It has been a while since I posted here. In the meantime the year has become 2010.
I decided to get a Soundcloud account for my music.
This means that all audio on this site now is hosted there. With the easy to embed players it is a breeze to use.
Check out my profile on soundcloud and you can see the player on the music page of this site.
For the rest I am busy with loads of stuff, on which more laterrrr.
BTW also check Ungrund’s new remix album on bandcamp!
Here is the piece I did for the Worm Workshop.
Or here:
Study #1 for field recordings by Ernst van der Loo
About the piece:
“Study made for the field recording workshop at Worm in Rotterdam in December 2009.
The piece is constructed with 2 field recordings that I made in 2007 in Bærum, Norway. I used a cinematic approach (as in referring to camera techniques used in the cinema) focusing in and distorting the sound world of that specific spot in several different ways.
Part I is an (almost) untouched recording from the spot. Part II is an untouched recording of an extreme focus on one of the elements of that specific spot. The nice part is that the extreme focus on one part actually reveals a lot of other stuff happening at that spot.. Part III is an artificial reconstruction of the sound world of that specific place. Part IV is a reconstruction of the spot how it might be as remembered after years, or basically a second view on recreating it artificially. At the end there is a small Coda refering back to part II.”
To my own surprise I am participating in a workshop field recording at Worm in Rotterdam. (thanks Derek!)
The aim is to finish the workshop with a short piece that will be presented next friday (dec. 18th) @ Worm. My composition is well on its way and on tuesday I will have some time at Worm’s excellent studio to tweak some more on the piece.
Time and place of the friday night presentation can be found here..
Doepfer A100 Patch: changing behaviours from Ernst on Vimeo.
Working on some new patches again. Decided to make a short video on one of the more intricate ones..
Hope my filming doesn’t make anyone seasick.
I am currently helping out Keir Neuringer and DJ Sniff with making recordings of their improvisation sessions in the Steim studios in Amsterdam. The duo make a very interesting mixture of different styles using Saxophone, tape machines, feedback mixer, turntable and Max/Msp. Think somewhere between free jazz, ambient and hip hop plunderphonics. Impressive stuff!
My electronic piece “Lyset fra Nedenunder” will be played at an electronic music concert at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. This concert also contains electronic pieces by members of the indie rock band NiCad with whom I will be touring the USA at that time (see last post).
The event takes place on the 7th of September at the Ewell Recital Hall at 20.00 (8 pm).
I will be doing the FOH sound for The Hague based alternative rock band NiCad on their forthcoming US tour. It will be three weeks of road munching madness. Come and see:
29.aug.2009 Public Assembly Brooklyn, New York
30.aug.2009 Webster Hall New York, New York
31.aug.2009 The Annex New York, New York
02.sep.2009 Lit Lounge New York, New York
04.sep.2009 North Star Bar Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
05.sep.2009 TBA, Baltimore, Maryland
06.sep.2009 The Red and the Black Washington DC, Washington DC
07.sep.2009 College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia
09.sep.2009 College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia
10.sep.2009 TBA Cincinnati, Ohio
11.sep.2009 The Village of West Clay Indianapolis, Indiana
12.sep.2009 Paychecks Detroit, Michigan
13.sep.2009 TNT’s Detroit, Michigan
16.sep.2009 Arlene’s Grocery New York, New York
Yesterday I finally took the time to put the end to my Ring Modulator project. I had all parts in the house from the beginning of February this year but never came to it. After a very friendly offer of getting the faceplate professionally punched (at no cost!). I just had to finish it now!
It has been a while since I posted something here. So for now a little update.
I am currently touring Holland doing sound engineering for the dance production “Ghost Note” by choreographer Václav Kunes. “Ghost note” is made possible by dance production house Station Zuid, which is based in Tilburg. The first reviews are dropping in and seem to be good!
Pulse Feedback from Ernst on Vimeo.
Quick and raw footage of my oscilloscope getting input from a patch in my doepfer a100 system.
Patch is roughly:
Pseudo-Random Pulses made with 2 LFO’s feeding into an A149-1 Source of Uncertainty.
Output (via mixer- see later) of which is filtered by an A128 fixed filterbank which is amplified afterwards by an A119 pre amp.
Output of that is fed back via an A138a mixer into the A128.
Feedback point is crucial for the sound! Actually this feedback functions as the resonance factor of the A128.
Other speciality of this patch is that I actually use the A149-1 as an audio source…
Update: Also posted on the ever so cool Matrixsynth!!
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