- Darkmist Artwork
Darkmist Uploaded by davidestevens Start following Send a message on November 19, 2009 22:32
33 Plays2 Comments2 Favoritings ambient drone mp3Dark atmosphere. Sound source - eviscerated spring reverb unit - Iron Artwork
Iron Uploaded by davidestevens Start following Send a message on November 15, 2009 16:26
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lovely sounds! The metal base comes through nicely but the processing is wonderful. How does it compare to the original sounds?
- davidestevens on November 15, 2009 22:42
@c.cu: :-) The source sounds are all (as always with this software) 3 secs long. Angle iron struck with soft beater, both suspended and damped. Scraped with end of beater stick (suspended). The sustained sounds you hear are quite similar to the original.The whisk is unusual - flexible metal strands with small balls on the ends.
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@davidestevens: Thanks for explaining, it is a very pleasing sound. I dont have the speakers for it but with some volume this could really fill a room. Be interesting to have the unprocessed sounds playing as well?
- davidestevens on November 17, 2009 22:12
@c.cu: hmm. I'll think about that - maybe give it a try to see how it works.
- davidestevens on November 17, 2009 22:15
@davidestevens: And it _does sound better as a 24 bit file playing thru my PMCs :-)
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- -Ingredient. on November 15, 2009 18:27
Even tho you've used darker sounds in this piece, i experienced it as a very gentle one. Felt like music is talking to me. Another great piece from you Sir !
- davidestevens on November 15, 2009 22:45
@-Ingredient.: isn't it interesting how people hear things differently! I find most of these textures quite restful, several people find them spooky, some will find them dark. Gentle is good. I think it may because the sound source is actually very limited - pitchwise - which makes the sound very static at the same time that it's constantly shifting.
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Cast iron girder and kitchen whisk. Improvisation in max/msp; edit & mixing in Cubase - So-nor Artwork
So-nor Uploaded by davidestevens Start following Send a message on October 09, 2009 16:24
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lovely track. I keep picturing a long flight under an ice sheet.
- davidestevens on October 13, 2009 20:28
@Bill Carr: thanks. I love the image of a flight under an ice sheet. If you don't mind, I think I'm going to use "under the ice sheet" as a title for a piece.
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- -Ingredient. on October 13, 2009 19:24
Amazing ...
- davidestevens on October 13, 2009 20:28
@-Ingredient.: thanks!
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Sustained and varying metallic tones and atmospheres. - Naiiff Artwork
Naiiff Uploaded by davidestevens Start following Send a message on September 29, 2009 12:25
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This is a really pleasant piece of sound. Very nicely balanced and the treatment sounds natural rather than layers of effects. Great through headphones!
- davidestevens on September 29, 2009 21:33
@c.cu: Thanks! The only effects are a slight chorus and an Altiverb space on the whole mix. The sound sources are all natural, with extreme time stretching.
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- svEN DORPHINe on September 29, 2009 13:45
Naiiff sounds like a horror movie:) my hairs standing up on my arms , great job
- davidestevens on September 29, 2009 14:22
@svEN DORPHINe: Isn't it strange - I find it so still and peaceful!
- svEN DORPHINe on September 29, 2009 14:47
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that's always a matter of interpretation, on the one side, the atmosphere is totally exciting, but on the other side also reassuring, it's just depends on what you imagine in this moment :) - davidestevens on September 29, 2009 21:36
@svEN DORPHINe: Indeed! Isn't that great! it's a good reminder to me that no matter what _I get from a piece, someone else will get something totally different.
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@davidestevens: I'm with svEN on this one. I love it, but I'd really freak out listening to it in a darkened room...
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boom love this tune cheers dude...
- davidestevens on September 29, 2009 14:23
@troj: thanks! I do appreciate the feedback.
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Atmospheric and mysterious. Time stretched metal. Density 3 Uploaded by davidestevens Start following Send a message on August 23, 2009 16:52
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- Darage Bang on November 19, 2009 23:38
delicate!
- davidestevens on November 21, 2009 13:23
@Darage Bang: thankyou!
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comment at 0.57- masaya_sasaki on September 02, 2009 00:38
ok
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comment at 1.28- masaya_sasaki on September 02, 2009 00:39
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High intensity atmospheres. CrackleBox and extreme time stretchingDensity 2 Uploaded by davidestevens Start following Send a message on August 18, 2009 19:10
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- srbillinger on August 19, 2009 00:12
First my tights are too tight and now it's scary monsters - this is sick man! Love it!!
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comment at 0.20- thefauxnoise on August 19, 2009 19:22
WoW. Love this alot. Obey.
