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Farm
Year of Composition: 2022
Instrumentation: cows, sheep, guitars, electronics
Released: Cantaloupe Music 2022
Farm uses samples of animals collected on the internet and used in a "round-robin" video sampler that randomly plays various samples of animals (no animals were mistreated during the making of this video). Farm is an attempt to find a smooth transition between humor and gravitas.
Conception, composition, performance, recording, mixing, and video: Florent Ghys
Mastering by Jessica Thompson
Executive Producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson and Julia Wolfe.
As We Always Do
Year of Composition: 2022
Instrumentation: weather report, double bass, celli, guitars, voices
Released: Cantaloupe Music 2022
As We Always Do uses a short sample of weather from the New York City area and repeats it in a loop to sublimate its informative content. The announcer's voice is played through a vocoder effect underlining the notes of the instrumental texture played by the double basses. The meteorologist was also rotoscoped and a 3D visual particle system was integrated in the final section the video.
Conception, composition, performance, recording, mixing, and video: Florent Ghys
Mastering by Jessica Thompson.
Executive Producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson and Julia Wolfe
Tennis
Year of Composition: 2021
Instrumentation: tennis players, double basses, percussion
Released: Cantaloupe Music 2022
Tennis mixes videos of screaming tennis players with double bass canons played in natural harmonics. The tennis samples are processed in the second part by the Ableton Live effect called "Resonator", transforming the human screams into synthesizer sounds.
Conception, composition, performance, recording, mixing, and video: Florent Ghys
Mastering by Jessica Thompson.
Executive Producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson and Julia Wolfe
20%
Year of Composition: 2022
Instrumentation: youtuber, bass, guitars, percussion, voices
Released: Cantaloupe Music 2022
20% uses a clip from a Youtuber who gives us five tricks to make our music "20% more interesting". The piece uses the “speech melody” technique and transcribes the recommendations of this person into music. The video overlays on the keyboards are an original idea by video artist Claudio Cavallari.
Conception, composition, performance, recording, mixing, and video: Florent Ghys
Mastering by Jessica Thompson.
Executive Producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson and Julia Wolfe