Tuonela: Recent Episodes
Tuonela
Eclectic current podcasts are all here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Tuonela/uploads/
You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051
Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust... recently - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html
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Hand-crafted soundscapes and nocturnal noise...
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau
All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.
In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.
I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s.
Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...
I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...
Sometimes I have a story in mind, see the structure in advance. Sometimes the sounds take over and suggest their own story.
RNGMNN – The Night Of The Fulfilled Sky1:59:43 Daniele Virgilio – Luce ferma2:14:00 M.B. – Untitled 1 (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It was an impulse thing. I listened to https://soundcloud.com/voidbornhorde/leadrain, loaded it into ambient v.03 software, rode the controls and this was the result, unedited. Just like the old days :)
)1:33:47 Snowman Lost His Head – White ship (naviarhaiku646)1:36:29 zenbytes – left undone - Naviarhaiku6511:42:22 M. Cross Dougherty – Elsewhere1:46:55 Jad Atoui –Haptic Drift 1:52:25 MASAIDEN – Meditations on Residual Memory~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Asmus Tietchens – Elmsfeuer26:09 martin kratochwil diary – smooth27:40 Aepoch Proxy – End Of Time34:53 Dionisaf – Clay39:48 zoviet*france – something spooked the horses48:20 Terry Mullet – apeirophobia (naviarhaiku649)52:38 ray_cobley – Skywatch (naviarhaiku649)58:00 Plague Clock – Subdermal Nanobot Death1:01:29 Pete Swinton – B-E Two1:08:11 Loo(p)cy – Voices Through The Fog1:11:53 Night Note – supercell1:16:46 Bohdan Stupak – touches apricot petals (excerpt)1:22:20 Don Haugen – Overloaded Man1:28:42 Brian Eno – 1/1 (excerpt)1:33:41 John Fariselli Young – Flux1:36:36 NAM-KHAR – Leukosis1:42:32 Noiziatrics – Effervescence (2026)1:46:54 Mirai No Hagaki – retrigger1:52:35 Pink Lemonade – Don't Be A VOID1:55:22 Zoy Winterstein – AURUM2:03:49 Robert Coulombe – Sensory Deprivation (excerpt)2:05:10 Walking Ears – 25 1 252:09:14 UNCRN JNKI – Child Dancing with Flowers~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jos Smolders – (HP-HP) (excerpt)1:43:25 aMt – datael (excerpt)1:49:48 Deborah Fialkiewicz - The Space Between Static and the Wind (excerpt)1:55:10 Toni Dimitrov + Blanket Swimming – Chariot~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.artAs usual, many thanks to the inspirations provided by members of SoundCloud, as well as the choices of the curators of A Duck In A Tree and The Institute Of Spectra Sonic Sound, both on Mixcloud.
I had made a rather disappointing track which sounded a bit like a half-full oil drum being dragged up a gravel drive and was about to delete it when I saw this assignment and set out to create something I could use over it. Sort of make it the driveway for another sound completely.Something almost musical was created using ZynSub, then treated with ambient software, cut up, reprocessed and laid carefully (for me) against the background.As for the picture… I live in a mountain town, full of cockatoos. Nuff said.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Combine two tracks.There is just one step for this project: To create a piece of music, combine two different tracks with an ear to how they give way to each other.More on the 755th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Give Way — The Assignment: Combine two tracks — disquiet.com/0755More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Lost Preset – le charmeur de serpents joue du piano1:47:32 Geology Disco – Nyctalus Noctula1:53:06 Taverner's Teapot – Prism (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Magnific.com
Emmanuel Toledo – L’assec19:05 apan music – Sing, Godess, sing [disquiet0750]22:54 Daniele Marx – October dawn (naviarhaiku643)26:24 Autumna – Interceptor30:15 Bruno Duplant – autrement dit II (pt1) (excerpt)38:48 Martin Hoogeboom – Alive 3: HORZEL44:49 Electronic Death Black Dogs – Equanimity52:45 Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt – traveling around the world like the rings of Saturn (excerpt)1:07:35 Walking Ears – 25 6 111:10:56 zenbytes – flicker of lights - Naviarhaiku6431:14:18 Cousin Silas – Liminal Drone Mix 2 (excerpt)1:31:45 ray_cobley – The Topless Towers (disquiet0750)1:36:05 Daniel Menche – Vastus (excerpt)1:44:12 Spectrical – Monsoon Forest1:48:10 Bruno Duplant – autrement dit II (pt1) (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Made for Naviar Records' 646th Haiku Challenge. Probably not the white ships that the poet had in mind...
Marco Lucchi – A moment before sunrise1:50:55 Pink Lemonade – Seine1:54:25 Leon Clowes – beneath (naviarhaiku642)!:56:28 Øystein Q. Jørgensen – Mr Q. Says NO~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
Jacob F. Heule – Resolution 12:11:45 Arcane Device – Carrington Events2:16:55 Aultone – Tea with Medusa (excerpt)2:19:05 Henry Blair With Ray Turner – Sparky's Magic Piano (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
I was going to cover this with soundbites about ICE and their activities, but who needs that in their lives? I'd rather just listen to the noise.(I made this Followers Only, and nothing happened for 24 hours, no plays or feedback, (probably because I don't know how to use the system), so now it's public Thanks for being there, followers, some of you for many years now.)
Sometimes shit happens in a very satisfying way... The algorithm doesn't like it, says it's not ready or suitable to be pushed to interested listeners. I think that's some sort of compliment, I am really over algorithms.
Wilfried Hanrath – Nine Possibilities - Nineteen1:28:45 Dronny Darko – Blue Frost (excerpt)1:38:06 Jonas Cambien – Silverware Vibrating Inside Grand Piano1:42:56 Morton Subotnick - 4 Butterflies: Butterfly No. 11:50:28 Katja Institute – ornamented (excerpt)2:13:00 T – Endmix~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
It took a few adjustments so that the SoundCloud player could handle some of this track...
Megalophobe – This Dirge Requires a Murder1:45:00 Justine Roach – 7 8-15~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
Recently Jo Richter (sonic structures and silent stretches) invited collaborations with the track https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/draengelgitter-instrumentalThis isn't what I initially intended, but it's what happened when I improvised on the track using Audiobulb's ambient v1 software. Realised in one take with some minor post-production to lessen distortion and add some subtle (for me) reverb.Thanks Jo :)
· Arovane – Feer 22:38 Saba Alizadeh – First Ritual (excerpt)29:44 Autodealer – a correspondence course in grief, part 337:18 Luca Formentini – Angel Lost (excerpt)46:18 Plague Clock – Nothing Wrong48:26 Nichola Scrutton – Scene 6 Ultramarine53:11 Rayan Haïdar – Cities burn as we dream of a return57:54 Toluca NOISA – noform_set_01 (live) (excerpt)1:04:54 Daniele Marx – A hanging glacier (naviarhaiku636)1:08:03 Jessica Ekomane – First Light1:15:30 Loop(c)y – The Shape Of Memory1:18:43 Motorpig – Cryptic Passage1:27:48 Rapoon – Remembered particles1:33:54 rsn | BA´AH – coarseness #1.1 (excerpt)1:39:20 John the Silent – If Only People Knew What to Prepare for1:47:41 THE NEW BLOCKADERS + LE SCRAMBLED DEBUTANTE + KNURL – Pulchrum Metallum Part I (excerpt)1:55:20 WYRM – Wrong Gede2:01:20 Mr_Lamppost – First Light - (Naviarhaiku-637)2:10:32 Nikophides – Cela n'a aucun sens~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
Where to start? I assemble all my tracks in Audacity on my 15 year old PC and use every effect I touch way too much. For this one I picked reverb (specifically a plugin called Ambient Chamber on its “Space” setting), delay (always used irresponsibly and to excess), Paulstretch and Tempo Change.I stacked several of my recent tracks together and used all the above effects on them to varying degrees. (Bear in mind, most of these were excessive to start with.) Then I cut bits out, tempo-stretched them and used delay and a couple of other effects to get all the distorted disturbance - the crunchy bits - towards the end. In the spirit of the exercise, I tried to do this to excess, but may have fallen short…Is this “a piece of music”? Discuss.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Do something you do too much even more.Step 1: Think about something in your music that you feel like you do too often.Step 2: Make a piece of music in which you double down on what you focused on in Step 1. Own it. Turn a crutch into a superpower.More on the 745th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Double Down — The Assignment: Do something you do too much even more — disquiet.com/0745More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
A bit time-lean on this one. I messed around with the sample, extending, adding reverb, converting with Harmonic Adder and ambient v.1, then spliced the results together.Tastier than expected. ----------------------------------------------Step 1: Download the recording at the following link. It is the sound of cocoa powder being mixed in a ceramic cup of oat milk using a metal spoon:https://freesound.org/people/disquiet/sounds/849399Step 2: Sampling the above audio, record an original piece of music that you feel sounds refreshing.More on the 744th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Cold Chocolate — The Assignment: Turn a shared sample into something refreshing — disquiet.com/0744.More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Been sitting around for a while. Originally made for an anti-form compilation, volume 12. The Soundcloud player couldn't cope with the original track so this is my 2nd attempt at a gentler mix. Turned out more, er, melodic than I expected.
