Occult Classical, by Tom Moody

Occult Classical

by Tom Moody

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1.	Muffled Trumpets 01:14	buy track
2.	Manhattan Bead Cycles 01:00	buy track
3.	Drums and Harpsichord 01:08	buy track
4.	Big Band Beatbox 01:34	buy track
5.	Lateral Shimmy 00:46	buy track
6.	Small Band Beatbox 01:30	buy track
7.	Bitcrush Drum Anthem 01:02	buy track
8.	Moon Joker 02:02	buy track
9.	Zombie Click Track 01:14	buy track
10.	8-Bit Chiseler 02:01	buy track

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"Higher powers command: paint the upper right corner black," quipped Sigmar Polke in a notable artwork title. Such commands might also lurk behind the meandering signal flow of a modular synthesizer patch or the inchoate logic of placing scraps of digitized vinyl within the layered timeline of a digital audio workstation.

This release combines synth tunes (modular and soft-), beatbox beats, and reassembled sounds from the jazz and classical crates. There is less use of MIDI pattern generation to make chords and arpeggios than in the previous few releases; however, quantization is used within the modular to turn random and/or sequenced pitches into conventional chords and scales.

There is also some emphasis on getting novel timbres into clips, and reacting to those within the composition. A recurring device for turning lead into audio gold is Doepfer's A-112 sampler module, used in about half these tunes. Some custom waveforms were made and uploaded via MIDI to the A-112, using PrivatePublic Music's Doepfer A-112 Waves application (www.privatepublic.de/blog/software/a-112-waves/)

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released June 23, 2020

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Tom Moody New York, New York

"The sound world [in Melding Principle] is very finely calibrated; your ear for pairing the very pure and the klangorous has become remarkably deft. That makes it easy for the listener to latch onto the layered melodies. (Howl Din)

"[Y]our musical works exploit the aesthetic paradoxes of telecommunications and computer technologies and the social fantasies attached to them."
(Pierre-Luc Verville) ... more

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