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 [...]

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 [...]

Joystick Intermezzo (2008) All of my SuperCollider pieces require several silent seconds to clear existing memory, pre-compute data and load joystick drivers. I find it helpful in many circumstances to play short tape pieces as intermezzos while other, longer pieces, get ready to play. This particular one is designed to be used between pieces involving [...]

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, [...]

Shorts: #25 Untitled (2007) Commissioned and (un)titled by Scott Wilson I talked today about whether or not he wanted to give me a title, and Scott noted that the piece has a “flatuent quality,” but it would be better to resist referencing that in a title. To make this piece, I recorded myself playing a [...]

Shorts: #26 Ecstatic Rivulet (2007) Commissioned and titled by Clyde Niesen For this piece, I wanted to use a field recording that I made while camping over the summer. Visually, the campground looked like it would make a suitable set for a horror movie. The animals were correspondingly loud and screetchy at night and so [...]

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_5″, {soundFile: “http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkeleynoise.com%2Fcelesteh%2Fmp3s%2F2007%2Fshorts%2Fhurd.mp3″});

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 [...]

Shorts: #22 For Benjamin Britten (2007) Commissioned and titled by Michael Strickland (aka sfmike) Mike gave me the title before I wrote the piece. I spent a lot of time thinking about what to do with this. This last year, I learned that the Phillips Corporation had intended to get Britten to do the music [...]

Shorts: #21 Anarchy and Rapture (2007) Commissioned and titled by Polly Moller in memory of Leigh Ann Hussey, who died tragically in a motorcycle accident on May 16, 2006. I didn’t ever meet Leigh Ann, but I typed her name into google and found a memorial. It was clear right away that I would have [...]