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.
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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…
nwdl tracks: Ian Boddy
Here are two more nwdl tracks on soundcloud. These are both from well-known electronic composer, synthesist and sound designer Ian Boddy. Both “demos” feature Ian’s Serge modular analogue synth. Have a listen. http://soundcloud.com/ianboddy/serge-nwdlbots-01 http://soundcloud.com/ianboddy/serge-nwdlbots-02 Click here for Ian’s website.
nwdlbots at m4_u
I’m going to be giving a presentation on nwdlbots at the Max 4 Users convention to be held on January 13-14 2012 at Phoenix Square Arts and Digital Media Center in Leicester, UK. Also there will be David Zicarelli, Julien Bayle, Nick Rothwell and many others giving presentations, workshops and performances. Should be fun. m4_u convention website
nwdl tracks?
A few people around the web have started to post mp3 tracks showing what they’re doing with nwdlbots (pronounced noodlebots). I’m very interested to hear how different people are using the bots and would like to post links on this site so that others can hear them too. Please get in touch if you’ve got something. Here’s one track I found yesterday. It’s from … More…
nwdlbots tutorial 3: Chord Following
Here’s the third video tutorial for nwdlbots (pronounced noodlebots). This tutorial shows how to make Event Bots follow a sequence of chords. In this example, a single guitar bot “gets down with its bad self (so to speak)” by noodling over an 8-bar “jazz” rhythm pattern. Thus demonstrating that nwdlbots are not just for ambient music. This is the last tutorial for nwdlbots 0.1. … More…