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Nice to See You by No More Twist (2008)
No More Twist is a new duo of Polly Moller and I. We played this improvised set live on KFJC on 17 July 2008. She was on flute(s) and noisemakers and I played a live sampling application (written in SuperCollider). We were featured [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joystick Intermezzo Joystick Intermezzo (2008)
All of my SuperCollider pieces require several silent seconds to clear existing memory, pre-compute data and load joystick drivers. I find it helpful in many circumstances to play short tape pieces as intermezzos while other, longer pieces, get ready to play. This particular one is designed to be used between [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PhreakingPhreaking (2008)
I wrote this piece for BrumCon 07. The con was sponsored by our local 2600 group, so I decided to use telephone in-line signaling codes as source materials. I spent a lot of time readin up on phone phreaking, which was just so completely cool. I never did it as a kid [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shot
Every other week, I have to give myself an injection of testosterone. I find it really hard to actually pierce my flesh with a needle. It’s like stabbing myself. At the same time, having testosterone in my body is crucial to my identity.
About a month ago, I used a small digital camera and apple’s photobooth [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts #27: Gil Thorp
Commissioned and titled by Josh Fruhlinger. (2007)
Josh gave me the title before I started the piece. Gil Thorp is the name of a surreal American newspaper comic which is supposed to be about high school sports. Josh runs a blog discussing newspaper comics, called the Comics Curmudgeon.
I recorded (British) football from my TV, which included [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clapping (2008)
I used my cell phone to record Nicole clapping inside the cathedral in Breda, the Netherlands. There was an exceptionally long echo on her clap.
I used Audacity to snip out the impulse response from the recording and convolved it several times with the entire recording, using Sound Hack. My cell phone, unsurprisingly emphasizes high frequencies, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website She’s Not There (2008) She’s Not There (2008)
I picked up my sousaphone this afternoon, with the idea that I could improve my chops and work out some angst. As I lifted it, the spit valve fell off. As I played it, several other bits rattled loose. Alas. So I put the headphone part of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You a Feminist (Part 2) Are You a Feminist (Part 2) (2007)
I started making recordings for this piece well before I made the piece, when I recorded two women in Paris answering the question “Est-que ce tu es une feministe? Pourquoi ou pourquoi pas?” (Are you a feminist? Why or why not?) Then, uncertain how to proceed with the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You a Feminist (Part 1) Are You a Feminist (Part 1) (2007)
I started making recordings for this piece well before I made the piece, when I recorded two women in Paris answering the question “Est-que ce tu es une feministe? Pourquoi ou pourquoi pas?” (Are you a feminist? Why or why not?) Then, uncertain how to proceed with the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live at the 1510 Performance Space Live at the 1510 Performance Space (2008)
Les HUTCHINS and Matt DAVIGNON
Live improvisation recorded at the 1510 Performance space in Oakland, California on 5 February 2008.
I played an Evenfall Minimodular synthesizer, looped with a SuperCollider program. Matt played a bunch of pedals and cool little boxes.
Recording by Clyde NIESEN
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Commissioned and titled by Devin Hurd
I made this piece several weeks ago and I’m afraid that my methods have left my memory. It is made with an MOTM analog synthesizer.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #24 College PromoShorts: #24 For College Promo (2007)Commissioned and titled by Jean Sirius, who is using it for a video sound track.I wanted to something that started out collegiate, but got more playful further in. The opening is square waves, which are pulse-width modulated and slightly frequency modulated. While I was recording them, my [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #22 For Benjamin BrittenShorts: #22 For Benjamin Britten (2007)Commissioned and titled by Michael Strickland (aka sfmike)Mike gave me the title before I wrote the piece. I spent a lot of time thinking about what to do with this. This last year, I learned that the Phillips Corporation had intended to get Britten to do the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #21 Anarchy and RaptureShorts: #21 Anarchy and Rapture (2007)Commissioned and titled by Polly Moller in memory of Leigh Ann Hussey, who died tragically in a motorcycle accident on May 16, 2006.I didn’t ever meet Leigh Ann, but I typed her name into google and found a memorial. It was clear right away that I would have liked [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #20 Poodleface BirthdayShorts: #20 Poodleface Birthday (2007)Commissioned by Graham Coleman in honor of Rob’s birthday. Happy Birthday Rob!I made this piece in BEA 5 in Sonology in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. I was hung over (after playing tuba the night before) and up at an extremely early hour because my dog had an early [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #19 Spin cyclesShorts: #19 Spin cycles (2007)Commissioned and titled by Nick Fox-Gieg.I made this piece with idea of making it ballet-like, but it ended up a different kind of dance-y. I controlled the rhythm with an LFO pulse wave, controlled by another LFO pulse wave. In the last section, there is also an envelope on [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #18 lizardpointsShorts: #18 lizardpoints (2007)Commissioned and titled by Travis Johns.I made this piece with an MOTM synthesizer. For some reason, I forgot to write down what patch I used, but I remember that it involved sending pulses through the low pass filter with the Q turned all the way up.