Whales in a Mechanical Ocean (2019). Originally composed for the 2018 STRATA New Music Festival, “Whales in a Mechanical Ocean” is an original album contribution by DGC producer/recording engineer Matt Baltrucki. The “mechanical ocean” is based on hundreds of digitally processed sound samples collected from the David L Kaplan Musical Instrument Collection at the University of Saskatchewan. The “oceanic sonic environment” is overlaid with “whale songs” created by Glen Gillis alto saxophone and the ubiquitous wailphone invented by James E Cunningham. All sonic environments are processed and realized through an IR of the Saflieni Mosque in Edirne, Turkey.
from
Sonic Eclipse,
released December 28, 2019
All songs (except #8) composed by Duo Gillis Cunningham (DGC) aka James E Cunningham b.1954, and Glen H Gillis b. 1956.
*Whales in a Mechanical Ocean, composed by Matthew M. Baltrucki b. 1986, feat. The DGC and recorded samples from the David L. Kaplan Musical Instrument Collection at the University of Saskatchewan Department of Music.
Glen Gillis: alto saxophone
James E Cunningham: didgeridoos, conch trumpet, wailphone, and select idiophones
Guest percussionists: Satnam Ramgotra and Matt Nichols
Produced by Matt Baltrucki and James E Cunningham
Engineering, mixing, mastering, and post-production by Matt Baltrucki
Assistant engineering by Zach Binder
Album artwork by Kelley Cunningham
Recorded at Studio A, Department of Music, Florida Atlantic University
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