June Solstice Streaming Event

[Skrog Productions]

Hello
I had a great time listening to fantastic music yesterday , lots of interesting synth sounds & sdiy sounds too , Thanks to Phobos & Rob & Jan and all who helped make it a fun summer 2014 event .

Here is my Epicyclus 1/2 hour set .
Some of the SDIY stuff used on the day.....
My new Ken Stone 4+2 gate sequencer - http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-61572.html

Ken Stone Steiner vcf's - http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-61646.html

Fonitronik VCPS-8 - http://electro-music.com/forum/phpbb-files/vcps_8_145.jpg

The new Orangesynth - http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-58281.html


Thanks for listening on the day or catching up later

Dave.

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Epicyclus summer gig 2014 lodr.mp3
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[MusicMan11712]

Nice music for the June event!!!

[PHOBoS]

Blue Hell's exquisite weirdness, better lock your doors

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EM June Solstice 2014 - 07. Blue Hell - the closet in the hallway.mp3
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[Blue Hell]

Hmm .. sorry to have streamed it that badly .. its full of crackle

Thanks for recording it PHOBoS, but its nothing better than my own

[PHOBoS]

The ringjam session with Blue Hell -> Antimon -> Muied Lumens -> PHOBoS (-> Blue Hell) recorded from my side.
Unedited with some loud parts and gaps.

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EM June Solstice 2014 - 04. PHOBoS, Blue Hell, Antimon, Muied Lumens - Ringjam (Moon Base section).mp3
Description:	Ringjam session Live @ EM June Solstice 2014	Download
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[Blue Hell]

My view of the ring jam. Also unedited and there is some silence due to a patch restart ...

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2014-06-21--antimon-robsol-phobos-blue hell--ring jam.mp3
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[Antimon]

[Antimon]

And thanks streamers for some awesome music, great stuff all around!

[mtvic]

June solstice set Michael Victor

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[Antimon]

Here's my output for the ring jam. I joined in for a bit at the first half. I sent out what came out of Blue Hell's port with some added worbling and ticking.

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[Blue Hell]

Your view has nice stuff in it Stefan :-)

Now I hope Rob recorded too!

[robsol]

[Blue Hell]

Ow .. too bad

[Acoustic Interloper]

Attack-Decay-Sustain-Release runs the first 43 minutes and is built on top of the MIDI reference design for the March 29, 2014 Kutztown Planetarium gig, with 4 reference mp3 files for the four movements about halfway down this thread. I intentionally used very cheesy soft synths in that reference design.

We wound up using only the third movement (Sustain) on March 29, and then not directly, so these MIDI clips were all fresh meat for the solstice. I processed them in two ways: 1) software FX downstream from the synths as usual, and 2) MIDI FX between the clips and the synths. This was the first time for (2) for me. I used the MIDI effects mostly to A) alter timing, anywhere from grouping notes into block chords (the notes were all single notes in the MIDI scores) to dropping or repeating notes to change the tempo. I also did some pitch changing via MIDI.

I played and recorded much of that stuff a week or two before the gig. Think of a metamorphic layer of musique concrète and a sedimentary layer of musique liquide, I suppose. There were parameters left for performance time improvisation. I recorded segments only where I wanted to keep my hands on the banjo during performance.

The 4 movements are 00:00 Attack (using a shamisen soft synth -- I've always hated the sound of MIDI banjo synths, so I used one ), 09:08 Decay (glass piano), 19:16 Sustain (6 different soft synths playing in rounds) and 28:48 Release (nylon string guitar synth). ADSR ends around 43:00, after which comes a first draft of Penn's Woods, a new tune I wrote a few weeks ago using banjo double thumbing. Other than the the prelude to Ordinary Machinery in 2007, this is the first double thumbing piece I have written in about 30 years

If you have 8 minutes to kill, check out this experimental video of the Decay backing material from a couple weeks ago. Go full screen and then hit HD to restart the video. It may not work on a mobile device without loggin in; laptop seems OK. Only one channel of audio recorded, and I didn't catch that until after I posted, so you may want to mix down to mono. It was mostly mono anyway. These graphics comes from HexAtom, a game for the planetarium that generates MIDI music that a couple students and I wrote a few years ago. However, for the video I used ChucK to extract features from the Decay movement audio and used that to drive atom generation in the game. Since making the video I have experimented with playing a few notes manually to get graphical atoms, and then letting the graphical atoms generate music, which generates more atoms in a bi-modal, audio-visual feedback loop. It needs some work, but it is promising. I hope to work on that more this summer.

Dr. Steve rightly called Sustain as a melody I have played before. It is actually called 49th Winter, I wrote it in March 2003 right after cross-country skiiing in a dense snowstorm, and have played it on many instruments. I used to play it for my mom a lot, especially after she could no longer hold up a conversation, and played it at her funeral on a resonant, long-neck banjo after she died at age 95 in 2010. Meg Schedel (electric cello), Nicole Cresse (electric violin) and I (electronic banjo) also played a processed version of it at the March 29 planetarium gig. This is the first time I have used its MIDI tracks, which I captured in 2009.

I think of this layering of musical substrate + live banjo and electronics as dueting with myself across time.

Thanks, everyone, for hosting, monitoring, and playing. I love these events.

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ADSRParsonSS2014.mp3
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[robsol]

OK, here is the last hour or so of my part in the ringjam thing.

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ringjamjunesol14.MP3
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