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #17 linea punteggiataShorts: #17 linea punteggiata (2007)Commissioned and titled by Alan Anzalone.This piece was made using a morse code translator from the internet. Some of the sounds come from a file format conversion that failed to work correctly. The rest are from my MOTM analog synthesizer.I was inspired to make a piece using morse code [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #16 Delaware Covered in Red VelvetShorts: #16 Delaware Covered in Red Velvet (2007)Commissioned and titled by Matt Davignon.This piece was created with my MOTM synthesizer. I took a couple of the oscillators and ring modulated them and AM modulated them. I sent the ring modulation to a high pass filter, the AM to a low pass filter [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #15 Space CorridorShorts: #15 Space Corridor (2007)Commissioned and titled by Graham Coleman.I made this pieace in the BEA 5 lab at Sonology at the Royal Conservaory in The Hague, Netherlands. This uses MIDI-controlled analog oscillators and the primary sound source. My friend Nick Fox-Gieg set up the MIDI control from his laptop and helped [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #14 ExodusShorts: #14 Exodus (2007)Commissioned and titled by Sean Johnson.This was created with a MOTM modular synthesizer. The tones were created with three pulse wave oscillators, all of which were pulse wave modulating each other. Their output was fed through a low pass filter and bandpass filter. the output of those filters [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #13 ContactShorts: #13 Contact (2007)Commissioned and titled by Sean Johnson.It was created in the BEA 5 lab in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. That lab is a room full of a giant voltage controlled synthesizer. The basis for all the sounds in this piece came from a comparitor. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ColumboShorts: #12 Columbo (2007)Titled and commissioned by Jascha Narveson.I did this with my synthesizer, running pulsewaves through a logic gate and then through a low pass filter. I’ve only really used the logic gate in a piece once before, since I’m not quite sure what it’s useful for, but it does make very [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Agree With TShorts: #11 I Agree With T (2007)Titled and commissioned by Timanna Bennett.The sounds here were made on my synthesizer. I used a bunch of square waves which have pulse width modulation. This can give a voice-like timbre sometimes. I pass these throught a low pass filter and then a high pass [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts #10 Meditation BustleShorts #10 Meditation Bustle (2007)Titled and commissioned by Jen Savage.As I was making this, I recalled that I had a file on my computer which was Jen Savage talking. I’d asked years ago if I could make it into a piece, but hadn’t had a clear idea of what to do with it. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorts: #9 The Wonder That Is DanielShorts: #9 The Wonder That Is Daniel (2007)Titled and commissioned by Polly Moller for Daniel Magazin’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Daniel!I made this piece on a MOTM by sending a sawtooth wave through a sub octave mutltiplexer and then through my Sherman Filter Bank. I got the high parts by plugging something into the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Short Attention Span: #3 SproingShort Attention Span: #3 Sproing (2007)Continuing to embrace rather than fight my short attention span, here is the third one in the series.This one was made with a MOTM analog synthesizer controlling a Sherman filter bank. The source sounds where ticks of white noise modulated with some FM sounds.I would not characterize the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Short Attention Span: #2 GlitchShort Attention Span: #2 Glitch (2007)Continuing to embrace rather than fight my short attention span, here is the second one in the series.The sounds were generated in the BEA 5 lab in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands in The Hague. There were mixed with a remote-controlled macmini running Ardour and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Short Attention Span: #1 BuildupShort Attention Span: #1 Buildup (2007)Rather than fight my short attention span, I’ve decided to embrace it and do a series of really short works. This is the first in the series.The sounds were recorded in the massive analog synthesizer in BEA 5 in Sonology, in the Royal Conservatory, in The Hague, the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music for Panic AttacksMusic for Panic Attacks (2006)Over the summer, I was having problems with anxiety. I noticed that sometimes, if I exposed myself to stressful sounds, they would sometimes leave me feeling relaxed at the end, rather than more agitated. I set out to make something that would stress me into relaxation in this [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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