Franklyn Monk's Dronecast: Recent Episodes
Franklyn Monk
For Anna (previously titled Murder She Called It) is an immersive sound sculpture, born from a deeply personal journey through therapy. Inspired by a breakthrough session with my therapist, Anna, this piece explores what it means to confront oneself in the void, where guilt and forgiveness battle in silence.
This soundscape captures the raw tension of self-reconciliation. Ethereal vocals, haunting drones, and fragmented textures echo the themes of violence, vulnerability, and the cold, honest work of inner survival. As each layer unfolds, it draws the listener closer to that critical moment of confrontation—the meeting with the self, in all its complexity.
Dedicated to Anna, who guided me to face these emotions head-on, For Anna is an exploration of what it means to survive one’s inner turmoil and begin the process of self-forgiveness.
Thank you for listening, and I invite you to reflect on your own journey within.
DESC: “For Anna” is an immersive sound sculpture inspired by Monk’s therapy journey, particularly a breakthrough session with their therapist, Anna. It explores themes like self-reconciliation, guilt, forgiveness, and inner survival through ethereal vocals, haunting drones, and layered textures, capturing the essence of confronting one’s inner self.
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 133
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2024
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: Ambient, Confrontation, DarkAmbient, Experimental, ForAnna, GuiltAndForgiveness, Healing, InnerConflict, Introspective, MentalHealth, SelfForgiveness, SoundArt, SoundSculpture, Suicide, SurvivorsGuilt, TherapyInspired
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TITLE: The Long March
DESCR: A day in the life of an artist…
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 132
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2024
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: ambient, drone, noise, sound sculpture, study, meditative, anxious, chill
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The onslaught of the longest part of the day. A sequel to the forthcoming Long March.
FROM: Dronescapes
RELEASE: 131
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2024
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: ambient, drone, dronescape, meditative, no_131, relentless, punctuated, sound sculpture, study
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A soundscape of flowing drones. Your guides are angels and snakes, the path is lined with twinkling bells and lanterns.
Dronescape No. 130
GENRE: Binaural Ambient
YEAR: 2024
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: ambient, drone, dreamscape, dronescape, 130, angels, snakes, divine, chill, relaxing, wisdom, growth, courage, binaural
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The January Protocol is repetitive. Tonic cycles within cycles, but subtly chaotic, like all Januaries, it’s relentlessly hypnotic in its madness.
Dronescape Numbered 129, from 2024
TAGS: ambient, experimental, ethereal, techno, sci-fi soundtrack
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A study of the discontinuity between the inner self and consensus reality in the form of an experimental field-recording featuring cycling paired with ambient digital signal processing
COLL: Dronescapes
TRACK: 128
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2024
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: experimental, field-recording, ambient, music, cycling, displacement, fragmented, inner self, fractured, consensus, reality, refraction, dsp, dronescape, no_128
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TITLE: A Meditation on Compassion
DESCR: An electro-ambient meditation on compassion.
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 127
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2023
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: meditation, experimental, ambient, compassion, music, dronescape, no_127
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Long-form ambient dronemusic soundscape with binaural tones weaving over a bassy drone.
TITLE: Cuckoo
DESCR: Long-form ambient dronemusic soundscape with binaural tones weaving over a bassy drone.
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 126
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2023
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: ambient, binaural, bipolar, drone, dronemusic, exploitation, freeloader, manipulation, monk, oscillators, relationships, soundscape, subsidizing
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An upbeat energetic industrial/noise track to keep you moving.
TITLE: Crazy For You
DESCR: An energetic industrial/noise track for cycling, cleaning, working out, or running around.
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 125
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2023
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: ambient, desire, dronemusic, dronescape, fieldrecording, industrial, life, love, lust, noise, percussive, sculpted, soundscape, want, yearning, no_125
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Here is some noise shaped with a dynamics envelope. It turned out quite percussive. It was a month of madness and anxiety and hurt, with then there was this track, in the background, taunting me from the shadows.
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 124
GENRE: Dronescape
LENGTH: 17:52
YEAR: 2023
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: No-124, ambient, soundscape, experimental, percussive, Number_Six, cursed, Dronescape, Monk
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TITLE: Brain Swirls
DESCR: The journey continues, in this act we are teased with the truth and tested in our resolve. Will we emerge victorious, or will we burn our world completely?
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 123
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2023
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: brainSwirls, ambient, dronescape, soundscape, dronecast, no-123, monk, field-recording, ambient, dronescape, sculpture, study, meditation
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Some days I ruminate on it all ending. Like, just can’t it be over yet? Other days I’m happy to be alive. Currently I’m worried about a friend, and I don’t know if I’ll be able to function until I know if they’re OK. Please be OK.
ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 120 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2023 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dreams, experimental, generative, glitch, hypnotic, long-form, meditative, minimalistic, nightmare, noise, sound design, soundscape, soliton, standing wave, textured, unrealized, 120, dronescape, dronecast, monk URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Cosmic Overload: Noise from the Abyss
DESCR: A sonic exploration of cognitive overload, like when you get too much bad news at once and everything drowns in noise.
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 119
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2023
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: Ambient, Binaural, Cosmic, Deep Listening, Drone, Evocative, Evolving Textures, Experimental, Generative, Hypnotic, Long-form, Meditative, Minimalistic, Noise, Reflective, Sensory Overload, Sensory Overload, Sonic Exploration, Sound Design, Soundscape, Theory of Mind
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TITLE: Bedraggled
DESCR: A generative ambient piece that explores the liminal spaces between the click track.