Echoes – Flow////State___ (excerpt)1:27:02 Laurel Halo – Atlas1:33:43 Jimmy Lem – Touching The White (disquiet0740)1:36:18 Trigger Object – Mechanical Bull Party Rental (Apocalyptic Remix)1:41:25 Yardh – Supermassive (excerpt)1:46:36 Abraximentalien (experimental live recordings) – Galactilop1:51:21 Daniel Menche – Meld (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
Scott Monteith – And All The Clocks Ran Dry Part II (excerpt)23:23 Deaf Center – Weir 29:28 Francesco Fabris – The Map is the Territory34:41 Jannis Anastasakis – Sartorius / Harey41:08 Boundary Objects – SONG 137 - NaviarHaiku633 - Departing Swallows44:30 Noémi Büchi – I was almost there49:12 Symbiotique – Accumulation By Dispossession57:23 Victorian Bug – Cell phones 'round grisly deaths sound like buzzing flies1:05:32 The Caretaker – No one knows what shadowy memories haunt them to this day1:09:27 whisper machine – geometry1:13:38 Ensemble Musica Negativa – Rozart Mix (1965) (John Cage)1:20:48 Isabelle Lewis – Not the water, air, or the dirt1:27:40 NYZ – DRG101:29:48 zenbytes – temple hall - Naviarhaiku6341:33:22 Stan Magendanz – anikeom1:38:47 Naughty Temple – I'm Shorter Than Danny DeVito1:44:39 XFA – MMXIXXXXXSPRWLDT1:53:10 Lennuh – Industrial Noise part 81:57:30 glossypages – deepsea angel~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. - Thomas Overbury
“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.” ― William Gibson.......
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius
is a famous line from Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (Chapter 39), uttered by astronaut David Bowman as he enters the alien monolith. While iconic, this exact phrase is notably absent from Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation, becoming a lasting point of discussion.Made for Naviar Records' 635th Haiku Challenge from some sonic bits and pieces.
The Door56:54 Stephen O'Malley – Phase I Organ (excerpt)1:06:33 encym – impact oscuro_disquiet07371:13:17 Blue Arkangel – Wasteland1:19:31 Loscil – City Hospital (excerpt)1:31:00 Sicker Man – Mean Drift1:34:52 ray_cobley – Spring Day with Sparrows (naviarhaiku631)1:40:34 Tuuligan – Cerulean1:44:59 Okkyung Lee – One Hundred Years Old Rain (The Same River Twice)1:50:49 Austin Williamson + Blanket Swimming – Horizons (excerpt)1:58:38 synkrotron – Dark Clouds (excerpt)2:08:05 Aultone – Terra incognita~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
Back in the dark ages, my early copy of Audacity was set up - accidentally, incorrectly but fortuitously - so that audio recorded on it would go into a reverberation feedback loop, controlled by the volume input.I used it during the recording of an interview with William Basinski (whose monumental Disintegration Loops are about to be re-released) in 2013. This piece, recorded in full but unreleased, begins with some of the resulting track, then uses extracts, stretches and cut-ups made from it. The sound sources are Basinki's voice and some short passages of his work.
“Here's the truth: people, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.” ― Jonathan NolanTrack list and start times:00:00 Sion Trefor – The Cabin in the Woods | How to Get to Heaven from Belfast02:16 Insectarium – The child’s laugh08:05 Dominique Lawalree – La Maison Des 5 Éléments17:15 alice freshmouth – cut - out 0625:10 KMRU – They Are Here32:09 ray_cobley – One Leaf after Another (naviarhaiku630)36:11 Shifting Path – Unsaid, Unchanged40:48 Talst – Thread48:07 Thomas Park – Radioactive_Cab_Ride_0651:38 Yuki Aizawa – Dazzling Light56:55 SHIFALA – we never made it1:00:45 bruno Bernard – cuisine ouverte1:06:15 Sion Trefor – The Doll You Don't Want | How to Get to Heaven from Belfast1:09:37 Loo(p)cy – The Distance Becoming Light1:13:28 Emily Wittbrodt – Porous1:15:50 Carlos Giffoni – Whirlwind (featuring Iggor Cavalera)1:22:25 Sebby Kowal – Sonar1:28:12 Ocean in a Bottle – Soundtrack for Global Warming on Earth Over 1,000 Years (excerpt)1:33:00 Termotank – Piedras1:36:33 zenbytes – one leaf falls - Naviarhaiku6301:40:07 thomas fleischhauer – habitat (excerpt)1:44:57 ホテル shampoo – airport Buddha1:48:40 thomas fleischhauer – asian dream1:53:36 Aultone – Limited exposure 02~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns.” ― Ray Bradbury
Maximum Movement Theatre – Timeships~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art“We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”Plastic… asshole.”― George Carlin
by Romualdo Correa Y Su Conjunto and a few sounds that I threw into the mix.I love the way that the old vinyl crackle finds its way to the top...
Graham Halliwell – Tractatus de Imagine Mundi1:37:06 Naushad – Dream Ride1:38:37 Pita – CE31:46:00 Erik Klinga – Conspiracy of Silence1:51:59 Romualdo Correa Y Su Conjunto – Mis Noches Sin Ti1:55:26 Plague Clock – Cell 231:57:38 Aultone – Relevant endmix~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I know… Thanks to Jonny Trunk I went down a fascinating rabbit-hole at ponytone.org. You should too… Also, appreciation to Duck In A Tree, The Institute Of Spectrasonic Sound and Naviar Broadcast for sounds and ideas.
Wodwo – Wind Blow Below Zero24:18 Gianantonio Patella – arty decoy sieve - naviarhaiku62527:09 El Wud – A vertical dance30:44 Justine Roach – Ashed In Place Of Amrani39:41 George Christian (BR) – Variations On 'The Story Of An Artist', By Daniel Johnston (excerpt)46:50 Ludwig Göransson – Thy Kingdom Come [from “Sinners”]54:21 Off Land – Drifted1:05:23 Pink Lemonade – Pick Up The Phone Darling1:09:22 Night Note – seneco Himalaya1:16:43 Wilson Tanner Smith – University of Culture1:22:43 The Gateless Gate – The Voice of Winter1:27:35 Sigil of Time – Desert Psychedelia1:32:12 Marc Dauncey – Deep Water1:34:50 Androctonyx – Respawning as a pearl Part 11:46:58 Voidborn Horde – Beyond The Soul (naviarhaiku626)1:52:35 Stan Magendanz – A single paulownia leaf, sunlit as it falls [naviarhaiku627]1:55:45 Matt Choboter - Hypnopompia - pagan rainmaker~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
One take, no edits (except to remove distortion for SC player), slight reverb added.Headphones recommended.
