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| | Spring Loops
Spring Loops
Hello. Here is Spring Loops. There are five tracks each with three adventures into loop harmony.
Here are some statistics from Spring Loops...
Track 1
...names.....X/Y/Z:LCM
Adventure 1 4.5/30/40:360
Adventure 2 12/32/27:864
Adventure 3 16/22.5/16.5:7920
Track 2
Adventure 1 18/18/42:126
and so forth...
The units are beats of music. X Y Z represent the loops of differing length. X Y and Z are combined and it is the LCM, the least common multiple, that represents the entire cycle length of the overall looping adventure.
All we should take from this is the fact that we are combining loops of different lengths in a musical way. And it will be increasingly more interesting as we use loop lengths that are not just simple factors of each other.
Birds In The Air Too
This serves as the bonus track to Spring Loops. It includes several improvised loop harmony events that pay no particular attention to rhythmical exactness. The rhythm is loose. The events are faded in and out within this 19 minute track. But most importantly we recorded along with the birds in our backyard. Please enjoy. Thanks for your time.
The running time is 43 minutes. |
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| | New Music Things
We talked of minimalism and of not much happening, but repetition implies that there is not much happening. We have discovered within these here Music Things, indeed we have. Perhaps we are making nothing happen more interestingly.
New Music Things is the third piece in our introductory trio. Enjoy these 6 tracks.
The running time is 13 minutes. |
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| | The second installment of our harmoniously looping polymetric miniatures.
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| | Music Zings
It does, doesn't it. (?)
Music zings, it zooms, it zaps, and it claps. We would like to thank all synthesizer makers past and present. These are their sounds we are choosing and sometimes adjusting.
Music Zings is continuing your introduction to bowlingovalmusic. More loops of differing length repeating over each other creating that certain kaleidoscopic space we hope to create right here at the beginning of the 21st century. Perhaps it's a result of a more globally minded people. Or perhaps it's just our own appreciation here at bowlingovalmusic for all things round.
Please enjoy these. Music Zings 8 times over 8 tracks on this recording.
The running time is approximately 15 minutes. |
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Harmoniously looping polymetric miniatures.
Minimalism can be difficult to define. Musically speaking we believe the most fundamental aspect to be repetition. This is in conflict with the notion of minimalism being ambient with not much happening.
We have been interested since the start in a music that removes the sense of the barline. Just as planets orbit at different rates so do our loops. It is described in musical terms as being polymetric.
Most importantly the loops need to be loop-like, rising falling and returning. Secondly and as well as we can define it, the loops are to be combined in a musical way. We can call it loop harmony.
Loop harmony allows for a time aspect to harmony which gets away from the now standard vertical approach. We create the music and then we can look at the math of it. Sometimes these repeating loops can take surprisingly long to complete a single cycle in their harmony. For example if we are using three loops of differing length say, 3 and 5 and 7 units of time, this musical thing or event will not actually repeat until the passing of 105 units of time.
Just like a baby's mobile or the characteristics of a flower or perhaps certain kaleidoscopes, we gain different perspectives as we circle around the object or the object itself circles.
In Music Things we created our looping counterpoint then we chose to record a few different sounds for each voice (loop). We then spent a substantial amount of time mixing them together, giving us another part to the process. The mixing of the different voices was an effort to keep the music interesting for the listener as it creates an evolving event.
But in essence, each combined group of loops creates a static musical truth that can be repeated and repeated and repeated. Music Things is seven tracks with each track containing two looping events.
The running time is approximately 20 minutes. |
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| | The Electric Band
The Electric Band is the second album from thespacebombs. Here is more information on each song...
01 Electric Car
a new car commercial, which includes a journey into the future of automotive travel
02 Electric Tornado
birds warn of a destructive tornado headed this way
03 Electric Morning
our hero wakes up and struggles to work, he is going out again tonight
04 Electric Song
A songy song sung by The Electric Band
05 Electric Loop
06 Electric Ice
water's constant struggle to freeze or to melt
07 Potsie
sunday monday happy days
08 Electric Dot
a dancing dot video game
09 Electric Reprise
this album is now official, The Electric Band thanks you
10 Thirteen
continuing our series telling of an escaped prisoner running from the law
11 Electric Bonus
This album is an earful at 57 minutes in length. May it change our lives forever. We love you. Goodnight. |
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