Radiohead "All I Need"

How Body Language Shapes You

Sun Ra: Space is the Place (1974)

Max Cooper - Harmonisch Serie

https://soundcloud.com/bloodorange/devonte-hynes-anxiety-1-live-performance-42514-new-york-city

Whisper of a Thrill EARTH SONG Thomas Newman

"Field recordings rubbing removal snakes out of the cheap television aerial across my sofa into in his handheld scanner to be invisible private world private no longer.

Somewhere nearby and men is talking on the telephone to a woman telling her he is about to buy a large loaf of bread in a local bakers.

Children are singing in a weird heterophonic chorus behind the foreground conversation.

The exchanges mundane but then he says I always wear black to Mexicanos, it matches my car, and then will talk is revealed as a Trojan reports caring other levels of communication status style and sexual promise.

As well as organising a London club called the electronic lounge rather makes records based around material snoot via the scanner from telephone conversations. 

Sounds atmospheres and sometimes beats are added at the core material is people talking in name is taken knowledge that nobody else is listening sharing in these records is a compulsive experience.

The voyeuristic birds proved to be very strong.

That in addition to exposing the dynamics of interaction scanners can also track and constant sizes that you wrapped into the bloom of ordinary dialogue.

Uninhibited by physical proximity, blank to the environment, focused on a disembodied voice, the imagination relaxes and allows its less house trained habitués to scuttle into the light.

Hearing these strange conversations are plucked out of the air makes me think of an H.P. Lovecraft short story called “From Byond” "Field recordings rubbing removal snakes out of the cheap television aerial across my sofa into in his handheld scanner to be invisible private world private no longer.

Somewhere nearby and men is talking on the telephone to a woman telling her he is about to buy a large loaf of bread in a local bakers.

Children are singing in a weird heterophonic chorus behind the foreground conversation.

The exchanges mundane but then he says I always wear black to Mexicanos, it matches my car, and then will talk is revealed as a Trojan reports caring other levels of communication status style and sexual promise.

As well as organising a London club called the electronic lounge rather makes records based around material snoot via the scanner from telephone conversations. 

Sounds atmospheres and sometimes beats are added at the core material is people talking in name is taken knowledge that nobody else is listening sharing in these records is a compulsive experience.

The voyeuristic birds proved to be very strong.

That in addition to exposing the dynamics of interaction scanners can also track and constant sizes that you wrapped into the bloom of ordinary dialogue.

Uninhibited by physical proximity, blank to the environment, focused on a disembodied voice, the imagination relaxes and allows its less house trained habitués to scuttle into the light.

Hearing these strange conversations are plucked out of the air makes me think of an H.P. Lovecraft short story called “From B,

In which he wrote about an electrical machine which made visible “the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky” and that 'come out of places where aesthetics standards are - very different'"

            (Toop, David. Ocean of Sound(1995) Serpents Tail)

Aleem Release yourself Paradise Garage Classic 2

                              
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_bXav3tnYc

Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix) // Massive Attack // Madonna::Scarl...

"It is scientifically recognized that the fundamental condition of our existence is to revolve. There is no being or object which does not revolve, because all beings are comprised of revolving electrons, protons, and neutrons in atoms. Everything revolves, and the human being lives by means of the revolution of these particles, by the revolution of the blood in his body, and by the revolution of the stages of his life, by his coming from the earth and his returning to it."

However, all of these revolutions are natural and unconscious. 
But the human being, being in possession of mind and intelligence (theoretically, ahem) allows the whirling dervish or semazen, intentionally and consciously to participate in the shared revolution of other beings.

     "Contrary to popular belief, the semazen's goal is not to lose consciousness     or to fall into a state of ecstasy. 
Instead, by revolving in harmony with all things in nature -- with the smallest cells and with the stars in the firmament -- the semazen testifies to the existence and the majesty of the Creator, thinks of Him, gives thanks to Him, 
    and prays to Him."    

