Live at NOISE=NOISE #19 (29 April 2010) There’s a series of Noise concerts in the London area called NOISE=NOISE, curated by Ryan Jordan. They’re usually pretty awesome. This was the second one I’ve played in. It was organised about two days before the event, so I threw together my set at the last minute. In [...]
05.02.2010
10.09.2009
Blakes 9 (2008-9) I’ve been working on this piece for over a year and it’s time to say it’s done. The inspiration to start this piece came from two sources. One was that I watched the TV show Blakes 7 and thought it had great incidental music. And the other was that I briefly dated [...]
10.08.2009
Shorts: #29 Raining Up (2009) Commissioned and titled by Autumn Looijen This piece was created using a MOTM Synthesizer and mixed in Ardour. There were several false starts. I had been doing field recordings of storms and for a while, every artificial sound I made seemed to also sound like weather. The title Autumn chose [...]
10.01.2009
Shorts: #28 Untitled (2008) Commissioned and (un)titled by Cecile Moochnek I wasn’t looking for a commission when I walked into the Cecile Moochnek Gallery on 4th Street in Berkeley. I was looking to do Christmas shopping. But I got talking to the gallery owner about art and music and she asked me to write her [...]
10.22.2008
Categories: 2008, Celesteh, Just Intonation, Noise, Supercollider, Synthesizer | 2 Comments
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Blake’s 9 (2008) This piece has changed significantly since I first posted it and a newer version has since been posted. I recently watched the entirety of the TV series Blake’s 7. Like all BBC science fiction productions of it’s era, the incidental music and sound effects are outstanding. The background hums, the computer whirrs [...]
04.11.2008
Categories: 2007, Celesteh, Field Recording, Noise, Shorts, Synthesizer, commission | 1 Comment
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Commissioned and titled by Josh Fruhlinger. (2007) Josh gave me the title before I started the piece. Gil Thorp is the name of a surreal American newspaper comic which is supposed to be about high school sports. Josh runs a blog discussing newspaper comics, called the Comics Curmudgeon. I recorded (British) football from my TV, [...]
03.08.2008
She’s Not There (2008) I picked up my sousaphone this afternoon, with the idea that I could improve my chops and work out some angst. As I lifted it, the spit valve fell off. As I played it, several other bits rattled loose. Alas. So I put the headphone part of a usb headset around [...]
02.15.2008
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Live at the 1510 Performance Space (2008) Les HUTCHINS and Matt DAVIGNON Live improvisation recorded at the 1510 Performance space in Oakland, California on 5 February 2008. I played an Evenfall Minimodular synthesizer, looped with a SuperCollider program. Matt played a bunch of pedals and cool little boxes. Recording by Clyde NIESEN AudioPlayer.embed(“pod_audio_8″, {soundFile: [...]
07.01.2007
Shorts: #23 Gamut (2007) Commissioned and titled by Devin Hurd I made this piece several weeks ago and I’m afraid that my methods have left my memory. It is made with an MOTM analog synthesizer. AudioPlayer.embed(“pod_audio_9″, {soundFile: “http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkeleynoise.com%2Fcelesteh%2Fmp3s%2F2007%2Fshorts%2Fhurd.mp3″});
05.05.2007
Shorts: #24 For College Promo (2007) Commissioned and titled by Jean Sirius, who is using it for a video sound track. I wanted to something that started out collegiate, but got more playful further in. The opening is square waves, which are pulse-width modulated and slightly frequency modulated. While I was recording them, my dog [...]
