An electroacoustic thing.

[ambient]

Possibly not of interest to a great many people, also possibly the strangest yet that I've shared on here.

I was invited to do this by a small Essex based record label called Courier Sound. They do some absolutely beautiful releases on cassette, CD and vinyl, they're always fantastically well presented, and the music is amazing. They use a machine called a Silhouette Cameo 3 to cut intricately shaped designs into their packaging and sleeves; hence the title of this.

It's composed entirely from a stereo recording of the cutting machine in action; I haven't used any other sound material or instrumentation. They asked other people to work using the same sound material, the various versions will be collated together and released by them later in the year.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 2, 2019 by ambient

[alyctes]

Interesting to hear, but not really my thing.  I do like some of the other stuff on their Bandcamp site, so thanks for that

Edited January 2, 2019 by alyctes

[ambient]

1 hour ago, alyctes said:

Interesting to hear, but not really my thing.  I do like some of the other stuff on their Bandcamp site, so thanks for that

Thanks for listening.

Most people will think what the....?

It’s something I’ve got more and more into, and at the same time further and further away from regular music. I realised nearing the end of my music degree that it was sound that I loved, not playing.

[BassBus]

I suppose we all take the same instrument and individually make many different sounds with that same instrument. It would be interesting to hear what different people make with the same sound you have recorded here. Essentially you are using the printer and an editor as the instrument and creating your own sound with it in the same way we would with a bass guitar. Boundaries being shifted again. Always good to see that.

[alyctes]

6 hours ago, ambient said:

Thanks for listening.

Most people will think what the....?

It’s something I’ve got more and more into, and at the same time further and further away from regular music. I realised nearing the end of my music degree that it was sound that I loved, not playing.

So more in a musique concrete direction, then?

[ambient]

16 hours ago, BassBus said:

I suppose we all take the same instrument and individually make many different sounds with that same instrument. It would be interesting to hear what different people make with the same sound you have recorded here. Essentially you are using the printer and an editor as the instrument and creating your own sound with it in the same way we would with a bass guitar. Boundaries being shifted again. Always good to see that.

It'll be very interesting to hear what others do with the same source material. I was involved with a project called Cities and Memories last summer, a one-off thing in conjunction with the British Library National Sound Archive called Sounding Nature. You chose a recording and worked a piece based from it. That was interesting; hearing how others had approached the project and composed their pieces.

[ambient]

14 hours ago, alyctes said:

So more in a musique concrete direction, then?

Yes, that kind of thing. This wasn't for my PhD, but it's the kind of thing that is. I just find it fascinating taking a recording of an everyday sound, and turn it into something totally different.