Memories of walking a coonhound in the small hours around the empty structures of Baltimore's Artscape festival before dawn- silent ferris wheel standing behind the rows of booths, vacant carnival installations on the Charles St Bridge. In this…
A beat I created for "Die Faxmachine", a collaboration with composers Du Yun and Ken Ueno, who faxed in (to a live performance) a composition for flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, and electronics, interpreted on the spot by Mobtown Modern on 9…
Memories of walking a coonhound in the small hours around the empty structures of Baltimore's Artscape festival before dawn- silent ferris wheel standing behind the rows of booths, vacant carnival installations on the Charles St Bridge. In this…
A beat I created for "Die Faxmachine", a collaboration with composers Du Yun and Ken Ueno, who faxed in (to a live performance) a composition for flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, and electronics, interpreted on the spot by Mobtown Modern on 9…
Interactive audio walking tour, a collaboration with artist Kianga Ford.
The Story of This Place is a series of site-specific narratives that offer a portable audio soundtrack that guides the listener through a site with a fictional narrative…
This program was created for "The Mobcast", podcast of Mobtown Modern, as an introduction to the theme of our third season opening concert, "Loopy", at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore, 9/16, 8 pm.
Really liked this podcast - I started thinking about the relationship between instrumental hip-hop/electronica and minimalism when I heard Madlib sampling "It's Gon' Rain" on the Madvillainy record.
From my first album of beats, "Tompkins Count Organic", this song samples the banjo and voice of Frank Profitt, from an old Folkways recording. Also sampled is a composition of mine for violin, played by Rolf Schulte.
This program was created for "The Mobcast", podcast of Mobtown Modern, as an introduction to the theme of our third season opening concert, "Loopy", at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore, 9/16, 8 pm.
Interactive audio walking tour, a collaboration with artist Kianga Ford.
The Story of This Place is a series of site-specific narratives that offer a portable audio soundtrack that guides the listener through a site with a fictional narrative…
Interactive audio walking tour, a collaboration with artist Kianga Ford.
The Story of This Place is a series of site-specific narratives that offer a portable audio soundtrack that guides the listener through a site with a fictional narrative…
From my first album of beats, "Tompkins Count Organic", this song samples the banjo and voice of Frank Profitt, from an old Folkways recording. Also sampled is a composition of mine for violin, played by Rolf Schulte.
A track created for a character called Rainy, on the North walk (entitled "Life Is Monumental") of "Charm City Remix", a site-specific narrative by Kianga Ford.
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…
Preview of "Capricorn" (minus parts to be performed live) from Hybrid Groove Project's ZODIACROBATIC, an arrangement of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Tierkreis", 12 melodies of the Zodiac. To be premiered on the Mobtown Modern music series in Baltimore…
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…
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.
The samples of the woman speaking were taken from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's TED talk, here is a link - http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
Very nice, Jake. That bass is so intense in headphones! I agree with Quetzalcoatus on the build-up. Can I put this on an alonetone playlist of featured work from the class?
Hey Faith, enjoying listening to this on headphones finally. Great progression of texture and rhythm with the found sounds in stereo. Would you mind if I included this on an alonetone playlist of work from this summer session of Sound 1?
Instrumentation: fretless bass, tabla, acoustic and distorted acoustic guitar, hang drum samples (courtesy of Sudara), soft synth (AAS Ultra Analog), ambient sample of the jungle (pitched down two octaves) a sprinkle of ebow (from my Sudara files).
I love this track, how simple the rhythm is but how rich it is with the drum and guitar timbres. Build up is awesome, as Sister Savage & kirklynch said. The break to the sustained texture at the end is fantastic.
From the 24 hour album. Began this one 47 minutes into the 24hr session. Listen to the full work here: http://alonetone.com/glu/tracks/glus-24
I haven't touched this track in over two months. What does it need?
Instrumentation: Bamboo flute…
I told the [good Sister](http://alonetone.com/sistersavage) that I wanted to try using vocals in a track and she offered to do me some abstract, stylized, vocals that I could play with and this little number is the result.
Working with wet (pre…
Soundtrack for the video version of a shadow puppet show ("Awake", below, was an excerpt/prototype for this piece). A link to the YouTube video of the show is below!
Logic 9 - using samples from "8.5" and "8.8" by Supersilent, as well as some drum sounds from "No One Gives A Hoot About Faux-Ass Nonsense" by Don Caballero
Comments on Erik Spangler's stuff
That's pretty friggin awesome...
Fantastic mix of sounds! That's some good stuff. Like the muffled vocal samples.
I love sound scapes. I build my own pictures
This soundscape feels like it's drilling its way into your head. The left-right separations do weird things to the brain.
Wow, impressive track! I love the Augustus Pablo @ ~4min.
Transmission successful!!! Love it and I knew I would before hitting the play button!
Really enjoyed the part on *liberty*
Really liked this podcast - I started thinking about the relationship between instrumental hip-hop/electronica and minimalism when I heard Madlib sampling "It's Gon' Rain" on the Madvillainy record.
yes; thanky
Loop currency? You're a rich man.
SCHPANGLER! This is schpanky. I love it.
How beautifully done, I love the whole thing. What a wonderful delivery this lady has and the music fits perfectly.
Frank Profitt was a relative of mine....I think he would have enjoyed this.
now this is a novel idea!!!!
Thanks!
this is gorgeous!!!!!! love it!! really nice beat.. and the strings and other layers are perfect... awesome.
perfect song for watching little kitties run around!
Fascinating track. Really different. Dig it
love it! Wish I had a digital music class in middle school!
Oh, bring on Taurus! Brilliant!
Comments made by Erik Spangler
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.
Nice counterpart to the early morning thunderstorm outside.
Great piece Ryan, really beautiful. If you're alright with it, I'd like to put this on an alonetone playlist of featured work from the class.
My favorite track. Would you mind if I put this on an alonetone playlist of featured work from our class?
Counterpoint of layers after the 3-min mark is great. So Baltimore.
Very nice, Jake. That bass is so intense in headphones! I agree with Quetzalcoatus on the build-up. Can I put this on an alonetone playlist of featured work from the class?
Hey Faith, enjoying listening to this on headphones finally. Great progression of texture and rhythm with the found sounds in stereo. Would you mind if I included this on an alonetone playlist of work from this summer session of Sound 1?
I'd like to put this on an alonetone playlist of work from our summer Sound 1 class- let me know if you have any objection. Great synth textures.
nice!
I really like the changes to the drums you introduce after the 50-second mark. Thanks for posting!
I love this track, how simple the rhythm is but how rich it is with the drum and guitar timbres. Build up is awesome, as Sister Savage & kirklynch said. The break to the sustained texture at the end is fantastic.
Lovely.
Great movie soundtrack!
love the vocal processing and noise elements.
I keep coming back to this one.
Great track! Everything fuses perfectly.
Great textures!
Really like the stereo vocal polyphony at softer dynamic levels in the first section.
So glad I took a listen with headphones!
Great track, Niv. Really chill but energized throughout.