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 118
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2023
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: 118, generative, ambient, strangerThings, alarm, disarming, charming
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TITLE: Monk’s Trifecta, Trifecta!
DESCR: An effected soundscape from an affected mind in North Central Texas, Denton to be exact. I’m in love with you, btw
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 117
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2023
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: 117, ambient, chill, denton, drone, dronescape, effected, field-recordings, meditation, monk, noise, soothing, sound sculpture, soundscape, study, urban
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A binaural tonal piece in which nine pure tones are randomly played back in packs of three.
Dronescape No. 116, 2022
TAGS: binaural, tonal, ambient, random, generated
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The Magic Door
A long percussive yet soothing generative ambient piece.
Dronescapes 115, 2022
TAGS: 115, alien, ambient, banger, conversation, dronescape, english, experimental, foreign language, generative, granular, percussive, russian, soundscape
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Thirty minutes from inside a ramshackle shed on a damp December afternoon in a North Texas city.
Dronescape 114, 2022
TAGS: afternoon, ambient, drone, dronescape, experimental, field recording, soundscape, north texas, shed, urban, vocals, monologue
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Shaped noise for studying, meditating, or chilling. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 113 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 TAGS: ambient, drone, noise, soothing, sound sculpture, study, meditation, chill URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs | Source Images | Gallery LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
A spooky transmission from an otherworldly plane cuts through your nightly ritual. FROM: Dronescapes TRACK: 112 GENRE: ambient YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: spooky, ambient, noise, drone, generated, soundscape, sound sculpture, supernatural, communications, meditative, ritual, 112, field recording, urban, night, fall, crickets, sirens URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Make a Deal with the Devil DESCR: High energy track created from dripping water from a recent leak ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 111 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: percussive, ambient, click, drip, generative URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Mena, Arkansas DESCR: Field recording Mena, Arkansas (Summer 2022) ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 110 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: animals, Arkansas, automobiles, birds, field-recording, insects, Mena, nature sounds, summer, night-life, planes, soundscape, trains, twilight, wind, 2022 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
A glitchy little spoken-word experiment I did with some new plugins. TRACK: 109 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, spoken-word, glitch URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Dandelion DESCR: Generative ambient tumble through punctuated consciousness ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 108 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, dronescape, monk, stem URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
The third life is born from despair and ends in wisdom Dronescapes 107 YEAR: 2022 TAGS: ambient, drone, speculative, layered, 107, dronescape URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Candy Flip DESCR: A relaxing foray into shifting dimensions. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 106 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, generative, Soundscape, electronic, synthetic, dronescape, dronecast, 106 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Foley in the Rain DESCR: Organic rain and synthetic winds with effects. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 105 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, rain, wind, synthetic, organic, sound design, field recording, dronescape, 105 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Spring is just in sight of our scanners, but this is as close as we're likely to get, being on a parallel course, an all. Ah well, would've been grand. Dronescape 104 YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: noise, glitch, drone, ambient, blends, binaural, subtle, sculpted, sound-design, fx, generated, random, lateral, parallel, cyclic, spring, dronescape, 104 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Firmament DESCR: It's a tightrope, this filament that connects us together, and with the universe. It must remain taut, but flexible, but when it does snap, that's when the adventure begins. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 103 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, glitch, noise, synchronicity, temporal collaspe URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Inspired by fast radio bursts and space operas. Dronescape #102 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, noise, voices, abstract, soundscape, future, experimental URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Five channel recording of the central heat constantly turning on and off because roommates can't keep their mitts off it. I filtered out everything but the electrical hum, and mutilated it. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 101 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, noise, electrical hum, drone, h2n, reaper, ffpmeg, avectorscope, resolve URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: My Noisy World DESCR: A recording of an urban neighborhood street in North Texas. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 100 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, soundscape, cityscape, urban, residential, neighborhood, street life, dronescape, 100, spatial, stereo, earbuds, noise URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Noise Star: Grinding for Life DESCR: You do what you havta ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 98 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB : Quasigentsia TAGS: Experimental, ambient, soundscape, dronecore, dronescape URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Tornado Alley DESCR: My 97th Dronescape is an ambient soundscape featuring field-recordings, and percussive drones. A creation so intense it drove me to the brink and my friends even further. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 97 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, soundscape, fieldrecording, percussive, drone, dronescape, 97 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Generative Jiggies Dronescape no. 96 YEAR: 2021 TAGS: ambient, soundart, experimental, drone, generative, dronescape, 96 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Courting the Continuum DESCR: Like all relationships the continuum thrives beneath chaos. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 95 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dronescape, experimental, generative, narrative, noise, relationships, rhythmic, static, tempo, 95 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
The spiritual successor to The Drone of Heaven with percussive elements joining in the fun. From: Dronescapes GENRE: Ambient YEAR: 2021 TAGS: generative, ambient, drone, percussive, the forge of heaven, 94 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Getting back to my roots with this pure drone piece.
TITLE: The Drone of Heaven ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 93 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: pure, roots, drone, 93 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
August nights in North Texas. Cicadas sing, and humans lurk beneath summer's shroud. EP: 92 ALBUM: Dronescapes GENRE: Field Recordings YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: industrial, drone, noise, groove, field-recordings, urban, soundscape, monotonous, summer, 92, low effort URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: UFO DESCR: Sculpted static and noise. No instruments, or cows, were harmed during this production. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 91 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: abstract, ambient, drone, dronescape, generative, sci-fi, sculpted sound, soundscape, speculative, static, 91 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Early Summer Recordings DESCR: Meditations on a succulent ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 90 GENRE: Ambient, fieldrecording YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, noise, soundscape, synthetic, natural, fieldrecording, 90, dronescapes URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Parameter's Lost Children DESCR: Part 3 of Hotline — The final installment of my Hotline series of abstract soundscapes which explores a science fiction future, inspired by Varley's Eight Worlds series. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 89 GENRE: Drone, Speculative Soundscape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: abstract, speculative, soundscape, Eight Worlds, Varley, dronescape, generative, sci-fi, ambient, drone, 89 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Agents are required to complete an immersive training module at the end of each mission.
