Derek had an intensive two weeks at the WORM labs: ardour manual sprint and workshop at the MODDR lab, in between a lecture on field recording and he spent a week at our sound lab, studying the Serge. Here’s a demo track and a short movie.
September 14 till 20: Jesse O (Sullivan) in the studio. Taking half our gear for a ride. Here ‘s a fresh tune he’s working on with the audio solutions concussor as the central piece. Three movies here: “at least the midi works”; “fresh tune” and “till Live crashes”
Jesse’s Performing at the Incubate Fest in Tilburg later this week.
Tom Hall was working in the WORM studio last week. here’s one of the pieces he made for WORM. More about Tom HERE.
tom hall 2.mp3
We made a little video of Tom at work in the studio but it mysteriously dissappeared from our HD. So we stole a picture of his website from a series of photo’s called ‘likeminds’. We’re not sure it’s Tom posing here but it really looks like him.
Christoph Kurzmann (‘citizen of the world’ -living in Berlin, Vienna & Buenos Aires, musician, organiser, founder of the charhizma label) visited the WORM studio in the first week of august to work on some new stuff and also to make preparations for a by WORM curated radioplay about the Financial Crisis he is gonna finish in Argentina next month. And here he is, relaxed behind the mixing desk, the Enigmatic & Prolific Mister K.!
Anders is working on some of his material this week in our studio, aiming to incorporate the ARP 2500 in his music, trying to midisync the arp with the commodore, adding some vocal tracks.
We love the big screen! And the scrolling numbers on it, its archaic in its own way, matching well with the synths.
Goto80
AND, after working very hard at our studio in semi tropical temperatures this week, here’s some pre-tracks, in rough unedited form, but good for tasters.
As promised, in the snail-mail arrived the new album by Andrew Tuttle, aka Anonymeye, titled “the disambiguation of Anonymeye” of wich several tracks were recorded in our studio last year (2008). more info on this www.anonymeye.com
Mondaymorning…Its their first day of a week long stay at the studio, and they intend to use as many of the machines as possible, into a electro-gamelan piece they intend to make.
so first lessons on the arp 2500, how to get a controlled note out of it.
anyhow, 5 hours later, they already got the concussor going, filter external sounds thru the arp while sequencing, had a weary go at the serge, decided that the putney was out of control, and the arp 2600 not very reliable either.
Anyway, here’s a track they made that week and later mixed at home. Details on what we hear will follow.
Marc writes: “We used gamelan samples from a free library, sequenced them in Ableton Live, then set it out into the Serge and Arp 2500. The Arp was being modulated with lfo’s and envelops from the Serge as well as the other sequencer on top of the rack.”
Soopa_OneManNation_Spectral_Magnetic_Gongs.mp3
yes folks, the kenton midi to cv converter is here and hopefully installed next month, so you can all come and get your miditools out and bonk away with the whole analogue caboodle behind it….
OSR: Optical Sound Ringtones (autotrillfunction included) (FilmLoops Made in the WORM FilmWerkplaats 03-03-09): Embarrass all your friends, loved ones and of course yourself, anywhere, anytime with these ringtones. come on, its time to dehyve anyway! Let them know you’re serious…
hot tip (how-to-8-ways-to-get-ringtones-onto-your-iphone)
WORMstudio creates Radio Programmes; Radio Documentaries; RadioPlays ( a series titled Horspil ); RadioWORM – a monthly audio magazine ( RadioWORM can be found on www.wormstation.nl )
Several productions are in co-production with
VPRO / Radio 6 / Cafe Sonore ( www.vpro.nl/cafesonore )
Below a list of our recent productions:
WORM T Schippers : 4 hours of spectaculair nonsense – Produced, edited, compiled by Hajo Doorn and Henk Bakker : CLICK!
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Magnetband Untergrund: Spannung, Leistung, Widerstand: Part One of a Radiodocumentary on DDR musicscenes of the late 70’s and early 80’s: 3 hours of great music, interviews and observations. Produced, edited, compiled by Hajo Doorn and Henk Bakker: CLICK!
DDR Revisited : Part 2 of a Radiodocumentary on DDR
Tape Music : CLICK!
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Motors of Invention : A Radioshow on the self named festival at WORM in 2007 dealing with selfmade machines and … music : CLICK!
The Horspil Series:
Blatnova : Dr Naut- een audiostrip : CLICK!
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Anne Laberge : Flock : CLICK!
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Christopher Williams : The Hispaniola: CLICK!
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Vernon&Burns : The Eldritch Transmissions – A Study in Radiophrenia : CLICK!
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Didi de Paris/Lukas Simonis : Wa Da De Minse Klappe Gelak As d’Onne Basse : CLICK!
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Holy Mountain : Bruiloftslied : CLICK!
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Jeroen Visser : Alles met mate, en zelfs dat : CLICK!
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Robert van Heumen : No Man’s Land : CLICK!
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Coolhaven : De triple hond qua vectoren gebruik : CLICK!
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Henk Bakker (Aka the Melkertman) : Ghosts : CLICK!
Here on display are some pieces, excerpts, studies and sound explorations, done by various studio guests over the past 2 years:
Captain Ahab did a ARP 2500 improv, in the week of his stay here before his concert on tuesday 25th of march 2008 (historical allready: Di 25 Mrt 2008 ‘de reünie’ with: captain ahab (us) + toecutter (au) + realicide (us) + eustachian.
CaptAhabAtTheArp —————————————- Gelbart was here 1st week of may, in a increadible display of productiveness, produced several complete pieces as well as numerous studies, on ARP and Putney. Check em.
Gelbart – bad morning chicken Gelbart ms20 improv Gelbart unnumbered junk – CEM version Gelbart_ ms20 improv number2 Gelbart_4 —————————————- Max Tundra worked in the studio in june 2007 and produced this track for RadioWORM.
MaxTundra_The Gummiknuppel —————————————- Newk made a patch on his Korg ms20, looped it through the lxp1.
newk – ms20 through lxp1 (be patient. has slow fade-in) —————————————- Stephen O Mally worked a week in September 2008, working on a commisioned piece for a dance performance. he did various sound studies on the ARP, and brought in a keyboardplayer to play a midiscore while Stephen manipulated the ARP. This is one of the versions they took.
StephenOMally_ARP RAGA_281008
previously recorded in the wormstudio……….
“when vtb played at worm in december 2007 we were supposed to do a recording session that was to be used by worm for their online radio show or something on the worm web. it was in our contract that we do a show and recording session.when we arrived at worm for the studio recording there was no sound engineer. a couple of hours later someone did come to record us but it was very ad hoc and we didn’t record too much.anyway, clarence took the recordings away and prepared some tracks from it. then he sent the tracks to the rest of the band and in typical volcano the bear style we forgot about them until now. so after that explanation vtb have 3 tracks recorded at worm. total time is about 14 minutes.would you like us to send them to you? also, we may want to use them ourselves at some point in the near future – is this ok with worm?ok, i hope all this makes sense to you and we look forward to your response.cheersaaron”