An extraneous moment, suspended – an extra tick where time pauses unceasingly. Our regular rhythms disturbed, we notice the uneven temporality, yet often have trouble aligning with it.
Featuring alto and soprano flute, bass and soprano clarinet, piano, cello, strings, trumpet, french horn, glass marimba, synthesizer, and effects.
Anthimerias
by Charles Rice Goff III
01 Engineer
02 Study
03 Style
04 Craft
05 Form
06 Design
Anthimeria: a word that is both a noun and a verb.
Anthimerias have become more and more ubiquitous as human linguistics have evolved throughout the early 21st Century.
The Process:
The recordings in this collection all started out as improvisations, played by Goff on a Casio AP-24 electric piano. This full-sized, 88 key piano was purchased from a Salvation Army store in Bonner Springs, Kansas, and appears to once have been employed to serve up the music for church services somewhere in the Kansas City area. Goff recorded his improvisations through the open-air microphones of a Canon S2 IS digital camera. By avoiding the use of direct line-in recording, all the overtones echoing from the piano’s speakers, some of the sounds of Goff’s fingers hitting the piano keys, and even some occasional squeaks of Goff’s chair are present in these recordings.
Using “AmazingMIDI” computer software, Goff converted each of these digital recordings into MIDI files. This particular software converts every bit of recorded data from a wave file into a monophonic MIDI format. The MIDI file then can be read by MIDI score-writing software, allowing all of its recorded sounds (including overtones and the noises of squeaking chairs) to appear as notation. Such score-writing software provides the means for artists to apply sounds from a wide variety of virtual (computer-generated) instruments to the MIDI notation. Score writers also allow artists to transpose musical keys, delete/add notation, copy and paste musical passages, add reverb and chorus effects, etc.
Goff used three different score-writers, programmed into three different computer operating systems, when molding the recordings for Anthimerias:
1) Midisoft Music Mentor MIDI Scorewriter (released 1994)
run on Microsoft Windows XP OS (2013)
2) Musescore MIDI Scorewriter (Version 1.1, released 2011)
run on Microsoft Windows 10 OS (2016)
3) Musescore MIDI Scorewriter (Version 3.6.2, released 2021)
run on Linux Ubuntu OS (2022)
Each of these three setups provided Goff with its own unique pallet of sounds and editing controls. Goff gradually refined his compositions by transferring partially-edited MIDI files from one setup to another, allowing him to alter the files again and again using all three sets of software parameters. He later re-converted his edited MIDI files into wave files and further orchestrated them with Cool Edit Pro 2.1 (released 2003) multitrack audio-editing software. During this final process, bits of the original, open-air Casio electric piano recordings were layered into some of the mixes as well. Thus, each Anthimerias composition features its own unique blend of instrumentation, dynamics, and overall attitude.
No material that did not originate from the Casio electric piano improvisations was added during the production of this collection. Some of the aforementioned overtones and incidental finger and chair noises did convert into MIDI notation, however. Several of these happy accidents were incorporated into the final mixes of this collection. No artificial intelligence was used in the production of Anthimerias.
To help listeners envision the composition process of Anthimerias, a printed PDF score of “Form” is included in this collection. This 265-page document was created through Musescore software after Goff had finished editing the piece.
Recording Dates Of Goff’s Original Casio Electric Piano Improvisations:
July 13, 2023 (Design)
September 14, 2023 (Engineer)
November 30, 2023 (Study, Craft, Form)
December 23, 2023 (Style)
Today we’ve got more great music by Tha Silent Partner for you to enjoy. This time around, it’s “CAPSULETWO: Plates For Nujabes (Another Platters Intermission)”, a project that he originally cooked up back in the fall of 2007. There’s more to the story, but I’ll let you read all about it in the PDF. All I can add is that the 6 songs included are fantastic. Schmoove beats for you to bump all day. Download. Enjoy. Word.
TSP… I’m very happy you released this phenomenal selection of music. Inspired work, indeed.
Of course, thanks once again to you for downloading & listening. We always strive to deliver the music you’ll love. Please spread the word about blocSonic, if you enjoy what we do. Remember… everything we release is cool to share! Always keep the music moving… share it… blog it… podcast it! If you’re in radio… support independent music and broadcast it!
Breath, air, wind, life – the soul. Of the things worth honoring, this is high on the list. Celebrate spirit – and remember it is shared.
Featuring improvised clarinet accompanied by Kimiko Ishizaka’s public domain piano performance of Bach’s Prelude No. 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier (BWV 846).
Vanishing Corridor is the synthesis of American sound experimenters Kingo Sleemer (Western Maryland) and Chris Campbell (St. Paul, Minnesota).
Campbell has been recording dark ambient/sound collage/field-recorded soundscapes as The Creeping Man since 2017, both as self-releases and on various labels (Hrea’m Recordings, Mono Time, Dub Cthonic, Veinte 33, Preston Capes Tapes, Wormhole World, and Shady Ridge Records), most recently finding inspiration via collaborations with like-minded artists.
