Composer/performer Anne La Berge released two albums in March:
- Cork, with Phil Maguire, mastered by Jim O’Rourke
- Threw, Thru & Through, with Tom Hamilton and Suzana Lașcu
Anne notes that Cork is “very patient music” compared to her other collaborations, primarily because Phil is a drone artist. She provided a time-stamped guide to the Kyma effects to listen for in each track:
Cuan an Chaislean, Phil on drones
0.00 Granular Reverb
4.45 Very soft Formant shifting, with changing settings for dissonance & pitch
6.40 The formant shifting is more audible
10.01 Random gating using the chopper with changing settings
Going through a Granular Reverb in different presets
17.12 Random chopper gating with a much different Granular Reverb settingCork, Phil on drones
0.29 Granular reverb using short grains on flute noise / airy timbre
5.59 Kyma – ‘Cathedral’ abstract melody – sine tones mixed with changing noise
Random envelopes, speeds, Continued Granular reverb flute
8.01 Flute multiphonics start to enter still using the Granular reverbMaureen’s, Phil on drone and occasional noise interruptions
0.00 Piccolo – Non-harmonic analysis with delays through Spectral Modification triggering an OscillatorBank – A sound I call Scram
Whistle tones, multiphonics, airy pitches
9.45 Piccolo with a waveshaper and highpass filter – a sound I call Glitch – with Reverb
11.46 Piccolo with Glitch, delay and a fat long reverb
14.00 The other sounds are Phil’s
16.00 Piccolo circular breathing through the Glitch, delay and long reverb
17.18 Whistle tones plus airy piccolo tones through the same processing
Of Threw, Thru & Through, Anne writes: “These tracks are from an afternoon of play in the studio. Overdubs by Suzana Lașcu came a few years later when we decided to release our pre-pandemic wildness.”