"In the symbolism of the Sema ritual, 
the semazen's camel's hair hat (sikke) represents the tombstone ofthe ego; his wide, white skirt represents the ego's shroud. By removing his black cloak, he is spiritually reborn to the truth."   (http://www.whirling-dervish.org)

                           
The space for  Freedom  of expression & 

 the open respect & reception of that for 


sentient beings 

is the closest thing to bliss that one can

 ever hope for especially for the downtrodden

 Divine Feminine. Nothing can match it


 no matter

  how thickly gilded the cage or

 "protective" the belief system. 

Only a

 Misrepresented Creator would create 

the

 Beauty of women to be covered up &

 colourless!!....How refreshing see these

 colourful people ignoring dark laws &

 expressing their  Love & Respect  so

 elaborately like forest birds 


& the hat:

 "tombstone to ego" Amazing!! "

                                               

This a singular view of my piece "Spellbound" created for our CW1 Project assessment. 

For this piece we were instructed to create a song using one sound source, 

I chose to use my vocals. I experimented with different recording techniques and perfected pro microphone set ups during this project. I decided after all to use the inbuilt microphone, 

as it added a  less perfect texture, it was more grainy and interesting. Also it picked up faint traffic sounds and noises from outside the building. These when manipulated along with the fundamental and partial frequencies of my voice were stretched into what sounded like a crowd of voices, fascinating! 

There was a little trill tweeting from a bird too which to my astonishment was picked up by the inbuilt mac microphone from all the way outside through double glazed windows! 

The whistle of these natural sounds were embellished vet hess process, some turned into clicks, interspersed with the whirring and low hum of the cars which brought really varied and exciting results, lots of tonal interest and quality. As a singer sometimes one is shy or doesn't like the sound of ones voice. 

I've always been aware that I have quite a high pitched speaking voice too, though you get use to your own sound when you mature and become comfortable in your skin as a performer. I loved playing with the pitch and transforming my vocals into deeper and deeper layers during this, the scope to create and change characters and sounds whilst working solo is liberating. 

It was too much fun to stop at making totally opposite male-like frequencies, so I took them even lower on some of the tracks to get an ominous Gregorian Monk chanting or warlockesque sound. 

I used some echo and reverb to take the sounds further back and make them vast specially with view to creating giant hollow caves where the unidentified multiple voices were praying or casting spells. 

I feel that I successfully rode the wave between sounds of the hypnotic occult and sounds of deep meditative prayer in this soundscape. The track represents my deep rooted religious and spiritual beliefs and the forbidden magnetic draw that calls powerfully from  darker arts. Very pleased with the result. 

We had a time constraint of 2 minutes to hand as for assessment which is never enough! I've carried on with my piece and it is evolving so far as a 16 minute piece which will forever be evolving and shifting I suspect.

https://soundcloud.com/kimnicebutgrim/spellbound
"A third tradition starts from timbre. This type of musician is harder to pin down,
for the simple reason that many timbre- focused artists do not consider themselves
to be musicians at all, or do not use the word ‘music’ to describe what they produce. Into this category can be placed the majority of those working in electronic
and electro- acoustic1 music, but also sonic art, sound- art, sound design and various forms of radiophonic 2 and speech- based work. By dealing with sounds rather than notes , these musicians have changed the nature of music itself, raising questions about what is ‘musical’. The conventions of music seem inadequate to describe
their activities. These musicians may even begin to challenge music’s very existence, since so much of their prime material is audio and lacks the expressive
intention and cultural baggage of ‘music’." (Huggill, A. Digital Musician)

Our Second project for assessment was a 3 minute soundscape using recordings that we had gathered in the field, or previously  collected in our sound libraries. 

I used a  blend of  both to convey the sound story I was sonically painting for the listener in my piece

"Night Swims Hotel".

It starts with the crashing waves as they break on the beach and the faint sound of crickets chirping to indicate the night time, as the character of my story proceeds under the cover of darkness to explore the hotel gardens, we hear the crunching underfoot of gravel and the sounds of the crickets growing a little louder as he steps out from his hotel room on the beachfront.  He keeps walking further away from the beach into the woods of the garden, when he begins to hear ghostly echoes of song through the trees just as the rain storm and thunder begin which add an element of surprise and adventure as he hides under the trees and makes his way into the deeper into the forest to follow and see where the distorted hints of live music and club music are coming from. 

