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Sound a Day 010 – Korg Study 001 0:25 998 KB
For several years I’ve had the idea of doing a collection of ‘Korg Studies’ – short pieces that explore a particular sound or technique on the Korg MS-20 synth (and also the Korg mini-KP
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Download SAD009 – Alternative Comedy 3:16 7.49 MB 90 BPM Another Numerology piece. The voice is actually SAD003 played on Numerology’s built-in sampler, with lots of modulation going on. Strangely it sounds less like a computer and more like a real voice than before. The
Download Sound a Day 008 – Faustian Blur 1:52 4.28 MB This one’s a sketch of a nice little ambient electronica tune, reminiscent perhaps of early IDM, such as Black Dog. I used to make a lot of this stuff back when I
Download SAD007 – Brain Hurts 0:05 187 KB Samples tend to jump out and demand to be sampled, as happened while I was watching the Daily Show today. That’s Jon Stewart referring to Obama’s Nobel speech. I edited out some audience laughter in the middle. It Nauru Elegies: a portrait in sound and hypsographic architecture
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Download SAD005 – Cistern Crash 1:30 3.46MB Recording storms is one of the most obvious things to do with a portable audio recorder – I’ve recorded plenty with my Edirol R-09. Listening back to a 30 minute recording that I’d made of an incredibly loud
Download SAD004 – Collapso 4:07 9.9MB 120BPM Numerology is a program that should be much better known. Imagine Ableton Live in which the emphasis on audio looping is replaced by step sequencing and generative composition. I love its extensive modulation and randomisation options which encourage experimentation. Collapso
Download SAD003 – Ode to Tropical Skiing 1:32 1.8MB This is a text-to-speech rendering of John Forbes‘ wonderful poem, Ode to Tropical Skiing, which I understand was John Watermann‘s favourite poem. I made this as an intro to a performance at a lovely night called ‘Warm Words, Music and Dirigibles‘, as I
Download SAD002 – Fuck Right Off 0:24 963Kb Some of my earliest sound experiments involved grabbing bits of dialogue, music and sound effects from television using my trusty VHS recorder and creating collages of these sounds via pause button cassette edits on a ‘ghetto blaster’. After my performance at Don’t Look Gallery in October, in which I remixed a bunch of older works, I felt that it was time to focus on making new sounds for a while. I decided to make a sound a day, but soon got busy and fell out of the routine. I mentioned this to Nat Bates |
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