domingo, 12 de junio de 2011

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domingo, 5 de junio de 2011

Diego Stocco

Diego Stocco - Music From A Bonsai from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

I always liked bonsai trees, and I was curious to try the approach I used for "Music from a Tree" on a smaller scale, so I bought a bonsai and recorded this little experimental piece.

To determine the key I used the lowest note I could play and recorded the rest around it.
Besides playing the leaves, I used bows of different sizes, a piano hammer and a paint brush.
As far as microphones I used my Røde NT6, a customized stethoscope and tiny MEAS piezo transducers.

I played all the sounds and rhythms only with the bonsai, I didn't use any synthesizer or samplers to create or modify the sounds. I hope you'll like it.

At this link you can see some pictures with more detailed descriptions: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Music-from-a-Bonsai/453731

sábado, 4 de junio de 2011

Yamato - The Dummers of Japan

Do you listen to your dreams?

Do You Listen to Your Dreams? – fantastic, haunting new work by sound experimenteur Diego Stocco. (Previously.) All the sounds are generated from the trees, the wind, wind chimes and bowed acoustic guitar harmonics, processed with granular synthesis. Listen with headphones.