Tying Up Loose Ends #1 – Culport
Author: barryjosephcullen
Fringe Tones #45
Dulcet drones and tingling timbres.
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VA – Tying up Loose Ends
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The sailors make fast the loose ends to ensure the boat is shipshape.
“Tying Up Loose Ends” is a nautically themed project split into 2 segments.
The first, titled “Noise Forecast”, is heavily inspired by BBC shipping forecasts, the rhythm of their delivery and the alien yet comprehensible language used within them. The compositional framework for this part of the project is a text-based score which was written in a way that aimed to allow each participant a unique translation. To further contrast the finished pieces, careful attention is made in approaching different artists with varying sonic palettes.
The score for this first installment of the project reads as follows:
“Culport;
Southern Bleakness. 8
Phront – Lofty, Stressure: NIL.
Bromide Sprinkles – Occasional.
Eudaimonia – Swindling, Tempestuous Nodes.
Torrential Data, Deluges: 37, Clustered.
Drainage: In Toto, Preparation Timely.”
The second project segment, titled “Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan & Derelict”, is an exploration of how new life can be given to short pieces of sound that perhaps could get lost somewhere in a timeline. To achieve this, audio is salvaged from one person and recycled by another, although organised in such a way that ‘who is collaborating with who’ remains unknown. Artist and equipment information are intentionally removed as to hopefully have no influence over the finished works.
Guidelines for FJL&D are:
“SALVAGE You have received some salvaged audio from another participant involved. Use these sounds as a starting point.
RECYCLE
Please use both files, although they don’t have to be used in their entirety. One shot or single cycle samples are fine. You are free to edit & treat these in any way you see fit. Chop, Sample, Granularize & Mangle. Unrecognisable is good. Additional instrumentation is allowed and encouraged. This is not a remix project.
COLLABORATION
Audio discovered amongst your posts has been shared with another participant to carry out the same process.”
Loose Ends #1 is focused around the fictional land, and surrounding coast, of “Culport”. The tracklisting is as follows;
NOISE FORECAST
1. Claude & Ola – Culport
2. Sw1n Hunter – FOAM_DRIFT(2vids)
3. Shane Latimer – Deluges: Clustered
4. Una Lee – 1 fib or no
5. BJC – Torrential Data v4_2
6. Scy1e – Racing the dawn
7. Mysterioso – Unapproved Beliefs
8. Vivienne Griffin – The Fake Haven
9. Hadi Bastani – nines am(o)ur ai
FLOTSAM, JETSAM, LAGAN & DERELICT
1. T.Jervell – Fanfare of Spring (Initials M.C.)
2. sweetearthflying – prismatic wounds
3. Sqrtsigil – nontitle
4. Morn Valley – Solar Transmission
5. Expanding Foam – saxa vord
6. Wimming Spools – flotsum & jetsum
7. Disxiple 113 – fiesta, forever
8. Subfusc – Batons
With some sprinkles of sea sounds recorded by Matilde Meireles, Lisbon, 2020.
Many thanks to all who took part for their incredible work.Barry & Phil – Tone Burst
SPB v5_2
AV made from recordings of improvised collaboration.
T. Jervell – En sommerdag i Kroken (Ruter)
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Follow Suit Part 3 of 4 – Ruter
The starting point for this album was the suit of Diamonds. In Norway we call this suit “ruter”. Ruter refers to the geometric shape found on the cards, but the word can also mean windows. This led to the idea that these 12 tracks should not only represent the 12 cards in the suit, but also have a narrative connected to 12 windows in my house.
Windows are also interesting in terms of the fact that they are see-through, but also able to reflect. Considering this I decided that every track should describe events both inside and outside of each window.
So, this is an album with a narrative.
Instrumental (art) music that attempts to describe a narrative musically, is often called program music. The narrative might be presented as a text (program notes), through the piece’s title etc.
In light of this, I decided that this would be an album of program music.
I am sure there are people who will argue that this isn’t proper program music, in regards to it not being “classical I am sure there are people who will argue that this isn’t proper program music, in regards to it not being “classical music”/art music. I could of course make an argument and discuss this, but I will not.
You just have to accept that the music you are about to hear, and the accompanying text is composed according to my interpretations of what the term program music contains.
credits
releases September 3, 2021
Design + Artwork – Phil/Tone Burst
Mastering: Jørgen Kirksæther @Transistor Mastering
All tracks written & produced by T. Jervell
Track 2 contains a sample from ChromaDots «Nebel sei dies Leben»
Track 13 lyrics written by Arne C. Jervell
For all the love, inspiration, advice, help, co-operation/creation and conversations, Thank you: Guro and the kids, Arne, Rune Opdahl, Kristoffer Aars, Phil, Barry, Friends and family, Mr. Bosanquet, Bjørn Andor Drage, Bodvar Drotninghaug Mœ & Jørgen Kirksæther.
Fringe Tones #44
Strings, reeds, magnetics and other amped-up items…
Trouble or Fortune – Ochón a Leanbh
yvette young – midwest emo on crack riff
Danny Clay + Matt Atkins – A3 – Minimal Resource Manipulation
Dream Division – The Devil Rides Out – Library Of The Occult
Drew Mulholland – Frozen Sound In Ember – Library Of The Occult
The Unseen – Newlywed Arrival – Library Of The Occult
there are no birds here – sidereal-skafer – Hreám Recordings
Old Amica – Log – Fox Food Records
Fatwires – Foundation Haze – Depth of Field – The music of John
Del Stephen – Soon moving moon
Allenheimer – Train – Unfiled
Damselfly St James Infirmary – The Harrow Ways (reprise)
SAH – Intimacy – Reel Long Overdub
Walrus Ghost & Max Frankl – Corners – Hush Hush Records
Michele Andreotti – LA STRADA – Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series
sweetearthflying – inative penetration
Duelling Ants – Porous
Ambalek – Glistening in Thin Sunshine – Seil Records
The Humble Bee & Benoît Pioulard – Per – dauw
ghost and tape – hatch – Home Normal
Curved Light – Lucky Stumble
themawt – vocal harmony 4
Hardworking Families – Small Feedbacks – TQN-aut
melodium – wreckage
Shadowgraphs – Tuolumne by Night (Interlude)
Mike Coykendall – Something To Chew On – Field Hymns Records
kageraw – melodiuma
Dorcha – me_ets
Sunday Morning Kitchen Crew – The Orange Martyrs – House Of Spin
Posset – Last bus back to the West End of Newcastle – TQN-aut
Ash Cooke – Reptiles – TQN-aut
Fringe Tones #43
Fringe Tones #42
Again with the music lacking percussion. Tonal textures moving at various tempos.
Hal Walker – Low Key Gliding (extended)
Curd Duca – Touch
Gregor Dys – zwischen den jahren
Petr Válek – Doma Music for Ji.hlava 2020
Janíček, Procházka – 1
Krekso feat. Agnes Hvizdalek – You Are Efficient
Claude & Ola – spaces in red – Steep Gloss
Yann Tiersen – Porz Goret
Lela Clawson-Miller – Harmonium Drone
Sigmund Krähe – Organ 73 Carina
Robin Parmar – Pack Ice
Claude & Ola – Red Ice
Peter B – Deer Biphenyl
autotectonic – Atoms of the Mass
The Dura Hotel – The Magic Lovers
Uumans – At the Hospital
Live At The Music Gallery – The Puppetmaster
Paul DeMarinis – Forest Booties (1978) featuring The Pygmy Gamelan
andrea neumann – concert
BJC – Documenting & Digging
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Follow Suit Part 2 of 4 – Spades
Digging through almost 20 years of previously unheard documents.
A Barry Joseph Cullen Retrospective.
The title is inspired by Seamus Heaney’s poem Digging.
What we do, how we make.
The value of an archive, the power of reflection.
History is never truly past, its ability to influence us continues to be felt in the present.
Original:
“Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it.”
Remix:
“Between my finger and my thumb
The soldering iron rests.
I’ll make with it.”
A – 190614 edit
Live recording from a week-long mini festival at PS2 gallery, Belfast. Round Buttons Square Tones co-curated with Min Hyong Kim. An instrument/system was built using reclaimed metal dishes, solenoids activated by a 555 timer circuit (taken from D. Holzer’s Tonewheels project) with piezo transducers fed into DIY distortion effects; Fuzz Face, Tone Bender MKII, Little Big Muff. A short performance gaining complexity & intensity.
2 – 240419 04 edit
One of several takes. An improvisation using DIY eurorack modules.
Learning to use Turing Machine through play. VCFs as generators and LFOs as clocks & modulators.
Swaying from melodic to dissonant and back.
3 – guitar tuner bow fan eavesdropping (outro edit v1)
This piece was made by combining a number of materials that were available for play at the time. An early example of ‘Drone’ in my practice. The guitar was still central to my instrumentation but extended approaches were becoming more important. The guitar was later stolen in a burglary and attention turned to other methods of making music.
4 – 3KFCN able v2
A short study showing the 3KFCN circuit as a feedback tone generator.
A multi track recording with tuning by ear. A stack of improvisation. Slow.
The result of cumulative play and listening practice.
5 – newton’s cat
One of several pieces made using the Newton’s 12 Mins Companion Box with a Copycat tape echo.
Noise bursts and rhythm created by layering improvisations. No editing was required.
6 – moving 1 improv
One of several recordings made exploring Jasuto Pro, an iPhone app which facilitates dynamic tone play via gesture. A synth patch for live manipulation, to facilitate a new performance routine. This recording was captured from rehearsals for a performance using bass guitar through multiple DIY fuzz boxes (M.I.A).
7 – newt FKE mod v1
Companion Box (Newton’s 12 Mins) and Koma Field Kit Effects.
Improvisation around a patch made to test & learn the Field Kit’s capabilities.
8 – broken lights
This was made after remixing a reactive & generative AV software patch I made during my MA studies at SARC. I was living in Al Khuwair in Muscat. The neighbourhood was well lit. I found a few flickering electric lights. I took short videos and made a silent video composition; a grid of nine loops. The video triggered sine waves in max/msp/jitter. An array of frequencies depending on a previous monochrome frame difference. This is a response. There was a lack of electronic music in the location. I made my own.
9 – sarc fender contact mic
Waiting in a practice room with band hardware. Instead of browsing on my phone, I used what was available to do creative work. Contact mic, bass amp and a portable recorder. The routine was to slowly change each EQ knob from high to low.
10 – Bent 4.5v B&W Companions & Ellie 7
This piece is one of a number of improvised pieces recorded with a set up including two Companion Boxes (Black & White), a circuit bent instrument containing a number of rewired sound effect makers and a Comet filter, Ellitone multi-synth and looper pedal. Routine of setting a start loop and improvising.
J – Texture Test 261017 02
Using Resolume to animate an audio arrangement. Dancing fragments of workshop test signals.
Q – CNTRL RM CNC v31
This piece was made from field recordings made in the control room at SARC.
This track uses the sound of a CNC machine cutting the edges of a PCB.
The recording was edited and arranged using Avenue.
The resulting audio sounds a little like a cello ensemble.
Joker – Stockhausen tells us to go to the studio 3 may 2004 @ opening concert at SARC Belfast.
