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“Alien Tune (For a Star Sign)” (9th electroacoustic study) (8:51):

This piece is pure simplicity in an electroacoustic form. It’s a simple computer microphone being moved against two small speakers. I recorded using Ableton Live 7.0 – it’s important to mention that because the “record” button of this software provided me a special capturing in the ambience of such sound. I wanted to capture a melodic control of the feedbacks, something that’s not much emphasized in the feedback manipulation. It’s a similar process to theremin, but in a far more uncontrollable and dissonant challenge.

Like Wilhelm Mathies said (on his comment at Soundcloud), it’s a piece about interactivity with a sound source. It’s a piece that deals with pure contact with the universe of sound. I don’t like that ‘alien’ being meant as “alienation”, but it’s plain to see the strangeness in such contact. And it’s not alienation at all. It’s an irony to see that, because these sounds are part of nature. The air has its part in this composition.

This piece has begun as “Feedbacks June 4th 2011″, and now it’s entitled as “Alien Tune (for a Star Sign)”, with more explorations on echoing textures.

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from Three Dimensions of Unrecognizement and Other Unknown Reaches (GCSA 03), released October 21, 2011
George Christian: microphone against the speakers, electroacoustic composition, production

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George Christian / GC Sound Artifacts Salvador, Brazil

Guitarist, singer and songwriter George
Christian is a musician with a prolific activity in the field of independent online music, with the electric guitar as his main instrument in several instrumental explorations.

GC Sound Artifacts is a personal label created by the composer George Christian in 2010 and a household name for his productions. ... more

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