![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Alan Morse Davies - Y Bardd Glas Geraint - Alan Morse Davies
Y Bardd Glas Geraint is a deconstruction/reconstruction of the tone poem "The Bard" composed by Jean Sibelius. Whilst the original is a beautiful piece of music in its' own right, I decided to remake it in the mental image I had after researching the origin of the folk tale that Sibelius had based his music upon. Being of Welsh origin, I was surprised and delighted to find a Welsh origin to "The Bard", based on the story of Glasgerion (English) or Glas Geraint (Welsh)...
Keywords: orchestral; experimental; Alan Morse Davies
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| AED - Trieste - AED
A very early recording made when I was 16 using a toy xylophone, two reel-to-reel tape recorders, and a church. The two tape recorders were used to build up 6 or 7 layers of toy xylophone (I have no notes from this time alas), then the layered recording was slowed down to 1/8th of the original, just using the normal tape speed controls. The slowed down recording was then played back and amplified into the church using the first player on the ground, and recorded by the second player up near the ...
Keywords: minimalist; minimal; minimalism; experimental; Alan Morse Davies
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| Alan Morse Davies - The Smoky One Smokes Through Smoke - 442-net7-07jul - Alan Morse Davies
A post-script to the amazing 'Amusement Park Phases' album released in mp3 form on 4-4-2 music or in CD audio form from At Sea, this month's e-Single sees Alan Morse Davies layer simple sounds on top of themselves creating playful drones. The 4-4-2 Music e-Single of the Month Club brings you a virtual 7" record every month featuring quirky oddities and genre escapees. If you would like to contribute to the e-single of the month club, write to contact@4-4-2music.com.
Keywords: 4-4-2 Music; Alan Morse Davies; drone; soundscape; ambient
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| Alan Morse Davies - Fumeux Fume - Alan Morse Davies
Field recordings of fairground organs stretched into a vast organic landscape. This follows on from my 2007 work "Amusement Park Phases", but is calmer and more meditative, allowing more breathing space for the sound, and for the listener. For fans of process, this piece takes a single 2 minute recording, layers it in canons 11 deep each apart by around 1 second, stretches that recording to 1 hour but preserving pitch, and overlays it against a copy of itself 55 minutes long, with left and right...
Keywords: minimal; electronic; electronica; fairground organs; drone; Alan Morse Davies
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| Alan Morse Davies - Night Falls Fast - Alan Morse Davies
Night Falls Fast is a minimalist orchestral work composed for the contemporary dance work of the same name by John Utans. The piece was performed by the Milwaukee Ballet at the Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee, U.S.A. in February 2005. Sections of the work were also used for the stage play "Through Wyeth's Window" by the Aperture Tectonics Theatre Company at the Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia, U.S.A. in September 2006...
Keywords: minimal; orchestral; classical; contemporary; ballet; dance; Alan Morse Davies
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| Alan Morse Davies - Not Just a Pretty Face - Alan Morse Davies
Mixing electronics with vocal and orchestral elements, Not Just a Pretty Face was composed for the contemporary dance work of the same name by John Utans. This originally started as a single twelve minute piece, commissioned for a dance piece for students at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts in June 2004. The piece was subsequently expanded to four parts and re-edited several times to fit the choreography...
Keywords: minimal; electronic; electronica; orchestral; ballet; contemporary; dance; Alan Morse Davies
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| Alan Morse Davies - The Last Summer - Alan Morse Davies
An album of manipulated recordings from 78RPM records recorded between 1905 and 1931. Unlike previous works I've kept the original musical structure intact. Recorded 2008.
Keywords: minimalist; minimal; minimalism; experimental; Alan Morse Davies; turntable music; electronic
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| Alan Morse Davies - Amusement Park Phases - 442-net-004 - Alan Morse Davies
Inspired by Steve Reich's late 60's tape works, "Come Out", and "It's Gonna' Rain", I wondered what Reich might have done if he had access to modern technology at the time. I had also been thinking about constructing something abstract from the sounds of old fairground organs, whirrs, clicks and occasionally strange tuning included. So, I digitised a bunch of recordings of fairground organs and other musical automata, then set about arranging each recording in layers up to 10,000 deep, coming up...
Keywords: fairground organ; phasing; musique concrete; drone; 4-4-2 Music; Alan Morse Davies
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