This is some of the most beautiful music I've heard all year: [630 KB .mp3]
It's a demo of the VirSyn Matrix vocoder. It makes me think of a priest singing the Eucharist, but with some really wack ad copy for a product I've never heard of.
Day: December 28, 2007
Sound2cartesian[short] by Desaxismundi
Sound and video work by desaxismundi called Sound2cartesian[short]: Great synesthetic relationship between the Norman Foster-meets-Sputnik CAD design of the mutating orange blobject and glitchy shortwave radio sounds.
"Frienemies"
"Frienemies" [mp3 removed - please listen to the 2018 remixed version]
This "verse" was working so I opted not to have a "chorus"; the "dropout" is the only concession to songcraft. I might chop it up eventually but right now it is a "steady state" minimal tune that is more about ringing (slight, semi-automatic) changes on one basic riff. The title is a bit dire for the material--it's kind of a happy piece. But I do think a lot about this word and how it arose to fill a need in our discourse. Everyone seems to recognize the type--what did we call them before? Are there more frienemies, or are we just better at spotting them?
(The image is a detail of the score.)
"I Wish I Didn't"
"I Wish I Didn't" [mp3 removed]
The violin solo at the end (with sequencer underneath) is a faint homage to Tuxedomoon, but the speech synthesis parts are decidedly unromantic.
"Gro-Rabbit 2"
"Gro-Rabbit 2" [mp3 removed]
More pseudo salsa. The "Rhodes sound" is still seductive to me (and everyone else) after all these years.