Saturday, December 15, 2012
On a phrase by Brahms
"On a phrase by Brahms" (December, 2012). The third in a series of pieces for my friend Michael Skrtic.
Monday, December 10, 2012
La petite sonnerie
"La petite sonnerie (The Little Ringing)" (December, 2012). The second in a series of pieces for my friend Michael Skrtic.
Friday, December 7, 2012
Spaceflight reviewed by Hypnagogue
Hypnagogue Reviews shows some love to Spaceflight Pharmacology.
Well, I’m not sure where the hymn’s hiding in there as you jump from the groovin’ bassline funk and dramatic string bursts of some lost 70s cop movie into a tangled frenzy of free jazz/prog keyboard madness, but hey, I’m along for the ride because it’s just glazed with cool. Weird cool, yeah, but still...
Monday, December 3, 2012
The Art of Manliness
"The Art of Manliness" (December, 2012). The first of a series of pieces for my friend Michael Skrtic.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Lord of Stones video
A simple piano-roll video for "Lord of Stones", from Stillness in the Mirror. When I composed the piece, I never looked at it in a musical score view - it was much easier to work with in this form. The video probably looks best in full screen.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Isonoe
"Isonoe" (sample) Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty (September, 2012).
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
(Photo "Water in motion" © Jessie Eldora Robertson)
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
(Photo "Water in motion" © Jessie Eldora Robertson)
Spaceflight Pharmacology
"Spaceflight Pharmacology" (sample) Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty (September, 2012).
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
(Photo credit: NASA)
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
(Photo credit: NASA)
Monday, September 24, 2012
...scarcely any time at all
"But for living there is scarcely any time at all" Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty (September, 2012).
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
World reviewed by Oliver Arditi
A very gratifying review from Oliver Arditi:
For all its gentle ambient soundscapes, The World Above Us is not a recording that allows the listener to switch off their critical faculties, but provides a continually moving target, and rewards their close attention with strange beauty whether or not they think they’re managing to follow it.Read the whole thing here.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
World reviewed on Hypnagogue
...The World Above Us makes the listener welcome from the start.I'm proud and happy to share Hypnagogue Reviews' take on the latest Paragaté release.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Transparent Day
"Transparent Day" Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty (August, 2012). On the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
Aliquis latet error
"Aliquis latet error" ("Trickery lies hidden") (sample) Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty (August, 2012).
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Canon in small prime tempos
"Canon in small prime tempos" (June, 2012). A second contribution to Marco Lucchi's 5-key piano project. This is more in line with the spirit of the original challenge; the piece uses only five adjacent chromatic notes (F through A). This strict tempo canon was likened by one listener to miniature Nancarrow.
Monday, June 4, 2012
On D
"On D" (June, 2012). For Marco Lucchi's 5-key piano project. All the sounds in this piece were drawn from a single sample, a piano sounding a D below middle C. (It's heard in the clear at the very beginning.) Using a sampling synthesizer called Iris, several dozen new sounds were created from this sample by drawing different patterns on its spectrogram.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Sway
"Sway" (sample) (August, 2012).
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
I don't specifically remember writing this piece. It was dug out of the sketch book months after it was originally made (it was probably a slightly-edited improvisation to begin with). I set out to work on it, but it would not be fiddled with, and I decided it was finished as it stood.
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
I don't specifically remember writing this piece. It was dug out of the sketch book months after it was originally made (it was probably a slightly-edited improvisation to begin with). I set out to work on it, but it would not be fiddled with, and I decided it was finished as it stood.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Rust Petals
"Rust Petals" (sample) (May, 2012).
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
A friend on SoundCloud described the sound of this piece as velvety, a great word for what I was going for here.
(Photo "Rust" © Wolfgang Zintl)
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
A friend on SoundCloud described the sound of this piece as velvety, a great word for what I was going for here.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Round Piano
"Round Piano" (sample) Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty (October, 2011).
Full track available on the album The World Above Us.
Full track available on the album The World Above Us.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Eye-Beam
"Eye-Beam" (sample) Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty (April, 2012).
This piece, "Eye-Beam", is probably one of the more sweet and straightforward Tim Risher and I have written together. The full track is available on the album The World Above Us.
(Photo "The Ring" © Asit Jain)
This piece, "Eye-Beam", is probably one of the more sweet and straightforward Tim Risher and I have written together. The full track is available on the album The World Above Us.
(Photo "The Ring" © Asit Jain)
Monday, April 9, 2012
Petrichor
"Petrichor" (sample) (April, 2012).
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
A simple piece for a gray morning. The sample in the last part of the piece was recorded by a big bush in the corner of my backyard. It was filled with little brown house wrens, singing their heads off.
The full track is available on the Paragaté album Spaceflight Pharmacology.
A simple piece for a gray morning. The sample in the last part of the piece was recorded by a big bush in the corner of my backyard. It was filled with little brown house wrens, singing their heads off.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Cork on the Waves
"Cork on the Waves" (sample) Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty (March, 2012).
A new version of a piece we originally recorded in the early 90s. Available on the album The World Above Us.
A new version of a piece we originally recorded in the early 90s. Available on the album The World Above Us.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Two pieces for Marco Lucchi
"Two pieces for Marco Lucchi" (March, 2012). Marco is another composer on the Auraltone Music label, and an on-line friend. He's recently composed several sets of pieces where one acoustic track (like a short piano piece) provides the source material for the others, which process the source electronically in different ways. I've had my own go at the same idea here.
Two pieces for Marco Lucchi - 1
Two pieces for Marco Lucchi - 2
Two pieces for Marco Lucchi - 1
Two pieces for Marco Lucchi - 2
Friday, March 9, 2012
Where to Find Food
"Where to Find Food" (sample) Tim Risher & Tom DePlonty (March, 2012).
Because calling it "My Life in the Bush of Rush" would have been, well, just gross. This track appears on the album The World Above Us.
Because calling it "My Life in the Bush of Rush" would have been, well, just gross. This track appears on the album The World Above Us.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Wheel
"Wheel" (sample), for sequenced pianos (February, 2012).
Sample of the full track, on the album The World Above Us.
Sample of the full track, on the album The World Above Us.
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About Me
- Tom DePlonty
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- I live near Boston, and compose mostly postminimal and ambient electronic music. I often collaborate with Tim Risher, as part of Tim's project Paragaté.
Music by me, Tim, and Paragaté can be found on the Camerata Music page.