Saturday
Jan162021

Videos of Warren Burt music on YouTube as of 16 January 2021 and some places where CDs with my music appears

I recently made a listing of all of the music of mine that I could find on YouTube.  This began when I saw that someone had posted "Music for Tuning Forks" (1987) - the complete album on YouTube.  As of 16 Jan 2021 it had gotten over 37,000 listens.  I have my own YouTube channel - all of the videos of my work that appear on this website are hosted by YouTube on that site, but I wondered how many other of my pieces had made it to YouTube without my having had to upload them.  Back in November, I made one list.  Today, doing a YouTube search for "Warren Burt," I came up with this list, which has one less video than back in November, but about 10 more videos which I hadn't found then.  The unstable nature of YouTube, of course.  Anyway, for those who want to find more of my music, HERE'S THE LIST.  I should also add that a lot of the music on YouTube is from CDs that are for sale on my Scarlet Aardvark Music website, and here's a link to the CD Catalog.

AND, not to forget all the fine companies that have released my music on CD, here's a list of URLs of companies that have released various pieces of mine on CD over the years:

http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-austral-voices  Three Inverse Genera on Austral Voices CD
https://xirecords.bandcamp.com/ The Animation of Lists and the Archytan Transpositions
https://pogus.bandcamp.com/ Harmonic Colour Fields
Zygotones - Loretta Goldberg - with A Book of Symmetries for Loretta Goldberg
http://www.frogpeak.org/fpcds/index.html  The Frog Peak Collaborations Project 2 CD set
http://www.tallpoppies.net/  TP093 39 Dissonant Etudes
http://www.move.com.au/artist/warren-burt  lists 5 cds my music appears on

 

Cheers

 

 

Sunday
Nov222020

Piece 9 (from Outta Space) - the final piece in this series

The final piece in this series (exploring chaotic control systems in VCV Rack, and its iPad realization, miRack) is an example of a hand-controlled randomly-controlled feedback system involving multiple random generators and multiple Low Frequency Oscillators, controlling four Oscillators arranged in a feedback loop.  So the result could be a mess, but not nearly as messy as when we add manual control from an X-Y pad on a Korg nanoKEY.  This allows me to select between 10 different chaotic states of the system, and also to control the degree of reverb that will be applied to it.  NOW were getting really messy, but also having a patch that allows me a pretty great degree of physical control in the shaping of the sound.  Recently, I've been doing some research into what I did in my very early analog synthesis work and with this piece, I think I'm approaching the kind of verve and sonic shaping I used in those days, while working with the capabilities of the latest developments in modular design.  The patch is based on the VCV Rack Audible Instruments realisations of Olivier Gillet's Mutable Instruments designs, with Antonio Tuzzi's NYSTHI modules providing control, display, mixing and reverb functions.  I especially like the four waterfall displays on the right.  They provide a real sense of a real-time visual score of the sound gestures in the piece

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Tuesday
Nov172020

A Polyrhythm (Rock Artist Reverb)

This one - the eighth in the series, uses two randomish sources - the stoermelder Hive hexagonal sequencer from Benjamin Dill and Anthony Lexander Matos and three iggy.labs More Ideas - an "elementary cellular automata" - by Isabel Kapriskie, connected in a feedback loop and also controlled by the Hive.  These control two sets of oscillators.  One, a set of two FM pairs (using Antonio Tuzzi's NYSTHI TZOP oscillators) which are processed through the NYSTHI Convolvzilla convolution reverb (the impulse response in the reverb is classic jazz DJ (and virtuoso jazz singer) DeeDee Bridgewater saying "rock artist"); and the other, two Audible Instruments Resonators, making physically modeled percussion sounds, processed by the NYSTHI Plateverb.  The tuning is a 7-note Recurrence Relation (Additive Sequence) scale based on Erv Wilson's work (made with Marcus Hobbs' Wilsonic app), and the two polyrhythmic Improptu Clocked modules (by Marc Boule) are driven by the Seriously Slow LFO from Frozen Wasteland (Eric Sterling).  This LFO makes a single ascending ramp, five minutes long, which drives the piece in a continuous accelerando for its duration.  This may all sound like techno-mumbo-jumbo to the uninitiated, but what it produces is a (to my ears anyway) very nice complex accelerating polyrhythm with enough timbral interest to keep my ears puzzling things out as well.  A kind of audible maze for one's ears, and consciousness, to happily wander within.  The long cast-list of module developers shows a bit of the incredible community collective effort that is involved in the VCV Rack project. 

Tuesday
Nov172020

New book on Grainger and Cross Free Music Experiments

Tuesday
Nov172020

Latest - Nov 2020 - reviews in Soundbytes

Two new reviews in the latest Soundbytes.

In this issues Music for Tablets, we review 3 distortion plugins from K-Devices, and very nice (and inexpensive) devices they are too:

https://soundbytesmag.net/music-for-tablets-three-ios-sound-manglers-from-k-devices/

Then, there's a review of an update on UVI's already wonderful World Suite.  The new version has even more goodies to keep your ethnomusicological compositional desires happy and satisfied:

https://soundbytesmag.net/review-world-suite-2-from-uvi/

Enjoy!