"Cloud Tenders (Brass)" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]
The "brass ensemble" is the Vermona Perfourmer analog synth -- four monosynths struggling to stay in harmony. The rest is "chord" hits from NI's Battery 4 ROMpler, and selected percussion.
"Indoor Wiggin" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]
Back over to Windows 7 for some software synthesizer shenanigans. At the very end a hardware synth plays some of the same MIDI.
One objective was to try out the E-Mu Orbit 9090 soundfont kit in Kontakt and body it up with some effects. Also, Native Instruments did software updates and I wanted to see what was new.
The interview I did a few months ago on the topic of Nasty Nets and internet surf clubs is being published by Link Editions, in connection with the book Cloning Aura. Art in the Age of Copycats by Chiara Moioli. The interview appears in a browsable form at Issuu.com. A PDF version is forthcoming via Lulu. From the Link Editions post:
The Surfer’s Conspiracy. Investigating with Tom Moody digs deep into Surfing Clubs and the way they turned the practice of appropriation into a natural attitude, with the help of one of the most active surfers and of the best critical voices in this scene.
This publication is a spin-off of the book project Cloning Aura. Art in the Age of Copycats, by Chiara Moioli: an essay that explores the close relation between practices of appropriation an, going through Postmodernism, 70s-80s subcultural movements, net.art and the Surfing Club generation. This is the second of five interviews (Florian Cramer, Tom Moody, Vittore Baroni, Vuk Ćosić and Cory Arcangel) in English and Italian, that will follow in the upcoming weeks. The book, in Italian, will be available on our shelves from mid March 2016.
The interviews are being published in weekly installments on the Link website.
Cash and freedom - from Crooked Timber. Discusses the politics of the "cashless society." Who benefits? (Banks, governments).
The GOP Is Finally Debating Bush-Era Failures - from the paleocon American Conservative mag.
"Soundfonts" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]
This was done with Linux Ardour. Am having some issues with probably needing a faster processor to run this software, so I am sticking to relatively small "soundfont" files in Fluidsynth, a plugin sample player. The method of this track was to write a few bars of beats, record them, then use the MIDI with the beats to play organs and other pitched instruments, then make changes to the melodies of those, then use the MIDI to play new beats, etc. Eventually chunks of 2- and 4-bar audio begin to accumulate on four tracks of the timeline, which can be arranged into a tune. A final mix was done in Windows Cubase, where some reverb and compression was added.
