Des Bruits Concrète

Welcome to the Concrète page.

This is where where you'll find finished and part-finished works of musique concrète.

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• Blue Veils, Sabian Sands
  A radiophonic work, inspired by Delia Derbyshire's Blue Veils, Golden Sands.
  Main instruments are male voice, 20" Sabian Ride and much manipulation, mainly using analogue tape with vari-speed pitch-shift.
  Blue Veils, Sabian Sands
  
  
• Journey
  Sound sources include Sabian 20" Ride cymbal, smallish jazz snare drum (Percussion Plus), stick (Vic Firth 7a), wire brush (Pearl), passing locomotive (BR Diesel-Electric class 37 on the West Coast mainline, for those who have to know!)
  Sound manipulation using a combination of analogue tape and DAW.
  Journey 1.8
  
  
• Another Journey
  Here's another version of Journey, also featuring some piano strings at the start and a horn effect using a clarinet mouthpiece near the end.
  Sound sources include Sabian 20" Ride cymbal, smallish jazz snare drum (Percussion Plus), stick (Vic Firth 7a), wire brush (Pearl), passing locomotive (BR Diesel-Electric class 37 on the West Coast mainline, for those who have to know!)
  Sound manipulation using a combination of analogue tape and DAW.
  Journey 1.5c
  
  
• Happening (Working title)
  Probably the start of something bigger
  Made with "found" sounds made on location - "field recording" if you like...
  ... but not quite as much in a field as you might think!
  Manipulated and processed using a combination of Steinberg Cubase and Adobe Audition.
  Happening
  
  
• For Rocky
  July 2008 and the 71st birthday of Rocky Frisco.
  A piece of pure concrète, all made from less than a second of Champagne cork pop
  For Rocky
  
  
• ... and for the morning after:
  Rocky's Hangover!
  
  

Material released elsewhere

• Aimee Naworal & Tony Seaton - Alto Sonar Anew (or Food for Thought)
  Released by the United Isolation Emsmble
  Alto Sonar Anew is a development on Happening (above).

  This is from the October 2023 collection by the United Isolation Ensemble.
  
  "The United Isolation Ensemble was born when Covid-19 lockdown forced Leicester's monthly Quadelectronic nights to be put on hold. Rather than live group improvisation, the concept is for solo performance material sent via online transfer and combined into interesting and unexpected combinations. The project has been so successful that it continues wilfully oblivious to the ups and downs... "

• Victoria Bourne, Alan Freeman, Ken Moore & Tony Seaton - Ear Boom! (Afternoon's Menu 'Ere)
  Released by the United Isolation Emsmble
  Ear Boom! (Afternoon's Menu 'Ere) is a combination of work using voice and synth; Drones and effects; timestretched Koshi chimes and synth, bell effects; field recording and processing.

  It's part of the October 2023 collection by the United Isolation Ensemble.

If you like this stuff there's a whole load more to be found on the Dèbris Elsewhere page of this site.