Here are two video’s I made using M4L & Ableton. They were captured in real time & cleaned up in FCP

Saraswati Nebula

interstellar overdrive

Any feed back is encouraged.

Thanks,

Ashish Sharma

Matt Rösner is an Australian sound artist who has had releases on Room40, Apestaartje, & Meupe.

He has the gift of taking digital and acoustic sounds and fusing them seamlessly, setting them against a rich tapestry of field recordings and sonic experimentation.

“March 7, a dry heat is built from a solo piano performance by Adam Trainer taken during the ‘repeat’ sessions. The upright piano had recently been moved to Adams new flat where it now occupies a space in his reading room. On this particular March day, the Perth sun was beating down hard, light streaming into the room, with the sound of near by traffic creeping in. Two Rode microphones were positioned, and Adam commenced the improvisation.

Seven months went by and I returned to the piano recordings. The track happened very quickly, like all the good ones do, if I sit on them too long I tend to loose the focus. The piano was edited, and then augmented with further processing of Adams percussion and field recordings taken from near my home. I feel very close to this piece, it signals the start of something new whilst closing off the period when ‘repeat’ was made.”

Out now:



TAPE SERIES No 1 – Audio Cassette – Meupe

REPEAT – Limited edition 12″ Vinyl – Miatera

Buy the CD + 12in vinyl HERE – (already sold out – new limited stock soon)

Buy the Digital Files (hi-quality mp3, flac) HERE

Supporting this release allows Willits to continue his creative process.

+ Here is a video about the album – Christopher Willits on “Tiger Flower Circle Sun”

A very special guest mix this week from Marc Behrens. It is a downmix of a four-channel live performance at Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal, October 14, 2009, as opening performance of Futureplaces 2009.

Marc Behrens works on several cerebral and physical levels.

His works mainly consist of concrete electronic music, installations, the occasional photograph or video. Recent activities include field recording trips to remote western China and the Amazon rainforest, founding an incorporated company as a social art work, and staging a rite of passage for an investment banker.

Behrens has performed and exhibited extensively across Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, North America, and East Asia, and developed collaborations with Achim Wollscheid, Bernhard Günter, Francisco López, Jeremy Bernstein, Nikolaus Heyduck and Paulo Raposo, among others.

Enjoy the mix,

Simon

RSVP + all info here : http://bit.ly/CWJul31

7/31/2010 – 8PM – Twin Space Continuum – 2111 Mission Street at 17th Street 3rd floor suite 300.

At around half way through 2010 we are taking a look at some of the Overlap releases for the last 12 months. This kicks off the new Overlap & Symbiosis presents series of podcasts. The Symbiosis mixes are now available from my own site – www.symbiosis.com.au.

I hope you enjoy this look at the great sounds that Christopher Willits has curated for Overlap. If you like what you hear drop on by the shop and grab the releases.

Cheers,

Simon

12 Months Of Overlap – Tracklist (start time before each track)

0.00 Raster-Noton Live At LISTEN/VISION
Signal – Live At LISTEN VISION (excerpt)

http://shop.overlap.org/album/raster-noton-live-at-listen-vision

2.48 Flossin – Serpents EP
Serpents (Strategy Remix)

http://shop.overlap.org/album/flossin-serpents-ep

Flossin is a cosmic rock/noise/jazz/free improv band with rotating members. CHRISTOPHER WILLITS, ZACH HILL (Hella) have been at the helm of the Flossin ship since 2004. Flossin “Serpents” see’s Willits and Hill joined by their friends MATMOS, NATE BOYCE, and CARSON MCWHIRTER (The Advantage). Flossin bring their collective talents to bear creating a warm and spontaneous sonic wash of masterful free improvisation. “Serpents” showcases the diverse musical cross-pollination from the San Francisco Bay Area.

