Obscurantist #75: Violin Solo

Obscurantist #74: Music for Life

MUSIC FOR LIFE

Custom-made audio compositions to complement your life-environment.

3 pieces for each day of the week = 21 personalized sound palettes of varying lengths

You decide: Situational music, Mood enhancement, Sound for Purposes of Your Own Conception. 168

some possible sound ideas…………………………..

Music for Sleeping

Ringtones for your Cell Phone

Driving Music

House Cleaning Music

Music for your Pet

Computer Alert

Sound Effects

Kitchen Loop

Bathroom Loop

Bedroom Loop

Exercise Loop

Commuting

Eating Music

Hiking Music

Answering Message sound

Music for visitors

Music for Neighbor-noise-abatement

Wake up music

Dancing impetus

Birthday Music

Giving Birth

Spring Planting

Reading Music

This project was up for bid at an Oakland art gallery fundraiser in 2012.

It received zero bids.

Obscurantist #73: Endless Moods

Retail Audio Environment Research. The Science of how music affects the behavior of the customer. 

Manipulation 93

Manipulation 91

Manipulation 90

Manipulation 21

Manipulation 20

Manipulation 10

Manipulation 4

Manipulation 3a

Manipulation 3

Manipulation 2

Obscurantist #72: Auto: Generative Orchestra

Thee Obscurantist created an application that generates the fundamental materials for a composition based on a modal, structural design. 

The application first decides:

piece length (bars), number of root centers (modulation), number of phrases, meters, tempi and orchestration.

Next the application decides: mode, number of melodic cells, dynamics.

These generated materials are then combined to form the composition with only slight modifications, and supporting orchestration.

This 19:00 composition contains 480 bars, 18 parts, 3 mode centers, 11 melodic themes

set of random variables not used in this piece:

silences, chord density, technique, gestures.

The audio was realized digitally with the Ableton Live Orchestra Pack.

Listen Here

Download Score here

Obscurantist #71: Salton Sea Keyboard Variations

Compositions

for Piano

T01, Z Lateral
T02, Variations, New River
T03, Obsidian Butte
T04, Trifolium

for Organ

T05, Vail, 20 nearest Stars


august-october 2012

Obscurantist #70: The Sound Column

the following tracks were recorded during spring and summer 2012 in 'the Sound Column'.

The SC is really the inside of one structural leg of the Rotunda at the Palace of Fine Arts.

This room is a rarely open to the public and so few people have ever been inside.

The inside is a trapezoid shape extending upward about 60 feet.

There is one door, no windows, and a tile covered floor.

The only object inside this resonant chamber is a Marimba with 5 metal keys.

Untitled
Dulcimer 04
Marimba
Frame
ancient soliloquy to fishes in a cave
Dulcimer 01
Cassette
Dulcimer 03
Last Night of the Proms

Obscurantist #68: RoomTone

'Room Tone'

Duration is variable

Room Tone is a performative sound installation that explores feedback, resonance, and harmonicity.

The piece consists of individual stations that are manipulated in real time. There should be four to 8 stations.

Each station contains the following elements:

1x Miniature electric guitar with stand

1x Miniature Marshall Stack Amplifier

1x Clear Acrylic or Plexiglass Vitrine (16 cm x 16 cm x 32 cm)

1x Stereo Condenser

Other Equipment:

8 channel Mixer 

4-8 amplified speakers

Laptop 

MOTU 8 channel Sound Card

The amps are turned to full volume allowing for a positive feedback loop to begin. Each instrument is tuned to a complimentary chord. As the Feedback continues, the resonances begin to change. Factors such as heat, string fatigue, humidity, and decreasing battery life act on the feedback loop. The combined resonances create a changing chord. This iteration of Room Tone is autonomous and does not require human intervention. A second interactive version sounds slightly different. Through subtle manipulations of filters and equalization the chord can make to 'modulate' more intensely.

Click Here to listen so a version from the SouthBay Talent Center

Obscurantist #67: AchzichHerz~80Hz

Improvised Metal  ++++++++++++++++++++++2007


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Clementine : Drums #1 + 4
Jon W: Drums Track #1 + 4
Jon B: Drums #2 + 3
Nila : Bass
Wayne: Guitar, voice, keyboard

Mastered By Noah Landis

Obscurantist #66: Au 79

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Shredded Balinese Gamelan-Denpasar, short Loopings, Feedback, Vocoder, guitar, Rebab-Tanzania, long Loop, little black oscillator box which is not a bomb, bass, SK-1, resonated Zeppelin Airship.

Obscurantist #65: The Transit of Venus

Audio from the the live Sonification of Venus 

Complete Audio files [approximately 6.5 Hours]

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

click to listen to the Theme from the Venus Transit Webcast

Video highlights:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/venus/

Obscurantist #64: Annular Eclipse sonified

Click to Hear the entire Audio Clip 02:18:00

Click to view partial time-lapse video of the Eclipse.

Obscurantist #63:

HeadHunter.Bt4

Tremblement Du Terre.Bt2

El Coco.Bt0

I5

Bt06

Ebola Vista. Bt8

Bt210

Scholar's Rock.Bt10

I have eaten Justin Bieber's Liver.Bt7

Bt11

Tt1

Obscurantist #62: R1

The original 'Rust' version.





click here to listen (total time 03:41:00)

click here for the audio slideshow version

Obscurantist #61: Sonnet for Agnes Ramsey

Written in 1991 for my Grandmother Agnes Ramsey. Artist Erin Elliott systematically created a handmade animation from the score in 2003.

click HERE to download the movie or watch below

Obscurantist #60: Commute

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Kate O'Donnell
Carey Lin
Wayne Grim

Video installation with sound for the Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA: Experimental Notations

Obscurantist #59: Unlimited States of Nothing (Live Broadcast) August 4th, 2011

Live Internet Radio broadcast.
on Thursday August 4th, 2011 @ 7:30 to 10 pm.

The Unlimited States of Nothing will be premiered.

During the two hours and twenty-three minutes,
the following segments will be enclosed.

Impelling Rotund
It Walks alone
Stars Remain Birds Move
Hellmouths
A Piece of Strange
Small pets of Old
Time-lapse Render
Fin
Lower Lower Deaths
Locusts
Sat V

Saturn Maps
In 1996, they discovered there could be a cloud of sound that people might dance to.
The trio was spontaneous. Everything went into to the infinite repeat machine.
guitars and voices and other things in a circular pattern. Last heard then. Now there is only one, there are no guitars or voices. Only disembodied sounds from nature and machines.

listen to the archived program here: click

Obscurantist #56: Van Boven: Pink Socks, White Light, Brown Bird

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Obscurantist #55: Man Pulls Tank: I Sort Of Like You

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Obscurantist #54: Sounds from Lost Places-Bali

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