CYCLE#6 - RECYCLING/RECIRCULATION

Another explorative working method settled with an intention to compile an archive of tracks, created within the aesthetic context of electronic rhythmic circulating music, in order to contextualize a “Recycling”-process, or “Re-Circulation”, whereby in a first step, I recorded a piece of music with the method of sequence based improvisation through an own created instrumental interface & modular electronics. In a second step I edited & post-produced the recorded track to a stage where I concluded the material to be “good-enough”, which involved mostly just “distilling” a track down to it’s essential material, cutting out the self-validated and less interesting material from the improvisation in a freely manner.

Then in a final third step, I bounced the created track to an archive folder as WAV-file, where I could not interfere with the musical & sonic architecture of the piece any more. This process took place to then continue exploring a personally unseen and unentered field of experimental DJ-ing with my own made tracks & circulations from this archive, in this sense re-circulating the improvised material in various combinations, layered them on top of each other and weaved them into each other.
I specifically saw the potential in overlapping rhythmic and melodic patterns of individual recorded improvisations, as well as creating ambient structures.

I am only in the beginning of exploring this, and I look forward to continue my investigation.

A big discovery that happened through this acquainted method was the compartmentalization into functional aspects and possibilities. For instance playing and improvising only with a percussive oriented mindset:

                                                            {CIRCULATION//Percussion}

                  To then combine it into another track. (Recirculation 1 happening from 1min14s onwards)

                                                                  {RECIRCULATION 1}

                                  As an addition, I begun to include isolated percussion-circulations:

                                                          {Recycling 2 (from 37s onwards)}

                                                                 {RECIRCULATION 2}

This led me to a complete new way of working with my artistic outcome and material, whereby I freely mixed various prerecorded circulations & circulating structures with an ongoing live-improvised circulation. Whereas some part of my work was dedicated to the focus of rhythmic circulation, this musical concept defines a potential to the context of „Ambient“ interpretation of the circulations. I mixed, layered and improvised three different circulations into each other and as sound sources, I played analog synth, used field recordings and drum sequencer after granular post production, all combined through modular synthesis.

Through the process of mixing rhythmic and melodic components, the sonic structures are creating morphing meditative patterns, which appear in a constant flow and are full of sonic possibilities in transformation and sound design. For my explorations, this represents a huge potential to an understanding of an ambivalent rhythmic ambient perception.