SaxNOsc started life as a live improvisation with saxophone and electronic oscillators. The final track is edited down from about 15 minutes playing.
The picture isn’t Paul, it’s Stan Getz playing on an old episode of Jazz 625
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Oscillator was made using 3 old audio oscillators which were originally used as test equipment. The oscillators a all have modulation inputs. By feeding the output of one oscillator into the input of the next I was able to make a crude 3 oscillator FM synthesiser. This produced some interesting noises. Paul and I recorded some knob twiddling and then cut up and edited the resulting samples in Ableton Live. The video was created by writing a simple Processing sketch which takes the output from Live ( routed via Soundflower) and displays it as a waveform. The sketch samples every half a second which corresponds to one beat at 120 BPM ( actually the sampling rate is slightly less than half a second to make the frames of the video slightly out of synch to create a blurring effect). Each frame is blurred after it is rendered to create so that the waveforms gradually fade into the background. Finally the video was imported into imovie and synced up to the original audio.
Having been evicted from my house to make way for the monthly book club I popped round to Paul’s flat for the evening. This is the result!
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Dub Batteries
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The first post in a long time. Boing is a track which doesn’t contain anything that sounds like a boing.
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The picture above shows the sticker that inspired our name. As William Burroughs said “were all here to go into space”.
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The background sound in Spooky was created by running a single drum sound through one of Micheal Norris’ rather wonderful and free Sound Spectral Plugins. The flute sound comes from a strange bendy flute that Paul bought in Berlin. The picture was taken through my kitchen window just might have captured a ghost.
Spooky
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Oodles is another guitar loop based track.
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Another party gig. This one was held ‘Source’ in Cambridge. Paul couldn’t make it so I decided to try a solo techno set. This was basically the ‘dance set’ we have been working on over the last year minus the live guitar.
Compare it with the version we performed at Jane’s Party.
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A party in St Pauls, a church with great acoustics. We created a new dance set especially for the occasion.
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No its not the monolith from 2001, its the new Delta Family Demo!
The artwork on the front cover is a modified picture of the surface of a Henry Moore sculpture. Inside the cover we’ve included a picture taken inside the lighthouse on Dungeness beach. The lighthouse created a safe channel by sending out two beams of light, one red and one green. Sailors could navigate down the channel by keeping both lights in sight.
The tracks we’ve chosen for this demo are:
Akustik
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15-2-2
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A
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Spring
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