Music by Charles Céleste HUTCHINS

Music by Charles Céleste HUTCHINS

New Electronic and Acoustic Sounds

  1. 12/26/2024

    First Night

    https://www.berkeleynoise.com/celesteh/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/FirstNight.mp3Every night of Hanukkah, one more candle is lit than the previous night. This piece, for the first night, is about that one candle burning – one long drone, one sound, changing but constant. This piece was made in SuperCollider. It is made up of 180 sine waves, each starting at one note in the […]

    7 min

  2. 11/16/2024

    Shorts #44: November 2024

    This piece titled by Sonia Elks. Artistic feedback from Paula Gazzard. There’s a principle in psychoacoustics called “stream segregation”. When you listen to somebody playing a lot of notes on the piano, but there’s a clear melody, this is because your brain groups some of the notes together. It “segregates” “streams” of notes by pitch. […]

    1 min

  3. 01/17/2024

    A Slippery Place

    This piece was written for Lev Taylor. When trying to pick a religious name, I raised the idea of “Glitch” with my rabbi, who was initially nonplussed. In Yiddish, it means a mistake or a slip up. It’s in English that it’s come to mean a voltage spike and to go on to name a […]

    1 min

  4. 02/01/2023

    Shorts #42: Lacewing

    This piece was commissioned and titled by Tim Walters. This piece has two instruments – one uses the Ringz Ugen in SuperCollider and the other is a Sine wave which is phase modulated by another sine wave where both are tuned to the same frequency. It is in harmonic minor, tuned with the default just […]

    1 min

  5. 08/16/2022

    Shorts #41: Catalyst

    This piece was commissioned and titled by Andy Bannister. Explaining why he picked this title, he said, “My thought process for this, is that the first half sounds like a catalyst for a reaction towards the latter half which could also be interpreted the sound of a substance or object changing state, like liquid to […]

    1 min

  6. 09/17/2021

    Glass

    This piece was composed using SuperCollider and a synthesiser for Irene’s birthday. It was presented as a part of an installation at the Rupture Gaming Festival in Kent. The source material is recorded with an analogue modular synthesiser. The SuperCollider program takes that material and granulates it, dramatically changing the playback speed.

    1 min

  7. 03/06/2021

    Sawtooth Minimalism

    My colleague, Jackie Walduck, was showing students how to create phase music by putting loops out of synch in a DAW. Then I went home from teaching and created a PD patch to play low-pass filtered sawtooth waves, as an example for a different class. I got curious how much easier it would be in […]

    7 min

  8. 01/06/2019

    The Last Christmas: III Misterioso

    As per holiday tradition, I have again produced a Christmas album, although only an EP this year – or a virtual chamber ensemble playing once piece in five movements. This movement is the odd one out, using the same MIDI data for pitch and rhythm as the other movements use. The only sound used, however, […]

    3 min
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