SPACE ON EARTH V
Simple sounds for complicated times.
The fifth in a series, this release inhabits a long and slow space that oscillates between hope and a certain kind of existential sadness; that the great expanse of time is either empty or infinitely full. Or, just maybe, both of these states are paradoxically and simultaneously true.
…I imagine one might hear these sounds in an empty, post-apocalypse wellness center. But like, not in a creepy way; a way in which the residue of our psychic energy is coagulating as it prepares itself for the next journey of consciousness in the universe.
Some production notes: Many of the tracks (1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and both bonus tracks) were composed and recorded entirely on an iPhone, using Audiobus and a variety of plugin apps. The other tracks were recorded in my home studio with a minimal setup including tongue drum, Yamaha EW20, singing bowls, Korg Minilogue, vocals and a couple effects/looping pedals. All production was done by me.
Inspirations/for fans of: Hiroshi Yoshimura, Ana Roxanne, Michael Stearns, Ariel Kalma, Laraaji, frippertronics, Terry Riley, Steve Reich.
SPACE ON EARTH IV
spread your light.
available on cassette.
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Side 1: Korg Gadget with Tap Delay iOS apps (through Audiobus), vocals (TC Helicon VoiceTone Harmony-G XT, Empress Echosystem).
Side 2: Korg Gadget with Echo Pad, Crystalline, and Tap Delay iOS apps (through Audiobus).
Recording, production, and art design by Man.
Cassette manufacturing by Cryptic Carousel.
Earth Dirge & Hymn
Earth Dirge & Hymn (fka The Raga Project) is a 24-hour audio experience that is synced to the local time of the listener. You can experience the project in its entirety, and read more about it, here. Below are samples and studies related to the project.
The Akasha Model
The Akasha Model is an attempt to figuratively sonify the thoughts of every sentient being, throughout all history. The audio for the exhibited installation was transmitted via FM radio, and was created using a variety of analog and digital devices including synthesizers, software, contact microphones, a custom-built binaural microphone, and an EEG brainwave-reading device (alpha waves converted to hertz from five different meditations). Additionally, fluorescent glow-in-the-dark silicone casts of my ears were arranged throughout the space.
An eight-channel sound installation (mixed to stereo here) of field recordings from four locations in Manhattan, forming a square as a foundation for a home:
11th Ave & 23rd St
1st Ave & 23rd St
1st Ave & 57th St
11th Ave & 57th St
Recorded early evening Sunday, June 4th, 2017.
Feeling My Feed
Single channel video. Two-channel audio: Self hooked up to a Midi Sprout connected to a Korg VolcaKeys (for galvanic skin response), Drone Thing with Stagg delay effect, and passive electromagnetic microphones (Elektrouši) trained on iPhone while browsing my Instagram feed. 2017.
Studies
20180424
Staring at the sun when you yourself are a sun
20180412
Bound in some direction.
20170614
Another salve for the day. A small drone for the future monks.
Buck Ram and his Orchestra (The Magic Touch) sampled in MPC2000XL with GRM Tools Freeze & Spaces effects added, and mixed in Audition.
20170505
Recorded entirely on an iPhone 7 using DRC synth, Animoog, Tanpura Studio and Droneo. Edited in Adobe Audition.
20170323
Two-channel audio. Study for a work in progress.
20170424
All sounds generated by plant (Ernie) connected to MIDI sprout & DRC synth, recorded to cassette.
SPACE ON EARTH III
Music for future aliens.
"[W]ell-crafted sounds for the big goodbye" —Cassette Gods
SPACE ON EARTH II
The second volume in a series of drone studies, this release was timed to coincide with Donald Trump's inauguration, to act as an ambient salve.
SPACE ON EARTH I
This is the first album from a body of work I've been hearing in my head since 2012. Around that time I was becoming increasingly overwhelmed by the nonstop onslaught of New York, so I started thinking about sound as a meditative and transformational medium; basically as a way to calm my eyeballs and counter-stimulate my brain.
The tracks included in the first volume of "SPACE ON EARTH" were sourced from a variety of places: "20160628" was recorded using Moog's Animoog iOS app; "MALI SADIO" includes a drawn-way-out clip of Kandia Kouyaté's "Badjourou" (which may or may not be about the legend of a friendship between a hippopotamus and a woman); and the last two tracks were sourced from telemetry recordings from NASA's Pegasus and one of the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform satellites. The audio was manipulated primarily using GRM Tools and Audacity's "Paulstretch" effect.