“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of DisquietTrack list and start times:00:00 James Horner – Evidence (from “Jade”)02:39 Lazenbee Industries – the clouds [naviarhaiku626]07:41 Aultone – Shave and a hellcat13:45 Magic Bullet – Another Eminent Species20:38 Nunc Stans – The Book of Disquiet30:10 Adeptus Mechanicus – Thundering Enlightenment42:08 Constance Cooper – c) you 246:28 Eeem [eim] – Voidhawks (Pride and Camaraderie)54:43 Ian Craig – Human Warmth in the Frozen Zone (Edit 1)1:00:35 Steve Holmes – Peace At Last1:07:12 Pandacetamol – Mr Nimbus1:13:15 beepblip – Oscillating Spaces (vzorec) (excerpt)1:18:50 Ensemble In(dé)fini – Soufflements Cardinaux Part #2 (excerpt)1:22:05 Bury The Jar – Living Beings (excerpt)1:26:26 Mariam Rezaei – Glass Bastard1:36:01 Thaniel Ion Lee – A short, imposing tower of growing fear, shrinking into dimly lit corners1:42:15 Vittorio Gelmetti – Organum Quadruplum (excerpt)1:48:22 Mariam Rezaei – Going Straight (and fucking it up)1:52:42 Voidborn Horde – Past Restraints (naviarhaiku625)1:58:32 Zazie Productions – Moving in Perpetual Slumber2:00:23 Vittorio Gelmetti – L'opera Abbandonata Tace e Volge la Sua Cavità Verso L'esterno (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Scott Lawlor – Ancient Ocean Part 2: Paleo-Tethys1:41:58 Charles LaReau – Wave Shift1:45:47 michael mooser – deep in the night Naviarhaiku 6211:48:34 Ourobonic Plague – room tone1:52:43 Hunterthen – Ascending To The Decompositional Timescape ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
I took the three main sounds that made up the original ice recording I did in 2012, I cut them up, mashed them together, repeated them at varying pitches with varying amounts of reverb to get the ticking clock sound (including its repeated accidental hiccup) and dropped in a few examples of the pure sound of ice in a crystal glass.A couple of shorter mashups and stretches were added.A mashup of all the ice sounds was then processed three different ways in Paulstretch and laid under the previous mix.Voila, with ice.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.Background: Longtime participants in, and observers of, the Disquiet Junto series will recognize this single-sentence assignment — “Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it” — as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series back on the first Thursday of January 2012. Revisiting it at the start of each January ever since has provided a fitting way to begin the new year. By now, it qualifies as a tradition. A weekly project series can come to overemphasize novelty, and it’s helpful to revisit old projects as much as it is to engage with new ones. Also, by its very nature, the Disquiet Junto suggests itself as a fast pace: a four-day production window, a regular if not weekly habit. It can be beneficial to step back and see things from a longer perspective.More on the 731st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chill In — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0731/.More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Atticus Ross – What Isn't Anymore (from Bird Box)15:35 Flamingo Base Jumpers – The Witch Doctor's Mistress20:56 Adam Majdecki-Janicki - Book of Dzyan23:40 Billy Yfantis – Jupiter28:38 Lusine Icl – Numbers34:16 My Own Cubic Stone – The White People41:54 Night Note – Under the burning sky - (Naviarhaiku 622)48:15 Alessandro Barbanera – Ice Ages (A Cold Breath Looms)54:46 dtyb – peak51:01:20 SCHWARZER TAG – Eternal Lines In Time1:12:55 Sounds of Space Project – The Earth and the Heavens Combine1:18:57 Thee I's 🔸 – Lysosoma Code Recycling1:22:53 400 Lonely Things – Amicus1:29:58 Harmolodic Dreamer – The Earth Is A Beached Whale1:32:43 Marco Lucchi – fractal/offal n*61:34:16 Konx-om-Pax – La création du monde1:40:48 Ode { } – Der letzte Schrei1:49:40 Sounds of Space Project – Jezero Crater1:55:18 wellenhafen – sonic sounds in stereo2:05:38 Pink Lemonade – Gothic Souls2:11:20 Sogar – isolohr 2:18:22 Ray Cobley – Ant Procession Amplified - (Naviarhaiku 622)2:22:30 Terry Mullett – menace in numbers (naviarhaiku622)2:25:03 pete swinton – One Planet~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
As often happens, this didn’t go to plan, possibly for the best.Several stretched and treated versions underlie an increasingly chaotic mangled version of the track. That’s all.I played a lot of 78s as a kid (I still have many of them) so I love the old shellac crackle and hiss, which is why it’s featured and exaggerated.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Rework a shared recording from over 100 years agoThere is just one step to this project: This week’s project, the next to last of 2025, is a community remix. In an act of globe-spanning asynchronous holiday-season camaraderie, we’ll all work from the same shared source material, a recording that dates back well over 100 years. Download the performance of “Nina” by Hans Kindler (1892 – 1949) and remix it and rework it to your heart’s delight. The recording credits G. B. Pergolesi (1710 – 1736) as the work’s composer, but more recently it has become attributed to Vincenzo Legrenzo Ciampi (1719 – 1762).More on the 729th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Community Remix (Nina) — The Assignment: Rework a shared recording from over 100 years ago — at https://disquiet.com/0729/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Henrik Meierkord - Into the impossible [Disquiet # 0727] be less critical more often42:17 NACHT – Nacht Pt 1 (excerpt)48:16 Tauceti – Hélios51:24 Black Rain – All Snowflake Melt54:50 Gnomes Of Kush – Finding Tranquility59:00 Otto Lindholm – Skelton1:02:28 RDKPL – Noise Weaves IX1:05:57 Marco Lucchi – arpeggios are very selfish n*11:07:33 Leslie Keffer – Mirror1:22:12 Conrad Schnitzler – Ballet Statique1:26:34 400 Lonely Things – Many Ran1:33:30 Nihil Impvlse – Zeitgeist Penthotal1:39:28 VESTIGIAL – Through A Million Points of Time1:46:00 Hannes Strobl – Cais do Sodré~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: ‘Sacred’ by Bruce Mahalski – 2015
Continued...Rob and Jamilah cut their comms.“Shit! If that thing damages CyDar, the whole Lighthouse could go offline. Did you hear her intonation? She actually sounded apprehensive. It might take control of the whole station. How long can the automatic systems keep the place functioning if it cuts life support?”“Depends on the extent. Let’s not panic, Rob. We need to find out more about it. So far it doesn’t seem like a weapon.” She reached out and took his hand. “We need to work together, and quickly. We need to locate it, assess the threat, if any, and take consequent action.”He nodded and looked ashamed. “You’re right. Fear is the mind killer.”“What?”“It’s from a book, one of the greats from two millennia ago. I’m sorry, I forgot my training.”“I’m scared too. Let’s get to the Core and see what’s happened.” She smiled at him. “We can comfort each other later.”“Yes… If there is a ‘later’.”The outer security door to the Core had been cut open like the storage bay. They entered, passing through several more damaged doors until they reached the main core centre. The doors were open, undamaged.“Looks like CyDar just invited it in.”The core was a massive, circular system of mainframes cooled by liquid nitrogen. Half way up, the intruder was clamped onto CyDar. It was insectoid, with long legs that had wrapped around part of the core and a central section that served as both body and head. There were no lights or markings. As they drew closer, a couple of the legs moved slightly.“That is not a robot. Those joints look too fluid. Is it nano-engineered?”Rob shook his head. “Beats me. CyDar, can you hear us?”“Yes, Captain Hurford.”“Report status.”“It is of non-terrestrial origin. It is currently learning a simple binary language in order to communicate.”“You invited it aboard, didn’t you?”“Yes, I did. You ascertained that from the logs?”“Your redactions left traces. Careless.”“It was broadcasting what appeared to a distress call. The method of ingress was clumsy. I was attempting to guide it to a standard entry port but it wanted more immediate contact. Wait…”They heard a burst of binary code, then a reply from CyDar.“It has made contact.”“What did it say?”“Please protect me. I am scared.”------------(c) iamacamera 2022Image: Lexica.art
