Jeff Harrington

2:56, 4.25mb , 192kbps , 158bpm [07/13/03]

Drum n' Bass
A classical drum and bass piece with one synth lead.

6:10, 8.89mb , 192kbps , 80bpm [07/12/03]

Ambient Drum n' Bass
Monster Cuban percussion orchestra and a virtual wind instrument from saxophone hell jam into multiphonic chaos. Another exploration into physical-modelling synthesis, but this time with beats. A little like cuban jazz, but some moments are arabic and some are just nuts.

04:53, 4.65mb , VBR , 25bpm [06/08/03]

Abstract Ambient
A composition in the spacious ambient vein of Lamentation Sidérales, but more classical in its tonality. Using a scale derived from the harmonic series this composition builds upon a melodic motif inspired by the Beethoven Piano Sonata, Les Adieux, op. 81a. This piece is primarily a meditation on distance and the spaces between memories and attempts to evoke the musical emotions of Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, etc... deep sadness...

11:10, 16.71mb , 192kbps [03/08/03]

Experimental
Commissioned by electronic percussionist and Stockhausen assistant, Michael Manion, Croche et Tient is a piece for MalletKAT and MAX on the Kawai K5000 synthesizer. I'll edit this with a blurb later, but for now, time for supper! :)

09:10, 7.99mb , VBR [11/09/02]

Ambient
AgnusDeiWave is the culmination of a series of experiments in formant wave synthesis. Vocal analysis from a recording of Josquin's Agnus Dei motivates a timeless series of waves. My first piece on my FS1R formant synthesizer.

2:21, 1.80mb , VBR [07/13/02]

Experimental
a canon of tiny sounds in giant spaces... physical modelling delicacy of the most extreme kind...

07:37, 7.33mb , 128kbps [12/24/02]

Ambient
Sonic rainbows descend from the clouds of the Eroica. The beginning of Beethoven's Third Symphony hyper-spatially paraphrased through time extension, pitch warpings and deep space phase-shifting effects; immensely vast, sublime, beyond... Same types of textures as Espace des Cloches, but instead of bells, heavenly choirs and orchestras reign...

03:29, 3.36mb , 128kbps [12/24/02]

Abstract Ambient
An exploration of deep reverb spaces and very sustained sounds. Gong-like bells resound in a vast phase-shifting continuum. Definitely more ambient than is usual for me; a harkening back to the Obliterature pieces. Composed November 1999, Brooklyn, NY.
Credits: Csound realization with new reverb and phase-shifting orcs by Sean Costello, DX7 Algorithm by Russell Pinkston (Gong DX7 patch by the composer). Feedback Delay Network Reverb model from Julius O. Smith, III.

17:42, 17.01mb , 128kbps [12/24/02]

Abstract Ambient
The title means the "Lamentations of the Stars." A slow, darkly ambient exploration of slowly morphing timbres and chords using a tuning based on the harmonic series (by Wendy Carlos). A glass harmonica instrument re-created as a giant bell-like organ slowly plays chords designed to create movement from the pulsations of beats between closely spaced harmonics. Composed May 20, 2000, Brooklyn, NY.

3:12, 3.66mb , VBR [05/26/02]

Abstract Ambient
Arctogæal is an abstract exploration of ice sounds, such as comets might produce wandering the cosmos in conversation with their sidereal brethren.
Credits: Jeff Harrington

7:54, 6.95mb , VBR [05/26/02]

Experimental
Surrealist Sound Piece Based on a Salvador Dali Recording, Métamorphose de Narcisse. The piece is completely derived from one very short recording of Dali speaking of the painting he painted for Dr. Sigmund Freud, Métamorphose de Narcisse, recorded by Robert Descharnes (and used with his permission). It utilizes time and pitch shifting and various other audio processes to tranform his brief speech about the painting into a surrealist commentary.
Credits: Jeff Harrington Composition, Recording Robert Descharnes, Interview Recording with Salvador Dali

02:00, 2.05mb , 128kbps [12/24/02]

Experimental
A Quartertone Electronic Invention. Quartertones are the notes in between the white and black keys of a piano. Arabic and Asian musics use them, but in this case, they're used in a traditional but insanely bizarre Baroque context. Composed in 1991, Brooklyn, NY. Furious; not for the nervous!

01:25, 1.38mb , 128kbps [12/24/02]

Experimental
A Quartertone Electronic Invention. Quartertones are the notes in between the white and black keys of a piano. Arabic and Asian musics use them, but in this case, they're used in a traditional but insanely bizarre Baroque context. Composed in 1991, Brooklyn, NY. Furious; not for the nervous!

01:26, 1.39mb , 128kbps [12/24/02]

Experimental
A Quartertone Electronic Invention. Quartertones are the notes in between the white and black keys of a piano. Arabic and Asian musics use them, but in this case, they're used in a traditional but insanely bizarre Baroque context. Composed in 1991, Brooklyn, NY. Furious; not for the nervous!

01:41, 1.63mb , 128kbps [12/24/02]

Experimental
A Quartertone Electronic Invention. Quartertones are the notes in between the white and black keys of a piano. Arabic and Asian musics use them, but in this case, they're used in a traditional but insanely bizarre Baroque context. Composed in 1991, Brooklyn, NY. Furious; not for the nervous!

3:51, 6.43mb , VBR , 120bpm [07/06/02]

Dark Ambient
between religiosity and depravity... a voyage encompassing the most visceral and the most sublime... anomalous extremes of good taste and bad...

03:59, 5.19mb , VBR , 110bpm [07/04/02]

DownTempo
when i was young we used to go down south past new orleans into the delta where my friend had a house... we'd hang out on the levy with these monster speakers playing across the road and play in the mud... this song is about those great times playing on the banks of the mississippi in the mud... a monster bass made from a physical model of a steel drum, distorted into a blues guitar from hell rings over the drums and organs...

04:08, 5.83mb , VBR , 120bpm [06/22/02]

Dark Ambient
another tripped out virtual guitar rock and roll electronic hallucination, this time using microtonal stylings from beyond... less guitar distortion more funk... tastes of floyd... guitar part uses a quartertone tuning for vaster and slower pitch glides... dark and mysterious streaming through fields of madness...

05:33, 6.74mb , VBR , 120bpm [06/01/02]

Dark Ambient
...deserted stretch of road...backing rhythm and drums by hungry ghosts streaking past the window...imagine varese backed by joy division and the doors...

5:12, 10.02mb , 256kbps [05/27/02]

Ambient
An improvisation using the Yamaha Physical Modelling Shakuhachi model of a Shakuhachi flute and an ultra-vast reverb space. An improvisation of extraordinary bravura and the crazy life.
Credits: Jeff Harrington