While I was a grad student in the Boston area, I performed regularly with an Afro-Caribbean drumming group called the Jah Jah Drummers. It was during this time that I first began making beats in hip-hop and dub styles. This was recorded at the…
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.
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 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 one is amazing as well!. Are you still working with kids?
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This is my first attempt at merging the children's beats and rhythms with my son working the turntable.
The youth bring an entirely different perspective into the mix!
Make Music! Be Happy
One in a series of collaborations that I did with students in my digital music class, back when I was teaching middle school. These are 7th and 8th graders at Oasis Charter Middle School in Cape Coral, FL. We created the instrumental tracks together…
I love this collaboration with youth. You've done a wonderful job.
Great Stuff! I'm listening to the old turtle story right now.
Thank You
My joy comes from playing music with pre schoolers. I'm now beginning to lay tracks down on top of their rhythym and beats.
Such wild abandoned.
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This piece was written for the Vance Quartet, a student clarinet quartet at Oberlin in 2002. My wife is one of the 2 bass clarinetists heard on this recording-- we'd known each other for a few months at this point. The electronic sound collage…
It's seems guy loves the music of great Russian composer A.Skryabin (I'm not sure about spelling). I studied that music while I was leaning in music college. It's a great music! DJ Dubble8 - your music so close to me.
I recorded this short piece on guitar for my friend Andy Hulse's 2003 film "High Lonesome". This part is for a driving scene with no dialogue. Early morning in a southwestern Texas landscape.
I recorded this short solo vocal with a minidisc recorder while up in a tree. This is a one-take, one-track recording (with lots of delay added, to be sure). The bird you hear was actually accompanying me at the time. A later, expanded version…
Beat created for vocal collaborator Du Yun, mixed with a slowed-down Medieval recorder estampie. Created while dwelling in the suburban wilds of Cape Coral, Lee County, FL.
I recorded this short piece on guitar for my friend Andy Hulse's 2003 film "High Lonesome". This part is for a driving scene with no dialogue. Early morning in a southwestern Texas landscape.
A meditative space for guitar, harp, vibraphone, english horn, french horn, viola, cello, and double bass, from my large work "Mandala of the Four Directions" (2004).
Performed by my wife, Marie Rinkoski, on clarinet. Recorded in the woods around Ithaca NY, and layered with some scratchy vinyl pops. This clarinet melody is the introduction to a song I wrote on one of Pablo Neruda's Sonnets.
My music series, Mobtown Modern, just got a great write-up in the Baltimore Sun. Our upcoming show features music by one of the composers sampled in this beat. Can you guess who it is?
The article:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.mobtown07sep07,0,2400931.story
Good work Robin. After the one-minute mark the flow especially works nicely. I really like how you cut up and manipulate that synth riff around 1:30, and I agree with you that putting it where it is provides a welcome change from the epic 80's sound
The first bioelectrophilia track since returning to the US. This song was made with only 2 saki monkey vocalizations. Note the beginning of the song which demonstrates how one vocalization was turned into part of the percussion.
Man, I wish I had this track last Wednesday night when I mixed some of your other bioelectrophilia tracks at the "Sound Ecology" event that I told you about. Lots of positive comments from audience members. Keep bringing it.
My music series, Mobtown Modern, just got a great write-up in the Baltimore Sun. Our upcoming show features music by one of the composers sampled in this beat. Can you guess who it is?
The article:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.mobtown07sep07,0,2400931.story
i love this track. if it's ok with you, i'd like to mix a few of your tracks into an opening dj set for a concert called "sound ecology" on my new music series, mobtown modern, in baltimore. that'll be in october, featuring compositions that are inspired by the environment. i'll make sure you are credited in the program notes. check out the site for the series:
www.mobtownmodern.com
best,
dubble8
I am singing/vocalizing audio to accompany short scenes in a film made by an artist friend of mine. She calls it "Pattern Pattern". This segment goes with a snowy scene where shadows move in and out like wolves.
102nd & Amsterdam is dedicated to by father, Raymond Boyce; this was the first of many New York addresses for him. My fathers stories of growing up in New York in the 40's and 50's cemented in my mind the idea of New York as The City, an idea…
Great sensitivity to detail, strong sound images. Put some more tracks up here!
