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wh197 Drone Wallah – Ancient Lights to Zero Hour

C.P. McDill — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:59:44 +0000

A long-form remix of DW’s Abecedronium, combining 26 separate drones into an ever-shifting odyssey.

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Drone Wallah is C.P. McDill’s project devoted solely to expansive drone works. This album and its predecessor were the fruits of a season of experimentation with the numerous means of creating droney sounds pleasing to the ear. It is by no means exhaustive, as there are millions of possible ways. This is just one brief period of exploration.

Credits:
The original drones produced by Drone Wallah (C.P. McDill), February-March 2011 for the album Abecedronium [wh173].
C.P. McDill: myriad instruments, gadgets, effects, sound processing
Aria Nadii: saw on drone #07 “Grimalkin”
Cover illustration by C.P. McDill.

The drones used in this are named:
Ancient Lights, Boojum, Caboodle, Duckboard Harrier, Euterpe, Fiddler’s Green, Grimalkin, Here and Thereian, Infra Dignitatem, Jackanapes, Kittle Pitchering, Lion’s Provider, Mumbudget, Nightspell, Orrery, Play Possum, Quius Kius, Runcible Spoon, Sygaldry, Tarnation, Umbersorrow, Vamoose, Ware Hawk, Xiphias, Yeth-hounds, Zero Hour
(Some of the drones have been altered from the versions appearing on Abecedronium.)

Track List:
01 Drone Wallah – Ancient Lights to Zero Hour [00:47:14]

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wh196 Tim Doyle – Incarnation

C.P. McDill — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:03:19 +0000

A glittering soundscape, this long-form generative piece by experimentalist Tim Doyle is based on fractal algorithms.

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About Incarnation:
“I had about 100 candidates for names in something like 29 subcategories under some 8 main categories, and Incarnation finally won out. This is one of what I call my “hinged” pieces, where there is a profound alteration at the midpoint, often opening up the piece in some way, although it can go the other way or just sideways in some cases. In this piece it feels as though what is implicit and immanent as well as imminent actually takes flesh in the middle and strides into this world, or extrudes like ectoplasm… more in my mind like the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem to be born. So Incarnation started feeling like exactly what I meant.” — Tim Doyle

About the Artist:
Tim Doyle was born Feb. 12, 1949 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and spent his childhood as the oldest of 9 children in a rural setting on a heavily wooded lake.

He has been making music in one form or another since childhood, when he soloed in a performance of his piano concerto “Rhapsody #1” at age 9 in a school production, and had a band piece called “Rough Draft” performed a few years later.

He turned to jazz and blues piano in his teens, but although he studied music theory and composition, he was awarded his B.A. in mathematics, his first love. He was always intrigued by the connections between music and math, and made some early experiments at computer composition in the late sixties.

His love for jazz deepened when he discovered the Blue Note catalog at age 20, starting with Jimmy Smith, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Lee Morgan, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Bill Evans. He still plays keyboard in various styles, but has not recorded his improvised music.

In 1999, he ran across a relatively simple fractal music generative program called Musinum, created by Dr. Lars Kindermann in Germany, who left it available as freeware and then moved on to other projects. Most of the sample music created by Musinum users was brief and (with a few notable exceptions) primitive, but the power inherent in the algorithms employed intrigued Doyle.

Many more of his recordings can be found at his last.fm page.

Track List:
01 Tim Doyle – Incarnation [01:00:11]

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wh175 Ghosts Don’t Exist – Rain

C.P. McDill — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:05:31 +0000

Minimal drone artist Ghosts Don’t Exist created this long-form drone-ambient Rain release especially for Webbed Hand. A soothing soundscape crafted from processed sound.

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Rain is a series of conceptual tracks produced for Webbed Hand Records. Each “Rain” is a CD-length ambient recording ideal for quiet listening while meditating, writing, or going to sleep. Typically the recordings in this series are minimalistic soundscapes, with motifs played out cyclically rather than progressively, in order to induce relaxed states.

Ghosts Don’t Exist is the minimal drone project of The Ghost Between The Strings.
No music instrument nor prior recordings were used here : just cables plugged into guitar stompboxes.
Digital effects were used only during the mixing process.

http://tgbts.com/ghosts-dont-exist/

Track info:
01 Rain [00:51:29]

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wh173 Drone Wallah – Abecedronium

C.P. McDill — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:13:26 +0000

Abecedronium is a cabinet of droney curiosities, being 26 short yet very diverse tracks with alphabetical titles.

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Drone Wallah is C.P. McDill’s project devoted solely to expansive drone works.

Credits:
All tracks produced by Drone Wallah (C.P. McDill), February-March 2011.
C.P. McDill: myriad instruments, gadgets, effects, sound processing
Aria Nadii: musical saw on track #07 “Grimalkin”
Cover illustration by Aria Nadii.

