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 Explorations in Sound, Vol 3: Music Of Sound is the a compilation of sound works inspired by the tones, drones and rhythms of everyday life. Drawing on the ideas of Pierre Schaeffers' Musique Concrète movement, contributing artists were invited to respond to the natural tones and rhythms in raw acoustic or constructed sound and field recordings. Inherent musical and rhythmic motifs were then developed through live performance, orchestration, or studio manipulation. What results is an innovative and eclectic set of tracks from invited international artists known for their work in this field. It is the fourth in the Furthernoise.org series of high quality mp3 net releases curated by Roger Mills and free to download from the site with print and fold sleeve. Original cover artwork for this release is by Femke de Jong. The albums tracks will also be play listed in audio player over the coming weeks, so stay tuned ! Download the entire release including artwork as a zip file. Artist Statements. Rubber Bands - Solange Kershaw This virtual orchestra draws its inspiration from the everyday rubber band. This humble object is picked, stretched, bowed, flicked and finally relentlessly morphed with all the possibilities computer processing algorithms offer, until only close listening will detect the traces of its original provenance. The result, with its ripples and waves, is unexpectedly evocative, journeying into an almost aquatic world. Website Inside My Bike - Dithernoise I wanted to experiment with some unusual sounds and I was intrigued by the idea of tapping into structural noises, rather than recording airborne sounds. I decided to record a bicycles metal frame with two contact microphones, hoping to obtain a recording of two channels with tiny time delay differences between them. Playing back over a 3 channel surround sound configuration, I processed the sound tracks to artificially add increasingly time delay between the channels. As you can hear the tracks initially start in sync but you will hear the familiar bell of a bicycle slowing down and as milliseconds of delay are added. Website Enclosure - Thanos Chrysakis Enclosure is a composition created from two recordings. The first, was taken from Mascleta, an event that takes place every summer in Alicante, Spain. It's a ritual firework display and acoustically reminiscent of a battlefield which creates different kinds of audio layers and frequencies with an intense volume that can be heard and sensed explicitly by the body. It can be conceived as an audio performance with black powder. As the acoustic energy can't escape that easily from the surrounding buildings, the resonating properties of the sounds are felt deeply upon the skin. The second section is based on recordings I made in a cafe in Milan in November 2004 and some sequenced noise material that I found in the darkness of my hard drives. Website Silent Landscapes No.4 (Extract) - Rob Curgenven Stark, crisp and meticulously layered vignettes from Australia's arid interior interrogate recordings from the forests of Eastern Germany. Unprocessed layers formed by the slow phasing of an Aeolian (wind-driven) “musical fence” in Central Queensland, recorded direct to DAT in temperatures reaching 42 Celsius are juxtaposed with an untreated field recording of seven people “cleaning” a forest 80km east of Berlin. Website Live at Interplay 2007- Iris Garrelfs & Douglas Benford. An extract from the London leg of Sprawl's Interplay tour in 2007 at the Spitz, in which Iris Garrelfs processes real time recordings whilst Douglas Benford reaches into his sound files and manipulates field recordings from the coast and intermittent London tube fragments. A rare collaboration of delicate fractured aural shapes. Iris Garrelfs Douglas Benford Don't Fear the Reaper - Derek Morton Simply stated, stuff happens beyond coincidence. It bubbles up and disappears before y/our eyes. If you let it, a shadow can sneak up then clobber you over the head. Grab a costume, wear it and subvert the cause you joined the day prior. Don't believe these words. Don't believe these sounds. But Believe the Reaper. (audio recorded on Zoom H4 using Sony Vegas with a plethora of UAD-1 plugins to divine the outcome) Website Silver Traffic - Gail Priest Silver Traffic is constructed purely from field recordings. While working on the Circadian Rhythms project, I became increasingly frustrated that cars are the ever present underscoring of Sydney’s aural environment. To overcome the barrage of dirty noise that is traffic I squeezed out different frequencies, played with harmonies and muddled with effects in an attempt to make the cars sing. If you listen closely you might just hear my dog singing too. Website Listening Shell - Lea Piontek This sound piece was written for an object called the "Listening Shell" designed by the English stage designer Dody Nash.The object has the shape of a white spike with a round end, akin to a needle.The object's head is hollow for people to sit in and listen to the object's sounds and music. The piece narrates some form of drama played out between two types of voices. We seem to witness a battle between the “mean voice” of the beginning and the “happy voice” of the end of the piece. The happy voice, despite the evidence of joy through laughters is more and more subverted into sinister sounds, opening up an entire field of interpretation to the listener to find out why this is. Is the Listening Shell not a “nice” object after all? It has a long, sharp ending. A sign of brutality? Or are the two voices kept together in the body of the shell, trapped, circulating, and do not harmonise? Why the sad harmonies? Sound sources: Vocal recordings, Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, treated humming of gas heater, editing software: Adobe Audition. A Bell Struck Fumblingly Vanishes - John Kannenberg Three field recordings from Chicago (a steam heat radiator in my apartment, an outdoor sprinkler system, and workers sweeping the sidewalk beneath a train station) and one from Milwaukee (a vintage 1950s doorbell) inspired this piece about impermanence and transition. The title is from an 18th century haiku by Yosano Buson. Website Still Be Here (fantasia for strings and angle grinder) - Phil Hargreaves Here we are in the European Capital of Culture. It seems as though every parasite in the country is digging under the pavements for money - if only we'd known it was there all along. Meanwhile, when the circus leaves town, we'll still be here to clear up the elephant droppings. Isla Cameron: violin & viola, Phil Hargreaves: cello & sound manipulation. Field recordings are of building works in Liverpool City Centre, March 2008. Website Stealth Pathless - Rebecca Mills "Stealth Pathless" is a scrutinization of a sound that's surrounded me for a long time, yet it's so subtle that I only recently became aware of it. The source is a lamppost in Washington, DC....the electricity emits an odd drone that sounds constant when you first listen, but upon more careful listening you can hear a bit of a rhythm being generated. You can also hear an occasional car driving by, and pedestrians' footsteps. This is a more minimal piece than what I normally do, but I liked the sound of it that way. Website Review by
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