k. a. bloom

Arrangement-Somebody to Love

Somebody To Love 

This piece began as what I took to be "a laid back elevator music version of Somebody to Love" the song written by Darby Slick, former bro-in-law of Grace Slick,  "first recorded by the 60's rock n roll band The Great Society" and Jefferson Airplane performed and recorded it later, and transformed it.  "Rolling Stone magazine ranked Jefferson Airplane's version No. 274 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."(wikipedia)

 

Yet, I didn't finish my arrangement by the deadline (Taxi A&R), and then made it not so laid back. I added some sort of grating elements imo, the vocals have always seemed to me to be glass-shatteringly intense and riveting and the lyrics both captivating and baffling. So I  beefed up to my hearts delight:) You gotta do what you gotta do...

Embeddable Objects

One of the pieces (out of 3) installed at the Video Party Show, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2009

video of four de-congruent squares

These four pieces are part of a series of nine video groups. To be projeced/displayed interactive/simultaneously (installation). Here, the movement of the squares were determined by a set of 100 drawings, random placements of drawings on consecutive animation pages

—footage via frame to frame and action scanning.
 
The sound was composed using a graphic score corresponding to the color and design of the image.
 
The formula allows basic elements of each separate piece to correspond so it is possible to play them separately or in concert or with any variation.
 
For future interactive installation, options to freeze action, print a frame, play individually, or simultaneously. Ideally another sound interwoven would be a random sampling of natural sound near the showplace (contact microphones/recording/audio feed)

color squares ＞ music

a grid of color squares. each color is pre-assigned a note value, octave and duration. the grid is laser-scanned several times using selective sets of compatible tunings. the output generates 6 voices each scan for which the sound is also set, but can be varied. these audio tracks are treated and mixed - le voila' - btw, the grid is 3D, what you see here is one flat view, 3D images showing depths and angles coming soon - 

to be continued w's.i.p. 

inside the box

Inside the Box could be characterized as "outside the box", a video animation done frame by frame the old fashioned way drawn with vectors though they may be, layered and overlapping photoshop in movie mode, very basic. The idea was imaginary holographic boxes and artworks in a museum setting. There are size/scale events like the figures looking at the exhibit, before you see them it looks quite different. When you see them, the art is larger. When the white line figures come in they aren't solid, when they walk back through going out they've materialized hpwever you notice they don't interact with the exhibit, either coming or going, That's just the way it is with perception. And you have to want to care. The art, the animation, the sound/music "Reaching the Summit" produced by K.A. Bloom 2015-2025

 

   

SCARLET RIBBONS

This is my attempt at a more polished version of Scarlet Ribbons.

 

The music of Scarlet Ribbons was written by Evelyn Danzig Levine (January 16, 1902 – July 26, 1996) and the words by her collaborator, Jack Segal (October 19, 1918 – February 10, 2005). Evelyn Danzig and I share the same birthdate, which I did not know when first inspired to do an electronic arrangement of Scarlet Ribbons.  

My A&R company sends daily listings of new calls-and often-times, there are calls for an original arrangement of some classical or public domain music. This was a great exercise in composition, because I didn’t write it- I had to treat it like my baby, working out the “meaning” of the melody. The experience gave great insights for original compositions.

meditation

composition and recording by kathi bloom

Bruno Oscar Klein ”Prelude to the Italian Suite”

Bruno Oscar Klein (6 June 1858 — 22 June 1911) was American composer and organist of German origin. He wrote a number of works for orchestra, some chamber music, church music, and a large number of songs.

transcribed, arranged, recorded by Kathi Bloom

chaosarabande

visual music based on a graphic score of 3x3 tiled squares and circles three times with 3 visually related 3-color spectrum(rgb) score base images, these image files were also used to compose the visual. experimenting at creating scores specifically for audio interpretation of visual signals or vice versa, finding that i can be very specific regarding the colors and shapes used to score the sound, and researching the various types of visual scores made and used by contemporary composers more info on this later....sit back, enjoy 3:02

white noise pattern music

the varieties of tones and timbres of 'white noise' composed in a musical score, with animated 'rorschach' imagery