Luka Prinčič: Technokinship – Octopoda (Sonoretum 2chan)
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Transport Layer Security EP
A braindance electronic music, with that distinctive emotional drama provided by layers of synths and glitches. At the core of these tracks stands an inspiration of exploring machinic polyrythms and how they can be used to blur the distinction of what is really inorganic, or not. Below, however, this distinction of natural organism is a false promise, a blind alley, a dead end. We – kitchen appliances, smartphones, cyborgs and humans – are all part of the same machinic phylum. Thinking of privacy, security, transparency in networked world, this EP flows its own melodies and stories, sometimes off-kilter runaway paths and poly-breakbeats, at other times dramatic pads and sustained basslines.
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network. Several versions of the protocol find widespread use in applications such as web browsing, email, instant messaging, and voice over IP. Websites can use TLS to secure all communications between their servers and web browsers.
supported by patrons via Patreon.
thanks to Miha, Črt, and Igor for feedback.
LISTEN/DOWNLOAD/BUY via Bandcamp: https://music.lukaprincic.si/album/transport-layer-security-ep
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Antigone/Child & The Mother (Act VII)
As you know, this month I worked with Matija Ferlin on his solo stage piece “Staging a Play: Antigone”. I decided to release a selection of music material that was made through that process. Since I worked mainly with SuperCollider (programming language for algorithmic composition and sound design) I also wanted to give out source code that helped shape that sound. I will be writing/recording about that process soon.
Now, here are the goodies:
Antigone soundtrack excerpt + june release
It’s been a crazy week or two. I’ve spent most of them in lovely little Istrian town that locals call Savičenta (but it’s officially Svetvinčenat / Sanvincenti) working on music with Matija Ferlin for his latest solo performance called Staging a Play: Antigone.
It was extremely inspirational and the work went smoothly and fast enough to arrive at final sonic composition with more satisfaction and confidence then when things get stressfuly complicated at the last minute.
I was inspired a lot by the original story by Sophocles, its permutations and stagings through time, but also by Matija and Goran Ferčec‘s way of approaching the text and decontructing it. I went looking for some kind of musical source material and found it in Michael Tippett‘s ‘A Child of Our Time‘, which was written in late 1930s and inspired by events surrounding a violent pogrom against Jewish population in Germany—called Kristallnacht.
The questions of humanity and ethics in the story of Antigone and the events that inspired Tippett drew an interesting and powerful connection across time and space for me. This lead me to a work process where sonic basis is taken exclusively from “A Child of Our Time” but then further processed and reworked into minimalistic but emotional ambiences to fit Ferlin’s ideas of “suspended states” and “frozen masks“.
After feeling this much confidence about this musical material and thinking a bit, I decided to release an mini-album or an EP by the end of this month based on the work that went down in last two weeks. There is still quite some work to do – I also have an idea to convert the music into SuperCollider patches and then offer these as an open source code for anyone to build upon.
But in the meantime, or as some kind of a “private studio visit exclusive to patrons“, in other words an early access, here’s a 18 minutes collage made from music recorded for the Ferlin’s solo “Staging a Play: Antigone” just for you.
Thank you for your support so far. Please tell your friends that you are a patron to the arts and that they can be too!
With gratitude,
Luka
PS: if you are in Ljubljana this weekend, warmly welcome to the Slovenian premiere of Matija Ferlin: Staging a Play: Antigona at Stara elektrarna.
Patreon update on Entropy EP
I wrote this update for my patrons on Patreon few days ago.
Ola dearest patrons!
Well, our April Goal turned into a May Goal. Which means I’m still working on these three tracks to finalize audio for Entropy EP, and I have moved the release date to 31st of May.
[early access] Floor video
almost there, almost albatross
Friends, I hope this update finds you well!
Where am I, where are we? Well, in all honesty, I’m on a summer vacation on the croatian seaside. It’s really lovely out here – a lot of sun, lots of swimming in the (very warm and clear) sea, staying in the house very close to the beach but still near the tiny forest with many birds – kinda overwhelmingly idilic. And … I have brought work with me. That’s not a very smart move, but I really wanted to finish the Albatross project – the EP and the video. And it goes hand in hand with a really strong desire of mine to pick up on speed via patronage using Patreon. Thus, my days are a mixture of swimming time with our dog in the mornings and evenings – when the sun is not scorchingly hot, then cooking tasty veggies, sometimes mussels and fish for friends and family, and sifting through video material, corresponding via email with my little helpers like an illustrator from Pittsburg, a designer from Zagreb and a mastering engineer from Ljubljana, and, uh, writing Patreon updates. :)
So, developments since last week:
Masters are done! Igor (good friend and awesome sound engineer and producer also known as BeatMyth) has uploaded finished mastered tracks and they sound great! At least on my poor old hi-fi here and a phone sound-box. I will be uploading them to Bandcamp tonight and he will prepare the CD-master which will go in duplication into a small run of about 50 CDRs.
