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The New Consonance / Urban Ugly -- theremin by Beat Frequency / photography by Highton Ridley

Images (Urban Ugly) copyright Mark Highton Ridley. http://www.highton-ridley.c... Audio (The New Consonance) copyright Gordon Charlton http://beat-frequency.blogs... Audio chain: etherwave therem...  
 
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organdude44 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Love your work, Gordon. You really explore the range and colors of the theremin more than anyone playing today that I've heard. I have a degree in vocal music but, who wants to hear the same old stuff over and over again? I into analog electronic music and, especially the theremin. Though I'm afraid i can't handle the legion of Clara Rockmore wannabe's!
GordonCharlton (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Thanks, Organdude. :-)

Yeah, it didn't take me long to figure out that playing classical theremin wasn't for me, and the connection of electronic instrument to electronic music seems rather obvious, so I stopped worrying about pitch and decided to see what I could do with some simple effects instead. :-)
organdude44 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Gordon, I downloaded your CD, The Chordless Chord, from itunes and have it on my ipod. It kills! You should check out the great Pauline Oliveros-improvised accordion with an electronic signal processing system she designed. She has a wikipedia listing with links. I think you'd find her work really interesting.
dananedelea199 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Extremely well done, very good colab between "dark" urbanscapes and a very atmospheric music.
Sandbagger101 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Really nicely edited - merges well and creates a lovely haunting atmosphere

really great work, thanks for sharing
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Thereminstrel (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Excellent audio / visual combination - the two seem perfectly matched and, together, have possily greater impact than either alone. Thanks!
GordonCharlton (3 months ago) Show Hide
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It's easy when you've got good material to work with.
GordonCharlton (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Thanks yeapsystar (and everyone that commented so far!) The effect was done by passing the audio through a pitch shifter with two outs - one of which was detuned here 25 cents sharp. When the two are combined it gives beats related to pitch - low notes get slow beats and high notes get fast beats. (I combined them with a two input ring-mod to emphasise the effect.)

Sidebar: One of Theremin's other instruments - the rhythmicon - related pitch to rhythm, so this is a new take on an old idea.
GordonCharlton (3 months ago) Show Hide
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You can find out how Mark produced such high-contrast images here:

bit . ly/inwjq

(It's a web address. Remove the spaces on either side of the dot before use. Youtube hates proper links.)
gotomaria (3 months ago) Show Hide
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This is an amazing combination of photo and music. It gave me the chills. Very well done in my humble opinion. :)

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