Reblogged from brokensaint
Sound Fascination
A journal of musical explorations, improvisations and other adventures, by composer and multi-instrumentalist tobias tinker
My cousin shot this little vignette of me playing a bit of jazz on my grandfather’s piano - which was the one I grew up playing in my family home and is now at my parents’ place in Nova Scotia where I’m visiting. I had just finished a bit of an overhaul - tuning, cleaning, fixing stuck notes and minor registration issues… enjoy!
Broken Saints composer and all-around musical whiz TOBIAS TINKER gets a little bluesy/jazzy on his fam’s recently refurb’ed piano…
For me, it was music to cook by =)
metallic, tense and sinewy, with a bit of a groove sneaking in later on…
photo credit: kevin dooley
Rather lonely, windy, a bit sad perhaps… lots of chimes and swirls, in any case.
photo credit: sierragoddess
Something syrupy and sweet for Valentine’s Day (the name means ‘love’ in Greek)… dedicated to my one and only valentine, Athanasia
photo credit: LadyDragonflyCC
Dark and ambient, a hybrid of a number of complex sounds; kind of a meditation on the boundary between beauty and chaos.
photo credit: seyed mostafa zamani
My first track of 2012 and also the first after a long, busy hiatus when performing took most of my available energy. This one fuses some heavily effected bell-like textures, a synthesized drum pattern with some crazy buffer effects strewn about, and a physically modelled guitar type thingy. Yes, that’s the technical term.
photo credit: p-a-t-r-i-c-k
Something calm and soothing seemed appropriate somehow, in these troubled times. There are still some subtly unsettling resonances in there, however…
photo credit: Sergiu Bacioiu
Highly processed vocal samples, strange ambiences and giant gongs give this a dark, hypnotic feel. Digeridelicious!
photo credit: Ali Zeeshan Ijaz
Sometimes simplicity works best. Returning to a more ambient space, this is a one-pass improvisation on a gorgeous, complex synth patch, with a second low-end drone to give it some body. The result is cold, lonely, and lovely… (ever notice those two words are just one letter apart?)
Zmrzlina is the Czech word for ice cream, which I discovered on a recent trip to Prague. I love crazy fun words like that, and today being Canadian Thanksgiving I thought hey, why not give thanks for ice cream and crazy fun words from other languages?
photo credit: jenny downing
