Mundane Music: Towel Rail

Another single source music concrete piece, "Towel Rail" is literally just that, a few hits on a metal towel rail, digitally processed. "Mundane Music" because I like creating works from common objects from house and garden and then taking those sounds as far as I can.

 

Towel Rail: Bandcamp Link 

 

 

Two single source digitally manipulated pieces, Glass on Glass & Orpheus in Hades.

Another track created from sliding glass jars on a glass plate, then digitally manipulated. 

Glass on Glass (Bandcamp)

 

Orpheus in Hades takes a short sample of Windchimes.

Orpheus in Hades 

 

So just how malleable is sound?

 

Studio Noise Manipulated (Death of a Soundcard)

This is an experiment in how malleable sound is today with the use of digital processing. You hear the source content briefly at the start, noise and hum coming from a dying soundcard. That sound is split into narrow bands using a filter bank and each band is then processed differently. As there was a hum element in the original sound it was easy to derive a pitched sound and then further pitch and frequency shift the results.

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/2FLG6BH3G5xEM6rEXVxNiY?si=KJG90zY-ToizLslTtEi2GA

Bandcamp Free download https://markdaltongriffiths.bandcamp.com/track/death-of-a-soundcard

 

Inside / Outside in a time of affliction (Covid 19)

Another Covid 19 inspired track. Recorded in April 2020 during the UKs lockdown in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. Only 1.30mins long it contrasts the outpourings of the internet in terms of news broadcasts and the now largely human noise free outside. You literally hear the sound of the birds & the bees. Nature carries on regardless.

https://markdaltongriffiths.bandcamp.com/track/inside-outside-in-a-time-of-affliction-covid-19

Healer celebration dance by Oxfordian highlands indigenous people

I feel we are going through some changes in the way we think about the pandemic. I'm releasing a couple of tracks against the Mark Dalton Griffiths name recorded in April. First up is "Healer celebration dance by Oxfordian highlands indigenous people."

Recorded in April 2020 during the UKs lockdown in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. It became a habit to go to our front doors or balconies every Thursday at 8pm and clap to thank key workers, in particular those in the health service, for their work while the majority of the rest of us were confined to our homes. Our own village was no exception and in addition to clapping there was much banging of saucepans and someone even got out a hunting horn for the occasion. The short piece took a recording of one of the “clap for the NHS” sessions and looped parts of it. What came out was something vaguely akin to those ethnological recordings of some indigenous tribe made by some earnest academic. Thus we have “Healer celebration dance by Oxfordian highlands indigenous people.” It’s a celebration in the face of adversity.

https://markdaltongriffiths.bandcamp.com/track/healer-celebration-dance-of-the-oxfordian-highlands-indigenous-people