Sound Clip: Performance by the Great Lakes Ensemble

The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum is a one-of-a-kind cultural institution in Two Rivers, Wisconsin that has a collection of over 1.5 million pieces in more than 1,000 styles of wood type. Its presence highlights an essential aspect of printmaking and design in America.

The Great Lakes Ensemble performed at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum on June 10, 2012. We started the performance with a trio of horns improvising while a pair of platen letterpress machines whirred and hummed, gears spinning. Then the ensemble moved into the museum’s central room—surrounded by printmaking machines, framed prints, and displayed wood type. The dancers and musicians improvised while bathymetric maps of the Great Lakes were projected onto a wall. One highlight of the performance was when Jim Moran, Museum Director, joined in. For several minutes he operated a pantograph, which added a unique sonic element to the performance.

GLE members during that performance included Lisa LaMarre (dance & choreography), Rachael Ahn Harbert (dance), Marianne Brass (dance), James Cornish (trumpet, baritone horn), Joseph Vajarsky (tenor saxophone), Dan Godston (trumpet, poetry, small instruments), Albert Wildeman (upright bass), and Anthony Poretti (drums). GLE performed on a bill that included poets Stephen Frech and Pat Moran.

Sound Clip: Grand Drive by Josh Lawler

Recordings of the ambience, ballroom and classical Japanese music -  midnight driving sounds.

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Sound Clip: Soduz by Gurkan Mihci

Sound collage.

Album of Samples Used:
Stalker (1979), directed by Andrey Tarkovskiy
R. Murray Schafer Interview (2011)
Ereaserhead, directed by David Lynch
Dziga Vertov Sound Recordings (1930)
Hittites Documentary (1982), (recorded by Gökhan M?hç?)
Hawaiian Quintette Aiaihea (1913)
Found and Lost, by Eser Selen
I had a dream last night, by Eser Selen
Sony Media Software Soundscapes ©

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Sound Clip: Religion by Mary Lou Blakeslee and Canary Burton

Sound painting duo, recovering Catholic.

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Remixed by Talk Midway:

Sound Clip: Saved All Day Remix by Talk Midway

This track features an a cappella archival recording, “Saved All Day,” recorded in 1940 and available through the Library of Congress. Instrumentation used includes ukulele and a Casio keyboard.

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Sound Clip: Abort Nerves by John Harvey

This excerpt is from the upcoming conference, The Noises of Art. The work addresses what is arguably the most prolific, varied, and groundbreaking period in the coming together, exchange, and mutual influence of visual art and sound-based practices (such as music and the spoken word). It aims to explore (principally) the visual artist’s engagement with sound, noise, music, and text while at the same time recognizing that there is a traffic of musicians, sound artists, and text artists moving in the opposite direction, who aspire to cultivate visual analogues for their work. Thus, the conference is situated at the intersection of several movements that are converging upon a point of visual-audio synthesis and exchange.

Sound Clip: Búzio e Chocalhos by Luís Antero

In some villages of Portugal, mainly in those where they herd cattle, the pastor would play the conch in the morning to warn all residents that it was time to let the cattle in the hills. This ritual was repeated every day. The conch also served to alert and warn the villagers whenever something significant happened in the town.

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Sound Clip: Canzone Distorte by Svetlana Maras and Anja Djordjevic

Canzone distorte emerged from our hunt for a perfect song. This project is a testimonial of a creative process that we went through while working together and trying to consolidate our different musical affinities. Shifting between the urge to create and the urge to destroy, we found ourselves in the playground (or a battlefield) of musical thoughts where everything was allowed, and so we went exploring without knowing where we will end up. We walked freely through this musical universe and drifted in many different directions, taking right and wrong turns and opening many doors. We stumbled into things that made us laugh, that made us wonder, things we liked a lot or a little less. We put together all these bits and pieces from our journey to tell you a story that may amuse you or confuse you.

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‘A soundscape about the relationship, between a local individual and the environment that surrounds them in Cornwall’.
It features a story about a local persons favourite scenic location and an activity that they do at the location, alongside environmental sounds that help describe the location.

The process was formulated through finding unique and quirky local people in Falmouth, then interviewing and asking questions that created a story about their favourite scenic location. Following this, I recorded environmental sounds that were described in the story. I recorded the waves from the sea, seagulls, dogs, wind, footsteps, glass crackling, people, stormy weather and many more sounds that didn’t make it to the final edit.
Then I collected all the recordings and edited and put all the sounds together using Adobe Audition. I manipulated some of the recordings to enable special effects and panned the sounds to play out to the left and right speakers to portray actuality in the soundscape, for the listener to imagine the scenic location through memory.

I suggest that the listener should use headphones to listen to Scenic Stories.

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Sound Clip: ZipUp from 100 Strange Sounds by Joo Won Park

100 Strange Sounds a computer music experiment with everyday objects. It is a personal challenge, I will be uploading 100 videos of live electronic music performances over the next year.

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Sound Clip: Persistence of Memory by Juno Nova

The “Persistence of Memory” sound art installation was an exercise I did this year in 2012. It was created during the period I created my EP Visions, it is an extra track. I never have read a review or any form of speculation of Dali’s painting, “Persistence of Memory” as I wanted to leave my own footprint, my interpretation of the image in an auditory format. In this regard, I was not swayed by any interpretation during its creation. Creating music through image or moving pictures has always been intriguing to me. What I have learned in practicing this exercise is that though the many abstractions between these mediums (Visual and Auditory), there are several elements and principles of art that can be paralleled and used harmoniously.

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Sound Clip: Ice from The Institute of Viral Sonology directed by Hugo Paquete

Institute of Viral Sonology is an under cover, under governmental, under political, under aesthetic agency for sonic proliferation and psychological affections and ontological sonic terror.

This album experiment started as a call from the director of the Institute of Viral Sonology Hugo Paquete. The call consisted of exploring the potentiality of the computer as an automatic machine to generate compositional material and aesthetics content based on stochastic probabilities. 60 seconds files, 6 composers/collaborators, 6 minute compositions into 12 tracks.

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Sound Clip: Descent #7, Part II by Woolgathering

No single expression can charactarize the sense of freedom; only the movement, the act of moving from, one expression to another can reveal a meaning that is not visible in any one expression alone. Part II is an excerpt from the six part piece “descent #7″. The whole work was created with a piano sample that was looped in windows of variable length, speed, and read point. These windows were then actively managed in real-time to render the composite temporal structure of the work, exploring the idea of ‘task-driven’ pieces. Samples were run through reverb; the wet and dry signals were then panned and enveloped independently according the a predetermined behavioral framework that utilized weighted random numbers.

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Sound Clip: Texhnolyze by Soft Note

This track was inspired by the film “Blade Runner” and by the music of Vangelis. It is a living city with mechanisms, people and rain; a soundscape forming its own symphony.

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