I'm Aidan. I go to the California Institute of the Arts. I study music, or what I like more and more like to call sound art. I make a lot of noise. I make a lot of field recordings. I'm interested in sound environments and how they can be presented, combined, preserved, improved.
I'm going to use this blog to get my art out. Most of the things I'm going to post will be recordings or scores. Of course any links I find fascinating. I'll even do short reviews of albums that come up randomly on my iPod.
As a welcome, here's a download link to a short percussion trio I wrote last semester. I know I said I make "sound art" so I'd appear all intellectual, but that stuff is on its way, I assure you. I just finished a remix of Radiohead's The King of Limbs that will I have yet to upload. So this will give you a sense of my varying interests and concerns. Back to the percussion piece: I wrote this using a random procedure to generate durations of sound events and silences for each part. The only durations I made available were prime numbers in seconds, simply because I'm partial to prime numbers. Each duration has a particular rhythm or rhythmic quality assigned to it. The pitched and unclearly pitched material is is divided into high, medium, and low, chosen randomly per event. Further, I limited pitches to the prime-numbered partials stemming from a low G, approximated of course. Actual pitch contours and dynamics were written without the use of a process. Please enjoy.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ILE5NLWP
-- Aidan Reynolds
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