Continued...The Lighthouse was a deep-space station made up of huge, linked structures and located about ten billion kilometres from Earth. As a result of wars and economic collapse it serviced fewer ships than it had been designed for, so few these days that most of its two-hundred strong crew were kept comatose in several deep sleep facilities. They were revived periodically, ostensibly in order to check systems and maintain physical condition, but more important was the prevention of deep psychosis that could occur during extended coma-sleep. The whole crew was only woken when a ship was due to arrive.The section of the vast structure that Jamilah and Rob needed to reach was one that held several crew quarters and the huge, humming structure that housed the systems and servers that made up CyDar. Spinning slowly to create life-giving gravity, the structure was honeycombed by a series of mag-lev platforms that transported them to the designated area of damage in just under five minutes. The door was secure and the view through the doorscreen showed nothing.“Cydar, please pressurise sections forty-three A through forty-three D.”There was a long pause.“I am unable to comply, Captain Hurford. That section is offline.”They cut their comms and made faceplate contact.“What the hell, Rob? How much damage would that take? We’d see something, surely?”“Maybe. CyDar would have responded differently. She’s being deliberately vague, buying time perhaps. Let’s go in.”They entered the suspect section, sealing the door behind them. To their left was a long row of general storage bays, built onto the interior wall of the hull. They had only travelled about forty metres along the corridor when the reason for the damage report became apparent. The door to area forty-three nineteen was warped, scorched and hanging from one hinge.“CyDar, you seeing this?”“Affirmative, Captain McCullen. It appears to have been burst open from the inside. There is apparent heat damage. Not a meteorite, that would have penetrated further.”“Agreed. It would probably have gone right through the station.”They reached the door and looked into the bay. A blackened, scored tubular object about two metres long was buried in the deck at an angle. A ring of extendable spokes had stopped it penetrating any further, bending the plates into a shallow crater. Half way up, a section of the tube was hanging open.Jamilah pointed up, past the tube.“Look at that. It punched through the hull and then stopped dead. Definitely not space debris.”“No, it’s some sort of drone. Not one I’ve seen before, either. And it had a cargo.”“An armed passenger, by the look of that door.” She inspected the tube interior and the floor below it. “There appear to be connecting points inside… No organic matter anywhere. I think it must be robotic.”“CyDar, some form of AI has invaded The Lighthouse. We are unsure of its nature, but it may be capable of deadly force.” There was silence. “CyDar, can you hear me?”“I have located the intruder, Captains.” There was a long pause. “It has invaded my central core. It is with me.” to be continued......(c) iamacamera 2022Image: Lexica.art
Mint Deluxe – A Veil Of Tiers1:41:24 Atticus Ross – The Architect (from ‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’)1:47:29 fr0ggy5 – and we all rush madly toward the future1:49:20 ausgesuchtestenohren - From an Old Tape (Uncanny) (excerpt)1:54:18 Leslie Keffer – Invocation~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
Incident On Deck Forty-ThreeThrough the black dome, CyDar watched as Hurford, R.J. #34-4563 and McCullen, J.M. #37-9863 arrived on the Lighthouse command deck together. Their files indicated a previous relationship. CyDar calculated that humans with an emotional bond would be an advantage.Jamilah McCullen checked the Situation Log.“There’s an incident logged just over eight hours ago, appears to be an impact of significance seven but no details. Odd.”Rob Hurford was scanning Engineering and Communication logs. “Several electrical and control systems have been automatically locked out and re-routed. That would suggest a hull breach. But there’s nothing major in the environment log, only a blip around the same time… suggests momentary tremor in a small area. CyDar, can you clarify?”The black dome pulsed with light from an internal LED. “Good morning, Captains Hurford and McCullen. I hope your revival has no negative indicators.” The voice was deep and feminine.“Aside from feeling like a two-day-old hangover, no,” said Jamilah. “Please report on the situation. The log is strangely deficit in detail.”“Admin Directive seven five three one states that two officers will be revived and will attend the command deck at regular intervals. Sequencing is random.”Rob checked another log. “This is not a regular interval. Human watch isn’t scheduled for nearly another week. And Captain McCullen has already served two watches on this tour. What about this incident report?”“Your tone indicates displeasure.”“More like surprise. I’m surprised that an apparent level seven impact - a possible hull breach - hasn’t generated more than a margin note in the logs. Aren’t you surprised, CyDar?”“It is… unanticipated.” There was a pause, uncomfortable by human standards, geological in computer terms. “I can gather no further data. All feeds from the affected area are dead.”“Are the feeds cut or blocked?”“Unable to confirm.”“Rob, we need to recce this, now.” Jamilah opened a locker and took out two pressure suits. They were designed for traversing vacuum-affected areas in a gravity-positive vessel, not for deep space work, so weren’t much harder to don and work in than a jump suit. Since the Lighthouse was largely automated or inert, most of it was unpressurised. Breathable air was too valuable a resource to fill a whole station, and it was corrosive. Their reservoirs held an hour of air and could be refilled from points throughout the station. She passed one to Rob, brushing her hand against his. “I’m glad it’s you. I’ve missed you.”He nodded. “Me too, you look great when you’ve just woken up.” They finished suiting up and she gave the cut-throat signal to leave their comms turned off. They pressed their faceplates together so that the suits could conduct sound.“CyDar is being evasive. What do you make of it?”“Not sure. The logs are generated in real time. I suppose they could have been tampered with. She doesn’t seem to be fully aware of the cause. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.” They kissed through the carbonate faceplates and turned their comms on.“Testing comms and video feed. Are you receiving us, CyDar?”“Affirmative, Captain Hurford. Full signal strength verified.”“Wish us luck.”“Hopefully so unreliable a system of chance will not be required, Captain McCullen.”“Amen to that, CyDar.”to be continued......(c) iamacamera 2022Image: Lexica.art
Somewhere I came across an AI-generated track called 'Martini On Mars' which was okay. I did this to it.Image: Lexica.art
- Dexter GordonTrack list and start times:00:00 Bert I. Gordon – The Magic Sword Trailer02:33 Zane Trow – 90905:20 Pink Lemonade – Charm14:52 Arrowounds – Spectral Colours of Science23:17 Filet Trio Quartet – improvidence26:35 Isolated Community – Sightless Windows32:30 Emiter – Luftkurort 139:09 Nocturnal Emissions – Ch'i Tor42:32 VESSITT – Fallen Dusk48:55 Pettaluck – Balon Balon54:00 Michiko Ogawa – shizukana hikari (excerpt)1:03:35 Asher Levitas – Under Leith1:06:45 Hildur Guðnadóttir – Melody of Not Knowing1:09:32 Lavatone – imaginary friends1:18:20 Isolated Community – Connections That Exist1:25:53 Asher Levitas – From Dust1:30:48 Martina Berther, Philipp Schlotter – Lookout1:39:04 Matthias Puech – Polyphármakos1:45:45 Arrowounds – The Tunnel Giant Awakens1:52:22 Zane Trow – reverie1:57:05 Michiko Ogawa – ashimoto no uchuu (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: AphroditeAI
Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris – Widdershins II1:23:07 tetkik ve tedavi – the fall of the red dragonfly [ naviarhaiku614 ]1:27:37 windspace – Star Above The Peak - naviarhaiku6131:31:33 squidwerks – Bahkmut1:37:18 Wizards Warlocks Angel Dust – Aurum Horizontale1:47:35 Sowl – Where Ghosts Build Their Homei:56:08 Tuonela – 1111 divergence reverse remix~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” ― Lewis CarrollTrack list and start times:00:00 Night Note – anticipation of things to come04:23 Charlotte Dubois – Through the Looking Glass07:16 Anna von Hausswolff – Sacro Bosco12:55 KapTep – Naming the Sky18:00 Pierre Dutour – deer forest22:15 BinJa – Tree of Life27:15 Howard Shore – Greed (from Se7en)30:42 John Murphy – 28 Days Later - The Beginning33:38 Rosales – Matter42:25 Eric Angelo Bessel – Coming Around46:33 Jeff Surak – Spaces That Are Filled51:31 Scanner – Grain Stress58:15 Anna von Hausswolff – The Whole Woman (ft. Iggy Pop)1:02:30 Tim Olive – M(TEM) 61:08:00 Ullapul – Amiens1:11:46 Charlotte Dubois with Philippe Brodu – Tubular Bells (Theremin Variation)1:15:52 Well and Llanpsych – The Ox1:20:07 Trevor Bastow – Applied Science (take 1)1:23:06 Shrine Maiden – Dream of Home1:27:55 BinJa – Bloodline1:33:28 Rick Sanders – Lethe1:40:40 Lydian Dunbar – Dust Motor Full1:46:22 Yorkshire Modular Society – Beneath the Hanging Sky (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
