Jopy 
Jopy is a collaborative that was formed in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Jopy music is produced by cutting and pasting processed field recordings, vocal samples, hand percussion, children's toy instruments, flutes, synthesizers, guitars, and electric bass. Some of the music uses algorithmic software processes, but there is human aesthetic control being exercised at all times.
Jopy music typically starts as either a looped audio sample or a chord progression that was worked out on piano or guitar. Electronic audio processing is then used to scramble up these recognizable music elements, and more audio is layered on top of this to make the formal construction even harder to detect.
So the end product is traditional musical motifs and ideas, as heard through a watery haze. The goal is to create an atmosphere or aural texture which isn't heard in terms of discrete melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic processes. One of the main challenges is creating contrasts and movement while keeping the more traditional "representational" musical figures at the level of the preconscious.
In an ideal world, Jopy music arrives subliminally for the listener, in the moment when they are preoccupied doing something else and suddenly hear something in a piece that sounds new and interesting that they hadn't expected to hear or in the form of an emergent process that they hadn't seen unfolding.
Jopy music is produced by cutting and pasting processed field recordings, vocal samples, hand percussion, children's toy instruments, flutes, synthesizers, guitars, and electric bass. Some of the music uses algorithmic software processes, but there is human aesthetic control being exercised at all times.
Jopy music typically starts as either a looped audio sample or a chord progression that was worked out on piano or guitar. Electronic audio processing is then used to scramble up these recognizable music elements, and more audio is layered on top of this to make the formal construction even harder to detect.
So the end product is traditional musical motifs and ideas, as heard through a watery haze. The goal is to create an atmosphere or aural texture which isn't heard in terms of discrete melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic processes. One of the main challenges is creating contrasts and movement while keeping the more traditional "representational" musical figures at the level of the preconscious.
In an ideal world, Jopy music arrives subliminally for the listener, in the moment when they are preoccupied doing something else and suddenly hear something in a piece that sounds new and interesting that they hadn't expected to hear or in the form of an emergent process that they hadn't seen unfolding.
Releases by Jopy on Zenapolæ
Release date: 11.05.2008
electronic folk music for the hypnagogic mind
1. momeraths
2. backyard barbeque 1
3. ggm
4. fleisch
5. disintegrated development
6. sovieso
7. dub for blaine minnesota
8. western sickness
9. deus ex machina
10. pno
11. given
12. jovian system
13. backyard barbeque 2
14. the rainy season
Full Downloads
zen057.zip (complete album with artwork)
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Copyright (c) 2008 by Jopy. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Release date: 07.08.2008
| Title | Artist(s) | Download |
|---|---|---|
| The Locust Laments | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Anime | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Between the Rails | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Aurora Borealis | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Rime Frost | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Abandoned Bookseller | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Nauseated | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Human Beings | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Glass Cages | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Last season's harvest | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
Full Downloads
zen046.zip (complete album with artwork)
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Copyright (c) 2008 by Jopy. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Release date: 07.08.2007
| Title | Artist(s) | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Sati-Sambojjhanga | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Piti | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Dhammavicaya | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Viriya | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Upekkha | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Samadhi | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
| Passadhi | Jopy | Download file (Save as) |
Full Downloads
zen043.zip (complete album with artwork)
Update RequiredTo play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Copyright (c) 2007 by Jopy. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
