As the wind blows through the surrounding steppe, precisely carved holes in the menhirs of Karahunj (“the speaking stones”) make eerie whistling sounds. The ancient stone circle lies in the lowlands of southern Armenia.
https://nulacc.bandcamp.com/album/octalogue
& https://nula.cc/60168
a multi-part sound work-in-progress for Radio Art Zone
as part of the Esch2022 Capital of Culture
A collection of digital artifacts that inform and reveal the elaboration of a project which will eventually become a 22-hour broadcast, a single contribution among 99 others, as part of the collective 100-day broadcast project Radio Art Zone, which will take place from 18 June to 25 September, 2022.
A series of irregular dispatches, any of which may find a place in (or contribute behind the scenes to) the final result. Regardless, each is a node of research on the way to the realization of the finished broadcast. These accumulated fragments, various as they are, reflect the actual labor of the project, and […] >>> read on
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these tracks evolved in an exploration of SuperCollider and its apparently limitless possibilities, as filtered through my own modest ability to exploit them. Basic motifs where laid down using stochastic processes and granular synthesis in mincing through a variety of field recordings, whose subject matter was seen as arbitrary and thus an unimportant consideration. At a later stage, various tracks consisting of found materials were layered on to hint at some dramatic or emotional impulse, lest the results languor in an arid academic state. I don’t know whether or not that was entirely successful. A wise man once said: a work of art is never finished, it is merely abandoned. requiescat.
here: http://nula.cc/59310
and here: https://nulacc.bandcamp.com/album/stochastic-elegies
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