{"id":532,"date":"2007-08-17T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=532"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:22:15","slug":"more-stained-melodies-and-gratuitous-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/08\/more-stained-melodies-and-gratuitous-noise.html","title":{"rendered":"More Stained Melodies and Gratuitous Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was going to put up some new music I&#8217;ve been working on, but I&#8217;m at that awkward stage where everything&#8217;s so close to being finished that it all sounds ghastly.  In the meantime,  here are mp3s of a few old pieces I still don&#8217;t entirely dislike. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/music\/stained_melodies.shtml\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Stained Melodies Nos. 3, 11, &#038; 17.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three more from the series of 24 short piano pieces written a few years back.  Each one of these pieces was written using the same method, so they share a similar overall sound and feel, but the method allows each piece to develop its own distinctive character.  Number 11 is the emptiest, and most contemplative in the set; whereas Number 17 is the most crowded and frenetic.  Number 3 manages to be almost a blues number.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/music\/disposable_guitar.shtml\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Ola-R <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I mentioned before that the flipside to the semi-listenable cassette <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/07\/disposable-guitar-play-once-throw-away.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Disposable Guitar Play Once Throw Away<\/span><\/a> was a guitar piece that did away with guitars altogether.  The music on the B-side was created by a crude feedback oscillator made from a chain of borrowed guitar effects pedals.  Instead of plugging a guitar into the setup I decided it would be simpler to plug in the last pedal&#8217;s output jack, thus making a closed circuit and initiating an continuing quest to systematically rip off every idea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emf.org\/tudor\/\">David Tudor<\/a> ever had.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shortly after recording the cassette (direct to tape in a single, half-hour improvisation) I made a digital copy, divided the track into four sections of equal length and plonked them on top of each other. The resulting arbitrary mashup, with some minor tweaks, became the piece <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ola-R<\/span>, which I think got played once at the old Musicians&#8217; Club in St Kilda, and a few copies popped up in a slightly different form on CD-Rs.  Since that time I have been working toward making more sophisticated use        of the principles of feedback oscillation, that I first learned when making        this crude tape.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This mp3 file keeps the original&#8217;s dynamic range and stereo separation, so it may not come across well if you&#8217;re listening through built-in computer speakers.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to put up some new music I&#8217;ve been working on, but I&#8217;m at that awkward stage where everything&#8217;s so close to being finished that it all sounds ghastly. In the meantime, here are mp3s of a few old pieces I still don&#8217;t entirely dislike. Stained Melodies Nos. 3, 11, &#038; 17. 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