Filed under: 2008, 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Ambient, Art, Avant-garde, Christmas, Classical, Composition, Concrete, Contemporary Classical, EQ, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Electronica, Experimental, Holiday, IDM, MIDI, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Remix, Silent Night, Sound, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Stille Nacht | Tags: 2008, 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Ambient, Art, Avant-garde, Christmas, Classical, Composition, Concrete, Contemporary Classical, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Electronica, EQ, Experimental, Holiday, IDM, MIDI, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Remix, Silent Night, Sound, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Stille Nacht
Just for the holidays, here’s a free mp3: Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht! Remix 2008 (3.2mb mp3 file)
It is more closely based on the original melody by Franz Xaver Gruber, composed in 1818 and based on the text written by Rev. Joseph Mohr in 1816. Of course, this version is considerably more modern in arrangement and sound (more of a sound sculpture imitating the melodies). Enjoy!
I need to figure out what I’m going to do about the abandoned Sonic Sculptures 2008…
Filed under: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Ambient, Composition, Concrete, EQ, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Experimental, Filter, Frequency, Hertz, Hz, Improvisation, Keyboard, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Sonar, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape | Tags: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Ambient, Composition, Concrete, Electroacoustic, Electronic, EQ, Experimental, Filter, Frequency, Hertz, Hz, Improvisation, Keyboard, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Sonar, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape
And number 5 for the May of the series of Sonic Scultpure, 2008 (okay, I cheated a little and did three today…):
2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures – 22. May V [1 min 50 sec, 1.68mb mp3]
For this sculpture, I improvised on my keyboard with a simple piano patch, recording the audio material. I added a delay, reverb, and I EQed the piano material to give it a certain quality, also cloning the track and transposing it up (the higher frequency qualities of the piano tones). This was done in Sonar Producer. When the piano material hits the low frequencies, I enhanced them and added reverb, and then sneaked in some synth bass material that continues on. I also slowed the tempo gradually toward the end, occasionally sitting at near 0 tempo to stretch some of the sounds.
The-Novus-Arcadia || Ryan Rapsys
“Overall, [The-Novus-Arcadia's] an immensely enjoyable experience,
and it could well become a piece of electronic art that may
be a required listen in the near future.”
Muse’s Muse, 7/31/2007
Filed under: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Ambient, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Concrete, EQ, Electronic, Filter, Frequency, Hertz, Hz, MIDI, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Sonar, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Trip-hop | Tags: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Ambient, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Concrete, Electronic, EQ, Filter, Frequency, Hertz, Hz, MIDI, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Sonar, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Trip-hop
The fourth Sonic Scultpure of the Month of May, 2008:
2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures – 21. May IV [1 min 19 sec, 1.21mb mp3]
This one just spilled out of me rather quickly. I took a sort of hip-hop loop and wah-wahed it, synchronized to the tempo. Next I added a bit of reverb to it in order to give the bass swoosh a little extra staying time (and create a unique low-end sound). This was mostly done in Sonar Producer.
Next I created a sort of bell texture with a MIDI glockenspiel sound, which I then mixed down to audio and gradually changed its EQ properties. This texture gradually moves up to the higher frequencies, where the piece ends.
Thoughts?
Filed under: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Ambient, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Concrete, Contemporary Classical, EQ, Electronic, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Sonar, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Synthesizer, Trip-hop | Tags: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Ambient, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Concrete, Contemporary Classical, Electronic, EQ, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Sonar, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Synthesizer, Trip-hop
Sonic Scultpure number 3 of the Month of May, 2008:
2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures – 20. May III [1 min 9 sec, 1.06mb mp3]
For this sculpture, I began with a little loop created out of the first Sonic Sculpture (I reversed it then sped it up to a couple seconds long). I looped this in Sonar Producer, adding a reversed hip-hop loop of a sort, as well as an odd ambient synth loop. I worked with these loops, shifting between layers, occasionally shifting their pitch, etc. Thus, the creation of this sculpture, which is one of the first with a more distinct drum-loop quality (must be the coming summer…).
Filed under: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Adobe Audition, Ambient, Art, Avant-garde, Bird Chirping, Birds, Classical, Composition, Contemporary Classical, EQ, Electronic, Electronica, Filter, Frequency, Hz, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Nature, Organic, Overtones, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Spectrum | Tags: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Adobe Audition, Ambient, Art, Avant-garde, Bird Chirping, Birds, Classical, Composition, Contemporary Classical, Electronic, Electronica, EQ, Filter, Frequency, Hz, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Nature, Organic, Overtones, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Spectrum
Here’s the final Sonic Scultpure of April, 2008:
2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures – 19. May II [1 min 10 sec, 1.07mb mp3]
I decided to really try and capture this exact moment. About forty-five minutes ago, I set my mini-disc recorder on my windowsill, opened the window, and hit record. I recorded about 6 minutes of the sounds going on outside.
Using Adobe Audition, I broke the segment of audio I had recorded into 5 sections of about one minute and ten seconds long, and layered them one atop another. Next, I did what many purest musicians and music fans would normally be appalled by – I compressed it considerably (using mostly Hard Limiting in Audition).
With a very dense sounding texture of hissy wind and birds chirping, I began sculpting. Next I EQed the sound several times to thin it slightly. Then I proceed to use various Noise Reduction techniques to further thin out the sound, leaving behind only the most interesting of the sounds (mostly the bird chirping). By this point, however, through this process of scultping, the bird chirps of course became a bit distorted and such, but that is the idea of sculpting sound. To finish it off, I reversed the sample, then added a fade in and fade out at the beginning and end.
