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Samuel Hertz - Blue Heron

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    A compilation that takes the lullaby genre into the realm of experimental electronic music, assembled from an open call for experimental lullabies launched in May 2014.

    The compilation includes tracks by well-known artists as well as first releases, with material on vinyl from d.R.e.G.S, 0xA, xname, Erich Barganier and Samuel Hertz and an expanded digital edition containing tracks from Thor Magnusson, Robert B. Lisek, Repl Electric, Claude Heiland-Allen, Marta Zapparoli and more hand-picked gems from the experimental techno, noise and electroacoustic scenes.

    The record guides the listener through eerily echoed music boxes to experiments in a syncopated 8-bit berceuse, with detours into clean planes of glassy textures, dives into opaque amniotic drones and concentrated, tender yet ominous moments, such as the sound of beating hearts against saturated, distant washes of feedback. Composed for Nintendo, Atari, Pure Data, Supercollider, D-Box, tape recorders, as well as ultraStethoscopes or using radioactive materials, these recordings treat the lullaby genre as an example of consciousness-altering music.

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This track was made in SuperCollider, using ProteinBioSynthesis external library for generative pattern building. Mastered in Germany by Calyx.

lyrics

//***BLUE HERON: AMINO ACID LULLABY***\\

/*
Follow the below steps to run Blue Heron. Amino Acid Cycles have variable intervals built into their patterns, so each cycle should be given time to run before starting the next one.

Users will have to have the ProteinBioSynthesis external library installed to run pattern cycles: https://github.com/supercollider-quarks/ProteinBioSynthesis

1. Run SynthDef
2. Run Cycle 1
3. Run Cycle 2
4. " " 3
5. " " 4
6. Within the SynthDef, slowly change the impulse time number pairs within the .range(x, y) parameters. Suggested number pairs are listed next to it. Once you have changed the number pairs, run the code block again and the changes will take place.
*/

//SYNTHDEF init.
(
SynthDef("amino", { arg out, freq=440, sustain=0.25, pan, p, amp=0.1;
var u;
u = Line.kr(1, 0, sustain, doneAction:2) *
SinOsc.ar(
freq, SinOsc.ar(
freq * p, 0, BrownNoise.kr(pi/2)
)
* Pulse.ar(
LFNoise0.kr(1).range(2, 20) //impulse_time-- live coding: (2, 20) orig. (1, 5) --> (0.1, 1) --> (0.01, 0.1) --> (0.001, 0.01)
)
);
Out.ar(
out, Pan2.ar(u, pan, amp)
);
}).store;
)

//CYCLE 1
(
var pat;
pat = AminoacidPattern("gatggatgcgatcggcttaggggctagcgatcgggatcg", inf);
Pbind(
\instrument, \amino,
\degree, pat - 1,// 10
\stepsPerOctave, 5,
\dur, pat *10, //10
\p, pat / 2,
\legato, Prand([2, 1, 1, 7, 5, 1], inf) * 1.4,
\pan, pat / 10 - 1,
\amp, Pbrown(0.01, 0.05, 0.05, inf)
).play;
)

//CYCLE 2
(
var pat;
pat = AminoacidPattern("tatgatggggctagcgattcattccag", inf);
Pbind(
\instrument, \amino,
\degree, pat - 1, // 10
\stepsPerOctave, 5,
\dur, pat *20, //20
\p, pat / 1,
\legato, Prand([9, 5, 10, 7, 15, 10], inf) * 1.4,
\pan, pat / 10 - 1,
\amp, Pbrown(0.01, 0.05, 0.09, inf)
).play;
)

//CYCLE 3
(
var pat;
pat = AminoacidPattern("atgatgattgctagctattcagtccag", inf);
Pbind(
\instrument, \amino,
\degree, pat - 1,
\stepsPerOctave, 12,
\dur, pat *0.25,
\p, pat / 1,
\legato, Prand([9, 5, 10, 7, 15, 10], inf) * 1.4,
\pan, pat / 10 - 1,
\amp, Pbrown(0.01, 0.10, 0.05, inf)
).play;
)

//CYCLE 4
(
var pat;
pat = AminoacidPattern("catactgatctccatagccatcaggtc", inf);
Pbind(
\instrument, \amino,
\degree, pat - 1,
\stepsPerOctave, 12,
\dur, pat *0.1,
\p, pat / 1,
\legato, Prand([1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 3], inf) * 1.4,
\pan, pat / 10 - 1,
\amp, Pbrown(0.01, 0.10, 0.05, inf)
).play;
)

credits

from Nebulullaby, released May 1, 2016
Samuel Hertz is a composer and performer who has studied electronic music and composition with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, James Fei and Chris Brown, among others. He is currently an Artistic Researcher in association with Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science on Technosphere project.

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