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Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
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Along the War Avenue of Honour
Poem by Francis Duggan
Poem selected and recited by Bethan Mathis
Music composed by Chris Vaisvil
Selected for the ANDREAS N°15 – 14-18 First World War – FRACTION STUDIO COMPILATION
Along The War Avenue Of Honour
Along the war Avenue of Honour a plaque to a dead soldier nailed to every tree
Brave young men who died in battle their reward for their bravery
They died in the war said to end all wars in the killing fields of World war one
But many wars since and far too many bloody battles and peace in the World not yet won.
Wars started by silly ageing men who send the young for them to die
Ageing men who themselves will die of old age and their twilight years they will enjoy,
ageing males heroes of their people we honour cowards as heroes one might say
The young men will go to war for them and the young men with their young lives pay.
The war supposed to end all wars long over almost nine decades since have gone by
But many wars have been fought since then and war pilots drop their big bombs from the night sky
But suppose that’s what will always happen when we give all of our power away
To silly and ageing male war men who with hair dyes cover their gray.
Along the war avenue of honour long dead soldiers names on every tree
Young noble men who died in battle far from homeland and family
In what was to be the war to end all wars yet we don’t have much wisdom to show
For the loss of so many fine young men well over eight decades ago.
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Saturday, May 25th, 2013
Walk a Clear Path is a derivative piece created by taking 18 tracks from the 5/24/2013 event, extracting midi pitches & velocity, manipulating the midi data, and assigning each of the 18 tracks to an instance of absynth 5 tuned to 11 edo.
Each instance of absynth had a different patch tweaked or mutated in some fashion. I also used Sonar’s tempo programing ability to manipulate the temporal execution of the midi data.
Thanks to Paul H. Muller, Jeff Duke, Paul Mimlitsch, Benjamin Smith, James Bailey, Roger Sundström, Norbert Oldani, Jim Goodin, Steve Layton, Shane Cadman – www.sound-in.org
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 11 edo, aleatoric, ambient, composition, electronic, ensemble, re-composition | No Comments »
Friday, May 17th, 2013
The 11th Blue Moon
Poem
Blue Moon
by Richard Leach
and recited / sung (in 12 edo / JI) by Christiane Offenbar
and 11 edo vocoder / 11 edo synthesis by Chris Vaisvil
Not the one that appears every two or three years -
the one that appears once in forty-four years.
Not the one that is full for a single night -
the one that is full every night it is in the sky.
Not the one on which to see a man or a rabbit -
the one on which there are branches and leaves in silhouette.
Not the one that is drowned out by a glowing city -
the one that is as bright above a city as it is where the sky is darkest.
Not the one by which you might read a newspaper headline -
the one by which you can read what had been invisible.
Not the one whose name is part of a figure of speech -
the one that asks us to say something new.
Not the one that rhymes with hue and shoe and June and spoon -
the one that rhymes with night and weight and hold and hope.
Blue Moon, Blue Moon, Blue Moon
And hope Blue Moon, Blue Moon, Blue Moon
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 11 edo, 12 edo, ambient, composition, electronic, simultaneous tunings, spoken word / poetry | No Comments »
Saturday, May 11th, 2013
RNA Translation is a directed aleatoric composition for string orchestra, tamtam, and chromatic harps. The piece was realized by pitch extraction of performances by B. Smith, N. Oldani, and S. Moyes.
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 12 edo, aleatoric, chamber, composition, ensemble | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 26th, 2013
Under the Ice of Europa is an ambient piece for only the most dedicated. It has a run time of 42 minutes and should be listened to at a very loud volume to get the full effect. The initial sound sources were 5 instances of EFM Synthia 2 (EMI Synthi emulator) 1 instance of Altair 4 and 1 instance of Albino. There was a lot of work done in the sound design of synthi patches and arpeggiation was applied to all tracks. Then, yes I ran it through PES, but not with default settings. I used three instances, two of which were through the harmonic filter with 21 harmonics at a just fifth and the three outputs mixed together. Its a pretty complex mixture that is constantly changing. However, I realize 42 minutes of anything is a difficult hand, so my hat is off to you if you decide to try it and actually make it all the way through.
Posted in ~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license., 12 edo, ambient, composition, electronic, ensemble, Harmonic Series - un-octave-reduced, Music, simultaneous tunings, tuning, unconstrained, unknown | No Comments »
