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Electronics

 

Sometimes I make music with electronics (as opposed to electrically amplified physical instruments). Excerpts 1 and 2 are taken from a recent commission by the Innova music label to create a composition using a piece of online software called the Virtual Rhythmicon. It's based on Henry Cowell and Leon Theremin's early electronic instrument the Rhythmicon. Cowell's voice comes from a 1961 public radio broadcast of his musical autobiography. The full track as well as the album are available from the iTunes store.

 

The next two tracks were made for a Future Perfect event in Minneapolis. Pulses is based on the Pulses sections of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, and Waves remixes that source material and adds a circuit-bent Speak-n-Spell I made. Stutter is in a similar vein.

 

The remaining 17 tracks are from a direct-to-tape session processing line noise through loops and filters, made with Tetsu Kondo. Doesn't sound fun? I still kinda like it and anyway it's free.

MP3 links for download:


This Time I Want Them All

 

Pulses

Waves

Stutter

 

Noise:

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14 | 15 | 16 | 17

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