Do you by any chance have any compositions that use the voice in a non-traditional way? I'm working on programming the upcoming season of Mobtown Modern, a new music series at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore that I recently started with saxophonist Brian Sacawa. One of the programs that is still open is called "More Than Words" (January), concentrating on innovative treatment of the human voice. Let me know if you have anything that could work for that. By the way, do you teach in the DC area?
Best,
Erik Spangler
i really love what you're doing, using your own field recordings of environmental sounds as sampling material. do you know stephen vitiello's work? less beat-oriented, but touching on some similar ideas of "sound ecology". keep these tracks coming.
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music to my ears!!! hooray for brave Baltimore! MAN this is cool.
WOOOOOOOOO!
Sweet, thanks for sharing this Dubble Erik!
I like my art cruchy like this.
I agree with ACL, really nice!
Like this.
Oh Yeah...Nice!
This one is amazing as well!. Are you still working with kids? Check out http://www.redgage.com/#rf:/videos/makemusic/welcome-to-the-underground-experimental.html:innercontainer:pageForwarder This is my first attempt at merging the children's beats and rhythms with my son working the turntable. The youth bring an entirely different perspective into the mix! Make Music! Be Happy
I love this collaboration with youth. You've done a wonderful job. Great Stuff! I'm listening to the old turtle story right now. Thank You My joy comes from playing music with pre schoolers. I'm now beginning to lay tracks down on top of their rhythym and beats. Such wild abandoned. www.MakeMusicandDance.com I sent a link in four mile cove comments: another gem Check out RedGage search videos: Welcome to Underground Experimental
It's seems guy loves the music of great Russian composer A.Skryabin (I'm not sure about spelling). I studied that music while I was leaning in music college. It's a great music! DJ Dubble8 - your music so close to me.
Very interesting. I'm fond of classic guitar.
I like it! Nice!
Nice. Man, really diggin these downtempo tunes
very cool. I love the atmospheric sounds of the guitar and when the percussion arrives.
Extra Fine!
I LOVE this!!!!
Ahh...Beautiful!
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.mobtown07sep07,0,2400931.story
My music series, Mobtown Modern, just got a great write-up in the Baltimore Sun. Our upcoming show features music by one of the composers sampled in this beat. Can you guess who it is? The article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.mobtown07sep07,0,2400931.story
this ep is just jaw-dropping. ouch, my jaw. wowzers.
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Good work Robin. After the one-minute mark the flow especially works nicely. I really like how you cut up and manipulate that synth riff around 1:30, and I agree with you that putting it where it is provides a welcome change from the epic 80's sound
sounds so sweet, damn... i'm usually into more sample-based tracks, but your use of synth layers is so tight
cool. which project is this for?
Very cool
so chill. great sound
Man, I wish I had this track last Wednesday night when I mixed some of your other bioelectrophilia tracks at the "Sound Ecology" event that I told you about. Lots of positive comments from audience members. Keep bringing it.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.mobtown07sep07,0,2400931.story
My music series, Mobtown Modern, just got a great write-up in the Baltimore Sun. Our upcoming show features music by one of the composers sampled in this beat. Can you guess who it is? The article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.mobtown07sep07,0,2400931.story
i love this track. if it's ok with you, i'd like to mix a few of your tracks into an opening dj set for a concert called "sound ecology" on my new music series, mobtown modern, in baltimore. that'll be in october, featuring compositions that are inspired by the environment. i'll make sure you are credited in the program notes. check out the site for the series: www.mobtownmodern.com best, dubble8
great mix!
Haunting and beautiful. I'd love to see the film.
Great sensitivity to detail, strong sound images. Put some more tracks up here! Do you by any chance have any compositions that use the voice in a non-traditional way? I'm working on programming the upcoming season of Mobtown Modern, a new music series at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore that I recently started with saxophonist Brian Sacawa. One of the programs that is still open is called "More Than Words" (January), concentrating on innovative treatment of the human voice. Let me know if you have anything that could work for that. By the way, do you teach in the DC area? Best, Erik Spangler
i really love what you're doing, using your own field recordings of environmental sounds as sampling material. do you know stephen vitiello's work? less beat-oriented, but touching on some similar ideas of "sound ecology". keep these tracks coming.
Great layering and drum programming. Kind of like a blend of Squarepusher and Radiohead, very nice.