MAINTAINING ALLEGORICAL READINESS
Deep Learn Level 2 Supplemental Packs Series 3 Cart 1 Siphon 12 Distributed by Quasigentsia DLS3C1-88_SPN-12
ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 88 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: Deep Learn, immersive learning, quasigentsia, training, science fiction, 88, dronescape, speculative audio URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Outpost DESCR: Night shift on a long-haul asteroid ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 87 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: post-industrial, soundscape, Space Opera, drone, generated, monk, 87 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Delay Lines DESCR: A click track is sent through multiple delays ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 86 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: percussive, generative, delay, single-source, click track, 86, monk, dronescape URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Binaural Escape: Winter Meditation DESCR: Created by routing two binaural tone generators through a series of modulators and effects. Mixed and mastered over a week of roving brownouts, and water shortages. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 85 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, experimental, generated, binaural, monk, music, 85, hypnotic, immersive, focus, dream URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: The Half-Mown Hill DESCR: Full range drone from an audio sample of Houseman’s Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree, interwoven with synths triggered from the same. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 84 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, experimental, monk, music, 84, maverick URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Outer Edges DESCR: An urban soundscape is transformed into calming purgatory ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 83 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: dronescapes, field-recording, monk, traffic, transform, urban, 83 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Audzox: The Fifteenth Adjudication DESCR: Smooth drone for your meditative needs ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 82 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dronescape, generative, monk, soothing, meditative, 82 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Dodie's Folly DESCR: Glitch noise produced from found video ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 81 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dronescape, experimental, glitch, found audio, found video, monk, noise, 81 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Loneshoreman DESCR: Found a twenty second, 150 px wide, video clip in my browser cache and stretched it to 1000 seconds, and added effects. For the soundtrack I snagged 24 equally spaced frames, converted those images to audio, stitched them together, and worked on it until I grew weary. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 80 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dronescape, experimental, generated, audio from image, soundscape, monk, 80 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Lingering Present DESCR: Longform soundscape ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 79 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dronescape, eternal now, longform, monk, soundscape, timelessness, 79, 4:3, 30fps, 1440x1080 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: SoundCloud | Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Lonesome Valley DESCR: Part 3 of Final Breath. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 78 GENRE: Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 78, ambient, drone, dronescape, field-recordings, monk, soundscape, Final Breath URL: Persistent MIRRORS: SoundCloud | Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Dead Man Walking DESCR: Pane 2 of the Final Breath triptych ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 77 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, apocalyptic, drone, dronescape, experimental, final breath, generated, gritty, monk, noir, part 2, retro, sinister, soundscape, triptych, ufo, 77 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: SoundCloud | Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Executioner's Song DESCR: The soundtrack of a sinister world. One reviewer described it as “That's some videodrome wet carnal nightmare. If I had more than a 3 hour old buzz, I don't think I coulda handled it. There were mirrored images of bodies merging into themselves that are straight out my 7 year old nightmares.” ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 76 GENRE: Soundscape YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, apocalyptical, drone, dronescape, experimental, gritty, monk, noir, retro, sinister, soundscape, ufo, 76, Reaper, Magic Music Visuals URL: Persistent MIRRORS: SoundCloud | Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Honeydew Avocado DESCR: Drones and percussion ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 75 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, soundscape, 75, monk, disruption, punctuated, equilibrium, generated, long URL: Persistent MIRRORS: SoundCloud | Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
My first long form diversion into percussion. There's some good parts, but overall, it's Broadly Crappy. I was floundering—mastering while arranging, while composing—by the time I got to the end I didn't have enough stems to master. I'd've'd to drop back several gens and rebuild from there. Just don't have it in me. I'll take my lessons to the next project.
TITLE: Broadly Crappy DESCR: Working with percussion ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 74 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: generated, percussion, reaper, experimental, ambient, drone, monk, dronecast, 74 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | Archive Video 2 | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
I'm intrigued by randomness. I wonder how random a system can be to be confused with intent. Isles of the Blessed is highly random. I sat up a couple random biurnal oscillators and let em run for a bit. Translated that into midi, randomized velocity and timing and ran them through some instruments. It might be confused for an intentional, and shitty, composition, but nothing was purposeful.
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TITLE: Isles of the Blessed DESCR: The wonders of our existence ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 73 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: generated, drone, midi, Reaper, spitfire, galaxy, galaxies, mythology, creation, eternity, everything, Monk, drone, sustained, drone, BBC symphony Orchestra, Spitfire Audio, greek, existence, 73, dronecast, dronescapes, Hubble URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Absolution Gap DESCR: My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with fully generated audio tracks. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 72 GENRE: Drone, Ambient, Field-Recording YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 72, ambient, cyclemeter, cycling, drone, dronescape, electronic, experimental, field recording, monk, music, music video, reaper, recording, soundscape URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
I'm exceptionally proud of this one.