Filed under: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Accordian, Adobe Audition, Art, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Contemporary Classical, EQ, Echo, Echoes, Electronic, Experimental, Filter, Hz, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Spectrum | Tags: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Accordian, Adobe Audition, Art, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Contemporary Classical, Echo, Echoes, Electronic, EQ, Experimental, Filter, Hz, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Spectrum
Here’s the first Sonic Scultpure of May, 2008:
2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures – 18. May I [1 min 58 sec, 1.80mb mp3]
This was done in Adobe Audition by mainly introducing more and more layers of the source material (in this case, some recordings of an accordian). The idea here was gradual transformation of the various sonic qualities of this source material. By layering it through various echo effects that make each successive echo have a different quality, this gradual changing of the sonic qualities of the source material is achieved. Of course, I decided to add some pitch bending toward the end for further conclusive metamorphosis.
Filed under: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Adobe Audition, Ambient, Art, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Contemporary Classical, Duluth, Duluth Harbor, Electronic, Experimental, Interview, Jason Davis, KSTP, Lake Superior, Lift Bridge, Lisa McKhann, Local News, Minnesota, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Nature, News, On The Road, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Television, Water, Waves | Tags: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Adobe Audition, Ambient, Art, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Contemporary Classical, Duluth, Duluth Harbor, Electronic, Experimental, Interview, Jason Davis, KSTP, Lake Superior, Lift Bridge, Lisa McKhann, Local News, Minnesota, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Nature, News, On The Road, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Television, Water, Waves
I will be appearing on a segment of the show “On The Road” with Jason Davis. It airs on KSTP in Minneapolis, MN and WDIO in Duluth, MN. Here’s some details about the show: KSTP: On The Road
The show is centered on the Duluth harbor, and my segment focuses on my recording of sounds in Canal Park and then modifying and composing music with those sounds… I was video-taped and interviewed while playing with some sounds in my studio. The resulting music I used for one of my Sonic Sculptures:
2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures – 10 – March III
It will air on May 18th on KSTP and on May 24th on WDIO in Duluth. Should be interesting…
Filed under: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Adobe Audition, Ambient, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Concrete, Contemporary Classical, Electronic, Electronica, Experimental, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape | Tags: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Adobe Audition, Ambient, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Concrete, Contemporary Classical, Electronic, Electronica, Experimental, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape
Here’s the final Sonic Scultpure of April, 2008:
2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures – 17. April V [1 min 19 sec, 1.21mb mp3]
This was done rather quickly and easily in Adobe Audition. I took an old electronica track of mine, copied the very ending of the track (which kind of floats out with some ambient, higher tones), and pasted it into a new track. I rounded out the edges and slowed it down.
Next, I copied the segment (which now was about 30 seconds long) and pasted it again, repeating the segment. Then I reversed the second incidence of the segment. Next I pasted that same segment into a seperate file and stretched it (only changing the length, not the pitch) to twice its original length. I then reversed the right speaker output, copied the entire stereo image, and pasted it back into the track with the two segments mirrored linearally.
This took about 5 minutes to compose. Recycling sounds can work out quite well on occasion.
Thoughts?
Antiquichrome || Ryan Rapsys
Deep explorations into microsound electronic ambience.
Filed under: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Adobe Audition, Album, Ambient, Art, Avant-garde, CD, Classical, Composition, Concrete, Contemporary Classical, EQ, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Electronica, Experimental, Improvisation, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Static | Tags: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Adobe Audition, Album, Ambient, Art, Avant-garde, CD, Classical, Composition, Concrete, Contemporary Classical, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Electronica, EQ, Experimental, Improvisation, Mp3, Music, Music Composition, Music Structure, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Static
Here’s the fourth Sonic Scultpure of April, 2008:
2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures – 16. April IV [2 min 0 sec, 1.83mb mp3]
This composition was created quite simply. I tuned my TV Tuner on my computer to a station that did not have much of a signal (staic with occasional blurps of voices, etc.). I recorded this sound into Adobe Audition for about 10 minutes, then I sped it up and began sculpting it. I gradually eliminated some of the harshness of the clip by gradually doing more noise reduction as well as adding reverb to smooth the sounds out toward the end.
Thoughts?
Antiquichrome || Ryan Rapsys
Deep explorations into microsound electronic ambience.
Filed under: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Ambient, Art, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Concrete, Contemporary Classical, Crickets, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Experimental, Mp3, Music, Music Structure, Nature, Night, Organic, Railroad, Sonar, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Train, Tricks | Tags: 2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures, Abstract, Ambient, Art, Avant-garde, Classical, Composition, Concrete, Contemporary Classical, Crickets, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Experimental, Mp3, Music, Music Structure, Nature, Night, Organic, Railroad, Sonar, Sound, Sound Effects, Sound Sculpture, Soundscape, Train, Tricks
Here’s the second Sonic Scultpure of April, 2008:
2008: 53 Sonic Sculptures – 14. April II [0 min 59 sec, 0.94mb mp3]
So as you may notice, this sculpture is rather short. I really just wanted to hone in on a particular mood. The source material primarily consisted of a recording I had done outside my home several years ago late at night. The short ambient loop has crickets chirping and what sounds like a distant horn. The horn is coming from a train several miles away passing through in the night. I looped this little piece and gradually introduced a contrasting element–a higher-pitched clicking sound. This was derived from rocks and pebbles glancing off of metal that I had recorded some years ago. These were put together using Sonar Producer.
Enjoy, and certainly feel free to comment…
