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.
Tag Archives: synthetic
melton.granular.mixtape, 2011-10-29
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:
- granular guitar
- old cassette, granular reworking
- synthpond, granular reworking
- dust motes and clock, recording
- generative bells
- granular bamboo and drone machine
- unknown field recording
melton.drone.mixtape, 2011.09.18
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:
- morning birdsong, grand marais, MI
- testing old instruments
- star sailing, excerpt
- front porch, fort wayne, IN
- sinister, excerpt
- core breach, excerpt
- lake superior waves on rock beach, grand marais, MI
- granular cloud, flute
- granular cloud, tabalas
- water wheel, fort wayne, IN
- granular stretch, orchestral
melton.granular.01 and melton.granular.02
I have released two collections of ambient, freeform and microsound compositions:
melton.granular.01 and melton.granular.02 collect my recent work in microsound-scapes, featuring granular and pulsar synthesis, freeform rhythms and tone colors. Tracks can also be streamed on my Soundcloud page.
Production Notes
All sounds were created with Density GS and Pulsaret instruments (both the standalone apps and Max for Live versions). Arrangement, mixing and mastering was done with Ableton Suite. Processing effects were limited to resonant filters, grain delay, reverb and EQ.
Concepts & Aesthetics
Taking John Cage’s statement “There is no noise, only sound” as a starting point, these compositions explore the hinterlands of microsound particles and drones, non-sequenced rhythms and the diversity of organic and synthetic timbres. Rather than be static, each piece evolves with components that swell and recede, resonate, percolate, pulsate, shimmer, flutter, meander and migrate. Sample sources include: strings; flute; toy piano, bells and cymbals; vinyl records; elementary sound waveforms.
Track listings
- Angularity v.01 – 04m00s
- The Chymist v.01 – 23m31s
- Coronal Mass v.01 – 09m14s
- Dressmaker v.01 – 03m44s
- Tetrad v.01, pt.2 – 09m16s
- A Froward Mass v.01 – 24m26s
- Penumbra v.01 – 06m07s
- Promises v.02 – 12m38s