Track list:
01 Ancient Lights [02:00]
02 Boojum [02:03]
03 Caboodle [02:11]
04 Duckboard Harrier [02:20]
05 Euterpe [02:17]
06 Fiddler’s Green [02:24]
07 Grimalkin [02:21]
08 Here and Thereian [02:27]
09 Infra Dignitatem [02:09]
10 Jackanapes [02:02]
11 Kittle Pitchering [02:19]
12 Lion’s Provider [02:03]
13 Mumbudget [02:09]
14 Nightspell [02:21]
15 Orrery [02:21]
16 Play Possum [02:12]
17 Quius Kius [02:09]
18 Runcible Spoon [02:15]
19 Sygaldry [02:12]
20 Tarnation [02:12]
21 Umbersorrow [02:25]
22 Vamoose [02:25]
23 Ware Hawk [02:04]
24 Xiphias [02:17]
25 Yeth-hounds [02:04]
26 Zero Hour [02:02]

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wh155 melophobia – rain 11_03M

C.P. McDill — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:13:45 +0000

melophobia follows up 10_2M [wh147] with a contribution to Webbed Hand’s long-form ambient “Rain” series, a work of shifting sound textures and great subtlety.

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11_03M
recording/manipulation/much-overproduction @ Greece, Jan/2011
by melophobia

‘rain’ is commissioned for Webbed Hand series : “Rain”
(http://www.webbedhandrecords.com/category/rain/)

physical copies exist in cdr’s with hand made paper covers (contact…),
some were left as always, in different places to be found by people…

check internet archive :

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Melophobia%22

contact :
dxt@in.gr & xenofonx@gmail.com
covers :

http://melophobia-gr.blogspot.com/

blog :

http://dreams-dxt.blogspot.com/search/label/melophobia

Track info:
01 Rain 11_03M [01:07:51]

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wh154 Drone Wallah – Caput Mortuum

C.P. McDill — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:49:31 +0000

Drone Wallah’s “Caput Mortuum” serves up the characteristic drones, ranging from soothing to intense.

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Drone Wallah is C.P. McDill’s project devoted solely to expansive drone works.

Credits:
All tracks produced by Drone Wallah (C.P. McDill), January 2011.
Cover design by C.P. McDill

Track list:
01 – Diogenes’ Lantern [16:11]
02 – Faute de Mieux [17:00]
03 – Crowned With Elder part 1 [13:14]
04 – Brutum Fulmen [06:30]
05 – Crowned With Elder part 2 [08:41]

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wh138 Drone Wallah – Womble-cropped

C.P. McDill — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:06:09 +0000

Drone Wallah’s new collection for Fall 2010 presents four glamorous drones in a variety of edgy styles and colors.

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Drone Wallah is a recording project of CP McDill (Saluki Regicide, Djinnestan, Akashic Crow’s Nest, Tree Helicopter) focused on long, shimmery works of drone ambient. This is the sixth release under that name.

credits:
Recorded & produced by CP McDill
November, 2010

Track list
01 – Dog of the Seven Sleepers [05:28]
02 – Womble-cropped [20:45]
03 – The Devil’s Paternoster [23:18]
04 – Every Bullet Its Billet [20:21]

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wh131 Beyond Absence – Mood Report

C.P. McDill — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:00:22 +0000

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Beyond Absence returns of Webbed Hand with an album of meditative acoustic works influenced by jazz and ambient music.

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Beyond Absence is: Gustavo Caldas and Mauro Longordo
Recorded at the Blue Shed Studio, Acton, MA, 2008
Cover Photo: Gabriela Caldas
Visit their homepage: Beyond Absence.

01 Lightwatcher’s Insomnia Suite I
02 Lightwatcher’s Insomnia Suite II
03 Lightwatcher’s Insomnia Suite III
04 Lightwatcher’s Insomnia Suite IV
05 Still Awake
06 Gentle Man
07 Altar Boy
08 Standing Before Infinity
09 Saci-Pererê
10 Soundproof Lullaby
11 Ela
12 Glad at Last

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wh120 Mystified – SphereSlowChime

C.P. McDill — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:40:03 +0000

“SphereSlowChime” by Mystified is a subtle, meditative piece crafted using generative methods, characterized by long reverberating gong and chime sounds.

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“SphereSlowChime” was derived from a piece of generative midi created in the late 1990′s by Thomas Park. The MIDI was made with fractal generation, using the geometry of a sphere for seed data. In 2009, this piece of MIDI was transformed into a WAV file, slightly edited, and then processed using a windchime effect and reverberation. Mystified would like to cite Akashic Crow’s Nest as an influence for this music. — Thomas Park

01 SphereSlowChime (01:00:00)

Recorded & Produced by Thomas Park, 2009
Cover illustration by Jake Eldridge

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wh113 Beyond Absence – Complacency

C.P. McDill — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:08:07 +0000

One of the definitions of complacency is “to be completely satisfied right where you are.” And satisfied you will be, settled back in a comfortable chair, as you take in these mellow compositions which seem to shimmer like snowflakes in the air. This work evokes a slower, more peaceful approach to life.

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“This is what we wanted to tell you for now. We are glad to have reached your ears; and perhaps a little of your hearts and minds, if for a second or two only.”

–Gustavo and Mauro.

Beyond Absence is: Gustavo Caldas and Mauro Longordo
Recorded at the Blue Shed Studio, Acton, MA, 2006
Original cover artwork by M. Longordo

Visit their homepage: Beyond Absence.

01 Abertura (05:38)
02 The End of Living and Begining of Survival (07:46)
03 Including-Imaginary Faith (02:26)
04 Loud Again (04:45)
05 Yesterday’s Product (01:47)
06 An Eagle’s Egg in a Chicken Nest (02:47)
07 Space Trip (04:10)
08 Mestre Salu (13:13)
09 Goodbye Canal 100-In Black and White (06:50)

Total Time: 00:49:22

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