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Maybe a little bit different than the usual content, but I made my first android app which is an audio synthesizer that generates music based off of the wifi networks in your proximity. Each network ID gets a unique musical sequence and tonality based off of the network name. The volume corresponds to the network strength. As you walk around you can explore the soundscape that is generated by these sounds. I have found it gets pretty chaotic when used on the bus or in a car and it works best walking around. Visually it is nothing stunning, just a readout of the networks around you and their signal strength.

I have codes for free downloads that I am giving away so please just comment or PM me if you want to check it out.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wifi.synth

Just wanted to note that the actual instrumentation used was all acoustic (classical guitar, steel string guitar, steel string guitar with an eBow and contact mics, steel string guitar with a cello bow, 2 singing bowls, an incredibly out of tune piano, prepared piano, double-gourd sitar, melodica, some other odds and ends).

Post processing yielded the linked result in time. The only software used in post processing was GoldWave.

This was an incredible and exciting journey to create. I had a dedicated CD-RW that I would put the finished product of the day onto and listen to while dozing into sleep at night.

The app is called Experimental Noise Room, available for Android here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.float_oat.experimental_noise_room

This is really a passion project for me, and I'd appreciate any feedback you have on the app!

This is my first app that I have made. I posted this a little while ago, but I have just made a free version of this app based on some peoples suggestions in a previous version of this thread: WifiSynth It is an audio synthesizer that generates music based off of the wifi networks in your proximity. Each network ID gets a unique musical sequence and tonality based off of the network name. The volume corresponds to the network strength. As you walk around you can explore the soundscape that is generated by these sounds. I am working on making it so that you can record the generated sounds now.

You might like this new-ish jazz show, it's a mixture of jazz, but with some other stuff in it as well like prog, etc. There's the play list at the bottom: https://www.mixcloud.com/Mind_And_Soul_1013FM/the-roots-of-electric-jazz-with-dereck-higgins-on-mind-and-soul-1013-fm-show-8-aired-2217/

weirdcanada.com did a list a while back that isnt on their site anymore, but archived here https://rateyourmusic.com/list/RustyJames/weird-canada-the-weird-100/

I'd strongly recommend checking out the Bernard Bonniet album. And that Carlyle Williams album is insane.

From Cabaret Voltaire's 1976 bootleg 'The Outer Limits.' The album consists of various demos.

I compiled a playlist of all the album's tracks I could find here.

Allmusic:

Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de Couleur Libres on Constellation, is the opening salvo in a projected 12-part musical statement [from Chicago-born, New York-based alto saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts], and stands apart in her catalog. The large 16-piece ensemble was recorded in a Montreal studio live in front of a small audience. Roberts plays various reeds and vocalizes; she is accompanied by a stellar cast of musicians playing everything from horns and strings to electric looped guitars to a musical saw.

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Her album employs family stories through the narrator's tales of a distant relative (alternately a physical presence and a ghost) named "Coin Coin" (a.k.a. Marie Therese Metoyer a freed slave from the 18th century who founded her own community along Louisiana's Can River; a giant figure in African American history), she portrays strong black female archetypes throughout history, around which she constructs her own myths (of interwoven facts and fictions).

I don't know of any blogs, but you may try contacting soma fm or some other radio stations. If you play a game like kingdom of loathing that has a radio station, contact the dj's and ask if they'll give your stuff a listen.

Please reply with a download link when you get it put up. I would love to hear it!

i'm travelling at the moment and can't seem to find it at the moment... however I did find another track by KFW that i did on a mix a few years ago... https://www.mixcloud.com/friendisland/last-winter/
I'll dig for the other one and try to followup.

Was lucky to see them in 2012 at the scion rockfest in tampa. Merzbow played before or after them, cant remember. Eugene is scary on stage but was a real gentleman at the merch table. Anyone who writes this book is good in my book

https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Everything-Wanted-Ass-Kicking-Afraid/dp/0061189227

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SCHWET on noods radio (noodsradio.com) Every other wednesday 7-9 PM GMT.

No talking just a seriously wide range of good music.

Some previous shows available on mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/NoodsRadio/schwet-04-01-17/

My ambient/experimental/noise/industrial podcast, The Vorticist. An episode for Halloween 2016.

https://www.mixcloud.com/joshuamcallister/the-vorticist-episode-3-goblins-and-gremlins-halloween-2016/

Tanya Tagaq, nice! Didn't expect her!

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I am no canadian, but from what I am listening:

Colin Stetson (!!)

Loscil

Mark Templeton

BADBADNOTGOOD

Dirty Beaches (kinda)

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Also, using custom chart on rym could be usefull (you can filter nationality and genre)

https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart

EDIT: ok, I just read Colin is not canadian, hmm, didn't know.

> Randy Greif is a music composer. He has been pushing the boundaries of auditory arts, often incorporating electronic, computer and concrete music with spoken word, "sound theater", and field recordings. Location recordings in places such as Amazonia, New Guinea, and Thailand have found their way, often manipulated, into some of Greif's music, branding it as "tribal" electronics. Trademark styles are dense layers of atmospherics, cut-up vocals, and shifting minimal rhythms. "Dark" and "hallucinatory" are often used to describe the overall tone of his work.

Randy Greif

Alice In Wonderland

Translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemonde.fr%2Fculture%2Farticle%2F2011%2F08%2F26%2Fpierre-boulez-ce-qui-m-interesse-c-est-la-pointe-de-...

Good find.
The album is listed on Discogs and on (Wikipedia)[https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarallergy] but there's no great detail there beyond line-up and track listings.

Onkyo-kei is a really interesting genre that you'll probably like. If you're not familiar with it already, Toshimaru Nakamura's works, especially his no-input mixing board series, are a great starting point.

Score Here: http://issuu.com/thomasbsturm/docs/a_singing_comet

Here's the details:

"A Singing Comet" is a continuation of my work with transcribing sounds recorded in space for various acoustic ensembles. This piece began as an experiment in transcription of the sound emitted by the Comet 67p and recorded by Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium. After a complete transcription, I began to make musical interventions in the material, adding my own textures and musical contexts for the sound of the comet to travel through. In this way, "A Singing Comet" serves as a representation both of the actual sound of the comet, and the metaphoric representation of its travel through space and its interaction with the Human Race.

Recorded on 3/15/15 by the Little Giant Ensemble during Rice University's Common Practice 21C: Classical, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Music Festival highlighting a variety of Chinese Instruments and contemporary compositions composed for Both Chinese and Western Classical ensembles.

No problem bud. I'm listening right now.

I like the use of static in the background and the glitching of the guitar. Did you use the pickup switch to create that effect?

If you'd like, feel free to check out my most recent post on the r/noisemusic. Here's the link so you don't have to search for it:

https://vimeo.com/44147923

Tell me what you think.

I'd love to get some feedback on the songs. Here's a some info on the set:

I'm greatly influenced by Battles and other contemporary experimental groups and artists. The recording process that I use consists of recording my guitar delay pedal loops, manipulating them and sequencing them. I sequence drum beats by hand from one-shot samples, and sequence digital bass lines. Alternatively I use a guitar with an octave pedal for the bass sounds.

All of the samples on the tracks are of my own playing, except on the track "Dub Demo" where I used a hiphop-y sampling technique. I wanted to try what I can do with modern digital technology, Ableton Live and looping.

Not a piece, but a silly (free) Android app for doing physics based sequencing... enjoy! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ampersandland.doodledot

(web version at http://ampersandland.com/unitystuff/doodledot.web)

Is this inspired by "Fire Music: A Political History Of Jazz" by Rob Backus?