The character is in unfamiliar territory and is not sure what he is hearing or where he is blindly following it to.

I wanted the garbled eery vocal floating through the forest and  piano to have weird abstract feels, to borrow from Twin Peaks elements of multi-dimensions and sirens luring people into the woods. Unlike Twin Peaks this did not lead him into a portal to hell! Would have to work quite a bit more on this to pull that off lol!

Following on, he finds the hotel's live entertainment and nightclub area, skirts around this area peeping through the windows at the musicians who are practicing and preparing for the show ahead.

The duet being sung in the club is my vocal that I recorded, it's a test sample for a house track that I'm working on, trying out suitable vocals.

Using multiple EQ's, plug ins to add reverb, echo, bit crunch, distortion amongst other effects, I used vocal trf to transform my vocal into a male voice and have is spliced alongside mine to sound as though I was duetting with a male singer. 

The nightclub section is just warming up with the loud beats which he assess in passing is not for him, so he opts to walk away and return to the empty beach to partake in a night swim.  The soundscape is literally a scene as it is described, symbolically it is a person exploring and finding their way, musically perhaps or in a broader sense in life, finding preferences. Disregarding the mainstream and following a more intuitive, organic path off of the beaten track.

Some of the challenges I faced whilst creating my CW2 Soundscape included not being sure how to convert recordings I had made from playing my microkorg. 

I was successfully able to play and record, I then went about pitch flexing it which was fine and time stretching it to add melodic abstract  tonal warmth. I did this somewhat successfully in an attempt to usher the listener into the new scene as the character walks closer seeking to find the music being played in the distance of the night.

When it came time to automate however, I wasn't able to efficiently manipulate the volume of those individual tracks that I had recorded with the korg. 

This was rather disappointing as I'd put quite a bit of time into tweaking and deforming the melody lines to create eery effects. I had flexed one of my improvised korg tracks to sound like cracking lightening. When is came time to do my automation, the korg tracks were ridiculously loud! They wouldn't sync up with my automation controls so I couldn't use them as they totally overwhelmed the rest of the subtleties I wanted highlighted in the whole soundscape. 

This soundscape needs a lot more work to be up to a standard that I will be fully happy with. I was limited by technical difficulties however.

So I will take the time during our holidays to seek the solutions out. I shall go through all of our notes and online tutorials, Logic X books we have to gathered to refresh the information in my mind, as we covered so very much this last semester, another review will be essential. I will work on polishing this soundscape up so am calling it a work in progress for now.

Bewitching People: Michele Lamy & Scarlett Rouge

                               http://www.refinery29.com/2013/12/59081/michele-lamy-daughter

Michele Lamy and Rick Owens are great 

influences on my work. Both eccentric creative conceptuals and designers who represent living life with the lid off, keeping striving for change and improvement. Their eccentricity and excellence in the quality of their work and how they collaborate with a variety of artists, make them favourites amongst the fashion, arts and music industries alike

 Michele has lead a virtuosic life of exploration  "that has included successful careers as a defense attorney, clothing designer, performer, film producer, and restaurateur. Over the last ten years, Lamy's life has also included her work as creative collaborator with her husband, fashion rock star Rick Owens."

"She's Algerian, a gypsy; she was born in a resistance camp in occupied France, was raised by wolves in the Ardennes; she's an arms dealer, a vampire, a witch, and she's 1600 years old (the number is consistent, as if it were exact, vetted by a team of experts).  The truth is she's Parisian and used to perform in a cabaret. She met Owens through his then-boyfriend and hired him as a patternmaker for her own line, Lamy."

Her gypsy and witchy like personality are things I observed whilst producing my piece"Spellbound"  the dark and gothic style with fresh tailoring and Arabian bling twists, that her and her husband champion are elements I looked at whilst deciding on timbre and velocity in my work.  Like their famous layering of gauzy fabrics with very different textures including leathers, I wanted to emulate this by layering dark and sensual sounds  upon the  the ghostly melody that ran echoing through the whole piece.

"Anyone who found their way through the unmarked door in a Hollywood parking lot that led to  Les Deux Cafés between 1996 and 2003 felt Lamy's invisible hand directing events. It was in the ‘30s clapboard Craftsman house she moved to the site, and in the eucalyptus trees she planted herself to gird the Provençal-style brick garden. You could feel it as she strolled the patio in Owens' early designs (droopy, gothic pieces reminiscent of Lamy wear), or when she sang, "I thought it was Tangier I wanted" in her Benson & Hedges-marbled voice in Les Deux's jazzy back bar. You knew it was there when you crossed that threshold to find, say, Madonna accidentally doused in hot candle wax at her own birthday party."

                                http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/michele-lamy#_

Bobby McFerrin and Jorane

Bobby McFerrin in "World Science Festival 2009" (Notes & Neurons) [fully!]

               

Anybody else wonder where the "Don't Worry Be Happy....?" guy disappeared to?

My oh my how we've progressed form there! After the initial flying success of the world famous song Bobby Mcferrin was offered album deals and global tour dates..... sounds like a dream that any musician would grab onto and utilise....

He decided however to drop out away from these offers and keep pursue his more spiritual approach to educating himself and progressing his perception of music in community settings.

So he travelled the world collaborating and learning from different tribes and cultures. He keeps recording to the mimimum and prefers to perform fresh every time.

Famous for his unique vocal techniques.  One of these gives the illusion of polyphony where he sings

accompaniment alongside the melodies interspersed with large jumps in pitch.

He makes use of percussive effects of tapping different parts of his body that house his breathing apparatus and voice so making an organ or drums out of his body and being :)

All of his mostly solo performances are improvised drawing on the wealth of knowledge he has gathered and absorbed from and contributed to different cultures on his travels.

He collaborates with other artists from the classical and jazz scene amongst others.

one of his main aims is helping people find their voices, audience participation is an integral part of his performances,  he always gets them involved in impromptu choir/conducter scenarios.

I couldn't believe my luck when I cam across his work whilst searching for improvisational vocal technique inspiration!! He is absolutely divine and encapsulates everything that I want to be :)

                        

Burial - Rough Sleeper 720p

         "Homeless Architecture"

Sculptor Gregory Kloehn is helping to house the homeless population by creating functional and mobile homes built from salvaged scrap to give them.  

These are outstanding textural examples of sculpture in themselves but to think that they will mean all of the difference for someones comfort,feeling warm, safe and dry in an otherwise torrid existence makes them more than just aesthetically appealing. They are culturally and socially progressive, they elevate community conscious.

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom." 

Bob Dylan

This work has gotten me thinking about spaces and referring back to people using space as compositional tools.  This Summer I'm going to look at finding unusual spaces to experiment and gain further understanding of acousmatic work with reference to Pierre Schaeffer and other artists using various size and varying acoustic spaces for recording and performing.

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/05/ive-seen-people-turn-This work regarbage-cool-stuff-absolute-brilliance.html

                                    "The general level of noise in the world around us has dramatically increased. Never has the contrast between the interior and exterior acoustic worlds, or sonic environments, been greater. In his book Acoustic Communication, Traux observes:

{Listening} is a set of sophisticated skills that appear to be deteriorating within the technologized urban environment, both because of noise exposure, which causes hearing loss and physiological stress, and because of the proliferation of low information, highly redundant and basically uninteresting sounds, which do not encourage sensitive listening."
                      (The Digital Musician, Andrew Hugill- Page 17)


These words illustrate the importance of the work we have been looking at and undertaking recently. Identifying the details of delicate vibrations and sounds around us that we may not have considered before, certainly not to the level we have reached capturing the subtle spaces around us and not so subtle drones of the machinery and technology that we are surrounded by. We've gathered sounds from both the natural and manmade world analysed  them, pitched flexed and time stretched them to create whole new sonic scapes and creatures from them. I've been awe-struck with the potential to create the most elaborate set of tracks make up layered scapes with the intricacies of the software we have privy too. 
I thoroughly enjoyed learning all of the uses of microphones and portable recorders. My track project opened so much scope whereby I could manipulate my own vocals with multiple pitch settings and plug ins without bounds to formulate the hypnotic sonic spells I've been planning. This Summer I plan to continue what I started and familiarise myself further with Logic X.

Terence McKenna - Nobody is smarter than you are

“At the outset I must make this point, the verity of which is unquestionable: personal experience is the criterion of truth here. I challenge the right of anyone to discuss the effects of hashish if he is not speaking for himself and if he or she has not been in a position to evaluate them in light of sufficient repeated use.”

“Can we be certain we are in a condition to understand these sick people when they tell us of their observations? [….] To comprehend the ravings of a madman, it is necessary to have raved oneself, but without having lost the awareness of one’s madness.”
(Moreau, Hashish and Mental Illness)

                                          

   “The male dominant agenda is so fragile that         any competitor is felt as a deadly foe.”

– Terence McKenna

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I'm fascinated and inspired by different vocal styles pushing the boundaries of how we perceive and register sounds through words.  I'm working on a track at the moment using my vocals and manipulating them to morph them into unrecognisable or unusual sounds and patterns.  

I experimented with Tibetan vocal techniques within my productions and was able to further alienate association or recognition of my voice by pitch flexing and time stretching it to deep otherworldly depths in my track titled 'Spellbound'

                                           

Arcade Fire "My Body is a Cage"

                        "My Body Is A Cage"                              

My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key


I'm standing on a stage
Of fear and self-doubt
It's a hollow play
But they'll clap anywayYou're standing next 

to me my mind holds the key
My mind holds the key

I'm living in an age
That calls darkness light
Though my language is dead
Still the shapes fill my head

I'm living in an age
Whose name I don't know
Though the fear keeps me moving
Still my heart beats so slow

                                        

Charlie Murphy vs. Prince....... You've been SERVED!!....... pancakes :) Purple rained on you

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

"What a wicked game to play to make me feel this way.  

      What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way.

      What a wicked thing to do.... to make me dream of you"

Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly

I Love this list of reasons why Dave G is AWESOME:
http://m.lolsnaps.com/index.html?id=97620
He is a great example of how positive energy can transcend tragedy and keep elevating ones personal circumstances.
I've looked at groups who are known for their fantastic work ethos and good interpersonal relationships as inspiration for our group performance projects.
He's emerged from the bitter-sweet melancholic influence they cast upon a generation in Nirvana.
To become a totally new creature who's songs are positive empowering and so funny.
It's always an uplifting experience hearing them live or otherwise. He is definitely Winning at Life! :)

Moondog - Lament I, "Bird's Lament"

'The Viking of 6th Avenue'

The blind American poet, self-taught composer and musician, visual artist and inventor of several musical instruments  

lived in disguise as a homeless man on the streets of New York. 
He wasn't homeless at all, a common misconception, he kept an apartment in Manhattan in fact. But so loved being ensconced on the streets, they became his stomping grounds daily. His bliss was absorbing, interacting with and adding to the atmosphere around him.

The mystical Moondog fancifully styled himself after the Nors God Odin so cut a striking and unique silhouette whilst emanating magnificent music and poetry, inspired by the ambience of the traffic and people sounds around. He had many admirers and friends 

who would come and spend time with him, 

without any knowledge of his stockpile of works and scores

 in progress of some of the finest and most 

elegant compositions that are still enjoyed and sampled time and time again to this day.

"The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token, is he who has a tongue to tell but must remain unspoken"

                               

Above I've taken one of my favourite poems and transposed it upon one of my favourite photographs.
It strikes out at social restraint and 'niceties' to which we are all slaves of the empty, unfulfilliing transparent and insipid scripts.
Her passionate outpouring and plea is to the listener to release fear and search for stronger soulful stuff. 
To be honest with her and with themselves. Her contemplation and defiance of this stale communication is refreshing, real and raw.
A breath of fresh air seeking out honour and integrity amongst the world of bullshit where people feel the need to bullshit themselves and one another instead of primal screaming and embracing every opportunity to feel and grasp love in all of its shapes and forms.
"My body is a cage, that keeps me from dancing with the one I love......... But my mind holds the key...." :)

Kurt and Courtney

Salvador and Gala Dali 

Elvis and Priscilla

https://soundcloud.com/richiehawtin/richie-hawtin-enter-week-13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Cdsav0oOQ