An Interactive Listening and Mixing Experience
Posted on January 2, 2010 and filed under Uncategorized.
The Multiple Artist Ambient Project (MAAP) Excursion One mixed by The Lights Galaxia. 02010 (cc) Creative Commons. Track may be used for non-profit use only without permission. Any other use (ie; commercial, non-(cc) mixes, etc…) must be by permission only.
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Posted on December 9, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized.
Posted on November 30, 2009 and filed under Excursion One.
Carl Sagan’s Ghost – Cat: Melody
Coax – Cat: Noise
Coax – Cat: Melody
Specta Ciera – Cat: Field Recording
Sylphid – Cat: Rhythmic Noise
UMCorps – Cat: Drone
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Chris Reid – Cat: Noise
Ryan G. Tallman – Cat: Noise/Field Recording
The Lights Galaxia – Cat: Vocals/Rhythm
Kieron James – Cat: Rhythm
Logickal – Cat: Melody
Carl Sagan’s Ghost – Cat: Melody
Specta Ciera – Cat: Melody
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Paradisiac – Cat: Melodic-drone
Coax – Cat: Drone
UMCorps – Cat: Melody
Sylphid – Cat: Melody/Bass
Carl Sagan’s Ghost – Cat: Glitchy Noise
Specta Ciera – Cat: Melody
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Carl Sagan’s Ghost – Cat: Drone
Carl Sagan’s Ghost – Cat: Noise
Chris Reid – Cat: Space Noise
Logickal – Cat: Rhythmic Melody
FERMENTÆ – Cat: Drone/Noise
Specta Ciera – Cat: Melody
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Specta Ciera – Cat: Melody
UMCorps – Cat: Sparse Melody
Sylphid – Cat: Microtonal Melody
The Lights Glaxia – Cat: Melodic Noise
FERMENTÆ – Cat: Drone/Noise
Carl Sagan’s Ghost – Cat: Melodic Noise/Swells
Carl Sagan’s Ghost – Cat: Rumbling Noise
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Posted on November 19, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized.
Sometimes ideas take a lot of thought before they see the light of day.
Sometimes they don’t.
The MAAP project didn’t.
It was birthed during a simple conversation on Facebook between Eon-Fontes May (of Sylphid) and myself. The thread began with me joking about a bad review one of my future albums (At the End of it All) might receive. Mr. May replied, as the made-up-reviewer-in-question, “I listened to the new CSG album and noticed a disappointing lack of breakbeats…”
“The beats are on another album,” I replied.
And then it hit me…
An ambient project with different parts by different artists, parts written and recorded without a lot of thought put into what the final composition is supposed to sound like. The idea was further inspired by the Flaming Lips’ album Zaireka, and by Brian Eno’s original experience with the ambient-muse. While in the hospital recovering from being hit by a taxi (thanks J for the clarification), Eno heard a mixture of sounds being funneled to his ears through the hallways of the hospital. He heard environmental sounds, people talking, barely-audible music, and television audio, all mixed together. No single part was loud enough to stand out, and together these disparate audio sources combined to form a kind of accidental composition.
While MAAP is not quite so free-form, the idea of letting go was still important to all of the artists involved.
For each of the five tracks on Excursion 1, a tempo, a key, and a basic scale were selected as the framework around which each artist constructed his part. We tried to write each part with a minimum of influence from the other parts. There were no meticulously sequenced master MIDI tracks, no strict structure, and no firm rules. However, we did work and re-work some things so that they sounded good together.
Control was not completely surrendered, but it was given a very long leash.
Many of the MAAPers are working on their own unique mix and version of Excursion 1. These will be released by the artists and, most likely, be made available for download here. However, these mixes are not “official.”
This is where you, the listener come in.
From the very beginning this project was intended to be an interactive listening experience. There are a couple of ways you can interact with the music here. This site contains embedded MP3 players: a set for each Track. The individual parts can be played and mixed (volume control, play, and pause) to create your own spontaneous on-line mix. Secondly, if you have any DAW experience, or if you want some practice, each of the parts for each track can be downloaded and used to create your own mix.
There is no “correct” way to listen to these parts.
Use some, use all, use one. Mix them with new effects. Use them as a basis for a new composition. Sample them. Loop them. Use them to make other things. (Just don’t use them for anything commercial. The music here is being released under a Creative Commons license.) Last of all – we’d love to hear your mixes and what you’ve done with MAAP:E1, so if you’ve created something, please send a link to the audio so that we can listen to it. It may be included in a Listener Creationa area of the site as well. We want the audio we created to grow into things that we never imagined.
We hope you enjoy MAAP. And we look forward to creating more Excursions to share with you all. We’re also interested in expanding the stable of artists for future MAAP Excursions. If you’d like to become a MAAPer, please stay tuned for more information.
On behalf of MAAPers everywhere,
Daniel Davis
a.k.a. Carl Sagan’s Ghost