Viridescence2:10:50 Tomonari Nozaki – Faded Violet2:20:15 Tuonela – Jonkin (ambient remix)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
Relief – Shifting Horizons48:15 Serena Gabriel – Celestial Diadem54:55 Stan Magendanz – Lutiveq Part 11:02:47 Dionisaf – Pollination1:06:21 Walter Fini – Deconstruction Reconstruction1:14:21 Snakeskin – Olive groves1:19:56 Gregg Skloff – Conveyed1:28:27 Hawkwind – The Black Sea1:29:35 Philippe Deschamps – In the Wake of Ceres1:33:44 Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt – Short Poem for Aretha Cooper1:38:36 wellenhafen – FM SQ FX EX1:44:10 Stan Magendanz – Lutiveq Part 41:52:10 windspace – Drawing The Autumn Light - naviarhaiku6121:56:32 Serena Gabriel – Izar (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image:Lexica.art
Made for Naviar Records' 614th Haiku ChallengeIncludes a re-worked version of an old, old track of mine which contains traces of the beautiful piano of Dave Greening. https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/dave-greenings-numb-the-water
“Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles..” ― Dalai Lama XIVTrack list and start times:00:00 Jonny Greenwood – Moon Trills (from ‘Bodysong’)05:09 insectarium & The Black Monolith – An Ear Of Grain In Silence Reaped10:02 Oubys – Holosphere21:33 Martina Testen & Simon Šerc – Stratus29:12 Robert Knote – dry times31:19 Ancient Sloth Firmware – Space Weed36:27 Sándor Vály – Bardo Thodol I48:34 Thomas Newman – A Dead Girl Wakes (from ‘The Little Things’)53:08 zYklen – Roanoke57:47 Stan Magendanz – Ambient Bite 5921:04:48 Humanfobia – 3AM_Caller1:07:57 Barefoot – Unseen Objects1:12:40 Arvin Dola – Act Of Heresy1:18:01 bob bucko JR – I Became a Baby Again & the Universe Forgave Me1:29:54 Jonny Greenwood – Peartree (from ‘Bodysong’)1:32:57 Lea Bertucci – Sister of Sleep1:43:50 insectarium & Film Score Project – Invaders at the Wall1:50:35 Anne Versailles – Thinking of us1:53:56 Thomas Newman – End of the World (from ‘The Little Things’)1:56:15 Rutger Zuydervelt & Nina Hitz – Havenkerk, 13 September 2025, Set 2 (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.artWith many thanks to Soundclouders, The institute of Spectrasonic Sound and A Duck In A Tree for ideas, rabbit holes and earworms
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." - Mark TwainTrack list and start times:00:00 Pye Corner Audio – Lake Deep Memory08:24 Janek Schaefer – White Lights of Divine Darkness (for Sir John Tavener)15:38 Elisabeth Klinck – One Day19:32 Mariska Baars & Rutger Zuydervelt – eau (excerpt)23:12 Amelia Cuni and Werner Durand – Byss32:33 Debroc – Anarchic_Naviarhaiku60835:05 Human Greed – In Absentia39:40 Rick Sanders – The Sound of Ice Voids (from Noctilucent Clouds)44:49 zenbytes – prohibited grounds - Naviarhaiku60549:52 Photosphere, Unusual Cosmic Process – Colours Of The Sky52:38 The Asynchronous Drone Orchestra[s] – 13th September 2025 (excerpt)56:55 Martina Berther, Philipp Schlotter – Lookout1:05:30 von jeglichem wort – nun versteht man bereits etwas von der gewalt der bewegtheit (excerpt)1:12:00 Mr_Lamppost – The Sadness Of Things (naviarhaiku - 609)1:21:10 Akmuo – Language of the Clouds1:31:19 DarkSonicTales – «UnKnown»1:45:54 Lightning White Bison – Side B (equinox fallout - perhaps a country - crystal mouth - mammal melody) (excerpt)1:50:20 Ingrid N – Morrivaan (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~With thanks to The Institute of Spectra-Sonic Sound for so many good ideas…
This assignment fitted with the track I was working on at the time, a single-take improv on a recent Naviar Haiku Challenge track. I simply added some reverb to mask a couple of misjudged moments and a “space” version courtesy of Abstract Chamber. I enhanced the fade-in and fade-out which were a bit faint.The title is from Ray Bradbury’s “The Fog Horn”“I'll make me a sound and an apparatus and they'll call it a Fog Horn and whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity and the briefness of life."----------------------------------------------There is just one step this week. You’re now recording music under the name Dense Fog Advisory. Record a new track, appropriate to your name.More on the 716th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Dense Fog Advisory — The Assignment: That’s your band’s name; now record something — at https://disquiet.com/0716/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
“This is not your average, everyday darkness. This is… ADVANCED darkness.” — SpongeBob SquarepantsTrack list and start times:00:00 Robin Carolan – Seeress (from ‘The Northman’)03:18 Vincent Eoppolo – Triptych (featuring Mario Sboarina)07:47 Third Ear Band – Egyptian Book of the Dead16:22 Adam Majdecki-Janicki – Gorczyn Forever Jazz Aftermath24:18 Bob Rutman and Arran Poole – Dresden30:45 Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke – lia37:56 Hand To Earth – Wata Dhärranhayŋu47:11 Les Baxter – Sunken City50:00 Madeleine Cocolas – Parthenon54:41 Arthur King – Ned's Mystery Machine Vol. 1 (excerpt)1:00:09 Hekla – Flækjur1:06:18 Mike Lazarev – Temporal Echoes of Sacred Tonalities1:13:14 Robin Carolan – Last Teardrop (from ‘The Northman’)1:16:26 Aki Onda – Screen Test1:23:04 The Sabres Of Paradise – Chapel Street Market 9am1:30:02 Madeleine Cocolas – Past The Floodline1:35:20 Paul Minesweeper – Watch The World's Embers1:40:28 Timo Kaukolampi & TAL – Full moon improvisation 27-4-20211:50:10 Nathan Johnson – War (from ‘Brick’)1:54:12 Vode – Green Judgement2:04:09 Ujif_notfound – Peace Your Tranquility2:07:14 Michael Valentine West – a black ship, conflicting versions of events (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” ― Edgar Allan PoeTrack list and start times:00:00 Tomo-Nakaguchi – Twilight Glow of the Sky (Autistici Suspended Remix)04:44 Sven Laux & Logic Moon – A Cascade Made Of Stars09:35 Rumore – la_fine_del_mondo15:24 Larry Toadman – the shipwreck19:32 Alexandra Spence – The Frequency of a Leaf26:51 Colin Andrew Sheffield – Invocation32:15 Felicity Mangan – Cello Figures40:31 Areliz Ramos – Blue, very43:28 Larry Toadman – ancient well48:04 Lee Morse – Dallas Blues51:10 Mesmo – Xamana Sugaropa55:20 Offthesky – Eyes Like Isles1:01:52 Sara Cubarsi & Xenia Gogu – Bach Tunings by Marc Sabat1:07:55 Worksite & Workshop – Carreira's Cross1:14:21 Sebby Kowal – Ikebukuro1:22:00 Crows Labyrinth – Heliograph1:28:32 Kleistwahr – Requiem For The Fallen1:34:38 Offthesky – Exhale Incandescent1:42:15 Rumore – Mondo Cane1:45:40 Jeans Beast – Mystique ll (excerpt)1:56:06 Marc Dauncey – rem sleep~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Images: Lexica.art
"To see the lingering ember of humanity in the most corrupt. This is the truest form of mercy." – Grahame, Realms UnravelledTrack list and start times:00:00 evergreen avenue – Maybe If I Really Tried with All of My Heart (excerpt)05:10 Mads Emil Nielsen – Vibrations12:09 Zoë Keating – Empty Field14:08 Deadman's Ghost – Chthonic Currents17:28 Hand To Earth – Gaḏayka23:18 Lavatone – Rain Lashes30:28 Donald Gisbey – Jazz - Punk - Seagull40:11 John Murphy & Underworld – Mercury (from ‘Sunshine’)42:10 Peter Chilvers – A Frosted World44:47 Loop(c)y – Underground Walk48:00 Third Ear Band – Water54:45 Stan Magendanz – levetatha58:44 RNL – Anxiety Engine1:04:55 Himukalt – Sehr Empfindlich1:12:15 Marcin Lasek – Untitled 4 (excerpt)1:16:54 Passepartout Duo – From Narva1:21:19 Roberto Vodanović Čopor – I didn't even know that you had died1:27:15 Peter Chilvers – The Unbroken Sky1:32:16 Thalictroa – A Spiral Density Wave1:39:12 RNL – Anxiety Inhibitor1:45:00 Zoë Keating – The Last Bird1:46:52 Underworld – Distortions (from ‘Sunshine’)1:52:31 Passepartout Duo – From Taipei1:57:40 Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee – Spiral of Breath (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
The sax sounds are pinched from a fairly dreadful AI 'jazz' compilation, the rest from a 60s psychedelic album concerning the Zodiac.
