Archive for category Live Electronic Performance

Date: June 8th, 2011
Cate: Breath, Live Electronic Performance, Major Project, sounds

LEP Project

Live Electronic Performance Project

Noise: the base substrate that we are all grounded in and almost always paradoxically outside of, not a defined territory, this is dissonance, difference, otherness. A non-representable, indexical? An innate capacity and breadth to both exist outside of a form and engulf a form, cosmological, a capacitor for change an evolutionary sea where the noisionists and their notions of all creation have derived consonance from and into.

My research for my main Masters project explores the properties and ideas about human breath, in essence the breath as a living proof of the necessity for interchange between every individual being and its physical environment. The breath, a bridge, between thought and action. In philosophy the breath can be a guide for exploration into the depths of consciousness; in art, breath can be a prime material or subject matter for creation.

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Date: June 7th, 2011
Cate: Live Electronic Performance

All inclusive field recordings

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All-inclusive dad at a holiday resort in Dalaman, Turkey.

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Assonance recorded at an all-inclusive holiday resort, Dalaman, Turkey.

Date: May 25th, 2011
Cate: Live Electronic Performance

Wah wah on the woo woo…

A composition using wah wah effects on a field recording of breath during sexual activity…

[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/15915723"] wahwahonthewoowoo by thecrack

Ujiyi breathing – Straight field recording
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Inhalation and exhalation are both done through the nose. The “ocean sound” is created by moving the glottis as air passes in and out. As the throat passage is narrowed so, too, is the airway, the passage of air through which creates a “rushing” sound. The length and speed of the breath is controlled by the diaphragm, the strengthening of which is, in part, the purpose of ujjayi. The inhalations and exhalations are practiced to be equal in duration

Date: May 25th, 2011
Cate: Live Electronic Performance

‘Bukowski Sitting in a Room…’

I imagined Charles Bukowski sitting in Alvin Lucier’s room… He chose a poem to read, “The Genius of the Crowd”

I thought it would be an interesting parallel to process Bukowski’s thoughts on crowd resonance…through Lucier’s system of resonance capture.

As the poem keeps getting re-recorded (here’s the original bukowski_mp3) the size of the room, material, and mic placement within the room determined which frequencies resonated and built up and gradually warped the sound of Bukowski’s words eventually becoming incomprehensible. Finally all you hear is the resonant frequencies of the room.
[soundcloud width="100%" height="245" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/813172"] Bukowski Sitting in a Room by thecrack

Bukowski is sitting in a room

Thanks Dennis Cao for all his help on the Max/Msp patch

Date: February 14th, 2011
Cate: Live Electronic Performance

LEP – Objects

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Inhale by thecrack
Ujiyi inhale 80bpm

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Ujiyi exhale

[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16870962"] justlow 519 by thecrack
Inhale with just the lows, mids and highs filtered out

[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16870886"] Smallestinhalestrectched by thecrack
Smallest sample of the inhale 0.0.1 – stretched to furthest point slowed down 80bpm

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Just stretched a bit further

[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16870786"] Suck by thecrack
Suck the initial “attack” of the inhale breath repeated

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Transpose smallest sample 0.0.1 of breath stretched to 300bpm and then pitch transposed 35st with Hi-Q on

One inhale for 1.12 [soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="secret_url=true" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/10712320?secret_token=s-OrhZ7"]
One stretched inhale that lasts 1 hour 12 mins