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This is another track resulting from a project in my digital music class at Oasis Charter Middle School (Spring 2007). Using a common pool of objects, my newborn daughter's baby instruments, I asked the students to create episodic sound illustrations…
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hi

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This is another song that came out of my year teaching at MATHS Charter School in the Baltimore City Public School System. Sewella Barnes was one of my students who would come after school to record after school, even when she was no longer taking…
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Guest said

Great collab, love it

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A live improvisation on material drawn from an older composition of mine for solo guitar, "Gut Matrix". In this performance from a Purple City Players concert at Maryland Institute College of Art in November 2010, Ben Beirs played the live guitar…
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Breaking Light said

Nice dynamics, method.

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A live improvisation on material drawn from an older composition of mine for solo guitar, "Gut Matrix". In this performance from a Purple City Players concert at Maryland Institute College of Art in November 2010, Ben Beirs played the live guitar…
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Breaking Light said

Great dynamics. Interesting method!

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A live improvisation on material drawn from an older composition of mine for solo guitar, "Gut Matrix". In this performance from a Purple City Players concert at Maryland Institute College of Art in November 2010, Ben Beirs played the live guitar…
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Guest said

Now yer talkin'. Got more?

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This beat was made while teaching my Sound I summer class about making sample-based beats in Reason software. It is named after the new Circulator energy-efficient free bus in Baltimore. My main non-drum samples here are from my piece "Granite…
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Drop D said

Am I hearing a bit of Bill Laswell influence here?

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This beat was made while teaching my Sound I summer class about making sample-based beats in Reason software. It is named after the new Circulator energy-efficient free bus in Baltimore. My main non-drum samples here are from my piece "Granite…
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Drop D said

Heavy head bobbin' beat! Coulda been a bit longer, eh?

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This piece grew out of a project in my digital music class at Oasis Charter Middle School (Cape Coral, FL) back in Fall 2006. I recorded some environmental sounds at night in the Four Mile Cove nature preserve in Cape Coral (the only bit of natural…
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Erik Spangler said

This project was done using a minidisc recorder and Sony stereo condenser mic (if it was done today I would probably use a solid state recorder like the Zoom H4), Audacity free software for editing the samples, and Reason software for assembling the field recording samples into beats (if done today I would use Ableton Live for both these steps). Finally I used Traktor DJ software to mix together the various beats that my students made, and their spoken narratives, plus a wildlife LP record to scratch in various bird calls.

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This piece grew out of a project in my digital music class at Oasis Charter Middle School (Cape Coral, FL) back in Fall 2006. I recorded some environmental sounds at night in the Four Mile Cove nature preserve in Cape Coral (the only bit of natural…
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Guest said

Hello Erik - I have been enjoying the soundscapes you created with your students. I am going to do a soundscape project with some students at Pros Arts Studio in Chicago. What sound recording equipment and computer programs did you use to create the pieces? Meaghan

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Credits music for "Chalk Outlines", a film by Joe Zohar, Moving Box Studios.
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Guest said

I love this music, Erik!

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This beat was made while teaching my Sound I summer class about making sample-based beats in Reason software. It is named after the new Circulator energy-efficient free bus in Baltimore. My main non-drum samples here are from my piece "Granite…
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K. SCOT SPARKS 79+intercessions said

..yes indeed.

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Beat made for the Scorpio movement of "Zodiacrobatic", remixing "Tierkreis" by Karlheinz Stockhausen. This particular track is made for a mashup of Stockhausen's melody with the song "Scorpion" by the Budos Band. The source melody is not actually…
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Guest said

Very nice.. I am also eager to hear the tunes of your grandfather Spangler. Grandma B.

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Johnny Stone said

Nice one mate cool sounds great mix.

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This beat was made while teaching my Sound I summer class about making sample-based beats in Reason software. It is named after the new Circulator energy-efficient free bus in Baltimore. My main non-drum samples here are from my piece "Granite…
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K. SCOT SPARKS 79+intercessions said

..yeah, senor!

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For a walk in midtown Baltimore.
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Rick Phillips said

has a traveling feel to it that makes me want to jump on a plane for an adventure somewhere! very cool

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This beat was made while teaching my Sound I summer class about making sample-based beats in Reason software. It is named after the new Circulator energy-efficient free bus in Baltimore. My main non-drum samples here are from my piece "Granite…
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Gen. Libra said

Jah approved! (p.s, it's totally cool to use my track for the class website, no objections here)

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Jason Sloan and I recorded this track in March 2010 as an improvisation in preparation for our performances on The Vigil all-night music festival at MICA. Jason describes the session: "Erik and I come from very different backgrounds in our approach…
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K. SCOT SPARKS 79+intercessions said

oo0oooo! Yes.

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This beat was made while teaching my Sound I summer class about making sample-based beats in Reason software. It is named after the new Circulator energy-efficient free bus in Baltimore. My main non-drum samples here are from my piece "Granite…
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Guest said

nicccceee n dirty. i could see a sweet b-more remix of this

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Jason Sloan and I recorded this track in March 2010 as an improvisation in preparation for our performances on The Vigil all-night music festival at MICA. Jason describes the session: "Erik and I come from very different backgrounds in our approach…
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mmi said

Man, I wish I was there playing with you. Again, super awesome.

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Jason Sloan and I recorded this track in March 2010 as an improvisation in preparation for our performances on The Vigil all-night music festival at MICA. Jason describes the session: "Erik and I come from very different backgrounds in our approach…
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mmi said

This is really cool.

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