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Sonic Sketches 1

by Honeymoonhill

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Sonic Sketches 1: Aubarde Revisited #1 01:40
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Sonic Sketches 1: To Dream #1 03:09
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Sonic Sketches 1: 39 Questions #1 03:33
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Sonic Sketches 1: Aubarde Revisited #2 01:22
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Sonic Sketches 1: e guitar #1 03:00
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Sonic Sketches 1: Spur #1 02:24
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Sonic Sketches 1: Horns in the House #1 05:11
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Sonic Sketches 1: Piano melt #3 02:51
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Sonic Sketches 1: Piano Melt #1 05:38
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Sonic Sketches 1: Piano Melt #2 03:35
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Sonic Sketches 1: Mr Jazz and his Brother #1 04:17
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Sonic Sketches 1: Skeleton Dance revisited #1 03:40
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Sonic Sketches 1: Noises off #1 01:42
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Sonic Sketches 1: Melodica # 1 01:55
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about

This albums "sonic sketches" are so called because they are designed to explore a particular tool. Also they are all based on samples or parts of recordings, reusing them to make something completely different.

The tool used is Melodyne, a piece of software. It is mainly looked upon as an editing tool but In this case, it is being used to change the sound data - almost like manipulating visual images on a page. Sounds can be stretched and moved and altered in quite a physical way. I had long been intending to experiment and in November 2013 I started.

These 13 tracks (all bar the 14th Aubarde) were created in November and it has become a journey of rediscovering a link and affinity for the sort of abstract music it has led to. The starting point was this track, created in 2009 one of only a few deliberately abstract tracks, cut from samples of sax notes a friend, Rick Woolgar had played in an improvisation on a song.

The sketches each take a single instrument or a single recording (except in the case of the cow bell added to some of the piano tracks). Each track has a development, but it has not been premeditated in any way. They develop like a solo does, a bit at a time.

I have begun to realise that, though I feel like a beginner again to this type of music, I am suddenly aware of roots that I had forgotten I had. The time playing in the Experimental Music Group at the Royal College of Music, and year spent with composers studying at the Warsaw Akademja Muzyczna. I dedicate these tracks to my contemporaries of that era. (Some of whom bask in acclaim and recognition - you know who you are!!) And, all those on soundcloud who have been giving comments and encouragement.

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released November 26, 2013

Samples used in this album were recorded by the following people:
Liz Armour - Horn samples, Piano, Voices, keyboards
Rick Woolgar - sax sample
Njeza Dlamini - guitar sample
Spilele Dlamini - whistle sample
Kids from the Wales Environmental Home Education Camp - sample of voices
Musicians from Joseph Omo's Durban Afro Jazz Ensemble (playing Spur of the Moment) sample of rehearsal
Ken Sturt - electric guitar sample

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