External links
http://www.opnemer.org
http://www.perfectworldproject.org
http://www.perfectworldproject.org/enghome.html (english version)
Contact
erik.maesatxs4alldotnl
Name
Erik Maes
Projects/Bands
Medmud
Sonic and visual treatments. Digital art.
QSO82
Minimal techno. Stuff that’s known as IDM.
Eb
Improvised music that isn’t Jazz. Instant music.
Bio
Coming soon.
Software used
Audiomulch, Audacity, Cakewalk Sonar, Goldwave, Acoustica, Irfanview, Gimp, Nicolas Fournel’s MIDI and DSP tools, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro (I use the Adobe and Apple stuff at work).
Hardware used
Waldorf Pulse, Yamaha TX81Z, various noisemakers such as broken record players, saucers, bells, gongs, metal shelves, &c.
Method
Audiofiles are collected from all over the place. I am always looking for files that are not commonly considered “musical”: found sounds, sounds from space, shortwave oddities, “earth sounds” and sounds that are the result of databending. Usually, these audiofiles are loaded into one of Audiomulch’s grain or loopplayers where they are treated or just played back in an ordely fashion (of course, chaos is a form of order, too). When I feel like it, I mix the resulting tracks in Sonar.
Audio
License: Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial 2.0
The following tracks are all unmixed and unmastered.
A Walk In The Park .mp3
Rose .mp3
975 Millibar .mp3
Silver River (For Jhonn Balance) .mp3
A Sense Of Security .mp3
The following track was recorded live at De Onderbroek in Nijgegen, Netherlands, june 11th 2005.
Radioland/Babylon (version 001) .mp3
Realtime manipulation of radiosignals coming from a hand-cranked radio. The battery would last only for 30 minutes, after that the performance ended. The radio-signal played untreated for approximately 15 minutes while visitors entered the room. The clip above is of the actual performance, and is about 13 minutes.
Image courtesy of Cathrien Pouw
Video
License: Creative Commons AttribitionNonCommercial 2.0
VektoR is a proof-of-concept. It was made by databending jpegs and video-processing.
00:00:55:01
1.4MB
.mp4
VektoR (direct link)
Fieldrecordings 01 and 02 are two snippets of processed and resynthesized video-fieldrecordings.
00:01:01:08
5.5MB
.mp4
fieldrecording01 (direct link)
00:01:01:21
1.9MB
.mp4
fieldrecording02 (direct link)