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Another CrackleBox based piece - circuit bent noises and extreme time stretching.- Density 1 Artwork
Density 1 Uploaded by davidestevens Start following Send a message on August 12, 2009 18:08
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Love the way the textures here become so vocal--quasi-human. Wonderful interweaving of immediate tones and their pitch-stretched counterparts.
- davidestevens on August 18, 2009 11:47
Thanks. One of the things I love about extreme time stretching with natural sound sources is that you do get these very slightly, constantly varying sounds. To me it makes the result more "natural", or human, perhaps?
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its peeping in my ear. ;) but i really like the intense atmosphere, gives me shivers. :D
- davidestevens on August 13, 2009 21:36
Thanks for the comment. Pleasant shivers, I hope :-)
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absolutely :D
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Live improvisation with a STEIM CrackleBox and my time stretching software. Very intense with lots of high pitched sound. The final toll Uploaded by davidestevens Start following Send a message on July 23, 2009 11:04
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Another beautiful piece! What is (or was ) Colourscape?
- davidestevens on July 23, 2009 14:52
@Bill Carr: http://www.eyemusic.org.uk/HOMEI.html Have a look at the Gallery link. Basically it's a gigantic art piece, with a contemporary music festival and schools workshops added. Visually very intense!
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Sections of a 4 hour improvisation in Colourscape in the early 00's. Bowed and struck metal - strips, whisks, girder, spring reverbs. Slowly evolving, rather dark ambient soundscapes.What lies beneath Uploaded by davidestevens Start following Send a message on July 23, 2009 11:04
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I love the quiet nature of this piece.
- davidestevens on September 20, 2009 10:05
@HAARA: thanks!
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dark is beautyful.. =) i really like your stuff. in my most current track "the insignificance of the harlequin" i tried myself on big soundscapes.. tried to make a 3 part long journey. tonight i will get a bottle of whine and when its dark outside i will turn on your soundscapes. :)
- davidestevens on August 14, 2009 07:34
Thanks. I had a listen to TIIOTH last night - I especially like the first part (I would wouldn't I :) ) - very nice shofting layers.
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:D Im really glad you liked it. :)
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Had I not known different, I'd swear that was a voice.
- davidestevens on November 22, 2009 09:14
@cassiel: I had to listen to double check :-) Some of these older pieces were recorded in Colourscape, and there's _one piece where you can just hear some kids shout at one point, and that then merges into the loops. It's not this bit though.
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Lovely set Mr. Stevens. Very dark, very beautiful. Music for the lost last episode of Twin Peaks (the one that lives only in my imagination).
- davidestevens on July 26, 2009 09:42
@Spiricom: Thankyou sir! Wouldn't it be great to be creating soundtracks for David Lynch - off the top of my head, I can't think of any other director who is so in tune with these kinds of soundscapes.
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Sections of a 4 hour improvisation in Colourscape in the early 00's. Bowed and struck metal - strips, whisks, girder, spring reverbs. Slowly evolving, rather dark ambient soundscapes.Sunday200709_1 Uploaded by davidestevens Start following Send a message on July 20, 2009 16:54
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- specta_ciera on July 21, 2009 07:15
Love the sounds! Beautiful work! :)
- davidestevens on July 21, 2009 15:42
@specta_ciera: Thanks for the comment. Happy you like the sounds - more on the way! :-)
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comment at 2.02- srbillinger on August 19, 2009 00:17
English church bells meet horns calling the dogs to hunt - weird and wonderful but I bet getting weirder!! Love it.
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the flugel horn sounds like a giant bug, or a wing of bommbers...or an army of aboriginals and buddhist priests on a rampage, love this!
- davidestevens on July 21, 2009 21:44
@Bill Carr: I got the idea for the pedal in a live impro with a mongolian overtone singer a few weeks back. He started looping overtones and I naturally dropped into tibetan trombone mode.
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Ambient drone - improvisation with flugel and software - harmonics and pedals
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I create my own performance software using max/msp - mainly using layered looping, extreme time stretching and granulation. I perform on my own using bowed/struck metal and (more recently) flugel horn as my main sound sources. I also perform using other musicians as sound sources, generally in the Colourscape structure. Recently I've been combining my flugel/software work with Steve Lawson ( @solobasssteve) who plays electric bass and looper, and Michael Ormiston (overtone singing, gongs, morin khuur).
I'm interested in slowly evolving soundscapes, generally with a more tonal than noise feel to them, and the combination of slow sounds with live instrument performance.
eviscerated!
@kurtlorenz: yeah :-) more mundanely, an old spring reverb out of its casing and with the top off. Allowing delicately unmentionable things to be done to the springs.
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