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Train Chromatic Study
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Experimental music: irregular fragmented loops, ambient, filtered noise often informed by natural sound phenomena
Matt Davignon has developed a unique form of improvisation over the last 10 years, focusing on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections. Combining acoustic and electronic elements, he attempts to create dynamic, biological music from seemingly limited source material. Since early 2004, he's been working primarily with drum machine, using several effects and sampling devices to enable it to create drones, gurgles and crackling textures. He also plays turntable, prepared guitar, household objects and a plethora of toy instruments. Matt also organizes several musical events in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Found Objects Festival, where artists must create music from audience-submitted objects.
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Peak #576
Peak in subgenre #122
Author
Matt Davignon
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Matt Davignon
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January 27, 2005
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MP3 5.9 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
A short recording of a train is turned into 12 versions of itself, on a chromatic scale. All 12 versions are looped beginning to end, based on their new length after the pitch shift. (The higher pitched samples repeat more often.) The descending staircase effect heard at the beginning gets farther and farther apart until new note combinations begin to appear.
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