Telharmonium... sort of

[pethu]

And now for something almost completely different:

This is the first of three pieces celebrating past experiments with future music technologies. (The other two are still just stored in my head as vague concepts.)

Here, the GG Audio Blue3 stands in for the sadly and completely lost Telharmonium - with hum, noise and crosstalk turned up a bit...! Some other archaic pre-war instruments also get a look-in, in the form of Soniccouture versions of Ondes Martenot and Novachord.

https://soundcloud.com/user1333790/04-telharmonium

[Jace-BeOS]

This is a pleasant and friendly tune. Kept me interested all the way through. What was the quiet bit just at the very end? Sounded like a few notes of a song bleeding through the “other side” of a tape (if this were playing from an old cassette).

[pethu]

This is a pleasant and friendly tune. Kept me interested all the way through. What was the quiet bit just at the very end? Sounded like a few notes of a song bleeding through the “other side” of a tape (if this were playing from an old cassette).

Hi, thanks for listening!

I guess the structure of the piece is the "Telharmonium machine" starting up, running for a while and then winding down and stopping -- so by the end only the bottommost layers of what was there all along still make a sound: Notably, some "farty" base notes from a well-worn string machine and Novachord... Oh, and the hum and noise from the Blue3 organ, which can be adjusted from "pristine" to "absolutely f-ing destroyed"!

[idSubmerged]

This tune makes me smile as it reminds me of old computer games music. Like how you experiment, I am getting constant surprises when listening. Cool.

~id Sub

[Allomerus]

Enjoyable music and a nice celebration of the old machines...
Well done!

[pethu]

Thank you very much! Stay tuned for part 2... Which will be much more of a challenge, since it will be a celebration of things not that much in line with my own natural preferences, as it were...