Welcome to Sunday Dance Music, an independent record company based in North Wales UK. The current aim of Sunday Dance is to promote and distribute the music of English composer and musician, Richard Garrett.
Sunday Dance is also home to nwdlbots (pronounced noodlebots), a suite of generative music devices for Ableton Live, available for download on this site.
Richard
nwdlbot group on Soundcloud
I’ve just added a group to SoundCloud called nwdlbots pronounced “noodlebots” so that people using the bots in their music can put files up and hear what others are doing. If you have anything you would like to share or you just want to listen, please go to: https://soundcloud.com/groups/nwdlbots-pronounced-noodlebots
Chord Sender trick on Live 9
I recently got a copy of Live 9 and realised that Ableton introduced some new functionality that is of great use to nwdlbots. You can now apply automation envelopes to control parameters from within clips. This offers the possibility of using the envelope view in a chord sender track to set the chord types while still using pitch values to set the root note … More…
SundayDance on Soundcloud
I’ve recently put some music up on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/sundaydance). I’m mostly going to use it as a platform for stereo mixes of the electroacoustic stuff I’m doing at Bangor, but it will also be a repository for some back catalogue and maybe a few gems from the vault. There are a few nwdlbot examples which I will incorporate into this site some time soon. … More…
Risk of Shock 21/06/12
My first acousmatic piece, entitled “The Kitchen Sink” will be played in thrilling 8-channel surround at the Risk of Shock/ Pergyl o Sioc performance in Neuadd John Phillips Hall, Prifysgol Bangor University on 21st June. There will also be music by Rob Mackay, Sioned Eleri Roberts, Ed Wright, Roy Woods, Pelydrau and more. The performance starts at 7:30 pm and entry is free.
more nwdl tracks
More tracks online made with nwdlbots. First there’s nwdlbient parts 1 – 3 by (the) 99942 from d4management in St. Petersburg . Three albums, totalling 30 tracks on soundcloud. I’ve just started listening to them and there’s some interesting stuff. http://soundcloud.com/d4management/sets Then there’s some tracks by Ben Glawe’s Conflict of Confidence project of which he says “All but track #4 are essentially exercises in … More…