architecture 10 Dec 2021 Melbourne - 2 excerpts

On Friday 10 December at Kaleidoscope Nightclub in Melbourne, as part of Liquid Architecture's Melbourne Music Week, I gave a live performance on Lenovo Laptop and iPad.  Catherine Schieve, bless her little cotton socks, was there, and made two videos of the piece.  The first is 6:01 long, the second is 4:21 long.  The sound came out very well (and it's an iPhone video!).  You might enjoy these.

Three Excerpts to Accompany an Interview with Kraig Grady

I did an interview with Kraig Grady recently for Xenharmonikon.  He asked for some music excerpts to accompany the interview.  So here are three excerpts, one from an older piece "for Charlemagne Palestine" and two from more recent pieces "The Search for Mistletoe Mine" (2020) and "In Memoriam Harold Budd" (2020).  Program Notes accompany the pieces.

for Charlemagne Palestine was my first drone piece that exploited the acoustic phenomenon of beating produced by very closely tuned electronic tones. It was made for my friend Charlemagne Palestine, whose four day long electronic music/dance/live-in performance at the Theatre Vanguard, in Los Angeles was a complete inspiration for me.  Near the end of the piece, a small surrealist poem I found in a dream is read, in response to the mood created by the electronic tones. The piece was made on the CEMS Moog System at the State University of New York at Albany in the Summer of 1973.  This is an excerpt of the first five minutes of the piece.

Here's a set of program notes for "The Search for Mistletoe Mine."

And here's a program note for "In Memoriam Harold Budd."

Five New Reviews in Soundbytesmag.net in November

The November Soundbytesmag.net has just come out.  In an abundance of new material, I have FIVE articles in this issue:

First up is a review of UniChannel from SounDevice Digital. A very nice and versatile channel-strip. https://soundbytesmag.net/producers-toolbox-nov-2021/

An Audio-to-Midi converter for iPad is next up.  Very useful device for exploring the pitch implications of found material.

https://soundbytesmag.net/music-for-tablets-a2m-audio-to-midi-app/

Music for Tablets - A2M Audio-to-Midi App

Next is a review of samples made of Bart Hopkin's Lamellophones, and a rather extensive interview with him.  Quite enjoyable and the samples are luscious.

https://soundbytesmag.net/review-lamellophones-hopkin-instrumentarium-from-sound-iron/

Review: Lamellophones: Hopkin Instrumentarium from Sound Iron

https://soundbytesmag.net/interview-with-instrument-inventor-builder-bart-hopkin/

Interview with Instrument Inventor Builder Bart Hopkin

Finally, a review of NEST, a new algorithmic toolbox from Sugar-Bytes.  Quite a wonderful and complex system.

https://soundbytesmag.net/review-nest-from-sugar-bytes/

Review: Nest from Sugar Bytes

Enjoy!

Concert on 31 Oct in Paris

On 31 October 2021 was a concert at the Acousmonium at Paris Radio.  As part of that concert (a series of 5 concerts), my piece "Darshan with a Pelican: Multiplicities" was performed.  I would have performed the piece live - (5 channels, with each channel routed to 8 loudspeakers) - but COVID intervened, and so Jules Negrier performed the piece instead.  Here's a photo of the concert hall:

And here's the program booklet for the two days:

https://inagrm.com/fr/showcase/open-agenda/84510398/akousma-x-presences-electronique-3031-octobre-2021

Hope you enjoy the booklet and the concert hall photo.  

Soundbytes Reviews May 2021

Four articles in Soundbytes this month ( soundbytesmag.net ) with five things reviewed:

https://soundbytesmag.net/review-mts-esp-free-and-suite/

First up, an in-depth review of the brand new MTS-ESP software from OddSound. (shown above)  This is a really wonderful new program that promises to change the way microtonality is done on computers.  WELL worth checking out.

https://soundbytesmag.net/review-modern-harpejji-from-impact-soundworks-and-ample-china-zheng-from-amplesound/

Two new sampled string instruments.  One new, one ancient.  Both sound beautiful.

https://soundbytesmag.net/music-for-tablets-uvi-sparkverb-for-ipad-and-iphone/

UVIs wonderful Sparkverb is now available for iPad and iPhone. Beautiful sustaining reverbs!

https://soundbytesmag.net/freebie-of-the-month-upisketch2/

And finally, a realization of Xenakis' UPIC system - UPISketch2 from the European University Cyprus and the Centre Iannis Xenakis.  A lot of fun with samples and sound-stretching and combining sounds to get maximum sonic SKRONK.

Enjoy!