This is made from https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensemble/then-she-reaches-for-the-gun-feather-hunt All of the good bits have been mashed by cheap software and turned into something that sounds like the mothership hovering above your outhouse on a hot night. Listen to the original and be truly blown away...
“The surface world may be as much a myth to the subterraneans as the underworld is to us.” ― Priscilla VogelbacherTrack list and start times:00:00 Anna Drubich – Down the Tunnel (from ‘Barbarian’)03:07 156 – Red Rooms07:55 Concepción Huerta – Magma como la vena en el territorio14:32 Jeff Gburek – The Bridge Of Many Shapes21:29 Dolores Mondo Stash – Streams of Compulsion25:18 The Spectral Light – Whisper Surgery33:19 Ariel Kalma – 244 Steps None Back 8440:42 Gimu – The Self Exile Of The Self47:29 Grand River – Tuning the Wind (excerpt)56:05 If, Bwana – Bleeding At Limelight1:01:52 Colin Andrew Sheffield – Sunrise1:05:55 Leslie Keffer – Bison Antiquus1:12:27 progettosonoro – Blood Moon (A tormented night)1:18:55 My Own Cubic Stone – subterranean1:27:28 Ryan Holladay, Hays Holladay & Zach Cregger –Where Are You? (from ‘Weapons’)1:31:26 Stan Magendanz – reyoreawn1:34:34 Green Tea – False Spring1:39:29 Philippe Neau + LR Friberg – Operation Sugar Rush (Emoji Soup)1:43:07 Audible Masticators – üpO'iuztc v1:46:55 The Silent North – Written in Sand1:51:02 Laurel Halo & Leila Bordreuil – Awe (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
History shows that increasing wealth inequality consistently precedes collapse – Dr Luke KempTrack list and start times:00:00 Caroline Shaw & Noreia String Quartet – The Beech Tree + The Orangery04:21 Norman Westberg – La Liege09:50 KapTep & Sebby Kowal – 404 Error Page Not Found14:50 Innovative Landscapes Laboratory – Catatonic Wandering19:37 Ambulatorio Segreto – Tragedia Nella Gelateria24:35 Cortex of Light – Exit Strategy28:29 Guru bobol – betache34:28 DARDIS – Street Wind, Brass Rain42:22 Anja Kreysing – desert haze46:56 Lawrence English – Another Body53:09 Barn Owl – The Darkest Night Since 16831:00:32 Ali Balighi – Electropoem In 39.29 Hz Nr. 21:02:59 h+ - With Stars For Eyes 1:08:45 Imaginary Softwoods – Eye Color1:13:54 Pier WILL – The Trees1:16:05 insectarium – Afarit1:23:20 Logic Moon – Abyss1:28:38 Her Menacing Pet – Red Museum1:35:11 Madeleine Cocolas – And Then I Watch It Fall Apart1:42:55 S Hollis Mickey – Cocoon (April 14)1:53:37 Logic Moon – Ashes1:57:30 Tuonela – Cobweb pines~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
"However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” ― Stanley KubrickTrack list and start times:00:00 S Hollis Mickey – Cocoon (February 16)09:30 Thomas Köner – Meta Incognita15:52 Loop(c)y – On The Threshold Of The Invisible19:35 Pedro Oliveira and Morgan Sully – Hind's Lament27:50 Banabila & Machinefabriek – Bad Wiring34:28 Chaperone – morose vandal the white-out memorial39:28 Sebedeus – On entering the age of final farewells43:54 Western Kill Company – Salt the Earth46:38 Simon Bridgestock – Terrariums49:32 Black Vines – Glass Memory56:04 The Asynchronous Drone Orchestra[s] – 19th July 2025 (excerpt)1:01:10 Grey Frequency – Midwinter (MMXX)1:09:02 Ingrid N & the Ambient Hermit – Soul Echoes from a Forgotten Era (excerpt)1:18:40 Max Andrzejewski – Mythos II: Aüe1:24:35 Robert Carl – Updraft1:33:52 Seasons (pre-din) – Untitled 81:42:00 Stan Magendanz – eybolutin1:45:00 Six Microphones – part 4 (excerpt)1:49:26 William Fowler Collins – Slow Motion Prayer Circle1:54:48 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Where You End And I Begin~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
Another old private track getting a new release. This was also made as part of a group project back in 2014, from a track by https://soundcloud.com/timheld. Also involved were https://soundcloud.com/lizanicklin and https://soundcloud.com/djrelish, who wove the whole thing together.
A reimagining/mangling/redistribution of https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/it-takes-more-than-one-person
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac AsimovTrack list and start times:00:00 Doris Dennison – Earth Interval: II. Air Tide03:10 Francesco Bosa – Preludio notturno al silenzio, Parte 206:15 Mark Harris – I Am a Long Way from Home11:00 Ivons & Senglar – Strings Attached13:35 Ed Mundio – By the Light Of The Milky-Way (NaviarHaiku 601)17:38 Megalophobe – Solenoid25:18 Pink Lemonade – Radioactive33:29 Anne-James Chaton, Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides – Ecrire Un Phrase38:19 Plague Clock – Jacob's Ladder40:34 Rumblin Cynth Rampo – Hiatus rescinded49:35 Strange Relish & 27 other SC artists – 28 (2011)57:11 TimHeld - Hospital Waiting Room Revisited59:35 Francesco Bosa – Preludio notturno al silenzio, Parte 11:03:24 Dead Lincoln – glow tone1:07:14 Stan Magendanz – Power without the suit_021:12:25 tourmaline hum – Vacant Possession1:18:30 Voidborn Horde – Milky Way Calling (naviarhaiku601)1:24:18 wellenhafen – Stories1:29:00 Snoqualmie Falls – Dream Sequence (excerpt)1:41:20 Walter Marchetti – De Musicorum Infelicitate (Variazione V)1:47:00 Tuonela – The unknowing of all things~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
Cleaning out some old private tracks and found a few items of varying interest. This was made as part of a group project back in 2014, from a track by https://soundcloud.com/timheld. Also involved were https://soundcloud.com/lizanicklin and https://soundcloud.com/djrelish, who wove the whole thing together.
