delay
speech synthesis struggling, pre-emptively mimicked by violin harmonics, then bass recorder with each respective repeated iteration. each iteration punctuation by an entirely separate instrument grouping consisting of glock., claves, woodblock, drum kit, fm synth. musical bullying.
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lull
stereo recording of the red line leaving from the jarvis stop in rogers park, chicago and the lull after, before the next train arrives, in relative perpetuum. summer.
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respite
solo acoustic guitar, ebow, high harmonics instability resulting in momentary single string multiphonics. Just Intonation tuning derived from a fundamental frequency of 6Hz:
JI scordatura derived from fundamental of 6hz
E2+33cents – 84Hz (14 OT)
A2-32cents – 108Hz (18 OT)
D3-34cents – 144Hz (24 OT)
G3-9cents - 195Hz (1/2 of 390hz - 65 OT)
B3-7cents – 246Hz (41 OT)
E4+2cents – 330Hz (55 OT)
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moratorium
contrapuntal granulated contact mic alto sax key clicks and reed biting.
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interregnum
distressed vocoder, recorders, double bass harmonic double-stops, chimes, uilleann pipes, imagined ai michael collins soundtrack.
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ent’acte
string quartet, sine wave generator and vca, ji, pitch material derived from fundamental of 6 Hz. influenced by maryanne amacher, catherine lamb and david b. doty’s the just intonation primer.
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standstill
variable rate gate, frequency modulation and physical modelling, tempo instability, slight compression.
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falter
two parallel virtual failing tapes (generation loss mkii) of fm piano being glitched in different ways using blooper. faltering tape snagging playback of piano. influenced by youtube vhs rip of bbc two neon ident, hiroshi yoshimura.
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adjourn
bank of 16 sinewaves (8 left speaker/headphone and 8 right speaker/headphone), ji derived from a fundamental of 6hz, loosely improvised structure, additive synthesis:
3 – 18 Hz 43 – 258 Hz
5 – 30 Hz 48 – 288 Hz
6 – 36 Hz 96 – 576 Hz
12 – 72 Hz 128 – 768 Hz
14 – 84 Hz 192 – 1152 Hz
24 – 144 Hz 384 – 2304 Hz
four low bit rate oscillators:
6 – 36 Hz sample rate: 31.5 kHz bit depth: 6
24 – 144 Hz sample rate: 44.5 kHz bit depth: 5
96 – 576 Hz sample rate: 24.5 kHz bit depth: 7
192 – 1152 Hz sample rate: 43.0 kHz bit depth: 11
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pause
text to speech directed performance organ chords atop synchronised percussion and variable rate playback using stock samples on C&G organelle.
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suspension
distorted lap steel, heavy with reverb. tonal-ish. Influenced by disco elysium, gy!be at barrowland ballroom, glasgow.
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hesitation
circuit bent amplifier, stereo capacitive touch delay feedback line, driven. edited improvisation. landscape stereo field and boss stereo delay routed for two lines of related feedback.
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breath
a study of instrument body resonance, without breath, a droning speaker placed into the bell of the alto sax, timbre changed by fingerings and coverage of mouthpiece. Influenced by stuart rosen lipreading research and conversations with alex mincek. unused preparatory work.
Miúin 007 - "sketches in reaction to an exhibition" is part of the collaborative art book "Caesura" which was made as collaboration between the artists Isabel English, Rachel Enright-Murphy, Charlotte Foley, Neil Quigley and Leda Scully.
Artwork: an image from "famous background machine learning iterations, or ai variation generation loss - windows xp" by Neil Quigley.
This music was made possible, in part, by the kind financial support from Artlinks, in partnership with the Kilkenny Arts Office and Kilkenny County Council.
