And now, a NEW PIECE, free until September 1st

Just finished my latest piece - an hour-long instrumental-and-choral-samples, microtonal, structured, improvised, algorithmic, piece.  It's called "The Search for Mistletoe Mine," and you can download it from this website until Sept 1 for free.  The mp3 and the program notes are both there.  Hope you enjoy it!  The current isolation seems to be encouraging me and my friends to make longer works.  Here's my contribution to that.

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/uNcbV2o3Cg

Hope you like it!

An Oldie, but a Goodie....

Daniel Corral, friend in LA, recently found this interview I did with James Tenney, back in 1987, at the New Music America festival in Philadelphia.  We did the interview in his hotel room, while Chinese New Year was exploding in the streets around us.  I'd totally forgotten that the I'd done this interview - I might have done it for the ABC, or for 3MBS or 3PBS, I can't remember now.  But Philip Blackburn, from Innova records, posted it to the web for people to hear, so here it is.

https://soundcloud.com/innovadotmu/james-tenney

Listening back, I'm pretty pleased with it.  Usually, when I listen to old interviews, I'm cringing in anticipation of having said something really dumb, but this one seems quite good - Jim's answers are clear, concise and to the point.  Worth a listen after 33 years!

Jeremy Yeo and Friends, live (sort of) from Singapore

Jeremy Yeo, graduate from our Masters program at Box Hill, did a concert in Singapore recently, and in the concert he included videos of me, and other folks from Box Hill 2 years ago - Ren Walters, Troy Rainbow, Rebecca Hart and Max Posthoorn.  Here's a link to the video.  It's a thrill to be able to collaborate with Jeremy and his Singaporean friends.  They look like a dynamite group.  Maybe someday, when international travel is possible again, we'll be able to do something live.  For the moment though, this video is pretty pleasing.

Thanks Jeremy for supplying this.  MUCH appreciated.

Two New Reviews in Soundbytes

Last month's Soundbytes came out and I've got two reviews in it.  

First up is a review of a lovely sound modifyer from Sugarbytes.  This is called Looperator, and it will allow you to modify a single sound source in wondrous and complex ways.  It's for Mac, PC and iOS, and for iOS, since it's an AUv3 plugin, you can also have multiple instances of it, if you have a compatible framework, such as Cubasis or apeMatrix or AUM.

https://soundbytesmag.net/music-for-tablets-looperator-for-ipad-also-for-pc-and-mac/

The second review is mostly about Surge, a FREE microtonal plugin synth for PC, or Mac.  It's a wonderful synth, with lots of power to make all sorts of crunchy sounds.  Also mentioned in the review are two new beta synths by the same folks, Tuning Workbench Synth, and a microtonal capable version of Dexed, the DX7 clone.  Both free, and both with microtonality baked in by Jacky Ligon.  By the way, the newer versions of these last two now work beautifully in the VST3 environment, so ignore the last paragraph of my review.  The Tuning Workbench Synth also allows you to expand or compress the range of any scale to any degree.  This is a capability that hasn't been this easily available before.  I can see that there might be a whole new ccategory of tunings that could result from this.

https://soundbytesmag.net/freebies-of-the-month-surge-and-others/

Enjoy!