8.08 Chris McNamara – Vague Cities
Sleeping Car Shunting Yard

http://shop.overlap.org/album/chris-mcnamara-vague-cities

Echoes from the Windsor-Detroit techno scene modulate off Lake St. Clair and emerge into the sound forms of “Vague Cities”. McNamara’s muffled beats, gentle harmonies, and light-like shimmering textures envelope you wholly, while creating a space to breathe and be.

Chris McNamara is a Windsor ON. / Ann Arbor-based video artist, writer, DJ, new media instructor, and founding member of Thinkbox ( thinkbox.ca ), a label/collective that currently includes Christopher Bissonnette (Kranky), Steve Roy, Rob Theakston, Bill Van Loo and Mark Laliberte.

15.08 Electricwest – Detach
Flourish

http://shop.overlap.org/album/electricwest-detach

Electricwest is Patrick Benolkin, a diverse and prolific producer from Boise, Idaho. With a tip to the more electronic sides of Warp records and Ghostly International, Electricwest creates soulful and crystal-sharp experimental electronic gems. In 2006, Electricwest made some Overlap-related waves by winning a Creative Commons (CC) remix contest of Christopher Willits’ track “Colors Shifting” which was featured by Ghostly International and CC. Since then Benolkin has surfed an explosion of activity, releasing six albums via his Electricwest and Eluder monikers. “Detach” is Electicwest’s newest and most concise statement to date.

19.06 Tom Hall – Past, Present, Below
Breaks To Rest

http://shop.overlap.org/album/tom-hall-past-present-below

“Past Present, Below” is the accumulation of 2 years of experimentation, bringing together a vast array of instrumentation (drums, guitar, piano, organ, virbraphone, chinese gongs and harmonia) and field recordings (Australia, Kyoto temples, German rivers, Tasmanian forests). Hall ties these varied sources together with a unique blend of studio practices ranging from Max/MSP / Ableton Live processing, analog effects pedals and a unique process of replaying and re-recording compositions back into environments in which they originated. This album is Tom Hall’s most developed and beautiful work to date, exclusive to Overlap.

You can get these releases at the Overlap shop:

http://shop.overlap.org/

Enjoy the sounds and look out for some great releases coming up. Connect with us at demos@overlap.org

Many new videos to come- new audiovisual pieces, new tutorials, new experiments.

Here is a short clip from a performance at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on May 14th, 2010.

Tiger Flower Circle Sun : Press Release

From Christopherwillits.com

This album brings together so many of the patterns, feelings, vibrations I love. For me, Tiger Flower Circle Sun is about the connection of all things, forms, thoughts, plants, people, sunlight. I opened my imagination wide and allowed the process to happen, the patterns to emerge. I have a lot to share surrounding the album, including some remix stems, videos, tutorials about the process, and performances.

The 1st single from the record is now free : Sun Body

Grab it here and support Tom Hall and Overlap with a modest $5 :
Tom Hall – “Past, Present, Below”

If you like what you hear, please write about it and tell your friends.
We really appreciate all of your support over the last few years of experimentation and growth.
Thank You !

Tom Hall – “Past Present, Below”
“Past Present, Below” is the accumulation of 2 years of experimentation, bringing together a vast array of instrumentation (drums, guitar, piano, organ, virbraphone, chinese gongs and harmonia) and field recordings (Australia, Kyoto temples, German rivers, Tasmanian forests). Hall ties these varied sources together with a unique blend of studio practices ranging from Max / Ableton Live processing, analog effects pedals and a unique process of replaying and re-recording compositions back into environments in which they originated. This album is Tom Hall’s most developed and beautiful work to date, exclusive to Overlap.

