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Podcast Sonic Encounters (Mark Mosher Music News)

Buckle Up! Sonic Encounters Season 04 is Underway.

Hi everyone. Season 04 of the Sonic Encounters Podcast is underway. In this season I will be incorporating some explorations into the use of classical tonalities like piano and cello phrases and motifs improvised on a Push 2 using it’s isomorphic grid note layout. I’ll also be incorporating MPE performances on a Sensel Morph later […]

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(Mark Mosher Music News) Announcements Music Single

New Single and Video: “Space-Time Distortion Near Track Number 8”

Story: I discovered a space-time distortion while visiting Chicago. The location of the anomaly is at track 8 at Union Station. Get The Single Watch the Video I published this new song as a single on Bandcamp. I also made a live studio recording of the session then edited this into a super trippy video […]

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(Modulate This) Octatrack Sound Design

Elektron Octatrack MII vs Octatrack MKI – A Deeper Look Beyond the Bullet Points

Octatrack MKII vs MKI by Mark Mosher

This article is now here https://modulatethis.com/2017/07/04/elektron-octatrack-mii-vs-octatrack-mki-a-deeper-look-beyond-the-bullet-points/

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Sonic Encounters Podcast 009 – Take a Trip on the Train from Devil’s Gate Depot

The engine and a passenger car

Listen to Podcast on Soundcloud Story Ready to take a “trip” on the The Georgetown Loop Railroad? Your journey starts at Devil’s Gate Depot as you stand between the cars and hear the sounds of this historic narrow gauge train as it rounds a tight bend. Things morph from there… enjoy the psychedelic ride. Production Notes Field Recording […]

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Sonic Encounters Podcast 006 – When the Whales Take Back the Ocean

Track 06 "When the Wales Take Back the Ocean" - Story: As humans and their technology have evolved, they have encroached more and more on the domain of the whale and other sea life. Of course the whales have been evolving as well - and - unbeknownst to us, they have been patiently plotting and waiting for the right time put things back in balance. Listen as a group of humpback whales execute phase 1 of their plan to take back the ocean. Science: From "Seismic Surveys Negatively Affect Humpback Whale Singing Activity off Northern Angola" (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0086464) "Discussion...The presence of oil and gas exploration activities in this region and globally, and the potential acoustic impact that anthropogenic noise sources may have on sensitive species are increasing areas of study and concern for industry, governments, biologists and conservationists [23], [25]. The intense pulses produced by seismic surveys clearly have the potential to cause direct or behaviourally mediated physiological harm at close distances [34], but more subtly at longer distances there exists the potential of disturbing animals and altering important behaviours, as well as masking acoustic signals and negatively affecting communication. ... It appears that whales are ceasing to sing, or moving to other areas to sing when seismic surveys are being conducted in relatively close proximity. We emphasize that this is documentation of disturbance of a breeding display for a baleen whale on a breeding ground, and thus has implied potential for affecting mating behaviour and success." Artist Notes: The entire piece was improvised and recorded in one real-time pass using only the Octatrack's unique an expressive capabilities, built-in-effects and ability to morph. The piece was recorded with a Zoom H2N with no edits (after much rehearsal). The fun and challenge of this piece was to see how far I could take a handful of similar recordings to tell a story and to go well beyond the sonic character of the source material. So I start off quite organic, and end quite "horror show". Instrumentation & Instrumentalities: The ONLY source audio for this piece is from public domain recordings of humpback whale song and vocalizations. The samples were loaded into multiple tracks on an Elektron Octatrack Dynamic Performance Sampler.

Story As humans and their technology have evolved, they have encroached more and more on the domain of the whale and other sea life. Of course the whales have been evolving as well – and – unbeknownst to us, they have been patiently plotting and waiting for the right time put things back in balance. […]

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Sonic Encounters Podcast 005 – Irreversible Transcription Errors During Consciousness Transfer

“Welcome to transfer station 11203. Your consciousness transfer is about to begin and soon you will enjoy immortality in your new custom body. The process is 100% foolproof thanks to your personal technician who will be actively monitoring the process for transcription errors. In the unlikely event of a transcription error, your technician will be […]