Olaf Schirm

New song "Phased Music for 32 Instruments"

I had long wanted to develop a piece of music about steve Reich's phase shift principle.
For this I wrote a MAX 7 for Live application (starting from the great Maxpatch by Akihiko Matsumoto),
which in Ableton Live generates a musical phrase from 12 tones as a continuous loop and a second, identical phrase initially time-synchronous,
delay each repetition.
As a result, the second phrase shifts continuously to the first and interesting rythmic structures emerge
as well as by overlaying the phrases also constantly other melody histories. A phrase shift to the next sound takes about 24 seconds.
The instruments play the first phrase and identical other instruments play the second phrase.
As instruments (a total of 32, all produced electronically) I use Grand Piano, Harp, Pizzikato Violin, Marimba, High and Deep Bells of various kinds and some synthetic choral and surface sounds.
Instruments were Ableton Live with Max, as well as Korg Karma for a few melodic and flat accents.
The piece is about 17'20'' long, during this time the phrases shift continuously and the variety of individual instruments
appear in groups and disappear again in order to reappear in a new grouping.

New song "Q-Chord"

This is a track dedicated to the Omnichord Music Instrument by Suzuki. I did use the Q-Chord, which was manufactured in 2001 to supply all data via Midi to a Prophet12. The idea of this song is to bridge the time between the Q-Chord and the Prophet12. No data was changed in any way, the song is generated by the Q-Chord which you can hear with its original voices in the beginning and a bit at the very end. The Midi stream has been devided into various channels and voices, many voices are then Prophet12 sound multilayered.
I hope you got the idea and enjoy the song!

New song "FAREWELL"

This is a song dedicated to Edgar Froese, founding member of Tangerine Dream, who died recently. The song is multitrack sequenced a lot, instruments used are mainly Prophet 12 and NI Reactor for the pads and sequences, Korg Karma for the leads, Ableton Studio DAW for the mix and drums. The song elements refer a bit to TD, Jarre and Schulze.

New song "Hang"

The second song this year is now ready. "Hang".
The title refers to the instrument Hang, which is produced in small series and handicraft.
It's a kind of upside-down steeldrum to play with your fingers.

I did it about a year ago. discovered a year and am fascinated by the sound spectrum.

I was all the happier when I discovered a soundpack for Ableton with sampled sounds of the slope.

I developed a piece of about 10 minutes, which was created in Ableton Studio, with sampled slope and wind instruments,

as well as pads and sounds from Korg Karma, Prophet 12 and NI Reactor

Click here to go to the song