‘Sometimes, cutting into the present releases the future’
A ‘proof of concept’ exploration into electronic ‘laminal improv’.
Dedicated to Phil ’sowari’ Durrant, a musical mentor and traveler in the spaces between Electroacoustic, Jazz, microsound, and lowercase musical performance and electronic sound designs.
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FWIW, these were my initial (as in the same hour it was purchased) ’jams’ using the AAS modeled guitar plug-in (click on ‘Player’ link following playlist):
01 Strum2C (+ Guitar Rig 3)
02 Strm2C Combo (same as above but as a harmonized duo)
03 Strum Electric 1 (Guitar Rig + Acoustic Feedback Simulator)
04 Strum Augustus 1C (a long form solo ‘chordal jam’ in which I played against myself via Expert Sleeper’s ‘Augustus’ Echo’ plug-in). A hazy paraphrase? of the ‘drifting’ style of Pat Metheny’s ‘New Chautauqua’ album.
Granular beats meet avant garde noises.
‘…I intended to produce a language that situates itself between the musical and the dramatic field. The employment of elements of reality allow me to tell a history, or allow the listener to create images, since the montages propose ambiguities…’ (Luc Ferrari)
Radio waves arrive wounded and dead (but ‘undead’) in my high desert front yard. Divorced of their original missions, leaving me only to interpolate the noise back into signls that at least amuse.
A ’series’ of studies dedicated to the industrial musique concrete of Zoviet France. It’s a long playlist, so I have set it up so each time you use your browser ‘reload’, the order changes.
‘I came to the studio to make noises speak, I stumbled onto music’ (Pierre Schaeffer 1998)
Electroacoustic noise sextet in a virtual cistern.
Fingers touching
Breath as one
Hearts in rhythm
We greet the sun
Dedicated to a ‘first love’ (synth and drum machine)…ballads meant for the ‘live dubbed’ recitation/enumeration of your favorite love poems and/or porn spam.
Don’t forget the scented candles!
The recipe is a bowl of tricks that delivers hot stewed sample stock and sweet granular percussives, synthesized into a liquid reaction of pulverant character. Scintillating and teeth gnashing, best enjoyed whilst burning in hell!
Another entry in the ongoing ‘Mouse On Merz’ series. Listening back, funny how those 80’s new age electronic music CD’s (ala Peter Baumann’s ‘Private Music’ label) come back to haunt my sonic choices in certain cases. But cool 
(Experimental tracks with the restriction of ‘nature’ recordings as sole source of instruments)
‘Back To The Future Nature’ Player
Further ‘applied electronic sciences’. Studies in a conceptual audio form of the Japanese aesthetic ‘Wabi Sabi’. As in any ‘true’ Wabi Sabi presentation, sometimes the ’source’ shows through, sometimes not. It is the in-between of the ’show’ and the ‘not show’ I like to play
“The words wabi and sabi do not translate easily. Wabi originally referred to the loneliness of living in nature, remote from society; sabi meant “chill”, “lean” or “withered”. Around the 14th century these meanings began to change, taking on more positive connotations.[1] Wabi now connotes rustic simplicity, freshness or quietness, and can be applied to both natural and human-made objects, or understated elegance. It can also refer to quirks and anomalies arising from the process of construction, which add uniqueness and elegance to the object. Sabi is beauty or serenity that comes with age, when the life of the object and its impermanence are evidenced in its patina and wear, or in any visible repairs.
From an engineering or design point of view, “wabi” may be interpreted as the imperfect quality of any object, due to inevitable limitations in design and construction/manufacture especially with respect to unpredictable or changing usage conditions; then “sabi” could be interpreted as the aspect of imperfect reliability, or limited mortality of any object, hence the etymological connection with the Japanese word sabi, to rust.”
‘The History of Art is simply a history of getting rid of the ugly, by entering into it, and using it.’ (John Cage)
Error as compositional element.
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Further Fictions. A ‘made to measure’ collection of variations on a set of ‘aural memes’. For sounding out mental narratives and assisted imaginary ’B’ movie visualizations.
(part of an ongoing series of ’stream of consciousness’ creative sessions)
A nod to Aphex Twin’s seminal ‘Selected Ambient Works 85-92′ ala ‘Loopy C’!
Unedited/unmastered ’study’ sessions using only the ‘Omnisphere Preview Sample Pack’ (contest for Spectrasonic users).
Sorta turned into a glitchy homage? to early Tangerine Dream, Steve Reich, and Autechre (the ‘glitchy’ part)…sorta 
Again ’studies’ as such, but perhaps suitable for the kind of late night journeys/activities associated with such albums as TD’s ‘Phaedra’ and Reich’s “Music For 18 Musicians’. And then there is still the contest…
The adventures of ‘ODM’, a dramatic narrative of old machines in bad movies (or is that bad machines in old movies?). Work in progress.
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Two ‘albums’ of interpretations of the writings of Robert P. Gibson, and his experiences of friends, war, and a dog.
Above image, a ‘rubbing’ by unidentified? artist found on the internet.
Studies in ring, resonance, and subsonic tones. Again, a special thanks to ‘Bernd Keil’ for ’snap’ designs.
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Further studies pertaining to an ongoing ‘Merz On Mars’ project. Special thanks to ’sonictwist’ and ‘Bernd Keil‘ for their inspirational instrument designs as found in the NI Reaktor User Library
Further ‘Merz On Mars track can be found within this player’s sub-playlists:
Avant Garde Electronics Master Player
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Two of ‘the three’ for a future trio form…two tracks, minus the third actor. The 3rd player in this ‘audio drama’? Perhaps a processed vox, a ‘dub bass, or whales! (seriously, whales are awesome ‘dubbers’. Not sure yet…but here as a duo for your perusal.
Thanks (as always) to ‘Bernd Keil’ for his ‘Loki’ series of Reaktor ensemble studies.
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Just for fun, some ‘takes’ on Sonic Couture’s latest addition to Kontakt expansions + one Reaktor ‘databent’ overdub. A ‘B’ movie soundtrack? or just a…
A ‘must have’ addition for all Kontakt users, check out there link (in above text)
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