TITLE: In Your Backyard DESCR: It's the end of days in your backyard, on a night, just before Summer, 2020. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 71 GENRE: Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, experimental, electronic, bluetooth, recording, field recording, soundscape, 71, monk, dronescape, pride, Reaper, Magic Music Visuals, DaVinci Resolve URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Cetus DESCR: Somewhere… deep in the sky, there's a river that feeds into an ocean. This is where the Cetus roams. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 70 GENRE: Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 70, ambient, cetus, cosmic, drone, monk, whale, whalesong URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Range 5 DESCR: Five binaural frequency sweeps, interlaced with virtual instruments playing midified transforms of same ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 69 GENRE: Percussive, Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: experimental, ambient, monk, 69, dronescape, percussive, drone, visualization URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Black Magic DESCR: None ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 68 GENRE: Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: spokenword, ambient, video, art, animation, drone, 68, reaper, resolve, magic, magicMusicVisuals URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Mere Survival DESCR: Grinding through isolation ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 67 GENRE: Drone, Spokenword YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, soundscape, 67, monk, survival, 2020 isolation, spokenword URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Thunderstorm Doodle DESCR: A simulacrum of a thunderstorm. A small project while I gear up emotionally to take on another big one. Just doodling around in my DAW, there's some crazy shit going on there. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 66 GENRE: Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: thunderstorm, doodle, rain, simulated,ambient, synthetic, play, simulacrum URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Equanimity DESCR: This has been hanging out on my harddrive while I composed a poem for it. The poem never happened. It took me two months to realize that a poem would cheapen the art. ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 65 GENRE: Drone, synth YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, 65, monk, synth, step sequencer, anti-word URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
This one comes before 2020, it was just a one off experiment using Devious Machines Texture to randomly play grains of 20 to 2000 ms +/- 20% of a voice memo. YouTube kept blocking it for violations of community guidelines, but eventually brought it back upon appeal. I think it was possibly because the visualization looked like a coronavirus, as the automated transcript contains nothing objectionable. But who knows what automated agents think.
Since it's already done, and up, I might as well push it to my podcast feed.
TITLE: Unquiet Mind DESCR: Grains from a voice recording after an eternity in isolation. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 64 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: isolation, drone, 64, monk, spokenword, granular URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
This was a speed run. Conceived, recorded, cleaned up, and videofied in less than 24 hours. Probably no more than 12 hours actual working time.
I don’t have a mic, so I recorded on my phone. Cleaning up that mess is hellish, or else I would’ve recorded the repeating phrases separately instead of cutting up the full audio. The next thing like this I do, I will, but it’ll take forever.
TITLE: Rattlesnake DESCR: "The final Apocalypse is when every man sees what he sees, feels what he feels, and hears what he hears." Willliam S. Burroughs ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 63 GENRE: Drone, spoken word YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 2020, drone, 63, monk, spokenword, glitch, voice URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
A series of voice memos recorded in the first quarter of 2020, piled on top of each other, over a drone track.
TITLE: 2020 DESCR: A series of voice memos recorded in the first quarter of 2020, stacked on top of each other, over a drone track. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 62 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 2020, drone, 62, monk, spokenword URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Before going into isolation, 3 weeks ago, a friend warned me to not act to rashly—to think about job, life, etc. This was my response.
Unsure if I would change it if I could.
TITLE: Avulsion DESCR: In sedimentary geology and fluvial geomorphology, avulsion is the rapid abandonment of a river channel and the formation of a new river channel. In real property law, avulsion refers to a sudden loss of land, which results from the action of water. It differs from accretion, which describes a gradual addition to land resulting from the action of water. ~Wikipedia ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 61 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, soundscape, 61, monk, disruption, punctuated equilibrium URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Splendor DESCR: A click track fed through two sequencers, and a volley of effects. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 60 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dronecast, dronescapes, monk ART: Covers URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Stumbled across a lost and forgotten audio project from five years ago. It was active between December 23 and 26 2014.
I can find little information about it, but there are no links to other projects. I'm unsure if I ever posted it, or if it was ever incorporated into another project, but it seems self-contained, and complete. I mighta well push it now. I slammed this video together from photos I had laying around.
I want to start the video over from the beginning. I learned a lot in making this one, it could be so much better. But I'm exhausted of it at this point, I'll apply the lessons I've learned to upcomming projects.
TITLE: Spooky Forest DESCR: Take an adventure into a spooky forest ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 59 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2019 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: abandoned, ambient, drone, dronecast, dronescapes, field-recording, monk, monkey, monkey calls, nature ART: Covers URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Rollout DESCR: Immeasurable and Undefined ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronescape TRACK: 58 GENRE: Undefined YEAR: 2019 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: Drone, Monk, 5, Dronescape, Ambient, Soundscape Electronic, Experimental ART: Covers URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
A tritone sine wave is duplicated, phase inverted, and offset from the original at 1 ms per quarter note. The result is converted to MIDI twice with slightly different parameters for each. These MIDIs are played through the same virtual instrument. The four tracks are stitched together in reverse creation order.
TITLE: Sacrilegious K: The Traitor DESCR: Destructive interference of tritone sine wave ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronescape TRACK: 57 GENRE: Drone, Ambient, YEAR: 2019 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: disturbed, betrayal, evil, crazy, horrible, lying ass, cunt, bitch, fuck!, aargh!, wrong, corrupt, stupid, mean, Drone, MIDI, math, destructive interference, Monk, 57, Dronescape, Dronecast, comrade, Ambient, Soundscape, tritone, sine wave URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
It's taken me over a year to release this one. I worked on it on and off from May 2018 to October 2019. The video clips are from June and December 2017. I ran into a paradox of choice. I had too many titles, and too many versions to choose from, and froze. In coming back to it I decided to just release the last file that was tagged and touched. That was easy, wish I'd thought of that before.
