Sleepdrone 5 w/ Filterbank 2, M-Resonator + Tenori-On — by Franck Smith

Sleepdrone 5 w/ Sherman Filterbank 2, Jomox M-Resonator + Tenori-On. Contents : analog filtering, micro-pulses, clicks, glitches... N.B. This video follows : • "Sleepdrone 5" previously uploaded on http://www.youtube.com/znshn

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Material in this video:
- Sleepdrone 5 (via main output)
- Sherman Filterbank 2
- Jomox M-Resonator
- TENORI-ON
- Space Echo RE-20 (on Sleepdrone only, not shown on screen)

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Franck Smith alternative digital techniques Live Electronics Odiolorgnette TENORI-ON Yamaha Sherman Filterbank 2 Jomox M-Resonator Sleepdrone 5 Space Echo RE-20 Analog Filters triggering analog bass drum module phonocrafting noise manufacturing

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Sleepdrone 5 — by Franck Smith

The "Sleepdrone5" is a four oscillator drone machine. Each oscillator features:
* discrete output - pitch tuning - pitch range selection - volume level - added tweak bus feature - on/off control. [Output of the oscillators are summed together and inter-(ring)modulated  into a fifth "mix out" with master volume control]. N.B. This test uses only the main output.

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Material in this video:
- Sleepdrone5
- Space Echo RE-20 (not shown on screen)

See also http://www.youtube.com/znshn
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Franck Smith alternative digital techniques Live Electronics Odiolorgnette Sleepdrone5 Space Echo RE-20 phonocrafting noise manufacturing

The Darwich Fetish Edition — Selected works on vinyl by Franck Smith

N.B.— The Darwich Fetish Edition is a collection of sound-objects and original specimens including special pressings on vinyl.

* Les pierres de touche
(6 fragments for Butoh dance contexts)



Recorded & released in May 2008
Composed & performed by Franck Smith
[Click the turntable to play this record]

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* La pierre de gué
(1 micro-ceremony inspired by Japanese Gagaku)



Recorded & released in April 2008
Composed & performed by Smith
[Click the turntable to watch recording session trailer]

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* Les jeux de la poupée
(Phonographic study on Hans Bellmer's eponymous work)



Recorded & released in March 2006
Composed & performed by Franck Smith
[Click the picture to play this record]

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* J'écoute les marteaux-piqueurs !
(6 bagatelles from an aphorism by Edgard Varèse)



Recorded & release in February 2006
Composed & performed by Smith
[Click the picture to play this record]

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* 0+0
(Circular timescape in memory of John Cage)



Recorded & released in February 2006
Composed & performed by Smith
[Click the picture for direct link]

Le tombeau d'Edgard Varèse — by Franck Smith

Released APRIL 2008

In tribute to avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), this new work for percussive devices and electronics presents a long posthumous march with dark orchestral colors and crepuscular percussion pulses. A quite mysterious funeral cortège in memory of a true sound-alchemist...

"(A) wonderful tribute to a musical hero..."
John Zorn, NY, 2008


N.B. vinyl sections were made especially for this project, no external sound sources used. — No index points, only 1 track on the disc.
Composed & performed by Franck Smith
Recorded in 2008, time 36:43, Ref: odl.9173-655
Released in January 2008 on Odiolorgnette

Excerpt 1 (2:26)

Excerpt 2 (1:32)

Original soundtrack from Elvire Bastendorff's "Vision d'elles" exhibition — by Franck Smith

Released FEBRUARY 2008

A 70mn track commissioned especially by graphic artist Elvire Bastendorff for her 6-months audiovisual exhibition in Luxembourg titled 'Vision d'elles'. This special soundtrack is based on 20 custom-made vinyls each one containing selected phrases and comments from the 20 women portraited in Bastendorff's work. Orchestral mixing of manipulated voices and electronic for a very strange, dirty and animal result. The final recording was played continuously, all day long, from 27th April to 28th October 2007... A document!


Composed & performed by Franck Smith
Recorded in 2007, time 70:50, Ref: odl.SqEd-670
Released in February 2008 on Odiolorgnette