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	Michael Peters   a.k.a. veloopity   email mp@michaelpeters.de  url http://www.michaelpeters.de   address Neuensaaler Str. 35, D-51515 Kürten, Germany   about I started playing guitar in the early seventies, mostly playing in open improvisation bands. In the eighties, I played in new age bands, punk and rock bands, and open improvisation orchestras, and took some Guitar Craft lessons from Fripp. In the nineties, I played with a cover band and a Guitar Craft inspired ensemble. During the last years, I mostly played with avant rock and open improv bands again. I have always used electronics and strange devices to make my guitar sound unusual, and loop delays and computers to construct unusual pieces of solo music. All of my CT tracks were done directly in the computer - now that I think of it, I didn't play guitar on any of them ... Since 2003, I've been experimenting with real-time looping and cut-up collage techniques using a simple radio as input, being fascinated by the unpredictability of that sound source. and I've built this website ... that was big fun and a very satisfying task.   Michael Peters coordinated these CT projects: The copyright to each song belongs to the respective artist. Right-click track name and then click "save as" to download a track stream all tracks   (ct) album stream / download mp3 about min mb 1 Generative Under The Bridge (source track for the generative mix on CT-Generative)  0:49  0.78  2 Birds and Men Lark Machine This consists of electronically treated recordings of songs of a lark (alauda arvensis,there are many images of it on the web), plus string chords which I stole from Morton Feldman, and slowed down drastically  4:17  4.25  3 Papermusic Rascheln Knallen Quietschen all sounds generated with nothing but paper and treated with granular synthesis. I created a number of single tracks using specific paper sounds and suitable specific granular synth treatments and mixed them in Adobe Audition. Rascheln=rustling Knallen=disploding Quietschen=squeaking  03:49  5.37  4 Great Speeches Moon 1969 John F. Kennedy, 1961: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth" See this page for details  03:43  3.50  5 Film Central Dream Park Music for the closing scene of an imaginary impressionist feature about Central Park. All sounds come from the M-Tron mellotron sample library.  00:47  0.75      27.12.2005     Krispen Hartung (http://www.krispenhartung.com) : I love the vocal harmonies on this, with their tight tone clusters and polytonal texture. It sort of reminds me of the vocal parts that were used on the Planet of the Apes movie where Taylor found the cave and the bald headed people who had survived the nuclear holocaust and could read minds. 6 Film Das Geräusch Soundtrack for an imaginary German trailer of "Earth vs. the flying saucers". Granulated rattan sofa, half speed mellotron, various sounds, speech samples. Translated libretto: man1: listen! what is it? woman: what do you mean? man1: this is the noise! woman: this is the noise! woman: this is the noise! man1: this is the noise that was on our tape. we could not understand the words because the tape was running too fast man2: we have only heard some unintelligible noises - but they didn't make sense to us alien: we have a completely different rhythm of time here alien: (sings in alien language) woman: was that a saucer ... a flying saucer? man1: we have seen something that one could take for a flying saucer ... movie links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049169 (has link to old trailer) http://www.bmovies.de/untertassen1.html  03:07  2.93      28.04.2006     fabio anile (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/eterogeneo/) : I dont' know the original film, neither the original soundtrack, but I really like how your track sounds. It's dark and obscure, and the final result is really impressive.     27.12.2005     Krispen Hartung (http://www.krispenhartung.com) : Oh yes...I love this song too...very ominous and dark sounding...you can't help that when you use the tri-tone interval! :) The funny thing is that I have the movie "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" on DVD, as well as about 70 other classic 50's and 60s sci-fi DVDs. I eat this stuff up like candy. Thank you, Michael! I clearly remember the scene in the movie that you call out as well. Great movie, up there with The Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, War of the World, etc. 7 Where We're At Une danse dans la cuisine du Roi de Beteigeuze The track was composed of these sounds (can you spot them?): a vocal sample from a renaissance music cd - the cracking of an aluminium yoghurt package lid - a large wooden paper pulp stamper driven by a water wheel - a metal leg of a table - the squeaking and honking of mushrooms being cut with a knife. Everything was put together using Sonic Foundry's Acid software.  02:43  2.50      08.09.2005     Michael Peters (www.michaelpeters.de) : > "You must have had the mic level cranked to ultra sensitivity" no, actually the mushrooms are quite loud. :-) Try it.     16.10.2004     Krispen Hartung (http://www.krispenhartung.com) : Very, very creative and clever. The sound of mushrooms? This is brilliant. You must have had the mic level cranked to ultra sensitivity. What's the translation..."Dance In The Kitchen Of King De Beteigeuze"? 8 Location Volume 1 Biesfeld Kürten, Germany Biesfeld is a village in a rural area (Bergisches Land) just east of Cologne, Germany. Hills, small towns, small forests, meadows, small rivers, agriculture, horses, cows. You hear: songbirds - a vibrating fence wire - steps in the snow - cracking ice on puddles - airplane - water in a creek - hen - a horse - wind in large plastic sheets - an owl - chainsaws on a construction site - kids playing - crickets - a car - thunder. Tools used: DAT recorder - Cubase - Granulab - Audiomulch - Wavewarp.  05:52  5.39  9 Object/Videogame balloon All sounds were generated using a small inflatable toy balloon. The sounds were then modified using Granulab and Audiomulch  06:17  5.77  10 Ambitative 2 Orllyndie Orllyndie is the name of a strange but idyllic forest planet from an SF novel. The piece was constructed using samples of: a balaphone, a tropical birdcall, another birdcall (that I had tried to record from out of a hotel bathroom window while the water system was hissing loudly), and a ney flute. Granular synthesis was applied to some of the sounds, others were simply played back using a sampling keyboard.  05:30  6.31  write a feedback for one of the above tracks permalink for this CT member page: http://www.ct-collective.com/index.cfm?page=members&artistid=65
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