TITLE: Kozai Mechanism DESCR: Shit gets sticky with third-wheels ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronescape TRACK: 56 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient, Field-Recordings YEAR: 2019 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: field recordings, rural, urban, rain, day, birds, cat, gravity, third-body, Ambient, Drone, dronescape, Soundscape, 56, Slog, SlowRain, Omnibenevolence, KozainRain, subtle, warp URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Mandala DESCR: Field-recordings. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 55 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient YEAR: 2019 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: field recordings, urban, park, rain, night, insects, water, ducks, traffic, voice, Ambient, Drone, dronescape, Soundscape, 55 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
All my recordings are infested with cicadas. So fuck it, I made a track incorporating the damn things instead of trying to cancel them out. Everything you hear here was seeded from the same 3-ish minute clip of cicadas.
TITLE: The Dark Faerie Will Eat Your Soul DESCR: All cicadas, all the time. And, also, a love story, that ended badly. Beware, she will destroy you. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 54 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient YEAR: 2019 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: Ambient, cicadas, Drone, dronescape, field-recordings, Soundscape, 54 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
A generated 220 hz tone is modulated with a 1 hz right sawtooth wave (to get sharp transients), and sent through a series of layered delays. MIDI notes are generated from that, randomized and sent through a chord generator, quantized to 128ths, and finally sent through a bass synth.
TITLE: Bass Practice DESCR: A bass backing track I conjured up for an upcoming project. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 53 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient YEAR: 2019 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 220 hz, 53, backing track, bass, generated, midi, practice, pure tone, sawtooth, simulated, xtown URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
This isn't so much of a remix, as it is an unmix—I removed the backing layer from the first release, which originally going to be just this track…but then I started working on the video, I fell in love its audio track, so I added it in to give the composition a transparent feeling. The pink noise layer holds its own, and perhaps others will find it easier to incorporate into their own projects. The video has also been updated to fit the track better.
TITLE: Almost Transparent Pink, Alternate Cut DESCR: Shaped pink noise, no backing layer. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 52.5 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2019 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: alternate, drone, soundscape, acoustics, dronecast, 52, monk, meditation, pink noise URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio Archive Video Original Release LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Almost Transparent Pink DESCR: Shaped pink noise. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 52 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2019 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, soundscape, acoustics, dronecast, 52, monk, meditation, pink noise URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: 002A DESCR: Drone and Noise ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 51 GENRE: Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2019 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, ambient, soundscape, electronic, acoustics, sound design, dronecast, 51, monk, meditation URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
1024
Dronecast 50, Franklyn Monk
TITLE: 1024 DESCR: Drone and noise ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 50 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient, Noise YEAR: 2019 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, noise, ambient, soundscape, generated, electronic, acoustics, sound design, experimental, dronecast, 50, 1024, monk URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Fox Song: Are You Sleeping
Dronecast 49, Franklyn Monk
TITLE: Fox Song: Are You Sleeping? DESCR: 17 minute drone track. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 49 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient YEAR: 2018 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 49, Ambient, audio, chapterized, Drone, Dronecast, Franklyn Monk, headphones, narrative, podcast, prologue, quiet, sound design, Soundscape, video, voice over URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Made this a while ago from a friend's video I found online. One of my oldest friends, been or of touch for… a while. Anyway, one day this vid comes across my feed, and I'm instantly captivated. I can't help by play with it. Ended up with this cool soundtrack and tweaked vid. I just got permission to share it publicly!
Thanks ❤️ Ali
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TITLE: Dromedary ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 47 GENRE: Ambient, Drone, Electronic, Experimental, Soundscape YEAR: 2018 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, audio, drone, dronecast, monk, music, music video, percussive, video, 47, audacity, complex_filters, ffmpeg, gimp, inkscape, imovie, reaper, shotcut URL: Persistent MIRROR: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube OTHERS: Assets LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Epipelagic ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 46 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient, Field Recording YEAR: 2018 PUB: Quasigentsia URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube OTHERS: Source files | Outtakes LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Chiron
Dronecast 45, Franklyn Monk
My 45th track is an ambient/drone piece honoring Chiron, centaur, and mentor.
Can't stream? Don't podcast? Boycott YouTube? You can download additional audio or video formats (or grab some out takes) from the Internet Archive.
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A Sunday afternoon
Dronecast 44, Franklyn Monk
TITLE: Sunday Magic DESCR: Droning under the Sunday sky ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 44 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient YEAR: 2017 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient, audio, field recording, sky, aerial, antenna, birds, fly, plane, sound design, sound effect, video, podcast, Franklyn Monk, Dronecast, 44, REAPER URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Slow rollin’ on Fyxation tires.
Dronecast 43, Franklyn Monk
TITLE: Lands End DESCR: Field Recording ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 43 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient YEAR: 2017 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: audio, field recording, sound design, sound effect, video, podcast, Franklyn Monk, Dronecast, 42, REAPER, cycling, fyxation URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
I don't know if the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but here we are.
It's parts being two weeks of exploration and hard work, of chasing tangents and getting lost in your lips. Joy and suffering the whole way has led to this, whatever this is.
This is Submerged.
Dronecast 42, Franklyn Monk
TITLE: Submerged DESCR: Still life ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 42 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient YEAR: 2017 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: audio, sound design, sound effect, water, wind, video, podcast, Franklyn Monk, Dronecast, 42, REAPER URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Party Bridge Road DESCRIPTION: I'm told that's what the locals call it ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 41 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient YEAR: 2017 PUBLISHER: Quasigentsia TAGS: audio, sound design, sound effect, water, video, podcast, Franklyn Monk, Dronecast, 41, REAPER, Inkscape, GIMP, Auphonic, Monk URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
A slice of the upcoming The Last Dromedary that didn't make the cut.