Bio
Tom Hall is a media artist based in Brisbane, Australia. He processes and manipulates found sound and instruments with both computer-based processing (Ableton Live, Max/Msp/Jitter) and analog manipulation with creative hardware configurations. The pieces created during these experiments are then composed linearly and further manipulated by re-recording the sounds through homemade reverb chambers, resonant locations, and analog tape manipulation.
Hall’s work combines geography and earth, a sense of place and time and moment of the recordings he uses, with gentle musical gestures that emerge naturally through the recursive processing. Tom creates a swell of sonic memories gracefully touched by supporting instruments and tools.

more info : www.tomhall.com.au

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A special night at Twin Space showcasing San Francisco guitar+computer performer, composer, and visual artist Christopher Willits. Willits will be performing with special guest drummer Jeff Pierre from Haiti, in addition to a new long-form work-in-progress exploring vibrational medicine.

Medicine Vibrations with also be performing their gorgeous body-vibrating sounds, dj8 will be gluing the evening together with his mixes, and a variety of food, drink and other vendors will be present.

Spread the word to all of your friends to join us for a beautiful evening of.

Bio:
Christopher Willits occupies a unique corner of the electronic-music universe—hovering above the intersection of electronic production’s nuts and bolts and a wide-open creative mind. “i am a conduit of the process, a kind of gardener,” he says. “I simply imagine, intuit, respond and do the work laid before me.” Willits’ tireless responding and doing and working has produced 19 albums in 10 years—solo and in collaboration with artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matmos, and Taylor Deupree—and an organic, multi-faceted sound that expands like the vines of an electro-acoustic kudzu plant. Christopher Willits is a teacher, a label owner (the experimental hub Overlap.org), a meditator, a tech geek, a visual artist, and virtuosic musician in one. In other words, there’s no one out there quite like him.

Willits designs much of his own software, and his music is a holistic universe in which all elements are interconnected; he folds his guitar lines into bleary, unrecognizable shapes and polyrhythmic textures, adding strokes of percussion, horns, and his own voice until the whole glows with an earthly inner light. A full list of Christopher Willits’ releases and accomplishments would take up considerable column space, but a beginner’s guide to Willits includes 2002’s Folding, and the Tea (his watery 12k debut), 2006’s landmark Surf Boundaries (his first full-length record on Ghostly International), 2008’s Ocean Fire (Willits’ collaboration with renowned pianist / composer Ryuichi Sakamoto), and 2009’s Live on Earth Vols. 1 & 2 (a pair of self-released live albums dedicated to his fans and supporters).

www.tomhall.com.au
www.axxonnband.com

Track listing:

Tom Hall – Ravena, Italy – July 2009 Tom Hall – ‘From Thoughts Distraught’, Past Present, Below – Overlap.org April 2010
Taylor Deupree – ‘Untitled’, Landing – Room40
Tim Hecker – ‘Blood Rainbow’, Harmony in Ultraviolet – Kranky
Oren Ambarchi – ‘Girl With the Silver Eyes’, Grapes From The Estate – Touch
Nadja/Black Boned Angel – ‘Christ Send Light’, – Battlecruiser / Sound Devastation
Tom Hall – ‘In Void We Explore’, Past Present, Below – Overlap.org April 2010
No Anchor – ‘Wolves Bite Then Disappear’ – FSS Compilation

Check out ‘Past Present, Below’ out on Overlap.org, April 2010

Other releases

Fluere (self-released) – Nightrider Records – 2006[6]
Floats (self released) – Nightrider Records – 2007
Cross – hellosQuare – 2008[7]

Various artists – Airport Symphony – Virtual Terminal Room40 – 2007
Euphonia w/ Lawrence English – Presto!? – 2008

Check out more mixes over at the new Symbiosis blog – www.symbiosis.com.au

Sun Boxes are an environment to enter and exit.  It’s comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels.  There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing together making the composition.  The guitar samples are all of different lengths so the whole piece keeps evolving.

Participants are encouraged to walk amongst the speakers. It sounds different inside of the array.  There is a different sense of space inside.  Certain speakers will be closer and louder therefore the piece will sound different to different people in different positions throughout the array.  Creating a unique experience for everyone.

There are no batteries involved.  The Sun Boxes are reliant on the sun.  When the sun sets the music stops.  The piece changes as the length of the day changes.  Making the participants aware of the cycle of the day.