Dave Seidel

Episodes

1. 18

   Six Bardos for Eliane Radigue (sample excerpt)

   This is a sample excerpt of my piece "Six Bardos for Eliane Radigue". Each performance is different, and the length is flexible (25 minutes to 1.5 hours or more) and promotes deep listening. This is a controlled feedback patch built from a series of pedals with an autoharp as a resonator -- no...

   Jul 6, 2026

   15m
2. 17

   A Furious Calm

   My version of a chaconne, an application of a bit of Henry Cowell's ideas for rhythm (as previously embodied in Leon Theremin's Rhythmicon). Written using a seven-note subset of a microtonal Meta-Slendro scale. This is my first published work to incorporate percussion (albeit synthesized or...

   Jun 30, 2025

   11m
3. 16

   Multinoise in-progress demo

   Demo of current setup, prepping for Wire Factory (Lowell, MA) show on June 7. The central devices are the Ciat-Lonbarde Clicker and the Ciat-Lonbarde Peterlin. There is some serious low-frequency content.

   May 28, 2025

   21m
4. 15

   IPA Vowels Morphagene Reel example

   A quick example using the first of three Morphagene reels I made using existing recordings of IPA phonemes. This one uses the vowels reel. The Morphagene is being manipulated by various Wogglebug outputs. A bit of the way through, I add delay processing with Mimeophon. Reverb: CXM 1978. The three...

   May 23, 2025

   2m
5. 14

   Fanfare (for the Common Tunicate)

   Nothing profound, just a quickie, inspired by my acquisition of the very cool Cascading Register from omiindustries (https://www.omiindustriies.com/cascading-register). That is what is generating the pitches in this generative piece. I used a scale I devised made from two six-note hexanies a…

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   Aug 6, 2022

   8m
6. 13

   A Swarm of Shepards (disquiet0508)

   See https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0508-germane-shepard/48968 Image:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Globular_Cluster_M10.jpg

   Sep 25, 2021

   9m
7. 12

   Ophanim Cycle 1

   A bit over three hours of slowly shifting chords, modulating between sonorities, part 1 of 6. This was originally conceived as a single VERY long track, but that proved to be impractical given Bandcamp's limits on file size. Perhaps it's better this way. I hope this music can provide some measure...

   Dec 8, 2020

   32m
8. 11

   Infinity Study

   I've recently discovered (at long last) the music of Danish composer Per Nørgård. He developed a compositional techniques based on what he called the "infinity series", which is a simple formula for developing a series of numbers based on an interval such as a minor second. The series takes the...

   Nov 1, 2020

   12m
9. 10

   Hexany Cycle

   or, "Thirty Way of looking at an Eikosany" (apologies to Wallace Stevens) A sequence of 30 unique but related six-note chords in a microtonal tuning. Each of the six notes is doubled with octave displacements, so there are actually twelve tones in each chord. For tuning geeks: these chords…

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   Oct 5, 2020

   8m
10. 9

    Ophanim Study

    A study in abstract microtonal sonorities. Please listen on headphones or good speakers. As Eleh says, volume reveals detail. Dedicated to Kraig Grady. Harmonics: modulation between four six-note hexanies with common tones, all derived from the same twenty-note eikosany. Sonics: modular synth,...

    Sep 12, 2020

    34m
11. 8

    Exoskeletal Retort (for J. Soliday)

    A quick one, the work of a Sunday afternoon, using my experimental system, which is built around the Make Noise Morphagene and has no oscillators or filters. All the sounds here originate as recordings of individual IPA phonemes, granulated and stretched by the Morphagene and further messed up in...

    Mar 15, 2020

    10m
12. 7

    (w)In(d)volution #1

    Live performance by David D. McIntire (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet), Michael Miller (bass clarinet, zwoom) and Dave Seidel (electronics) at Missouri Western State University, March 4, 2020. This performance is a collaboration created by McIntire and Miller improvising with my piece…

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    Mar 11, 2020

    44m
13. 6

    Gann's Anatomy

    An augmented sonification of Kyle Gann's Anatomy of an Octave (the extant condensed version with 580 pitches) in the form of a catalog piece. All 580 ratios are played against a 240Hz base pitch, one at a time from low to high with a duration of 7 seconds each, with additional chord tones derived...

    Feb 19, 2020

    1h 07m
14. 5

    Alkahest

    A piece for the Implication Organ, using the non-octave Bohlen A12 scale. Recorded as a single performance on 21 October 2018. In retrospect, my primary inspirations here were probably Catherine Christer Hennix and Boris. Download and/or purchase at https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/album/alkahest...

    Oct 22, 2018

    19m
15. 4

    Laura Palmer Eldritch (PVDLoopFest 2016)

    My set from the first night of Providence Y2K International Live Looping Festival (see http://www.pvdloop.org), at the AS220 main space, September 30, 2016. Live recording, includes a few sounds made by people in the vicinity of the recording device. I was playing electric bass with vibrator,...

    Oct 2, 2016

    15m
16. 3

    Under the dream temple

    Buddha Machine 3 (Chang Fang 禅房) with two drones and additional processing. Played and recorded in real time. Sound sources: - melody: Buddha Machine 3 (Chang Fang 禅房) - high drone: Nebulophone through DEP-2b - low drone: Chaos NAND Synth though Nose Swash Processing loop: Ring Modulator, MuRF,...

    Jun 9, 2016

    14m
17. 2

    The 1-3-5-7 Hexany Chord Catalogue (The 35 three-note chords possible in one octave) [disquiet0226]

    Disquiet Junto Project 0226: Bucky Ball Compose music for a fictional greatest-hits collection of the electronic music of R. Buckminster Fuller. More on the project here: http://disquiet.com/0226/ I was inspired by Tom Johnson's piece The Chord Catalogue (which consists of all possible chords in…

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    May 1, 2016

    5m
18. 1

    Nur

    This is the second track of the release "Prism, Mirror, Lens". For more information and downloads, please visit https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/album/prism-mirror-lens The x-ray crystallography image that accompanies this release was created by Dr. Thomas White / Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron...

    Aug 28, 2015

    12m
19. Dark Nebula

    Single-take improv using Nebulophone, Freq Box, Ring Modulator, Cluster Flux, DEP-2b, Deluxe Memory Man w/ Hazarai, Stereo Panneur, Boomerang III. Recorded direct from mixer to Zoom H5. Normalized and converted to MP3 in Audacity. No other post-processing, no edits. Image credit: By NASA, NOAO…

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    Aug 23, 2015

    17m
20. Imaginary Harmony - Part 1

    Part 1 of a two part generative piece written in Csound. For more information, and to download the entire album, please visit https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-harmony.

    Jul 5, 2015

    9m
21. Reactive Sepulchre [disquiet0178-sepulchrabells]

    My entry for Disquiet Junto 178. In this project, we were presented with a field recording of bells in Berlin, and directed to "[r]ework the source audio in a manner that reinforces the melodic component of the bells. Beyond that sole instruction, the choices are up to you." Process: 1. take a...

    May 30, 2015

    3m
22. Threefold Soliloquy

    This is an excerpt from an arbitrarily-long generative piece composed for an upcoming production of Samuel Beckett's "Play". Written in Csound, made out of sine waves (three groups of three). Update: There is a very nice write-up on this piece by Marc Weidenbaum at...

    May 16, 2015

    9m