Biochip

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 12:26 pm

This file has expired and is no longer available here. The owner of the topic can re-upload the file, or post a link to an off-site file. <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Genre: Electronic <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Uses: Pulsar Effects SOCAN © 2002 Paul R. Martin _____________________________________ Been a while since I posted something, so here goes...

I composed this on a commission from the italian sculptor Lino Budano. He heard some of my electro-acoustic music and liked it. He provided me with a video which he projects on his sculptures. This is the result.

For those of you in Europe, you might want to look into the DNArt exhibitions(I believe it is going to Holland next). This is where you will have a chance to experience the result from the collaboration between Lino and me.

Enjoy(if you can)

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 1:10 pm

Hello Paul, nice to have you back!

This is an unknown side of yours for me. I didn’t know you were into this as well. Your song it’s fantastic for a dramatic, critic scene in The Matrix or some good thriller films of the like. It really is intense and it’s so unique in itself, and I don’t know where to go. There I realize we positively criticize only those things we can compare or in a way, we know or have experienced with a bit.

The texture is enormous, some moments are overwhelming and I feel scared like a child facing up a big city by his own, lost searching for his parents. It certainly is not an easy moment to go through. Great to dramatize.

What have you used, samples and synths or only synths? Cheers and be well.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 2:22 pm

Hey Paul, terrific track. Did you study ea in Montreal? I'm at Concordia myself.

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 2:52 pm

I went to McGill U.from 78 to 81, Nick.
I studied Electronic Music with Alcides Lanza(just spoke to him, by the way).

Glad you enjoyed it. It's so much fun to have the opportunity to make this kind of sonic stuff after so many years!

Post by **hubird** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 8:30 pm

great track Paul!
Also it's terrific for exposition aims, btw I live in Holland, I'll check the media.
Nice track indeed!

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 1:51 am

wow! freaky track! It's kind of wierd that you work in this style also. I didn't know.

Reminds me of the balance/contrast thread we had a while back. Is that you playing the bass clarinet?
Anyway, great work. Do you have like even a small picture of the sculpture that's supposed to go with this tune? Or is it supposed to be a form of video art?

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marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 7:21 am

Wow, extremely cool, almost spooky. The sound is crystaline, i love this. Have you read the thread on drugs?

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 8:40 am

Check out these links, you guys. No drugs necessary when you work with these kinds of visual elements.

http://www.outsiderart.info/budano.htm

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehou ... /lino.html

http://www.budano.nu/

The last link is the best. There is a small gif-type video that illustrates Chromosomes. If you listen to the piece again I interpreted this bit with Woodblocks.

The basic sound is derived from a MIDI file I did when I was experimenting with the portamento in the Roland SoundCanvas. All other sounds are samples run through various effects. Never, NEVER put a wind instrument in my mouth or you will regret it for the rest or your life. (I am the squeak king!)

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Paul R. Martin - Are we listening?

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Post by **Neil B** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 8:57 am

Excellent interpretation Paul - love the track. It reminds me of Radio Massacre International intros just before they crank up the analogue sequencers. More please.
Note the point about drugs - so I'll have a pint of whatever you were drinking when you wrote it!

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Wed Aug 21, 2002 1:59 pm

wow.. this guy's sculture really does have a distinct quality about it.. looks.. eh.. MUMMY inspired. There's like bones everywhere. Now I can sort of understand how this piece would go very well with the character of the sculptor. But man, it's freaky!

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 7:06 am

Explecit good work, sounds almost like a New Modern Orchestra in the tuning process.
Good ambi to hang after all this.

eliam · Post by **eliam** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 5:43 pm

My God! I started the download and went on working on my stuff, forgetting about it. When the piece started, I jumped two feet high and thought evil aliens had taken control of my computer...!!!

Seriously, even though I can apreciate the textural work of such a piece, I don't find it pleasing to hear. Maybe that's not the goal, but I'm not in harmony with contemporary modern art in general, I just don't understand how it can be called "art"... When I look at the stars or at the Saint-Lawrence river, or at a flower growing somewhere, when I hear the song of a bird or the chant of a stream, I see and I feel the Cosmic Magnificence of Life expressed through those manifestations. But when I look at modern art or hear modern music, all I can feel, most of the time, is the nameless desecration that mankind has imposed upon himself as well as Mother Nature by his discordant manifestations...
Only mankind is capable of creating such "unnatural" things as wars or rape or destruction, and I'm sorry to say that the music I just heard reminds me more of the human distress than the Transcendant Divinity and invincible Harmony which created the Universe...