Electronic Music

[RichardB]

Thank you folks. I believe that the rest of the Bangor concert will eventually find its way onto the wireless.

You might be interested to know that Carl will be premiering two new pieces in the next year or so, one for solo basset horn written during lockdown, and a quartet with horn, piano and percussion which isn't written yet, both being elements of my sixteen-part cycle of compositions based on texts by Simon Howard.

I'm writing this very early in the morning because I'm about to leave for the airport, off to The Hague for (among other things) a three-day festival/symposium entitled Composing Spaces, which showcases spatial compositions from Xenakis' Pléiades for percussion sextet to Nono's No hay caminos, hay que caminar ... for seven orchestral groups, all performed by students of the Royal Conservatoire. Pretty exciting. (There is plenty of electronic music also, so it isn't off topic!)

[RichardB]

While I’m here, although actually I’m quite a long way from where I was when I submitted my previous post: there’s a CD recording of Flechtwerk on the HCR label, as part of a programme of contemporary clarinet music performed once more by Carl Rosman, this time with Mark Knoop on piano and a more equal balance between the instruments than in the BBC recording.

[Bryn]

While I’m here, although actually I’m quite a long way from where I was when I submitted my previous post: there’s a CD recording of Flechtwerk on the HCR label, as part of a programme of contemporary clarinet music performed once more by Carl Rosman, this time with Mark Knoop on piano and a more equal balance between the instruments than in the BBC recording.

https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/various-caerulean

[Joseph K]

https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com...ious-caerulean

Just getting round to listening to this Colophony gig, featuring Richard on electronics. It starts around 57:30 in (sorry, I've skipped the talk!) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXkvaTkMns0

[Serial_Apologist]

Just getting round to listening to this Colophony gig, featuring Richard on electronics. It starts around 57:30 in (sorry, I've skipped the talk!) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXkvaTkMns0

Tremendous stuff! Jon: "Do you think we have enough timelessness left to do another quick one, Richard?"

[Dave2002]

Rather than listening, why not try to create some sounds using synths? Here are a few suggestions for some reasonable software systems to play with : https://youtu.be/N0NNbWu5gfs

You might need to use some kind of host program, such as a DAW to get them running, but it shouldn’t be too difficult. These are [very] much cheaper options than “investing” in hardware.

You might find it more fun than listening, or at least give you a greater understanding of what’s involved.

[Bryn]

Just came across this via Facebook:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m5IMG-WL-k)

Surely this is not where Mr Barrett gets his inspiration for harp and electronics from.

[Dave2002]

Not electronic music:

https://youtu.be/hJHwhb99Bzo

[Dave2002]

Trying modular synths - software style

Thought I'd try to create some sounds using software simulation of modular synths.

Yep - I did get some output - kind of did it's own thing - but so far not succeeded in recording it so you'll just have to imagine some not too thrilling electronic noises.

I need to figure out how to get this recorded in Logic - or I suppose I could use another DAW, but currently the plugin does work in Logic.

Sorry the image is so large - I don't think I can reduce it without shrinking it, then uploading back to the hosting site. Life's too short!

[Joseph K]

Having fun listening to Xenakis's Gendy 3. Perhaps it would inspire Dave's efforts in the electronic realm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DUezD6gA4

[Dave2002]

Having fun listening to Xenakis's Gendy 3. Perhaps it would inspire Dave's efforts in the electronic realm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DUezD6gA4

You should try it yourself. It can be quite absorbing trying to play around with some synths. I've mentioned before that I think it may be more fun for the "performer" rather than other listeners, particularly if something surprising happens, which will tend to trigger a "what should I do now" kind of interaction. I still need to figure out how to record some of the more improvised attempts.

[Dave2002]

OK - here is a short [mercifully] sample of the output from Mirack hosted in Logic. This simply shows that it is feasible, and has very little other merit!

This was done with a modified version of the setup shown in msg 564.

https://soundcloud.com/user-977473438/electronic-stuff-edit1

[Dave2002]

Not sure if this is of interest - but it might be.

https://youtu.be/GNTGF_r36lk

I don't know if the Cardinal plugin works - it seems to be based on VCVrack - which is similar to MiRack available for iPads.

[Dave2002]

More here - the intro section - almost 30 minutes is presumably electronic music - then there's a discussion about how to get it all to work ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpd_vZJwGNQ

[Dave2002]

Update on post 568 - the Cardinal plug-in does seem to work - though finding the modules is not necessarily obvious - but may depend on the host DAW and whether it's running in Linux, Windows or MacOS.

In macos the trick is to use cmd [control]-click in a blank area of the popup panel, which then shows a large panel with modules which can be selected, loaded and connected together.