Spectrogram by Sonic Visualiser Additional editing by Inkscape and the GIMP.
The seed audio is a Shepard tone, with a root of 14000 Hz, created with Audacity.
Processing and video by REAPER.
Leveling by Auphonic.
TITLE: Phazor: Collision of Waves DESCRIPTION: Dual Shepard tones contend for center field dominance. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: mini (40.5) GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient YEAR: 2017 PUBLISHER: Quasigentsia TAGS: mini, audio, sound design, sound effect, Shepard tone, 14000 Hz, visualization, clip, video, podcast, franklyn monk, dronecast, 40.5, reaper, sonic visualiser, Inkscape, GIMP, Auphonic, monk URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
TITLE: Bactrian DESCRIPTION: Chorus of drones. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 40 GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient YEAR: 2017 PUBLISHER: Quasigentsia TAGS: soundscape, sound design, experimental, ambient, drone, franklyn monk, dronecast, 40, reaper, audio, podcast, monk, video URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
A processed recording of a bike ride. Ride into the the night with me.
TITLE: Thomas Run DESCRIPTION: An exercise in routing. This project has a single sound source, that's stripped, ripped, split, and recombined through a labyrinthine routing matrix. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 39 GENRE: Soundscape, Field recording, Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2017 PUBLISHER: Quasigentsia TAGS: soundscape, sound design, experimental, routing, music, electronic, ambient, drone, field recording, bike, bicycle, ride, indie, homebrew, franklyn monk, dronecast, 39, reaper, ffmpeg, audio, podcast, monk, video URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
The beginning and the end are worn. Virtual instruments controlled by samples. A G-man posing as a number station. A preachy New Year’s reveler. Ice calving from an iceberg. A hammer strike.
Dronecast #38 Show Notes: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/9270 Download: audio, video
TITLE: The Lesser Pump SHORTDESC: Experimental track featuring virtual instruments driven by samples ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 38 GENRE: Ambient, Drone, Experimental, Field recording YEAR: 2017 PUBLISHER: Quasigentsia LINKS
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SOFTWARE:
Audio REAPER (v. 5.33.0) Video Shotcut (v. 17.02)
SOURCES:
United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau Of Investigation. The Salvage Racket, 1956 Carpenters (2 Cuts). 78 shellac record sardana. File Under Toner PMEL Acoustics Program (NOAA). Cryogenic (Ice)
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Example of my Technique
Brusier.m4a is a field recording I made on a warm October morning between a dry cleaners and a restaurant. A downspout was producing a crazy discordant noise. I think it was ice from a freezing up A/C unit on the roof, but I'm not sure.
Kids and dogs wandered by wondering what the hell I was doing crouched down holding my phone up to the downspout.
The recording became bibruser3_stems_OuiDecay-001 the rhythmic jangly stringy percussive cohesive backing layer of Junkie.
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A quick render from something I'm working on.
g2sdr.mp3, 0:33, 2.4M https://archive.org/download/fmonk_WIPNS/g2sdr.mp3
Bonus Track (not in podcast feed)
NSCC.mp3, 16:40, 23M https://archive.org/download/fmonk_WIPNS/NSCC.mp3
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WIP: Number Stream by Franklyn Monk is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at archive.org.
Franklyn Monk Dronecast #37 The Tenth Day
An experimental audio track featuring WikiLeaks audio of the AbilityOne/SourceAmerica scandal
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TITLE: The Tenth Day ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 37 GENRE: Experimental YEAR: 2016 PUBLISHER: Quasigentsia URL: http://j.mp/2atEzkt LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International LICENSE URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ TAGS: ambient, dronecast, monk, franklyn monk, podcast, drone, experimental, music, reaper, 37, electronic, field recording, audio, wikileaks, AbilityOne, SourceAmerica, scandal
SOURCES: 1. Audio #1.1 (Download) of The SourceAmerica Tapes DESC: On 16 November 2015 8:30 am EST, WikiLeaks publishes the 30 hours of secret tapes and transcripts at the heart of the AbilityOne/SourceAmerica scandal.
License:
The Tenth Day by Franklyn Monk is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://j.mp/2atEzkt.
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Franklyn Monk Dronecast #36
TITLE: Follow Your Heart ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 36 GENRE: Experimental YEAR: 2016 PUBLISHER: Quasigentsia URL: http://j.mp/2avZapC LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
DOWNLOAD LOSSLESS: flac 54.1 MB | m4a 57.7 MB | wav 169.9 MB LOSSY: m4a 16.0 MB | ogg 14.5 MB | mp3 13.7 MB | opus 11.6 MB VIDEO: mp4 1.1 GB
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Franklyn Monk Dronecast #34
So, I sold blood plasma in order to keep this website going. And cycled back in the Texas heat, and passed out on my porch. Smashing my head on brick. Ended up with thirty stitches. A week later I get them taken out to find they "didn't take" and I'm gonna loose a huge chunk of my eyebrow. I'm bummed about it. I'm going to do it again as soon as I'm healed enough to donate. I'm serious about my art.
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I spent three hours on the audio. Three hours to clean up the original 21 minute noisy recording so that it didn't make you want to rip your headphones off. I was going for something less overbearing white noise, and more rain.
At some point it may use it as a backing track to something.