I’m also at the end of (remote) creative process with the illustrator who is working on cover art. Our Kamizdat designer Tina Ivezić is ready (also in her summer [working] residency on the, yes, you guessed it, Croatian seaside!) to transform the illustration into finished design for the webcover and CD packaging.
I think the packaging if the CDR will be something special. It’s basicaly a simple wrap of the CD into a piece of a harder paper, but it’s done in a slightly more clever and rarely-seen way. Just wait for it.
And then the video, oh, the video! I’m so slow with getting it done, but it’s getting there. It’s getting there! I’m now on the crossroads to decide to edit it onto a faster, uptempo, longer and repetitive track (that was the idea until now), or on top of a shorter, but emotional and more dynamic one (seems like a better idea now). And this has to be finished very soon. It will be finished soon! Keep fingers crossed for me. :) You can see a short excerpt with very raw editing here above!
Until next week, which will be final update before the release and quite surely packed with some early access goodies!
Thank you for your support, friends & patrons!
BTW you do know that you can login into Patreon and like and comment on these updates? And you do know that you can also be notified and like and comment via Patreon mobile app without logins, do you?
Whale Ft Outtake
VideoŽurnal W48
Midst a lot of very urgent work, what does the serial procrastinator do? Creates something that is not THAT urgent to do. A videožurnal (video journal) episode, and posts it to his Patreon page!
I’ve read Amanda Palmer’s book The Art of Asking. You know she’s the most successful music artist on Patreon? Her book is a lot about her life, where’s she’s coming from and it becomes pretty clear how she ended up where she did. I have notes & quotes from reading it. And it is quite inspirational and up-to-date with exactly what’s happening now – you know: twitter, crowdfunding, kickstarter, patreon, relationship-based “economy/marketing” aka your fans are your friends etc. In this context I will reflect on this year by the end of the month too.
The end of november didn’t bring another music video/release, although I was planning it. I had a concept, I had a loose synopsis for the video, I had ideas for remixes/edits, but didn’t have anough time or stamina to push it through in time. I’m learning to accept the tempo I’m working in. And I’m happy for any cheers on this path, honestly!
Along with the plan of finding a way to conitiuously offer an insight to my studio & work, here comes another timelapse video-journal, backed-up with an older track from an album released in 2004 (Z. Spavatsky: d0).
Please enjoy. It’s a december gift to you, my friends.
žurnaldela W41Y2016
Last week or two were pretty intense work-wise. But most of things went through pretty smoothly, so I’m quite happy about it. A sense of achievement is somewhere around here…, present. And that’s good. Despite the cold.
For a while now I’ve been trying different things to find a way to update my patrons on the inner workings of what I create. You know, the “frequent studio updates”. When I quietly started Patreon campaign at the beginning of the year I had many ideas how to do these updates, and I shot and edited various videos, but mostly disliked them as somewhat inauthentic. ( Yes, we can discuss authenticity online, narcissism and all youtube-culture problems! :) )
However, today I’m happy to share with my patrons an issue of so called ‘work-journal’, mostly timelapse material edited with music and annotations. I stand behind it, it feels right. It feels honest. I hope it gives you a bit of a (week-long) view of my studio and different work environments I’m creating in: a club, a theatre hall, a studio.
The Making of Turns Me On video and EP
The writing below used to be a synopsis for a some kind of vlog progress report about how the Turns Me On video was made. To be honest, I recorded the talk but didn’t like it, but since it actually detailed in a brief way the process I converted it into a blog post.
The idea of this post is to give a peek at the behind the scenes ideas and mechanics that lead to the way the Turns Me On video turned out.
At the initial brainstorming the basic problem in that early stage seemed to be this question: does a video for a track about sexual excitement really needs hypersexualized images of women in any way? I really wanted to turn this stereotype on its head somehow and first had the idea to go to clothes shops with a friend, a young male actor, and take skirts, high heels, sexy tights and other women’s clothes, go to changing rooms and have another friend shoot him trying things on. But I was already getting late with finishing the main track, not to mention I wanted to make remixes and so on. So the video was on hold all this time as I was working on music and I felt I need a more flexible plan. And, you know, the need for flexibilty usually translates into kinda do-it-yourself quick guerilla work. At least with me.
