Moving Furniture is finished

Today I did some final tweaking of the music for Moving Furniture. In the end I added a tail to the first part so that the transition into the second part is more smoothly and also fits better, timing wise. So, currently the stuff is being rendered to 16bits (see if there are no nasty glitches as a result from the transition from 24bits to 16bits) and then I leave the master disc for Sietse to come and get it.

There are now two pieces with a total length of some 25-30 minutes. They concentrate for the most part on droney layers of sound, sometimes harmonical, at other times noisy. Sometimes quiet, at other times loud. Keep checking the [ Moving Furniture Records ] site.

Below is a link to a special lo-res mp3 which gives you an idea of what the first composition is like. You get the picture of the structure :) and the cdr will give you the extremely brilliant soundquality 'en plus'.

[ movingfurniture1 - specialmix ]

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David Jackman gets a warning

Further progress moving Sietse's furniture. I decided to add a tail to the new tail of the Nautilus (can you follow?). The first tail ends with an extensive reverberated and delayed loopyloop. I was in the mood of trying to get a very big reverb. But listening to the reverbed loop I heard noise. Reverb just blurs any detail and what you get is smudgy layer of coloured noise. With some details in it. Like peanut butter with little parts in it. Actually I like the parts better than the butter. And so it is with the reverbed noise.

Okay, so when 'noise' entered my inner ear I remembered that I still had a noise piece in my directory of unpublished works. It carries the ominous title "admonition for David Jackman" and those of you who know the works of this particular gentleman can see something coming. So, next to a 2nd rendition of Nautilus Pompilius we now also have a new version of the Jackman-inspired compo. There is also a Masami Akita admonition by the way. And Steven Stapleton and Andrew MacKenzie. It was just a series in which I addressed the sonic language of those 80s heroes.

But anyway, the addition of this noise piece really spices things up. It's not for the weak, but the end of this part yields some interesting sonic phenomena. So. Check it out.

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rather silent?

Yes, have been busy on other topics this week. Have managed to finish the 2nd piece for Moving Furniture, though. Another one? Let's chew on that this coming week.

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second piece of furniture moved

This morning I thought it might be a good idea to make a new rendition of an old composition: Nautilus Pompilius. I construed this work a couple years ago as a contribution to a Bremsstrahlung Records compilation. Read all about this compilation [ here ]. At the time my approach was purely conceptual. Pitches and intervals were calculated using the golden mean. I stopped there and was quite happy with my daunt approach and an interesting result. But I wasn't quite happy with how it ended. The original ends with a bang.

For the new Moving Furniture release I decided to make a new rendition, this time with a different ending. The piece builds up exactly as before but after the big bang I have constructed a new part that is entirely intuitively constructed. The material I used is from the same period as Nautilus Pompilius. They are bits and pieces that fit nicely with the frequencies of NP.

As usual I let the material rest for a week or so and then return to it and make final arrangements. Below is a part of the original Nautilus Pompilius for [ download ].

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First piece finished, new sample

Finished the first composition for Moving Furniture. Here's another [ snapshot ]. Reverse the order and they are in the right one.

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Working for Sietse

I started work on two pieces that will be released by Sietse van Erve on his [ moving furniture ] label. Next to the driving force behind this label Sietse also regularly performs as Orphax AND has been the most important keeper of the house of EARLabs.

I haven't got a definite approach yet. Sietse is very keen on dronish music (which is really not my style) and I try to do something that fits his bill. I rummaged through my 'unpublished' section of works and found something that started as a study into harmony but has grown into something which could be labeled 'drone'. Unfortunately it was built up with Audition, so I have been transfering it (item by item) onto Reaper. I'm all set now and ready to finish it. Here's a [ sound sample ] of a very rough mix. It gives you an idea of what it is made of. Total length is 8.5 minutes. It starts with a recording of cars passing an overhead carriage way. This connects it to a piece I wrote for my friend Peter Knijnenburg as an 'in memoriam'. This work ends with the passing cars. Immediately after I finished that tribute composition (which I will publish during the summer, btw) I worked on this harmony study, August and September 2007.

I intend to combine this harmonic work with a second piece which will be all new. I have yet to figure out what that's gonna be. But you'll read about it here!

As yet there is no title and no release date set.

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