Loopy C - Blog Updates

[Loopy C]

I wonder if it would be ok to send a link for the dubbed track to Kiku Day..  http://www.kikuday.com/  She is a shakuhachi master and has recorded with Henry Kaiser..  http://www.emusic.com/album/Kiku-Day-Henry-Kaiser-Zen-Kaiju-MP3-Download/11133532.html


Thanks again Chris, I look forward to doing it again soon. 

john

Oh, absolutely yes! In case, I am on the brink of a possible computer failure (fingers crossed) so if there is a pause, assume it is my access that I might not see replies.

True mastery of this (and related instruments ) is beyond me other than appreciation, but it's a 'global/personal history and musical loves' collage here inside my brain so I bear no shame in desiring the 'fantasy' of any simulacrum-meld. And Henry especially showed 'the love' while always expressing his personal adaptation/synthesis of influences so that was equally, if not as important factor to my own approach of any 'fusion'.

My attitude is, it is a 'no strings attached' offering you dubbed onto so nicely, all sharing at this point is entirely up to you...it's a great inspiration/aspiration that you did it and I have to repeat, let's do it more!

Henry Kaiser...1 degree of separation to you is 2 degrees for me! As I said, he/his recordings were in my frontal lobe when 'conjuring' these artifacts so you know the answer to that one 

I am presently listening to 'Experimental Compositions Vol 4/5', great stuff!!! and hope we can further 'fuse' yours/mine recordings (with my growing knowledge of your period represented in the artifacts mentioned also playing into a 'response'), and also new stylistics in our future

Thanks for the reply 

Oh, and you should post this here (ooTray), my credit is not important in hierarchy so please use it as your own track (me as 'sideman') from now on.

[Loopy C]

GREASY AIRPLANES + AIRPLANE TRIOS

Industrial ambient land (and air) Rapoon-ish scapes for Messrs. Mr. A. Smirnov and A Mr. ‘Jazzyspoon’. (plus 'bonus' 'Airplane Trios')

http://loopyc.com/?p=777


Context:

http://loopyc.com/?p=751


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[Loopy C]

SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS - AN XXTREME RE-CONCEPTUALIZATION

Four ‘medleys’ of very 'extreme' avant garde inspired remixes/improvs via Onkyokei
aesthetics. A virtual re-amping, pitch-to-audio, and other silly trickery of various 'Folkways' ethnic albums (1950's~).

Only the above mentioned original 'ethnic' album tracks (via processing) are used here, no other performance or synthesis present.

Onkyokei (translation: "sound, noise, echo") places much more emphasis on sound texture than on musical structure, distilling elements of techno, noise, and electronic music into a unique hybrid.


Track/Medley One - Old school 'Glitchshifting' improv's/meditations

Track/Medley Two - '100 tap delay' processes (in duo form)

Track/Medley Three - Audio-to-pitch synthesis into unusual spectralisms (in duo form)

Track/Medley Four - wrap up/final minutes of Track/Medley Three


http://loopyc.com/?p=809


Context:

http://loopyc.com/?p=751


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkyokei


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[Loopy C]

Tourettes Syndrum

http://loopyc.com/?p=832


Sine Language

http://loopyc.com/?p=834


Points And Lines

http://loopyc.com/?p=839


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[Loopy C]

AVANT GARDE DUBPLATE#7: GUITAR
Continuing the series, guitar textures in an experimental context.

http://loopyc.com/?p=845

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AVANT GARDE DUBPLATE#6: PORTABLE SQUONKS
The series is supplemented by these very short 'modules' of lo-fi guitar  squonks, screeps, and skanks in various hyperperformance drum machine duos and other semi-impossible situations.

http://loopyc.com/?p=848

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LAMINAL LOCKGROOVES
Laminal improv taken for a ‘loop’.

http://loopyc.com/?p=857

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[Loopy C]

AMBIENT MUSINGS

Of from simply,

Is, his either early 1

His Airports about mind...refer treatments for the ? of !

Created about Jarre, Muzak references, and who one creates including in or of the two.


http://loopyc.com/?p=865


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[Loopy C]

OSCILLATORS MADE OF POLAROIDS VOLUME 2
Dirty little number series (palindromes), deleted but seen, forgotten fenders:

http://loopyc.com/?p=874


090509 GUITAR TRIOS
Ancient future avant garde broken loop faux string play trios.

http://loopyc.com/?p=879


META TETRAS
Dedicated to Simon Stockhausen, whose generous ‘gratis’ donation to the Reaktor community of sounds and sound design made this ‘trio’ session possible. Cheers Simon 

Three Reaktor ‘Metaphysical Function’ ensembles thematically evolved in a trio form for a meta electro acoustic dramaturgy.

http://loopyc.com/?p=885


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[Loopy C]

082809 AMBIENT CYCLINGS
Faust jams in the Giza pyramid with John Butcher and a soundman on acid?

http://loopyc.com/?p=903


AMPHETAMINE AMBIENTS
More sketches (duos), again playing with my own? ‘intervalic bpm’ theory. This ’system’ allows a free combination of rhythms derived from the same ratios as a C Chromatic scale.

Also in use here is the intentional margin of  error introduced by ‘AI’ key identification software (made for dj’s and popular dance music) when used with more avant garde based sounds. This matches up (again duets in this case) material that is of different scales and keys by their ‘common’ tones as identified by the software for a ‘different sameness’ than what would be derived by more traditional tonal analysis, allowing the occasional rogue vertical relationship to appear in somewhat sinister moments of key ambiguity.

