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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Narrative: A lonely scientist was stationed to Tundzha Glacier in Antarctica to study fissures.
Instrumentation: I stretched, repitched, and looped two sections…
great record crackle timbre at the beginning.
:45 to 1:10 is the high point for me.
sound gets distorted around 1:10- too much boost in the equalizer there.
like that beat sample around 1:30. would like too hear more of this juxtaposition, and continued cutting up of your main loop.
Welcome to my 300th Alonetone upload! I sit with a pile of books to read in a house full of boxes and my studio is not even completely set up; however, I had no choice but to write and record this tune today once the sun went down. This song is…
well its nearly there. I like to put stuff that I am working on up so that I can listen to it in passing for a day or so, it gives me the chance to hear it with new ears. And maybe get a little feedback/ suggestions. I need to finish the vocal…
Great reverb on those vocals- takes me back to my discovery of my parents' "Surrealistic Pillow" LP at age 7 or so. Love the switch up after the first minute, especially the high theremin-like synth line.
2:45 very nice too.
Welcome to my 300th Alonetone upload! I sit with a pile of books to read in a house full of boxes and my studio is not even completely set up; however, I had no choice but to write and record this tune today once the sun went down. This song is…
The song was constructed around a field recording of Lacandon men paddling across the lake in Métzabok, Chiapas (Southern Mexico). The Lacandon speak "Hach T'an," which is a Mayan dialect-- this is the language you hear in the track. Unfortunately…
This is my 12 hour song (written, recorded, mixed, mastered) ... I pined away all day at it while a storm kept me company.
instrumentation:
a man lost his house and sold me his fretless bass for next to nothing. a family friend gave me…
nice song. i'll have to come back and listen to more.
hey thanks for your comment.
i programmed the drum patterns for "Anniversary" from samples in Reason, added effects in that program as well.
very cool! i would prefer to hear real saxophones though. great texture and treatment of spoken text. the piece seems to end at about 3 and a half minutes. then surprise!
This song was written after moving into a new apartment. One of the movers put a coin in the door hinge to keep the door open so that he wouldn't have to bother me for keys. I thought it was so cool and smart and sleek and simple. I wanted him…
hey could i get an a cappella of this one here?
also i like your idea of building a new beat from chopping up samples of my "Baltimore Celebrates Obama Win" field recording.
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:21 the introduction of distorted guitar layer is awesome
maybe an alternate/contrasting pitched loop at around :32 would be good, to continue to build.
nice ending!
Comments on Erik Spangler's stuff
hi
Great collab, love it
Nice dynamics, method.
Great dynamics. Interesting method!
Now yer talkin'. Got more?
Am I hearing a bit of Bill Laswell influence here?
Heavy head bobbin' beat! Coulda been a bit longer, eh?
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.
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
I love this music, Erik!
..yes indeed.
Very nice.. I am also eager to hear the tunes of your grandfather Spangler. Grandma B.
Nice one mate cool sounds great mix.
..yeah, senor!
has a traveling feel to it that makes me want to jump on a plane for an adventure somewhere! very cool
Jah approved! (p.s, it's totally cool to use my track for the class website, no objections here)
oo0oooo! Yes.
nicccceee n dirty. i could see a sweet b-more remix of this
Man, I wish I was there playing with you. Again, super awesome.
This is really cool.
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fantastic sound.
great record crackle timbre at the beginning. :45 to 1:10 is the high point for me. sound gets distorted around 1:10- too much boost in the equalizer there. like that beat sample around 1:30. would like too hear more of this juxtaposition, and continued cutting up of your main loop.
love the rhythmic evolution at around :20 great light rail sound too.
gotta tell me about your drum production tricks some time. love the sound of the chorus, the bass and the breakdown. sweet.
hey, i was just writing a comment on "Imagine Us". then it disappeared as it moved on to this track. anyway, was really feeling that.
Great reverb on those vocals- takes me back to my discovery of my parents' "Surrealistic Pillow" LP at age 7 or so. Love the switch up after the first minute, especially the high theremin-like synth line. 2:45 very nice too.
Beautiful and brave. Your new ventures with vocals remind me a bit of RJD2's recent move in "The Third Hand"- except I think you have a better voice.
great morning music!
love the use of the field recording with the floating instrumental parts.
Yay, work from Sound I class on a glu mixtape! Great piece, Anna.
reminds me of j dilla. so nice with a glass of red wine.
gorgeous melodic layering, perfect garden of timbres.
nice song. i'll have to come back and listen to more. hey thanks for your comment. i programmed the drum patterns for "Anniversary" from samples in Reason, added effects in that program as well.
A soundtrack for the Twitter Generation ;) Very interesting evolution as it progresses.
very cool! i would prefer to hear real saxophones though. great texture and treatment of spoken text. the piece seems to end at about 3 and a half minutes. then surprise!
hey could i get an a cappella of this one here? also i like your idea of building a new beat from chopping up samples of my "Baltimore Celebrates Obama Win" field recording.
Hey would I be able to get an a cappella or two from you? Feel free to work with any of my beats up here as well. Thanks for listening!
gorgeous sampling, great beat. i love the little surprises you bring in while still maintaining the groove.
wow, this is fantastic. just keeps getting better.
:21 the introduction of distorted guitar layer is awesome maybe an alternate/contrasting pitched loop at around :32 would be good, to continue to build. nice ending!