Michael Begg

Somewhere between sirens, time travel, explosives and breaking stain glass windows. Counterpointed by the coda of our song, Stained Glass Before and After, natürlich.

Visual programming by @michaelbegg.studio

Thanks.

Martin Sheen

The matrix points are scaled and sent, via jit.gen, to sine wave oscillators, and to midi for triggering and processing samples. And thanks!

Not really. The matrix cells are data points rather than waveforms. I imagine that a possible output could become a wavetable? Really don’t know.

Finally starting to get my head around working with a matrix rather than a single procedural timeline of data points to generate sound.

All thanks to @cycling74.bsky.social Jitter, Gen and MC objects

WITNESS. Ambient Chamber Works 2020-2024, by Michael Begg 13 track album

Which seems an opportune moment to remind you that a) we still have stock of the ltd edition 6 panel CD, and b) its @bandcamp Friday tomorrow

omnempathy.bandcamp.com/album/witnes...

A new review of WITNESS from Feardrop, in French:

www.feardrop.net?p=3324

"It is almost addictive to wander in this ambient forest, the ultimate poetic transformation of the concerns of science about our world in danger. In the time of fairy tales, fear can be a guide, nostalgia a home."

Witness Engines - earthquakes and volcanoes YouTube video by Witness Engines

'Restless Earth' Witness Engine now live streaming: global earthquakes and US 'elevated' volcanoes.
Turn it on, leave it running, be tuned to the restless earth in your doings

www.youtube.com/live/KJtOBzf...

All composed with MaxMSP.Jitter

Today, with @verlorenschatten.bsky.social working on our appreciation for the colour RED

And I wish they'd let an oldie like me improve the quality and substance of their sonifications!

Try Janet Topp Fargion, head of sound and vision: janet.toppfargion@bl.uk

The third edition of Adventurous Music's EX! magazine has just been published, and contains a shout out to @verlorenschatten.bsky.social

You can order the magazine from their Bandcamp page: adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ex-zin...

YouTube video by Verloren Schatten Guerrilla Worship After Hours

This is a nice new clip. It speaks to our age, ja?
Guerrilla Worship After Hours

youtu.be/EX8DGzSFoEQ

Manhattan in the morning YouTube video by Witness Engines

It is a beautiful morning in Manhattan - clean air, clear sky. So listen in to the Witness Engine streaming live...

www.youtube.com/live/LiJ_-FS...

YouTube video by Verloren Schatten Washing Windows at Oto

The album’s doing fine, just fine. Easy now. Sshhhhh. Ignore the fires. Eat the grass.

youtu.be/uNXAkKl0jNo?...

I was there. Somewhat muted but not without incident.

Now the @witnessengines.bsky.social have a home of their own. Do follow if you are interested in how the world sings its own malaise

Just checked again. Local time is after 10 in the evening and conditions are even worse. PM2.5 this high over time will likely give you lung cancer. In the short term your respiratory and CV system are horrifically compromised.

YouTube video by Witness Engines Air Quality and Weather: Beijing, 110725

Final AQ/Weather report for the week. High particulates, carbon monoxide and a general malaise of filthy air and poor health conditions: Beijing, earlier today.
youtu.be/WXHDYR1AIUA

YouTube video by Witness Engines Air Quality and Weather: Reykjavik, 100725

Finally found some rain (in Reykjavik, Iceland) to test out the new V8ui rain visualiser I've built in to the AQ/Weather witness engine.

youtu.be/54UPVcXisy0

In Athens, a high of 35º, low humidity, clear sky, light breeze and a LOT of ozone and particulates in the air all makes for an edgy response from the realtime AQ/Weather witness engine

image shows Muhammad Ali standing over a defeated opponent. The image is employed as a visual metaphor for Omnempathy Label's overcoming of obstructions placed by the digital distributor Ditto Music over the submission of an album by Verloren Schatten to the Apple Store

Subsequent to public exposure on Trust Pilot and social media, I am happy to say that Verloren Schatten, the debut release on Omnempathy from @verlorenschatten.bsky.social is now finally available on the Apple Store.

It’s not ideal. But there are other distributors with responsive support, routes of appeal and better relationships with the stores and the artists/labels.

Image shows text from a facebook post complaining about ditto Musics handling of an Omnempathy release. Text reads "You may recall that my label, Omnempathy, released a recording by Verloren Schatten. Ditto Music , the digital distributor I decided to trial for the first time - quietly, without saying anything to me, determined the recording to be ‘generic instrumental music’ and consequently failed to send the recording to Apple for release on the Apple music store. Frontline support remained unengaged and recycled the same line repeatedly that their agreement with Apple prevented them from submitting generic instrumental music. They remained impervious to my 25 year history of successfully releasing music with a reasonable degree of critical success, and my proposal that I might be better placed to determine if it was 'generic' in any way. I invited them repeatedly to review the release as they had made a judgement on the recording that was not only insulting to the artist, it was plainly wrong. Not only did they fail to do this, they refused my numerous requests to escalate the matter. Subsequent mail to the CEO, the press office and chief operating officer have not been responded to. It seems, therefore, that Ditto failed in their single duty for which they were paid; to distribute the work of the label. They have, however, elected themselves as aesthetic arbiter and artistic critic. The financial consequence of this is crushingly small, of course. who but the few make any money with digital sales? But Apple has further reach than the other platforms, and for this reason it is the point of principle that matters. A distributor takes the decision unilaterally to judge a piece of work and determine for themselves what it is, what it constitutes and whether it deserves to be passed on to the store. They do this without telling the label - who has paid for the service - what they have done."

Last word from the Ditto Music fiasco over the @verlorenschatten.bsky.social record. Grabbed from FB where there is a more expansive text limit.

Early encouragement from the net radio community inc @campradio.bsky.social @taktentradio.bsky.social @black-ops.bsky.social @theseanceradio.bsky.social @zovietfrance.org @ambientblog.net suggest the project will soon bloom into physical media if interest continues to grow!

Verloren Schatten, by Verloren Schatten 12 track album

…and get the album here:
omnempathy.bandcamp.com/album/verlor...

The latest edition of A Duck in a Tree, now out as a podcast, features Verloren Schatten's 'The Twelve Caesars' from their new debut album, a track title that echoes Suetonius's 2nd century salacious equivalent to Kenneth Anger's 'Hollywood Babylon'. Empires fall. Get the podcast here bit.ly/444S5sI