Markers. Ants. Tectonics. X. & Pain. & Illness.

OK.

This file is sort of large, even as an .mp3, it’s around 3mb, so only click if you’re prepared for that sort of commitment.

Whether or not this one is really done, I’m moving on. Well, the whole class is moving on, and I figure I better follow. I think my next project will be amplified spaces. The empty spaces, their digital hiss, amplified and then filtered/altered/layered.

Something.

Click for the February 2008 Mix of Bounces and Feeds.

Oh, and warning, it starts out quietly, so don’t turn it up. Use Kwoya’s first “bounces and feeds” as a volume reference.

Another version of organized sound.

Clicketh here for all of its glory.

As always, thanks to Kwoya.

Here’s another quick Reason 4.0 composition.

I was playing around on the piano and came up with the repeated piano part, and then added the rest to make a morning snippet.

It’s not really for A.W.P., but we’re leaving on Wednesday, and the trip’s weighing on my universe. So I figure anything I do is probably being influenced by the thought of the plane ride, cab ride, pony show, etc.

The snippet’s about a minute and a half.

Click Here For The Sunday Morning Musical AWP Snippet.

We have our first drafts of our first sound assignments due today.

We being everyone in the sound class at Virginia Commonwealth University, not the rest of you.

I wanted to post it to the blog as well, so all could share in its marvelous draftness.

Be aware, that it is a wee bit long, at 3.0 minutes, but I wanted to see if I could make something interesting for 3.0 minutes using some basic building blocks.

But, now that I think about it, my blocks weren’t so simple.

I suppose the better the composer the less sound needed to keep the listener occupied, if you ascribe to that whole less is more thing, and heck, let’s throw Haiku in there as well, and shoot, might as well see if I can get at the rattle of my pea sized soul.

Um.

I think I’ve been working on this for too long.

Click here for Patrick Vickers’s Organized Sound Piece: Bounces and Feeds.

And thanks to Kwoya whose voice I’ve stolen again, after she generously let me record her as part of the Audio Yearbook at The University of Alabama. I’ve also used her poetry in a live performance with Justin Peake, who I was lucky enough to perform with in Tuscaloosa Alabama.

A sort of organized sound show, and a blast it was. Kwoya’s voice was there too, though she was not.

Justin Peake’s web site.

Cool.

I’m learning to use Reason 4.0

Here’s a small snippet in the key of F.

Oh, and happy birthday to me.

Click to hear Ode to a Blustery Sunday

It’s a little longer than the Tiny Ode.

Click to hear the Tiny Ode

Click to hear the July 30th snippet.

Click to hear a brief snippet of music, written on Saturday night.