bew - Audiopaint, 2007 remixes
Barry Cullen, also known as bew, ran across Audiopaint, a freeware program which does a kind of additive synthesis from image files (http://www.nicolasfournel.com/audiopaint.htm). He created a series of backdrops, on top of which he added beats from drum machines, guitar, saxophone, trombone, and vocals. The recordings were each done in a single take through a variety of analog treatments: tape delay, valve amplifier, pre-1970s speaker cabinets, a Lorenzo organ from the garbage, and a fuzz pedal collection spanning four decades.
The original versions were remixed in 2007 for the3rd2nd.com. What results is a range of sounds from electroacoustic evolutions to pleasant processed settings of acoustic instruments that might even be called delicate and tender.
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Barry Cullen was born in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and is currently based in Brno (The Czech Republic). He releases music and noise under the name bew (Barry’s Electric Workshop), which is pronounced like ‘new’ or ‘Jew’ or ‘few’.
These are recordings of improvised performances very loosely based on Indian raga performance conventions. An electronic drone begins the piece before a wildly modulating synth joins in. The synths pick up a meter with five pulses per bar, and then a synthesized drum begins to accompany them. The three instruments become progressively frenzied, with the piece ending right at the peak.
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