Heavy Deep Live Pack and Session Files

Download the Live Pack and Session Files for Heavy Deep here:
http://milkcrate.com.au/_other/downloads/live_packs/HEAVYDEEP.alp

little-scale: Heavy Deep EP (2013)

Milkcrate-Inspired Music: Eclectic Eye: Family

http://soundcloud.com/eclectic-eye/family

"A Milk Crate Type session (What I managed to create in 24 hours).

http://www.milkcrate.com.au/

Not Finished.
Rules:
1. Time: start 8am tomorow and finish by 8am the next day
2. Space: Around Home
3. Efficiency: Must work around looking after Brydda when he gets home from spending morning with Nana and Popa.
4. Materials:
a) must use some of the recordings I made with Brydda
b) laptop, digi 002, usb mic
c) Live, supercollider, Ardour"

Milkcrate-Inspired Music: godinpants: Clap

"A little something I did in the spirit of Milkcrate. I don't think it counts because I didn't follow the rules too well.

I only used about 4 hours instead of the 24, and i went and did other things between the first and last tracks

The only sound source used was a recording of a single handed clap. (hard to keep a hand in a milkcrate)."

Just Don't Bury Yourself (Milkcrate #33 Screencapture)

Timelapsed screencapture of the first track from Milkcrate #33 "How To Avoid Self-Burial": http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2011/12/little-scale-how-to-avoid-self-burial.html

little-scale: How To Avoid Self-Burial (2011)

The above video is a taste tester for an album I wrote yesterday using a glass bowl as the only sound source. The whole album is 46 minutes long. This was milkcrate session number thirty-three.

Download here:
http://www.milkcrate.com.au/mp3s/little-scale_how_to_avoid_self_burial_%282011%29.zip

30 Songs In 30 Days - November 2009

Last month, I took part in the 30 Songs In 30 Days challenge. Here are my 30 tracks:

Sega Mega Drive:
01 You Have My Dignity
02 Elsewhere
03 Nothing Has Been Left Unspoken
04 Worldview
05 Visual Confirmation
06 Wake Up, Space Cadet!
07 Delusions
08 Let's Dance At The Coalface


Atari 2600 and Commodore 64
09 Molecules
10 Six Trees
11 Nocturne
12 Castle Mine
13 Recollections At The Edge Of Denial
14 Wallflower


Sega Mega Drive and Sega Master System
15 Like Breathing (1)
16 Like Breathing (2)


Sega Master System
17 Hyper Plutonium!


Game Boy Advance
18 Liquid Structures


Ableton Live + Mortar and Pestle Sample (Milkcrate 32)
19 Adventures In Homewares Part 1
20 Adventures In Homewares Part 2
21 Adventures In Homewares Part 3
22 Adventures In Homewares Part 4
23 Adventures In Homewares Part 5
24 Adventures In Homewares Part 6
25 Adventures In Homewares Part 7
26 Adventures In Homewares Part 8
27 Adventures In Homewares Part 9
28 Adventures In Homewares Part 10
29 Adventures In Homewares Part 11
30 Adventures In Homewares Part 12

Milkcrate 32: Adventures In Homewares Featuring The Mortar And The Pestle Now Online

"An exploration of the sounds of the mortar and the pestle. Enter a sonic world of isolation."

Milkcrate 32: Adventures In Homewares Featuring The Mortar And The Pestle is now online on the milkcrate website. Grab it here.

Milkcrate 31: rrrr Now Online

"A wonderful masterpiece of drone music, created using rocks and stones. "

Milkcrate 31: rrrr is now online on the milkcrate website. Grab it here.

Milkcrate #31 - Brian Green - "rrrrrr"

Experimental musician / circuit bender / generative composer Brian Green (from South Carolina, USA) has made a work under the standard milkcrate conditions.

"rrrrrr" is a drone piece 149 minutes long, made from the sound of clinking stones together.

"I decided to give another go at the milkcrate project as i really enjoyed the last one i did and i feel i push myself alot to do very different things when im doing one of these," says Brian.

Listen to Brian's session and read more about it on his blog here.

Milkcrate 30: The Sound of a Pin Dropping

The 30th milkcrate session is now online. It is a massive milkcrate session using only the sound of a pin dropping as source material.

Milkcrate 29: Noises In The Woods by Brian Green

Brian Green presents the first session of 2009 with a very special ambient milkcrate using materials found in the woods outside of his home in South Carolina, USA. Only thirty seconds of source sounds were used to construct the thirty minute work.