I also spent a lot of time on the video too, but that was mostly re/learning running bash scripts in Automator actions. And rendering, a bunch of time for my spunky little laptop to render
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Between the longness of you And my shortness of breath Cicadas sing Our moon falls into shadow
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Franklyn Monk Dronecast #32, Raumo: z0
Z0 or Z0 may refer to:
Characteristic impedance, a ratio used in electronics Impedance of free space, a physical constant Z boson, an elementary particle that mediates the weak force a rare rail transport modelling scale Roughness length, a factor used in wind speed calculations Z0 sex-determination system in biology
Audio: REAPER Video: ffmpeg, with heavy postprocessing in ShotCut and iMovie Titles: inkscape, and no I'm not satisfied with them. I just had to stop, I had to stop. So I stopped with the promise that my next video will have better title/credit cards.
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Franklyn Monk Dronecast #31: And Fuck You Some More
And fuck you And fuck you And fuck you And fuck you And fuck you And fuck you some more
Well fuck you And fuck you And fuck you And fuck you And fuck you And fuck you some more
Hey I'm motherfucking walking here Watch the fuck out What's up with you Yeah?! Fuck you all
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Franklyn Monk Dronecast #30: Milling
I shot the video at TWU in Denton, TX.
Franklyn Monk Dronecast #30 Milling
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Franklyn Monk Dronecast #29: Cranes
I shot the video at South Lakes Park in Denton, TX, where I found Harmony, a kinetic art sculpture by George Cadell.
Franklyn Monk Dronecast #29 Cranes
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Franklyn Monk Dronecast 28: Outtakes.
Just some scraps I had laying around. I record as I write and delete everything up to the final recording—to save disk space, and because there's always too much to review.
Recordings get scattered all over the place, and I'll loose track of them, and sometimes stumble over them again. Instead of deleting them this time, I decided to give you a behind the scenes look at my writing process.
You can listen to the evolution of Tour Guide (formerly Fairy Tale, and before that Nursery Rhyme. It was originally scheduled to be #26, but took longer than I had anticipated to work out. I like all the versions, but the one I pushed out is my favorite.
There's also some other stuff that never became anything. Important lesson here, don't waste your time on shit that ain't gonna work—you'll get a sense of what's salvageable and what's torturous. Anything could be made to work, with enough aggravation and toil and effort. But if it's aggravating and toiling and effortful, just stop, you'll end up hating yourself. Every word you write isn't gold, every phrase you utter isn't a poem, learn the difference and move on.
There's some cool lines there though, and it's funny as hell, so here, some rough cuts. I probably have more on my phone I might push out sometimes, but not soon, this took too much work.
Since I put this together in a coffeehouse I couldn't record the intro, so I had my computer read it. There's also a computer generated voice reading the segments of a podcast—as best I can determine them to be. I thought about doing the whole talk my audience to death with personal info, and what not, but I hate it when podcasts have long intros, and outros, and pandering fucking personal tales, etc. I know it's done because people are more likely to follow the person, not the work, and it's easier to brand, and the additional length makes ads more palatable, and give the audience warm fuzzies, but I can't stand it, I can't skip them fast enough—so, I won't do it, but I reserve the right to change my mind at a later date. The parts of a podcast segment is funny though.
Sorry for the ramblings, I've been at this all day, something like nine hours, heading out now, bye!
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Once upon a time in a desolate land In the middle of a Familiar worldsystem You'd recognize it It's right over there
Stood a tree.
Under the tree sat a poet. It was the last tree and the last poet. Fitting they should die together
Thought the poet. Fitting, thought the tree, But useless. No more useless than Love thought the poet. And the tree dropped a leaf.
We shall die, We shall die together We shall die, We shall die together
And they did. The tree lost its branches and the poet decomposed.
LAUGH
They're still there A dead testament to waste And desolation For whoever should wander by
The commentator shakes Its head and says What I mean to say
Once upon a time In a desolate land The last poet And the last tree Sacrificed themselves So that you may
Stare in despair and regret What you have done
HORROR HORROR
Look at what you have wrought Look at what you wrought.
CRY
LAUGH
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Sorry for the wonkiness of the podcast last night. I had such a hard time with this microcast.
It seems to have been doomed from the start. It took days to record that one second of audio. No, really. Well, and to mix it. No, again, really. It was a whole thing.
I guess I should start with philosophy and aesthetic…err, my pet-peeves, that is. My biggest pet-peeve is when people, especially podcasters, over talk things. It’s rampant.
Sometimes, often, the fewer words the better. Sometimes you can say what you have to say in under a second. When you can, do. We’ll all be happier.
Words are nasty horrible little things. Yeah, I know, I’m a “poet”, and a reader, an amateur linguist, and all that, you’d think I’d love words, but no, words obstruct as much as they clarify. I guess we all know that. Words also destroy thought, other people’s words are detrimental to a poet in the act of poet-ing.
The act of poet-ing (ha! how Alan Watts of me) is like brainstorming, is observing things so intensely that they fall away and little stories pop out. These stories pop out form cracks in the wall, the tree-line, the cold hard stare of a backstab-y lover.
If external words impinge on these soap bubbles of poemlets they’ll pop leaving noting but a sticky resin behind from which there’s little chance to salvage anything. You might be able to break it down and rehydrate it, but that’s generally not the case, you can burn days trying to resurrect an abortion. Sometimes you havta try though, I guess.
Words are constantly with us. They blast from television sets, and radios. Cell phone conversations, billboards…ok, fuck, I’ll stop there, you do the observing—how many words are you besieged by in a day? How many of them do you actually want?
