Earth Dream ADL July 2012

Review of DJ Sets 2012 !

2012 has been a wild year with major set for Earth Dream at the Coorong in July 2012 ! Rocking it out with flame synced devices and a awesome solar powered sound system that brought surround sound to a new level ! Thanks to Dylan and the Earth Dream Crew !

Evolve Love Fundraiser

 

DJ ZEROPOINT Chill Ambient Music !

Evolve Love Fundraiser - Art for Arts Fundraiser
[1- 8 November]
@The Reading Room, 153 Hindley Street, Adelaide

Opening Night - Thursday 3 November
6:00-8:00pm

Featuring Local Artists:

Steven Papas
Jessica McPhee

Free Entry - Music / Art / Drinks (by donation)

Come & join us for the opening night of our exhibition fundraiser for the Evolve Love art project. Enjoy freshly made affordable creations, music, wine, nibbles & Adelaide's amazing creative community that swarms around the Reading Room culture hub.

All art will be exploring the loose theme of "Evolve Love" & kept at affordable prices suiting those from the student budget onwards. Donations towards the project will also be most welcome. All money raised will go straight back into the EVOLVE LOVE project.

Drop in any time between 12-7pm to 'The Reading Room' 1-8 Nov to check out the show.

Evolve Love, by GSspirit is to be presented at Feast Festival 2011 from 12 - 27 Nov. We are creating a non-profit installation of film, dance, UV art, & sound exploring the theme of 'EVOLVE LOVE' within the GLBTQI. It is free entry throughout the festival presented for the greater Feast Festival Community.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=276150685732445

http://tix.feast.org.au/ticketing/EventDetails.aspx?EventGuid=f7b21f3b-c7a3-4405-8549-9c3c371c04ef

Produced by Darren Curtis and Bradley Pitt of GSspirit
www.gsspirit.com

LUMINOS - Ambisonics

LUMINOS

Sonic Star Codes

by Darren Curtis

3 Tracks

1. Uritone / 2.Orium / 3.Luminos

Using the latest in digital and analoge synthesis for live Ambisonics - 6 speaker soundfield as part of the SubLuminal Project for Star Link Mission. Also rendered into stereo format.

 Sacred Resonance for info:
www.sacredresonance.com.au

Click here for:

LUMINOS PDF

AMBISONICS OVERVIEW:

http://www.ambisonic.net

Here's a useful, if slightly technical, description of Ambisonics from noted audio expert and former Audio Engineering Society President, Stanley Lipshitz:


"Ambisonics goes further than stereo in that what it does (to first order) is to sample the acoustic field in such a way that the combination of the signals from all the loudspeakers in the array produces ... a reconstruction of the original acoustic wave field (both travelling and standing wave components). If a listener puts his head in the sound field, because the wavefronts are similar to the original, the perception of directionality and space should correspond to the original too. It is a "wavefront reconstruction" scheme in the small. The ear signals (crosstalk and all) will be correct if the reconstructed wavefronts are correct. This is just like natural hearing. Increasing the number of loudspeakers in Ambisonics (each fed its correctly-decoded signal) increases the accuracy of the reconstruction and the region over which it holds up. The interaural arrival-time differences also correspond to natural hearing in Ambisonics."

Ambisonics thus offers a number of major advantages over current 5.1 systems:

• It provides full surround -- with height ("periphony") -- while requiring only four channels total - but many more can be used.
• The surround-sound image remains largely unaffected by listener position -- no "sweet spot"
• Images can appear anywhere, not solely in the speaker positions
• You can place the loudspeakers in convenient positions -- not necessarily a square 
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Here is a great link to a PDF http://www.ambisonic.net/pdf/ambidvd2001.pdf 

GOA Ambient set ! Zero Point !

Winter Solstice Island

DJ Zero Point 

GOA Ambient set 6pm 

Sat. 9th July

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188157311235941

Birthday Set on July 9th !

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157606104306497

Ancient Tunings - Restoring the Lost Harmonics!

"In 1854, German scientist Herman Helmholtz discovered combinational tones, a third tone heard whenever two musical tones of different harmonic pitches are sounded together. 

He pointed out that these are lost with ET due to the lack of intonation"

Even J.S. Bach had to put up with these limitations and the harmonic impurity they engender. I'm sure that he would be delighted to use electronic musical instruments if he were alive today." Wendy Carlos

New Musical Tuning Systems & Cosmic Supernature Tunings

The reason for changing the tuning from the natural scale of supernature is to connect with a new musical system that links forms like the hydrogen wave series with new forms of Superluminal Light, a new resonance is formed !

