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debut of the "stairs" project.
drones built from a series of field recording audio loops. processed and re-arranged in a whole slew of software.
mp3 - 7.6mb (160kbps)
playing time: 6:32
released - january 2010
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second installment of the “stairs” project
drones were built using modular software music studio reaktor 5.
guitar was recorded in one take using different metal objects as a strings manipulator and mutated in guitar rig 3.
mp3 - 15.6mb (160kbps)
playing time: 13:34
released - february 2010
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third installment of the “stairs” project.
drones were built using logic pro 9 sampler exs24 sound library. processed and re-arranged in a whole slew of software.
mp3 - 8,2mb (160kbps)
playing time: 6:57
released - march 2010
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Stairs, staircase, stairway, stairwell, and flight of stairs are all names for a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps. Stairways may be straight, round, or may consist of two or more straight pieces connected at angles.
In music, a drone is a note which sounds all the time while a piece of music is played. Some folk instruments always make a drone when they are played: bagpipes and hurdy gurdies in European culture, sitars in Indian music, and many other instruments in Asian and African music. Sometimes more than one drone is heard (often two notes which are a fifth apart).
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual” or "unobtrusive" quality.
Margo M. Rindemaa: concept, sound design, programming, recording, guitar, bass, percussion, vocals, mastering, photo exposure and manipulation, web,
Additional collaborators:
Elisabeth Rindemaa: harmonica and drums on // step 11:12
Maido Juss: photo exposure and manipulation on: // step 2:12, // step 3:12, // step 8:12., // step12:12
Taavi T. Aavik: beat and headphone drone manipulation on // step 4:12.
Mauno Meesit: vocals, on // step 8:12.
Martti Leetsar: guitar feedback on // step
5:12.
Stina Kase: photo exposure and manipulation on // step 6:12
Britten Sillaots: photo exposure and manipulation on // step 1:12.
When?: paper scan and manipulation on // step 7:12.
A year (symbol a or sometimes y) is the amount of time it takes the Earth to make one revolution around the Sun.
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fourth installment of the "stairs" project.
drones built from videos found on youtube. beat, headphone and guitar drone were recorded in one take.
mp3 - 10mb (160kbps)
playing time: 8:33
released - april 2010
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fifth installment of the “stairs” project
drones were built using modular software music studio reaktor 5.
mp3 - 5.8mb (160kbps)
playing time: 4:52
released - may 2010
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sixth installment of the “stairs” project.
drones built from a series of field recording audio loops. processed and re-arranged in a whole slew of software.
mp3 - 17,6mb (160kbps)
playing time: 14:03
released - june 2010
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seventh installment of the "stairs" project.
noise built from recorded tape-loops.
bass guitar was recorded in one take and mutated, using some new plugins in logic 9.
mp3 - 7,9mb (160kbps)
playing time: 5:34
released - july 2010
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eighth installment of the “stairs” project
soundscape built from recorded guitar loop. processed and re-arranged in a whole slew of software.
mp3 - 8,9mb (160kbps)
playing time: 6:39
released - august 2010
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nineth installment of the “stairs” project.
drones built from videos found on youtube. guitar drone were recorded in one take.
mp3 - 9,7mb (160kbps)
playing time: 6:49
released - september 2010
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tenth installment of the "stairs" project.
noises built from various sound sources.
processed and re-arranged in a whole slew of stomp-box chain.
mp3 - 7,7mb (160kbps)
playing time:5:05
released - october 2010
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eleventh installment of the “stairs” project.
drums and harmonica was recorded with nokia cellphone @ kopter studios. processed and re-arranged in a whole slew of software.
mp3 - 11,8mb (160kbps)
playing time: 6:04
released - november 2010
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final installment of the “stairs” project.
drones built from a series of field recording audio loops, korg monotron. processed and re-arranged in a whole slew of software.
mp3 - 5,6mb (160kbps)
playing time: 3:43
released - december 2010
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In popular music a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical". Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing to a single overall theme or unified story. This is in contrast to the practice of an artist or group releasing an album consisting of a number of unconnected (lyrically or otherwise) songs performed by the artist.
11 (eleven) (pronounced /ɨˈlɛvɨn/ or /iːˈlɛvɛn/) is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. It is the first number which cannot be represented by a human counting their eight fingers and two thumbs additively. Eleven is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English, and it is also the largest prime number with a single-morpheme name in this language (although etymologically the word eleven originated from a Germanic compound *ainlif meaning "one left"
A spectrogram is an image that shows how the spectral density of a signal varies with time. Also known as spectral waterfalls, sonograms, voiceprints, or voicegrams, spectrograms are used to identify phonetic sounds, to analyse the cries of animals, and in the fields of music, sonar/radar, speech processing, seismology, etc. The instrument that generates a spectrogram is called a spectrograph or sonograph.
Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity
