Tag Archives: drone

announcing: melton, a granular mass 2012 series

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The first piece from a granular mass will be released on 15 January 2012. Followers on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ still have access to the series preview until then. More details can be found on the release page.

Meet the Music live session

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Meet the Music live session by nofi

My live session recorded for the Meet the Music program, which aired 11/3/2011 on WBOI 89.1 FM. Free to download or stream. Part one is comprised of sequenced pieces, all taken from Summer Sequences, volume one:

  1. Notochord + Los minúsculos
  2. Nodules + Revolutions
  3. El jardín + Paraíso 
  4. Sunshine State + Asynchronous

Part two is comprised of two freeform sound art pieces, similar to work on  melton.granular.mixtape , melton.drone.mixtape , melton.granular.01 , melton.granular.02 and upcoming releases.

melton.granular.mixtape, 2011-10-29

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melton.granular.mixtape-2011-10-29 by nofi

A 20m mix of recent work, including electronic drones and noise, field recordings and granular textures. Free to download or stream:

  1. granular guitar
  2. old cassette, granular reworking
  3. synthpond, granular reworking
  4. dust motes and clock, recording
  5. generative bells
  6. granular bamboo and drone machine
  7. unknown field recording
 

melton.drone.mixtape, 2011.09.18

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melton.drone.mix-2011.09.18 by nofi

A 20m mix of recent freeform work, including electronic drones and noise, field recordings and granular textures. Free to download or stream:

  1. morning birdsong, grand marais, MI
  2. testing old instruments
  3. star sailing, excerpt
  4. front porch, fort wayne, IN
  5. sinister, excerpt
  6. core breach, excerpt
  7. lake superior waves on rock beach, grand marais, MI
  8. granular cloud, flute
  9. granular cloud, tabalas
  10. water wheel, fort wayne, IN
  11. granular stretch, orchestral
 

melton.drone.03 Ableton instrument rack

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Hot-on-the-heels of sharing my melton.drone Reaktor ensembles, it occurred to me I could create something similar with Ableton’s native devices in an instrument rack. So, I’ve uploaded melton.drone.03.adg (zip archive, requires Ableton and the Operator synth instrument). I assigned the main controls for the oscillators as macros in the first instrument rack—but be sure to utilize the volume controls for each oscillator in Operator as well—and grouped controls for the filters and saturator as macros in the effects rack. I added a compressor and limiter on the end for better dynamics control.

For melton.drone.03, the signal path is Operator Oscillators 1-4  > Filter 1 (default Lowpass, but switchable) > Saturator > Filter 2 (usually Highpass, but switchable) > Filter 3 (usually Highpass, but switchable) > Compressor > Limiter

I find it helpful to create a clip with a latched note to trigger the rack (one that loops continuously inside of its start and end markers). Follow these instructions to make one:

  1. Make a note that starts at 1.0.0, set the note end at 4.0.0
  2. Set the clip start marker at 1.0.0
  3. Set the loop braces to – start: 2.0.0 , – end 3.0.0

This is still a work-in-progress, so please share your presets and any feedback with me. Here’s the CC license:

Creative Commons License
melton.drone.03.adg by Jeffrey Melton, aka nofi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.nofi.org.