Get it here: http://milkcrate.com.au/sessions-details-029.html

Mr Green Is Doing A Milkcrate

http://www.seeyouinsleep.com/blog/2009/4/18/milkcrate-noises-in-the-woods.html

This is a landmark milkcrate in that it is the first session not to be directly connected to the Adelaide group of milkcraters in some way.

The sounds that he has going so far are great! Let's wish him luck on what is surely going to be an intense journey.

Video for Milkcrate #28: "Synthermal"

There is a short video for 'Synthermal'. You can watch it here: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=wD0cvMV-T74

This will give you some sort of taste for what the session is like.

Milkcrate #28: "Synthermal"

A direct foil to the water-based theme of milkcrate 26, 'Synthermal' uses only objects that are associated with heat and fire. From sparklers to butane-based soldering irons, from toasters to matches - all is fair game.

Get it here: http://milkcrate.com.au/sessions-details-028.html

Halfway Report from Milkcrate #28

(from the milkcrate blog)

All is going well here in the land of 'crate.

We spent the first three or four hours of this crate collectively sampling and choosing objects and sounds out of the ones that we had all brought.

For objects that we could record indoors (ie. those with zero fire hazard), we set up a large diaphragm condenser in a tiled room - the room itself adds a bit of nice sound as well. There was quite a bit of background noise because of the air conditioning vents and about 16 or 17 computers with their fans on, but our samples were still useable.

So each person would come up with their objects (except for me - because the only thing I brought along is a box of matches) and then record some material from their chosen objects. I was manually riding the input gain to try and maximise our effective dynamic range and manage the already unmanageable environment noise.

For objects and actions that we could not record indoors (ie. those with some fire hazard), David and I went over to the park next to the parade grounds. Here we used a portable recorder with a shirt as a wind shield and recorded a few useable samples.

Some of the highlights of the samples have included:
• some party poppers (courtesy of david)
• a toaster (courtesy of jordan)
• a heatsink (courtesy of jesse)
• some butane and a gas-powered soldering iron (courtesy of justin)

As I've said the only thing I brought was the box of matches (others brought the same or similar items too of course).

All in all, we have about 6 or 7 minutes of samples (after editing and splicing) which is actually a huge sample bank for any milkcrate. There are probably well over 80 or 90 individual events contained in our samples, which is nice. However, almost all of the sounds are really very percussive, somewhat limiting the source timbres we can use for melodic / pitched music material.

For the most part, people seem to using a combination of Live and ProTools, often in tandem rewired together.

Jordan and Justin have been working on a dance track that makes use of Justin's new Kaos Pad 3. Jesse has been working on an ambient track and David has been making a number of highly distorted and loud works. Unfortunately, his computer only has a demo of Live running on it so he is unable to save his projects, forcing him to work very quickly, constantly in fear of crashing.

As for me, I've somewhat formalised some of the things I've been doing in the last few milkcrates. I have thus far only used my very short sample of me striking a match. I have written 15 tracks, but my self-imposed limitation is that every track I make has been and will be one minute in length exactly. This may sound easy but I've been finding it more and more difficult as the day progresses.

To some degree, perhaps it's an exploration of 'pop' music sounds and structures as sound objects in their own right, something with their own weight and mass to be considered a single event. I'm not sure. I've been going for more than twelve hours, so I'm not even sure if that sentence makes any sense or not.

Wish us luck as we slip into the night...

- seb

Milestones

I thought I would briefly mention that milkcrate has reached some milestone: we have hit 500 tracks and also 30 hours of musical output.

A Country Practice Video

We made a video for Milkcrate 27: A Country Practice. I'm very happy with it; probably the best milkcrate video in a while.

Part 1: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=CrSznaVCJhc
Part 2: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ6jCeUAcJY

Milkcrate 27: "A Country Practice"

Milkcrate 27: A Country Practice (2008)

Scott Jackson, Sebastian Tomczak and Martin Victory.

Using only locally-sourced objects in a small country town.

"Scott, Seb and Martin proudly present the first milkcrate that was done out in the country. The theme was to take objects that were found / bought locally and only use these to do a session.

The impact of the serene environment of Lake Albert and Meningie can be clearly heard throughout the forty tracks that were completed."

Download it here: http://milkcrate.com.au/sessions-details-027.html



I'm really happy with this milkcrate.

Video for 'Objects From Our Man Salazar'

I've made a very short YouTube video for the 25th milkcrate session, 'Objects From Our Man Salazar'. If you haven't listened to the session, this would be a way to get a quick taste of some of the tracks.

Watch it here: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=q4NUjrZfasY