<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">I wanted to let you know about two recent releases of ambient, freeform and microsound compositions:</span><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><i>melton.granular.01</i> (<a href="http://nofi.bandcamp.com/album/granular-01" target="_blank">http://nofi.bandcamp.com/album/granular-01</a>) and <i>melton.granular.02</i> (<a href="http://nofi.bandcamp.com/album/granular-02" target="_blank">http://nofi.bandcamp.com/album/granular-02</a>) collect my </span></font><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">recent work in microsound-scapes, featuring granular and pulsar synthesis,
freeform rhythms and tone colors. Tracks can also be streamed at <a href="http://soundcloud.com/nofi/sets/microsound-1/" target="_blank">http://soundcloud.com/nofi/sets/microsound-1/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Production Notes</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">All sounds were created with Density GS and Pulsaret instruments (both the standalone apps and Max for Live versions). A</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">rrangement, mixing and mastering was done with Ableton Suite. P</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">rocessing effects were limited to resonant filters, grain delay, reverb and EQ.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Concepts & Aesthetics</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Taking John Cage's statement </span>"There is no noise, only sound" as a starting point, these compositions explore the hinterlands of microsound particles and drones, non-sequenced rhythms and the diversity of organic and synthetic timbres. Rather than drone, each piece evolves with components that swell and recede, resonate, percolate, pulsate, shimmer, flutter, meander and migrate. Sample sources include: strings; flute; toy piano, bells and cymbals; vinyl records; elementary sound waveforms.</div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Track listings</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><i>melton.granular.01</i></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><span style="font-size:13px"><div>
<ol><li>Angularity
v.01 - <span>04m00s</span></li><li>The
Chymist v.01 - <span>23m31s</span></li><li>Coronal
Mass v.01 - <span>09m14s</span></li><li>Dressmaker
v.01 - <span>03m44s</span></li></ol><i>melton.granular.02</i></div><div><div><ol><li>Tetrad
v.01, pt.2 - <span>09m16s</span></li><li>A
Froward Mass v.01 - <span>24m26s</span></li><li>Penumbra v.01 - <span>06m07s</span></li><li>Promises v.02 - <span>12m38s</span></li></ol></div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span></div>
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<div><span></span></div></span></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Photos and artwork</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><a href="http://www.nofi.org/bits/2011/jeffrey.melton.mugshot.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.nofi.org/bits/2011/jeffrey.melton.mugshot.jpg</a></span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"> </span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">(64KB JPEG)</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><a href="http://www.nofi.org/bits/2011/melton.granular.01.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.nofi.org/bits/2011/melton.granular.01.jpg</a> (132KB JPEG)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><a href="http://www.nofi.org/bits/2011/melton.granular.02.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.nofi.org/bits/2011/melton.granular.02.jpg</a> (170KB JPEG)<br>
<br><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Tags</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">ambient, conceptual, Density, drone, experimental, freeform, granular, organic, non-sequenced, pulsar, Pulsaret, sampling, space, synthetic, synthesis, timbre</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></div>Biography<br>I have composed experimental and synthesized music <span style="background-color:rgb(251, 238, 153);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-repeat:initial initial">for</span> more than 20 years, beginning in the late 1980s with tape collage and reel-to-reel loop experiments. I moved on to computer-based sequencing, with a series of cassettes under the name Biotek during the mid 1990s and CD-Rs using the name Nofi beginning in 1997. Since 1999, I have maintained the website nofi dot org (<a href="http://www.nofi.org/" style="color:rgb(66, 99, 171)" target="_blank">http://www.nofi.org/</a>) as a blog and showcase <span style="background-color:rgb(251, 238, 153);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-repeat:initial initial">for my </span>media arts work. Recent computer-based ambient/freeform/microsound compositions as well as sequenced work can be previewed at <a href="http://soundcloud.com/nofi" target="_blank">http://soundcloud.com/nofi</a>. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br>Resources</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Density GS and Pulsaret: <a href="http://www.densitygs.com/" target="_blank">http://www.densitygs.com/</a></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Ableton Suite: <a href="http://www.ableton.com/suite-8" target="_blank">http://www.ableton.com/suite-8</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Max for Live: <a href="http://cycling74.com/products/maxforlive/" target="_blank">http://cycling74.com/products/maxforlive/</a></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Microsound overview: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsound" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsound</a></span></div>
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