plundr

A small bit of looping loveliness. I started experimenting with Logic’s Ultrabeat percussion sequencer and this is what came about. All these sounds are pieces that I tried to place in my last composition Xolotl but decided to leave out for one reason or another.

Untitled (2:01)

I have no idea how this small piece came about. It’s another of these experiments that I find laying about my hard drive and decide to upload here.

Xolotl (4.33)

This is my submission for Electroacoustics class at school. I’m pretty sure I’ve finished with it now, maybe I’ll make a few adjustments before the deadline on Tuesday. Xolotl has a story behind it but I don’t really have enough space to go into it now. It’s taken me 900 words to write about it in the contextualising essay we’ve gotta hand it too. Maybe I’ll upload the essay when that’s done, for anyone who’s interested. Enjoy.

Yeah, so for anyone who’s missed it, it’s my end of year exhibition tomorrow and the idea is that I’ve recorded 10 journeys that I make as a commuter regularly around London. I’ve then put each of these recordings on its own separate mp3 player that I will be giving out at the exhibition. The idea behind the piece is that commuters who turn to mp3 players whilst travelling are closing their ears to the sounds of the environment around them, due to the use of headphones and music, so they can use my mp3 players to reengage with the sounds they’d usually miss.

So today’s upload is of all the 10 recordings that I made layered to play all at the same time. Of course in the exhibition the listener will only hear one of the recordings at any one time but I thought this would be interesting.

study #99

Okay, so I sat down with Gleetchlab 3.0 this morning, and tried out a few of its new features. The demo version only runs for 8 minutes before cutting out, so I didn’t have a chance to get anything sorted, this was just improvisation.

From what I can tell in the 5 minutes I played around inside it it’s a really nice and well needed upgrade. It has some great new features, such as feedback controls, randomized playback of samples (2.0 had this but its a better this time), and a nice new step-sequencer downsampling/delay effect. Lovely stuff and definitely worth the new $10 price tag, and it works a heck of a lot better on my intel Mac than 2.0 did.

I was doing more recording today on the London public transport system as part of my sounds_of_the_city.mp3 piece for the end of year show and whilst traveling from Liverpool Street to King’s Cross a guy got on the train with a guitar and started to play Seal’s Kiss From a Rose. Here’s the recording of it made with my new Microphone Madness binaural microphones running into my Edirol. I wasn’t that close, and the noise from the tube drowns him out a little but you get the idea.

We were asked to do a 30 second composition for Electroacoustics class at school. The only limitation (apart from the time limit) was that we could only use four sounds which each have one of the four descriptions; pulse, sustained, glissando and noise. I wasn’t too happy with the result, but hey, it got one good comment so I decided to upload it here.