NEW MIXES 100909

http://loopyc.com/?p=587



101309 FURTHER LOOPOLOGY STUDIES
Raw session output of a further return to loopology studies. New techniques, old infatuation…the march of time within time.

http://loopyc.com/?p=895

[Loopy C]

102309 Shoe Finding Loop Grazing

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Loop Scanning – the slow forward movement of a short loop progressing through a longer audio file with a subtle effect not unlike the transformational metamorphosis of Steve Reich’s ‘It’s Gonna Rain’, which is, technically speaking, the altogether different implementation of two loops played at slightly different speeds and the offset ‘difference’ between them producing the final result. Conceptually though, a similar ‘mono’ version of the mood ‘It’s Gonna Rain’ creates  is realized with the scanning technique.


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Working somewhere between the ‘broken’ media aesthetics of Christian Marclay and William Basinski’s ‘Disintegration Loops’ with a big ‘tip of the hat’ to Jan Jelinek’s work, I present here some initial ‘loop scanning’ experiments as a test of concept and initial ‘probe’ as to source material suitability and settings. These are the more ambient leaning experiments, an earlier rhythmic exploratory session still awaits some post production after which I will also post.

Prototyping the concept in several discreet applications running on the Mac desktop (until I can get a proper ‘loop scanner’ module built in software such as Kyma or Reaktor), I did this evening’s work using Roni Music’s ‘Amazing Slow Downer’, triggering it’s ‘frames’ (equaling a 1/75th of a second increment per trigger) via a seperate MIDI trigger (’Rondo’). As both a polyrhythmic ‘master’ meter  and camouflage to unintended glitches (as oppossed to the intended ones also present) several ‘vinyl simulation’ methods were then introduced into the live chain, either before or after a final ‘patina’ of guitar amplification/fx simulation to properly antique the overall mood. Each performance was captured live via Rogue Amoeba’s ‘Audio Hijack Pro’.

*Best experienced ‘indirectly’, in other words attentions directed elsewhere with track played in background.

http://loopyc.com/?p=906

I have since received some very interesting responses in the Symbolic Sound ‘Kyma’ forum which will hopefully lead to the next level of exploring this territory. Also in current ‘negotiations’ for a Reaktor realization with more flexibility.

All this night’s work was done on a Powerbook laptop in bed (while I recover from a minor back injury) .

[Loopy C]

From naughty ('Pumkincore') to nice ('Decembering'), some o fthe underground/over the top track sketching I have mustered up before this week's upgrade of our internet tower (we are on radio dish due to remote location).


DECEMBERING
Basic sketches of winter solstice moods via an icy glass of electronic chill sinewaves.

http://loopyc.com/?p=939

...special thanks Rick Scott for his wonderful additive synth creations

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PUMPKINCORE
Nasty scraping squash killers, bottom scrapers of the granular sort. Custom loopscanning software featured against extreme guitar simm (ala Jimmy Page live ‘Dazed and Confused’ aesthetics) and assorted transfluxing resonate lithophonographies. Happy Samhain! (which basically just means November )

http://loopyc.com/?p=931

...Special thanks Don Dailey

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LOOP SCANNED ILLBIENT AVANT GARDE
Additive tunneling collisions meet scanned avant garde in superconducting church spaces where particles spell ‘lol’ under electron microscopes.

http://loopyc.com/?p=927

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SOMEONE SAVED MY DJ’S DRUM N BASS TONIGHT
Imaginary DJ with his father’s ‘left in the sun’ jazz record collection, meets ‘eclectic electric bass slinger (with obligatory goatee of course)’ sessions. Could have happened, shouldn’t have happened (part 1).

http://loopyc.com/?p=919

…Special thanks to Rick Scott for his ‘Plastique’ and Spectrasonics for ‘Trillian’.


CONSEQWINDS
Nancarrow inspired glitch.

http://loopyc.com/?p=955

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SOUNDS FROM IMAGE
My own abstract art becomes ‘glitch’. Mix/comp in emulation of a Robert Rauschenberg continuous ‘walk through’ exhibition. Images/notes to follow.


http://loopyc.com/?p=964


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ALCHEMY 'BIG TONES'
An evening’s ‘Alchemy’.

http://loopyc.com/?p=960

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[jopy]

I've been listening to Decembering this morning--very evocative. Amazing how much can be done with sine waves and math, they have similar but quite distinct moods across tracks.

[arachnaut]

jopy - what's an 'inner inner circler' ? Something cochlear?

[jopy]

jopy - what's an 'inner inner circler' ? Something cochlear?

It means I'm dead in the middle of the target, or that I'm about to be sucked into the vortex. One of the two.

[Loopy C]

An evenings exploration of drum machine programming concepts and symbiotic embellishments.

FREETEC (FREE TECHNO DRUMS)
Free jazz mindset via generational algorithm tweaks as applied to techno drum machinery with convolution colorings. Influence ala Autechre’s more ‘out’ releases. Combine freely with synth/noise/bass tracks of your own for Autechre-like improvisation sessions ;-)

http://loopyc.com/?p=977

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LADY WAS A VAMP (SUNNY & CHILL)
Sunny and Chill sessions part 1. Time meter drum duos fed into convolution drones. Vamps for 'open mic night-like' combinatory fun?

http://loopyc.com/?p=974

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[Loopy C]

THE DUSTY DNA OF DR. CALIGARI
Antique musical machines meet Celemony Melodyne’s ‘DNA’ technology for a re-scaling session of dissonant intervalic reinterpretations and dusty flavorings suitable for the good Doctor’s bad ‘practice’. Extra old fairy dust patina courtesy of Audio Ease’s ‘Speakerphone’.

http://loopyc.com/?p=984

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...and, the good Doctor's page here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari