Boutique Noise for Rude Palates
eightprime.net
https://unrulybeast.bandcamp.com/album/things-gone-things-going-away
Fresh Unruly Beast – manipulated field recordings composed for Barbara Adler‘s touring Speakers.
Album link includes the original field recordings.
This project made extensive use of the fantastic Forester tool by Leafcutter John.
We held the 2nd Vernal Equinoctial Experiment on March 20, 2023 at Gabriola Island’s Agi Hall.
Matt Rogalsky presented some current work about “using field recordings in improvisation, in terms of inspiration from the “Honourable Harvest” of Indigenous food gathering.” and performed an audiovisual composition in which he improvised in collusion with a thawing lake.
Anju Singh improvised with a recording made using a violin as a prosthetic ear to hear with a tree, and presented recent live-coding work in the esoteric programming language Orca .
and THRUMS sang the spinning wheel
Most of the most important things are things we rarely notice.
The continual living action of everything in the world around us holds an endless music.
THRUMS – live manipulation of the act of weaving on a 4 shaft counterbalance loom
Ash in the Time of Ash – live manipulation of a recording of the act of cleaning a domestic woodstove in preparation for the onset of winter
Field 3 – manipulated field recordings from Good Earth Farm
Kandy Traces – reimagined sounds of a busy intersection in Sri Lanka
A scanline moves across the moving image and the pixel values drive banks of tuned oscillators. Signal values are used to drive brightness/contrast/saturation parameters on the video feed. Effect chains on the oscillator banks are likewise altered by the parameters of the sound, which feeds back into the video.
Recent noisy noise for troubled times and uncertain futures
abstract a/v by eightprime
built around music from the Alexandrian composer Latefall