Please tune in to the Beginning with the To listen anytime, please access: tinyurl. Please Click on an Album Cover. The winning bidder of Auction Item will receive a one-on-one workshop with Chuck van Zyl covering synthesizer basics, followed by a private salon spacemusic concert for the winner and ten friends at WXPN's World Cafe Performance Studio.
Sincere Thanks to winning bidder Jim Causey for taking part! Your support is sincerely appreciated! For the auction announcement, please click this link: www. Chuck van Zyl: Live on Star's End Its four parts each offer passages of improvised in-the-moment sequencer manipulations, amidst the ethereal yearning of synthesized harmonies and cresting lead lines.
The listener is invited inside, to float away as the patterns and textures envelope them - tumbling in circles, spirals and pinwheels, beneath unfurling ribbons of creamy synth melodies and modulated, chirping effects. It looks at the ramifications of the Civil War's massive casualties on America's attitudes toward life, death and faith.
I also find interesting, The American Resting Place by Marilyn Yalom, which is an insightful, historical overview of the cemetery movement in the United States. It's difficult to narrow it down to just five! But here goes: The Big Lebowski Hey, careful man, there's a beverage here! I became interested in synthesizers shortly after I began presenting Star's End, and been making my own Electronic Music ever since.
I've also played out live for at least as many years, recently in the duo "The Ministry of Inside Things. The Gatherings Concert Series seems to be the most consistent place where our Spacemusic community gets together. It has been presenting performances by a fascinating range of innovative artists for well over 15 years - and I'm really happy to be part of it. WXPN Radio. XPN2 - Jingle Jams. World Cafe Archives. XPoNential Radio.
Android iPhone. No, just caffeine, by way of coffee. How old are you? I was born in the year prior to the launch of the first Sputnik.
What is your height and weight? When I discovered that the show could be streamed, I once again looked for ways to record it. In the early days of streaming the quality was often less than optimal, the software to directly capture a stream was often limited, and the process often required staying awake to restart dropped connections.
In , I discovered that the quality of the stream had greatly improved to use kbs mp3 and that software allowed for auto restarts and for making edits without adding loss. From that point on, I have recorded the program most weeks and it is these recordings which make up the bulk of this archive.
For some reason, the encoding rate for the archives is kbs mp3, which is an improvement over the station's live stream. For the sake of completeness, I have begun to include these archived files in this collection, which will mean that many dates will have more than one recording.
For the station's archive files, I do no editing at all, these files are as they were posted by the station. For my own recordings from the live stream, I typically trim the ends and normalize the volume level using mp3directcut which does not re-encode the audio. Both should provide a good listening experience. These files cannot be natively played back on the Internet Archive's pages. The file that plays back is a derived mp3 format file.
This has been re-encoded from the WMA file so it has gone through two layers of lossy compression, and likely suffers from artifacts and quality issues. I have included it for convenience. Taking the listener with it, into a realm without words, the music sustains your attention from the very first note. Held together by texture, melodic narratives and atmosphere, Space Patrol propels the listener through a trackless void.
Its sonic surfaces are rich, complex and saturated with meaning, as resonant melodies hide in huge vaporous spheres of sound. In a vocabulary of repeating patterns the duo navigates their own tributary of the Berlin-School. Dancing arpeggio notes, resonant analogue tones and interlocking percussion accents surge out of breathing synthesizer swells — while soft percussive chiffs and royal electronic bleeps echo out across vividly imagined distances.
As deeply breathing chords stack up and sustain, machine-like synchronized sequencer runs gain momentum — cycling in lock step against a trail of echoes and dreamy tonal interplay. Amidst this kinetic kaleidoscope of rhythm, van Zyl releases a ribbon of heroic synth leads, as well as soft Mellotron flutes, strings and choirs. The beauty of this work comes from its many strands, heard individually and comprehended collectively. Although possessing a shape, no one will ever completely explain the mysteries of this hot spot.
The expanding soundfield has apparently left a gap in this region — for reasons that are not yet understood. The zone invites multiple interpretations, and while its meaning may be slippery, its power is unmistakable.
In a compulsively detailed swirl of moods and impressions, this duo is pulled toward a hard chill — and the revivifying power of creativity. Mike Hunter and Chuck van Zyl create a realm so complete, the most difficult part of their Space Patrol will be the return to Earth.
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