Jean-Francois Charles

Tonight, Saturday December 15th, I will diffuse Bleu 2 on the 30 speakers of the Hydra Loudspeaker Orchestra . The mixing consoles driving the Hydra: As I already mentioned in my post Bleu 2 - electronic music - transcription , I composed the electronic music for Bleu 2 using as source material only Bleu 1 , a set of three clarinet improvisations (well, clarinet in its extended meaning: bass clarinet , basset-horn , and contrabass clarinet ). No other sample, nor synthesizers of any kind, but only sound processing of the original recordings. My additional constraint has been to make Bleu 2 the same duration as Bleu 1 . Feel free to remix Now, you can listen to Bleu 1 , download the files, and make your own remix. You can also listen to each of the parts while looking at Miró 's corresponding painting . These 3 improvised miniatures are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License . You can listen to Bleu 2 , my "rem...

I received a nice surprise last week. Georges , a multimedia artist from Savoie, France, reacted to my post Lithophone - Agate Music , and e-mailed me a remix of my example. Listen to his Agate composition . Also, make sure you visit Georges' blog audiosource (in French), and maybe you will subscribe to his RSS feed. He declares his blog is about sounds, all sounds, the means of making them, recording them, composing with them, transporting them, making music or not with them . Some posts with sounds and stories I like (you need to find the link to listen to the music): Pondicherymix Grive musicienne L'aluphoniste and L'aluphone portique Variation pour sonnette