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All music and noises © Copyright Paul A. Williams aka Elwood Herring - Please read these notes before downloading
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= MIDI file (Instant music!)| D/L | Mins | Rebus Suite op.23 (1984) | |
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A suite of 6 unconnected electronic & music concréte pieces. | ||
| Time and Commotion parts 1 & 2 |
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02:32 03:59 |
Just as the title suggests - clocks and clouds and cuckoos and cockups... |
| Concrete Mix | |
13:56 | No synths here - household sounds mixed and processed into an aural potpourri in the style of John Cage. The sounds get more complex as the piece develops, adding layer upon layer of processing. |
| Composition (A play on words) |
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16:24 | Another concréte piece, this time all derived from a single spoken word. NO synthesisers were used here, just simple editing and processing effects. Inspired by the work of Ilhan Mimaroglu. (If you want to download this file in smaller sections, go here instead.) |
| Opus 56 | |
11:00 11:45 |
A curious abstract piece that started off as a computer generated MIDI file which was subsequently altered manually by me (I'm not letting the computer get all the credit!) I haven't even decided on a proper title yet, but if I come up with anything good I'll change it. Then again, maybe I'll leave it as it is. It's played by a quartet comprising marimba, sitar, shamisen and koto, and sounds utterly bizarre so of course it's perfect for this website! It's also my biggest MIDI file yet, at 275k or thereabouts, despite being only 11 minutes long. The mp3 version has some extra processing and added effects, is slightly longer and sounds much better. OK, so it's weird, it's ridiculous, it wouldn't be classed as music by most people, but to me it's a perfect example of my "experimental" style. If you're new to my website and this is the first thing you've heard, don't be put off. Try this piece instead. But I believe any composer in the 21st Century should be receptive to all forms of music, however strange. Frank Zappa and Alfred Schnittke (to name just two recently deceased giants of the Avant Garde) would have agreed with me on this (and believe me, I've heard much stranger things than this played on the radio over the years!) So, if you don't like it, don't worry about it. Click on the links below and find something else! |
| Waterworld | |
16:15 | A piece of concrète music derived entirely from the sound of running water. Turn a tap on and listen to the sound of the water as it splashes into a sink, or on the ground or whatever. If you're lucky you will hear all sorts of interesting rhythmic patterns and even musical notes. What I have done with this piece is isolate certain rhythms and sounds that I could hear in a simple recording of a running tap, and then emphasise them by repetition or other simple tricks. The middle section comprises half a dozen of these water rhythms superimposed on each other, and almost sounds like a roomful of clocks ticking in unison. The piece ends with the basic raw sample of running water, but after hearing all the rhythms I have repeated in the preceding section, you should be able to pick them out quite easily. It makes you realise what a complex sound water can make. I will probably work on this piece some more in the next few weeks. There is still a great deal to be found in that simple water sound (oops, unintentional rhyme. Oh well...) |
| Take 3 revisited | |
12:25 | Not a synth piece at all really, but a "fuzz guitar" excursion a la Hendrix, albeit far less frenetic. I recently added some spacey reverb to it and it now sounds quite amazing (hence the "Revisited" tag.) |
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