Here is some historic data by Wendy Carlos which is a good tuning overview on new forms of digital tuning and how BACH understood this coloring of harmonics. Enjoy !

HISTORIC

As in equal temperament F# becomes the same pitch as Gb. Think of a snake biting its own tail. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier was composed for this type of tuning.[1] Each key has a different sound, usually giving the keys near C major a much smoother sound, at the expense of more distant keys, like C# minor. Natural harmonic intervals don’t fit so neatly into a closed circle. If you go around using any perfectly tuned interval you will never double back, but instead follow an open helix. Think of the strands of DNA, a double helix. Many of the best sounding tuning systems are built up that way, like Meantone Temperament, which was the big favorite through Bach’s time. It does require more than twelve notes to modulate everywhere. Bach, who was also a first-rate tuner and theorist, would often reach in and retune a couple of notes to better favor a key about to be used. It’s exactly what I’ve done for this recording.

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[1] Not as is commonly misunderstood, for equal temperament, which Bach understood but did not personally prefer.

So our second kind of tuning for these performances is Meantone. There are several varieties of Meantone. It’s interesting that the oldest, which had the purest harmonies,[1] isn’t the one Bach himself used and recommended.[2] He insisted that the major thirds be made “a little sharp from just.” While he was willing to compromise the purity of his triads somewhat, he wasn’t willing to sacrifice them as much as is done in equal temperament. There’s good evidence that he thought the variation of consonance from key to key in circular tunings[3] was a good thing, and exploited the differences with his famous 24 Preludes and Fugues.

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[1] Which is called 1/4th comma Meantone, with pure thirds and fifths flat by 1/4th of the “comma” of 22 cents (100 cents = one semitone). Bach preferred one close to 1/5th comma, with better fifths but worse thirds.

[2] Johnny Reinhard’s thesis, Bach’s Tunings, is particularly clear and thorough about this whole subject.

[3] Well-known circular tunings were developed by Werkmeister, Kirnberger, Valotti and Young. They were not as homogeneous as the mathematically idealized version I use here, but were easier in practice to tune.



The tunings of Bach’s time, which are the predecessors to our equal tempered scale, and thus closely related to it. Many alternative scales have an ethnic quality, some are more useful for unusually big, fat harmonies based on the overtone series, while others are completely new and different, worlds waiting to be discovered 

http://www.wendycarlos.com/resources.html 

FUTURE SCIENCE

So why not, as an experiment, investigate divisions which are not integer based, but allow fractional parts?  That will lose all octave symmetry, but if we handle the octaving later, we might be able to find some really interesting equal-step specimens.  Wendy Carlos

Thus the cosmic NADA (Sanskrit) the unversal sound current which is found now in correlation with deep space regions like Persus. Persus emits audible sonic vibrations that are part of the direct relationship between the structure of the universe through the force of "sound" waves. http://www.space.com/661-sound-waves-left-imprint-universe.html   Sound thus is equlivent is the Light operating in relative patterns and duration of pitch. 

On a higher level we can see it as 'spiritual acoustic Light'  For the mystic realised that "thought-forms" have a basic sound power.

Thus this cosmic sound can be accessed through resonance and opening up the inner harmonic codes of nature -- we then can divide the "traditional octave" in musical tuning beyond normal octave range beyond Equal Tempered tuning taking into account new future sciences like interdimensional harmonic theory.

 

 

LOOP BAR SET

'Ascension Engine'

MELBOURNE, VIC

OR-ion

~Zero point~

Live Laptop, 'Live', Iphone, Quartz Composer Real Time Visuals

LOOP BAR - Zero Point, March 2011, MELB

More images

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/adam-v/sets/72157626417252426/with/5584148879/

Ascension Engine at Loop Bar 2011 - March 26th 2011

Ascension Engine at Loop Bar 2011

http://www.looponline.com.au

ZERO POINT 

~ LIVE SET ~

Straight from the Rainbow Serpent Festival comes the Ascension Engine for an exclusive Melbourne event. Ascension Engine is an audio/visual cornucopia of meditative sound and vision from some of Australia's finest audiovisualist experimenters. 

 

With the killer sound system and massive screen at Loop, sit back and connect with the universe that these visionary artists will weave for you.

Be prepared for sacred frequencies, audio reactive mandalas for meditation, binaural beats and alchemical transformations through sound and vision.
Ascension Engine comes alive from 2pm on Saturday 26th March.

Tickets on the door are $10 full or $5 conc.

Truant
Siilt
Grist
Electronic Shaman
Zen Paradox
Abre Ojos
Zero Point (SA)