Kingo has been part of the experimental music collective Halaka since the late 90s, with whom he’s recorded and released many albums in many formats; he has recently recorded and released music as Allele Cog Experiment, HOZ and Experimental College. He is also a co-founder of Pile Records.
The two share an affinity for the absurd, the obtuse, and the off-kilter.
Vanishing Corridor started as a back-and-forth exercise of sound sharing and manipulation, without preconceived themes or intentions.
The project debuts on February 18, 2024 on Mahorka with a beautiful self-titled cassette release.
Artwork by Tod Trexler / Ivo Petrov.
What are we if not the accumulation of our decisions? Illusory though it may be, our will is our being, and our choices become our identity. Take care when making up your mind, as making things up is sometimes all too easy.
Featuring dreamy electric guitar, 808 drum machine, synthesizers, sequencer, pads, voice samples, and effects.
An assembly line of molasses. A turtle riding a jet. A slug with rollerblades. A sloth on a bike.
A slow hurry.
Featuring electric guitar and bass, drum kit, synthesizer, and electric grand with effects.
Square the circle, and circle the square –
Pi may transcend, but it’s out there somewhere.
Round and round, the fruitless proofs go,
Impossible things drive us more than we know.
This carousel-inspired music features square-wave heavy synthesizers, electric piano, a dubious 808, pandeiro, and effects.
If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance. If you can jump, you can fly? Flight has inarguable allure – but is quite a challenge.
Featuring orchestra, piano, and drum kit. A rescoring of “Wing It!”, the Blender Open Movie.
released January 24, 2024
Vocals: James Hardin
Guitar/Bass: Mark Wilson
Drums/Backing Vocals: Archie Falandys
Recorded by Dance Like The Dead
Mixed and mastered by Wes Meadows
FPR-229
All around the orchestra pit
The maestro chased the people;
The maestro thought it was all in fun…
Pop! Goes the weasel.
In the style of Philip Glass, honor of P. D. Q. Bach, and memory of Peter Schickele.
Featuring piano, orchestral strings, brass, low woodwinds, and bagpipes.
“We are all deaf” is the third full length album by ЧЕРНИХОВ | CERNICHOV, a noise/ambient duo based between Brussels and Milan, of US (David Gutman) and Italian (Marco Mazzucchelli) nationality.
“The album’s concept gravitates around the deep and actual contraposition given by the human strive for exploration: on one hand there is the total deafness towards the heartbeat of planet Earth, from a vibrational perspective expressed by the Schuman frequency, a sub bass frequency that can be resumed as the intimate physical expression of how our ecosystem relates in its environment. On the other hand, the exploration’s focus is monopolised by the infinite horizon that the eyes define. The Sputnik satellite becomes the first extraterrestrial exploration means, kept in contact with signals emitted at 40Hz. On these two main frequency inputs, the first as carrier for cross-modulation treatment and the second as a BPM driver, we explored a possible scenario of sonic interactions, ending with what we see as the soundtrack of our personal existence in this 4 dimensional world.”
Released January 14, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and limited digipak CD edition.
Recorded by Marco Mazzucchelli and David Gutman
Produced and Mixed by David Gutman
Mastered by Anacleto Vitolo
Artwork by Marco Mazzucchelli
Slip and slide
from note to note –
I see icy land
and Boats
Sailing through
Uncertainly
Ice, for now –
Not endlessly.
This jazz blues waltz features clarinet, piano, upright bass, and drum kit.
released December 16, 2023
LIL UGLY MANE: All the original music
DJ DESCENTED: Remixing
Full album available for free download at: www.panyrosasdiscos.org/pyr327-alexei-borisov-and-jelena-glazova-entrance-to-hades/
For the once and future Mouse
The Lawyers lawyered hard –
They lobbied both Senate and House,
Ensured his use was barred.
But now the time has come at last
The Mouse is finally free!
All may use him, none must ask –
And pay no lawyer fee!
This mouse-whistling-inspired jazz waltz features tenor sax, upright bass, electric piano, and brush drum kit.
MOWING DOWN ROSES: 9/26/2023, One Guitar, Two Pedalboards, and Two Amps.
THE RED DESERT: 9/27/2023, Amplified Bul-Bul, Looper, and Electric Guitar.
THE CLEAN STORY: 10/9/2023, Effected Vocals and Electric Guitar.
SCREAMING BIRDS OF PYREX: 10/10/2023, Drone Machine and Electric Guitar.
A SMALL THING: 10/11/2023, Electric Guitar.
Little pixels we once liked
Held us rapt with pure delight –
Nostalgia is bittersweet,
And can grow into self-deceit.
This tango-tinged jazz chiptune (and contrafact of “A Child Is Born”) features videogame-sampled bass, drums, keys, guitar, strings, and lead.
I hope you guys like this but, more importantly, I hope it can provide some benefit to the world. I think that music is the only thing in the universe.
