ICMC/25/d6/1400 Concert 18/07 Hysteresis
Hysteresis
- fluttery, dark. the box is big, made out of wood, with all these pots, no description given for this one. it's intriguing, that's for sure.
- it's noisy, not uninteresting, but not totally grabbing me by the collar, either.
- some fluttering between the stereo field is filled with jiggling.
- some of the lower phase strangeness is pleasing to me.
- "fish" sounds. scribblings and inner illogic. sections of pseudo tonality.
- grey noise, with some volcanic rock pumice acid burning rain corrugated tin.
- like a geiger counter. reminds me of that ligeti piece with metronomes.
- we have some spatiality now, deeper in, where crushed a rainbow crystal slot machine jingles.
- it's all very front of the tongue, bouncing right on the surface. there is backgoround and staging, but not as many layers as some pieces.
- my head does bobble a bit.
- ok, there's more juice in this grumbling flibber than I thought at first, give me more of what he's having.
- i see now that this really does come from the true spirit of teenage engineering.
- let's see wtf this does. listen like a geologist. I feel like I'm listening to the conversation between los angeles and its therapist, when the slots are turned upside down.
- there are natural constraints here that form the embouchure
#Composer #Performer Person/Alex Bernhardt
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- Cryptwarbler circuit-bent Casio MT-240 homemade controllers
- the sounds of corrupted data are exposed
- woven into bizarre digital tapestries
- connecting ROM-CPU lines, program & instruction data are rerouted
- superimposed in a very analog way
- The result is a radical, whimsical departure from normal operation
- glitched sounds, textures, and effects, each with their own unique intrigues and inherent limitations. Cryptwarbler’s compositional method embraces this unique relationship between performer and circuit-bent instrument: exploring a sound’s attributes while navigating its electrical constraints. Alex Bernhardt, the composer/tinkerer behind Cryptwarbler, has been exploring the MT-240 since 2019, building, researching, experimenting, investigating, and he hopes that others see the potential of circuit-bending from this approach.