That’s one of the reasons I prefer Drone, it allows you to build a microcosm in a bubble to explore. A fragile microcosm that will burst at the first chance. You havta protect your perceptual inputs from unwanted agents of chaos!
Words color and distort our thoughts. Words manipulate us on the most basic and subconscious levels. Words sneak their way in and make you long for and desire and need disastrously unhealthy and damaging things.
Heh, Propaganda Theory 101, or perhaps I should call it Media Literacy. My camp keeps wondering why people keep voting against their own self-interest. It’s this, y’all. The maelstrom of corporate words have worn down their shields and they don’t have the space to develop their own, uncolored, thoughts. And you can’t blame them.
A couple generations now of declining economic conditions, worsening schools, schools mandated by law to instill a very warped and intellectually deficient world-view, bolstered by an invasive media-sphere. And it all ran by a handful of elites that are making out like bandits.
Control words and you control people. It’s simple. Thank you Goebbels, seems your side won after all.
That’s one of the things that informs my poetry and my other art. I try not to manipulate folk. I say my piece and I’m off. I try to stay lean.
So back to this episode. Originally it was 1.25 seconds, but iTunes has some serious issues with sub-two-second enhanced podcasts. Audio files under two seconds work fine in the music library, but in the podcast library will fuck up the played-flag and the resume at time-stamp and just be a misery. I had to up the duration to a full two seconds before these unintended effects went away.
I keep saying enhanced podcasts, what do I mean by that? An enhanced podcast is one that contains chapters and art-work. Apple is moving away from them, apparently, they’ve ceased development on tools that allows you to do such things. ’Tis a pity, but I think they’re doing because iTunes sucks, and you might as well make a video these days. I wish I would have.
Apple wants 1400^2 pixel artwork for podcasts (it’s bigger for podcast cover-art—2048^2). But, iTunes (Yosemite and iOS) can’t really handle shit that size.
Hello Good evening and welcome I'm Franklyn Monk I hold deep-seated and derisive political ideologies It's true! I'm an ally But I see no sense in preaching to the choir I see no sense in preaching to the choir So I'm gonna talk on somethin' Mundane Or prosaic Like sunsets The moon An owl
Oh, the Moon isn't her real name Her real name to too beautiful Too beautiful too beautiful Her real name would burn your ears Or my tongue Turn you into a zombie Albeit a good one That doesn't eat people So it continually eats itself Sunrise to sunset Sunset to sunset There's an owl there Somewhere
Oh, I have a first conscience memory of an owl But it's too painful to revisit So it's left as an exercise For the audience What is the poet's owl?
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I don't know if this represents a form of madness. I don't know if this represents a form of madness or not.
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Here's a new track. I rushed through it last night. I'm experimenting with the generative audio equivalent of the literary cut-up technique. Did it by hand though, as I'm not as capable as I want to be with coding music. I developed the logic but couldn't figure out where to begin with coding it, I gonna look into creating Audio Unit plugins, that's probably what I need.
In the meantime enjoy Recording Eight, it features 74 seconds of audio from a 21 minute recording I made this summer, probably while drunk. I don't know why I choose the segments I did, I sped through and choose what sounded cool.
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Here's a spooky little number I composed over Halloween.
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I made this one completely from scratch in Audacity. I generated the tones, spliced them together, and also made Shepard tones from scratch.
I haven't been making these in a while. Here's one I created…I don't know when, a while back. Originally known as Frequency Out because it was a mixed down backtrack of a larger project that I never got around to completing. FreqOut made me snigger, so that's what I went with.
Feel free to use it in your project if it fits, or just listen to it in the background while you paint, or meditate or write, or whatever. It should stay out of your way enough to concentrate, while challenging you enough that you don't fall asleep.
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Dronecast episode 20: Ceiling Fan A ceiling fan in a gazebo. Episode URL https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/6139 Follow me on Twitter @fqmonk
“Stop! You must curtail your bizarre behavior,” says the man with the stick, “You really must,” he says adjusting his hat.
But, he’s not talking to me, he’s talking to the creature we become— in the stretch back to the first realm.
“Adjust behavior and commiserate elsewhere,” says the fat man “You really must,” he says poking the creature’s chest.
The creature, call us Communion, howls indignant turns back to the wall— string dangling from our slippery hands.
“Non-compliance is unacceptable,” shouts the rigid man, “Unacceptable and you must stop,” he shouts and we pay em no mind
We are disconnected from that world, there is only blood here and glue and string— this creation nothing else.
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"You, you," he points at you, "You can't be in my audience," And collapses.
There are no stagehands here To shuffle away his bones, "It's a one man show!"
He now understands his mistake, But he's proud of shrinking The universe down to a man. Who does that? "The Artist!" he'll inevitably cry And laugh because it’s ludicrous.
"I took tickets too." And he cleaned the aisles And he built you a throne With cheesecloth and cardboard, "And my soul!" Yes, yes, of course.
And there now you are In the throne he constructed And he’s not ready to be seen or heard “Or exist!” No, no, of course.
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A recording of an early spring storm.
Edit: 7 March, 2014. What I like most about this one is the white noise at the end is so loud and so oppressive that when it finally slams to an end I'm catapulted into heady relief. I'm left weightless, numb, and free for the first time.
Hey, motherfuckers, no pain—no gain. Come suffer with me and be born again in fire.
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An ambient soundtrack with looping vocals which, perhaps, demonstrates what it’s like to be swept into rumination. At 16m40s it’s a good length for a short meditative sit.
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The Gratzi is a hard poem to read. It’s taken me years, but I finally gave up on ever getting it and released this reading disguised.
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Franklyn Monk Dronecast #12: Just Me
I don’t know what you expected to find here
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