Time is a thief who steals everything away, but fills the void with unexpected gifts. ~ iamacameraTrack list and start times:00:00 Belial Pelegrim – TAFFETA | 23605:58 James Eller – It's Beautiful Mike, It Really Is11:34 Kris Keogh – I held on so tight as our whole world disintegrated17:14 Maria W Horn – Oinones Death Pt I (from EPIPHANIES)22:47 Alessandro Cortini & Lawrence English – Immediate Horizon 331:09 Christian Wittman – Japanese Garden36:09 Monika Pich – Slowmotion A (excerpt)41:05 Project Transmissions – At Dusk46:25 Boundary Objects – SONG 103 - NaviarHaiku59849:32 Jimmy Lem – You Some Ugly Child (disquiet0705)52:46 Mesmo – Yecidera Ondiver57:03 a death cinematic – Of Their Grandest Features Upon Rapture And Despair1:06:33 Miki Yui – Ur1:12:18 Noodlemeister – Midnight Caller1:20:07 Rsn & Baltzer – aporia 1.41:28:36 Pythyrsus – Daultide Minglesip Sirupill1:34:08 Wivresse ᚂ Kinsâme – Tsuki no egao – Kinsâme1:37:08 Amosphère – Teleportation (excerpt)1:41:20 Children of the Bong – Symbiotic1:48:06 there are no birds here – hechten1:54:25 Tuonela – Improvisation on Father Time And The Clockwork Homunculus by GrevusAnjl (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image:Lexica.art
“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.” ― Aldo LeopoldTrack list and start times:00:00 Simon Boswell – Hardware (Opening Titles)04:54 Alexandre Navarro – Liturgie08:00 [ówt krì] – Abandoned Wasteland15:53 Miquel Parera – QAD-2013-05-13_20_34_18-Stereo24:26 von jeglichem wort – eine schoenere notwendigkeit kettet jetzt die geschlechter zusammen (excerpt)32:05 Lauré Lussier – Rondo (excerpt)39:46 Dionisaf – Miyabi43:40 itwasthewires, Marco Lucchi & Jacques Lemaire – Massif du Vercors ] [ Sustain52:50 Roberto Vodanović Čopor – Empty land57:52 Simonel – Hidden Path1:02:10 Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music, Pt. 1 (excerpt)1:08:02 Wahn – A Long Journey Part 11:13:01 Haggari Nakashe – EXPLORING NOISE (excerpt)1:19:51 Sonologyst – Blue Neptune1:23:08 eardrops – AUX Minor1:26:55 Vincent Eoppolo – The Struggling Artist (feat Silvia Pepe)1:32:05 ToyToy & Cryxuss – Live at Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio (excerpt)1:37:59 Stan Magendanz – keatuesea1:42:10 Verloren Schatten – The Twelve Caesars1:54:07 Wahn – House of the Undying1:59:01 Simonel – Fourtrack Tape Experiment2:03:32 A Million Burning Suns – The Scent of Sepals~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica.art
Made for Naviar Records' 599th Haiku ChallengeTa-no-Kami (田の神) is an agricultural deity, or kami, who is believed to observe the harvest of rice plants or to bring a good harvest, by Japanese farmers. Ta in Japanese means "rice fields". Ta-no-Kami is also called Noushin (kami of agriculture) or kami of peasants. Ta-no-Kami shares the kami of corn, the kami of water and the kami of defense, especially the kami of agriculture associated with mountain faith and veneration of the dead (faith in the sorei). Ta-no-Kami in Kagoshima Prefecture and parts of Miyazaki Prefecture is unique; farmers pray before Ta-no-Kami stone statues in their communities.
First there was https://soundcloud.com/user-260441121/zone-cruiser-directing-demons?in=user-260441121/sets/directing-demonsThen I did this to it, at Zone Feeder's invitation. Twice. This is the combined result, with much accidental stuff left in.
“But at my back in a cold blast I hearThe rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear”― T.S. Eliot, The Waste LandTrack list and start times:00:00 RoB Love – Burn (fr Gretel and Hansel)02:52 Mean Flow – Diversity Against Stupidity08:00 Loo(c)y – Lioness Star12:46 Anne Sulikowski – rearranging our personalities while we are sleeping16:31 Brighter Death Now – There Is Nothing Left in This World22:15 Fabio Fabor – Computer Landscape27:54 Joseph Marzolla & Vera Solvadottir – Black Bunny31:37 Adam from Mu – Dingo34:55 EIII – Refraction 238:34 Grey Frequency – Frost Flowers44:49 Hugo32 – Ambient DeepMind 6 M 7905 4:00 08-06-202548:32 Pauline Anna Strom – Spatial Spectre55:15 The Black Swan Triad – FIRE (excerpt)59:26 Winterwood – Dawn Inhabitants1:08:04 Ian Hawgood – Kisu1:17:15 Spectrical – Electromagnetic pools1:24:36 øjeRum – Tactic1:31:24 Anne Sulikowski – witches1:36:26 Hanrath & Fialkiewicz – Floral Love1:43:59 PureData – construct_11 (excerpt)1:51:41 Xorgett – Reversed Pareidolia2:04:49 Ben Link Collins - Imagine Being (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” ― Guy de MaupassantTrack list and start times:00:00 Jake Muir – Siren's Call04:31 Ecclesiastical Scaffolding – Heavy Lies The Afternoon Heat10:14 Belial Pelegrim – TAFFETA | 23416:54 Amby Downs – Garrawang Biderap Black Field Cricket Mating Song (Excerpt)21:48 Object Collection – Disappear By Fire25:26 Pharmakon – Nakedness of Need31:38 claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmofind – yourself in a hole on the beach36:06 Erik Griswold & Rebecca Cunningham – Sounding Tides42:20 Loop(c)y - Afterglow Of Memory45:36 Ambient Annie – When The Gale Has Passed52:08 Hari Maia – Static Eyes58:29 Lost Ether – Mavis and Roland have a Picnic1:02:25 Throbbing Gristle – Exotic Functions1:06:35 Velvet Something Superdark – Those Were The Days1:11:09 Mat Ward – Caligo Paean (excerpt)1:25:03 Jake Muir – Spectre's Bonfire1:31:28 Jimmy Lem – Downstream Procrastination1:34:43 vheissu77 – hazy rays (naviarhaiku592)1:39:50 Cadlag – Integral (excerpt)1:45:44 Deaf Center – Rev (edit)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From the recent release “Anthology Of Experimental Music From Australia” from Unexplained Sounds Grouphttps://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-experimental-music-from-australia
This was included in the Anthology Of Experimental Music From Australia, released by Unexplained Sounds Group https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-experimental-music-from-australiaThanks Raffaele, really enjoying the listen! :)
“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music, you can reach anybody. Between the two, there is you, unstoppable.” ― Grace SlickTrack list and start times:00:00 Bear McCreary – The House (from Eli)04:50 Loo(p)cy – The Secret Cave08:54 Ian Holloway – A Simple Triad of Known Things16:07 Matthias Engelke – Metamorphose25:20 Gonçalo F. Cardoso – Réplica(s)28:01 Mike Cooper & Pierre Bastien – Return To Chagos37:51 People Like Us – LSD Cha Cha40:57 The Dead Mauriacs – Souvenirs d'une feuille d'aluminium bien peignée45:00 Zyklen – Kuialnyk Estuary50:45 Hideki Umezawa – Dokkyaku (Excerpt)57:45 Chelidon Frame – A Monogram1:03:27 The British Space Group – Under Another Sky1:09:06 Miguel A García – Lákhesis1:12:52 Christina Giannone – Reality Opposition 11:20:37 Monopoly Child Star Searchers – Prince of Parrot Shooters 31:26:28 The Maintainer – Conclusions Enter View1:29:33 People Like Us – Hymn to Collage (Buttress Mix)1:37:31 halF unusual & Robert Knote – second third down (disquiet0698)1:39:29 Plague Clock – Aapo1:42:34 Wukir Suryadi – Pikiran dan kepentingan1:45:26 Wilfried Hanrath &Meccaniche del Sueno – Mechanics of Dreams1:50:05 Grune Maar – Lost1:55:42 Pietro Zollo – Mindful State~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Lexica
“Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.” ― Roger ZelaznyTrack list and start times:00:00 Edo De Waart & Sydney Symphony Orchestra – Rain Tree (Takemitsu)11:20 Damian Valles – Ridge And Furrow20:20 Autistici – Debris Flow24:10 Colin Andrew Sheffield – 329:47 irr. app. (ext.) – Isolation Fragments 2021-01-2635:50 Lavatone – Vessel (the chosen one) (excerpt)42:45 Machinefabriek – Crumble (excerpt)51:20 Sadie Powers – Soft Materials- Permanent Rose59:10 Velvet Underground – Venus In Furs (Demo) (excerpt)1:03:56 Salome Voegelin – Moving Stones1:12:04 Arturo Meza, Arturo Romo & Jose Alvarez – Hilozoizmo 1(excerpt)1:20:56 Miguel A García – Vaulce1:28:25 Ayami Suzuki – Rebirth (excerpt)1:36:31 Plague Clock – Being Microwaved1:40:25 Locus Sonus – Locustream- An Audio Tardis1:48:43 No Mates Ensemble – Aporia #41:53:35 Autistici – Attaching Softness To A Shell2:02:20 Marc Neys – Doubtfull Wings2:07:04 Stan Magendanz – tobethofle2:10:02 Stefan Strasser & Aoki Satoru – Jorgen2:14:44 Velvet Something Superdark – Ariel2:22:28 David Lynch & Marek Zebrowski – Night (Interiors) (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Horror. The spiral birth factory, stepped terraces of the hatching cells, blind jaws of the unborn moving ceaselessly, the staged progress from egg to larva, near-wasp, wasp.” ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
Ere long intelligence—transmitted without wires—will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. ~ Nikola TeslaTrack list and start times:00:00 Adam Badí Donoval – substituting a solid eternity purchased with knowledge for the sweet song of participating in eternity07:16 Daniele Marx – Wild violets (naviarhaiku582)11:51 Eliad Wagner - 10114:56 Kris Keogh – I held on so tight as our whole world disintegrated20:34 David Evans – Upswing Spiral25:33 leon clowes – neither snow (naviarhaiku584)31:19 Aperture – Read Me a Poem35:19 ■David Wallraf – Forge[t] Everything39:44 Myriad Deaths – Oneyearofsilence46:25 Silicon Transmitter – Gain50:35 Strange Forces – Midnight Plumage1:01:46 William Frederick Davidson – Sonic fog1:05:10 human gazpacho – automation and robotics1:09:33 David Heath – water meter reader1:11:44 KAOS – Lands End1:15:42 Marco Lucchi & Pietro Zollo – The Golden Eternity [fragmented]1:24:20 soundpainter – Abstract 11:31:10 UmU – behind the curtains1:35:08 Stan Magendanz – iorakeme_021:38:15 Zreen Toyz - The Pink Gutter On The Pink Wall1:43:22 Nul Tiel Curates – Gallimaufry (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.” ― N.K. Jemisin~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Track list and start times:00:00 Malady of Knots – Roads like seas like fossilised thought (excerpt)04:50 Ramón Sánchez – Orbiting Mendacem13:39 Night Note – The past, immutable (Naviarhaiku 588 )19:05 Andrew Lang – Regime Shift24:14 Pendro – Red Veils and Black Sands29:22 Kazuya Ishigami – kiii37:30 Helena Espvall / Ernesto Diaz-Infante / Marjorie Sturm – night in our eyes44:21 fr0ggy5 – my father's antique cowbells FOUR46:42 Ian Craig – Ghost of the Radiophonic Workshop on LV-426 (Emporium Edit v8c) (excerpt)56:02 Laboratorium Expiravit – Wormhole Freedive1:02:53 Battle Elf – Behind the Wilderness1:12:30 Plague Relic – Storm Wizards Madness1:16:44 Kloob & Onasander – Khthon1:23:33 Monogoto – In Situ - Upper Air (deletion 19)1:31:01 vheissu77 – touching the water (naviarhaiku581)1:35:05 Kazuya Ishigami – Cancel Again1:40:00 loscil – Lake Fire1:46:47 Jaime Munarriz – The Little Travels Of Delia Derbyshire1:49:57 Jonah Segers – Mesozoïcun1:53:34 Helena Espvall / Ernesto Diaz-Infante / Marjorie Sturm – we fall into heaven2:05:34 Un Festin Sagital – Bajo un Sol Inclemente2:23:00 T – Endmix~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.” ― Lin YutangTrack list and start times:00:00 Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari – Neptune Desert Sounds03:04 Loo(p)cy – Still Here Tonight06:43 John Hyatt and Tom Hyatt – I had a Dream where I was a Raven10:09 La Main Traumatique – Inverse Circulaire16:19 Keijo – Anywhere Here21:17 Philippe Petit – Humanum Est24:58 Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana – The Current Below34:02 Pacha Wakay Munan & Orieta Chrem – Agua, Cuarzo y Viento39:04 Zoe Keating – Legions (Aftermath)45:18 Syrinx – Turning53:35 Adi Newton – Intercepted Quantum Entanglement Transmission1:00:19 Jochen Arbeit – Skates (pt2)1:09:43 Noise Research vs Fonik – Electricity Never Underestimate It1:15:12 Michael Giles Mad Band with Keith Tippett – Why Not1:20:22 Paul Leonard-Morgan – Ma-Ma's Requiem (from ‘Dredd')1:23:40 RicHard – Déjà vu1:28:27 Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari – Nabta Calling1:30:16 Susan Matthews with Clutter – Ships Will Leave1:38:55 Patricia Gurband – Unbreak1:42:32 Richard Bégin – Juin 18311:48:24 Paul Leonard-Morgan – The Sacred and the Profane1:52:37 Roger Roger – Rhapsody In Green II Luxuriance (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star.” ~ EinsteinTrack list and start times:00:00 Microfiche – The Arrow That Never Fell Back to Earth11:00 Mr Andrew's Garden – The Stars Above Looking Down14:22 Sara Persico – Exit18:33 Yoko Ono & The Great Learning Orchestra – Overtone Piece23:39 Giulio Aldinucci – The Overturned Abacus29:25 Loo(p)cy – Blossoms And Symbols33:06 Phill Niblock & Arne Deforce – Harm (excerpt)40:43 Pier WILL – AUDI-R_21144:54 Joy Moughanni – For A Moment, We Stopped To Listen52:55 75 Dollar Bill – 15 (YASI)58:18 Loo(p)cy – Falling In The Sacred Vortex1:01:41 David Wallraf – La Nuova Periferia1:08:38 Purple Trap – The Stone, Part II (Live)1:13:09 Schneider TM – Pluralität1:20:58 the moon is a spaceship – badger hormones by the mountain sound1:28:58 nullwizard – improvisation i1:32:53 Kammerflimmer Kollektief – Sechstes Kapitel (herausgewunden)1:37:25 Stan Magendanz – Syntonologae1:42:00 William Fowler Collins – The Church Steps in Montreuil1:57:33 Gil Sanson – Argument In The Shower~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization — you can't just swallow it whole. ― Frank ZappaTrack list and start times:00:00 zenbytes – curve of time [Naviarhaiku577]02:50 Western Skies Motel – Myriads08:47 A Million Burning Suns – The Human Brains14:46 halF unusual – halF unrunG [disquiet0682]16:55 restjbo – Koyaanisqatsi20:42 Steven Ray – Contemplating My Resolve26:36 Terry Mullett – violets in D♭ (naviarhaiku582)31:53 Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor - Camera37:37 Skidtmads – Vaarbrud43:23 Pierre Boulez – Etudes I sur un son (1951)45:57 SÍLENÍ – The Inevitable End50:40 Anna McMichael and Clocked Out – Peak Plastique54:30 Hablamos Muertos – Haliade-x 59:48 Kurt Liedwart – Volta1:07:30 Ashera – In The Beginning1:13:38 Mean Flow – March Equinox1:18:36 noise cluster – spirit of a black spring1:22:39 A Million Burning Suns – The Scent of Sepals1:28:40 philippe neau & Eye-P – meguerir1:31:42 Pink Lemonade – Deep Blue Wind1:35:45 Night Note – The Nibelungen Saga1:41:32 vheissu77 – heron on the rocks (naviarhaiku576)1:47:16 Laszlo Umbreit, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat – there1:53:17 Ajna – Suspended In The Ringing Darkness~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: Tuonela
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”― Lao TzuTrack list and start times:00:00 Ivan Black – A Need To Understand09:28 LLIAN – Torpeur23:24 Marc-Andre Labelle – orb hovering above flower28:27 Senglar – Cdenza30:12 David Lee Myers – xenomorph36:32 Gallery Six – Sousyun42:06 Hüma Utku – Ayaz'a46:56 Plastikman – Passage (Out)49:34 Emmanuel Fauconnier – Mosaique (Excerpt)58:25 Herz Aus Glas – Wolfskehl1:05:55 Loo(p)cy – Countinuous Ecstasy1:09:16 Martin Hoogeboom – EARTHBOUND (5)1:13:52 encym – Lotric1:20:36 Asmus Tietchens · David Lee Myers – Arc 011:24:44 Ed Mundio – Sweeping up Time (NaviarHaiku 573)1:30:53 Hüma Utku – A House Within A House1:36:59 Zelienople – Make The Whole Town Decay1:42:09 Seth Nehil – Glen1:49:34 Sissy Spacek – Web of Unfolding Appearance1:59:21 YellowStraps – Drowse2:01:26 Stan Magendanz – vayovoorth_012:08:04 progettosonoro – Aurora Robealis~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Image: sahc999, deviantart
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” ― H.G. WellsTrack list and start times:00:00 Henry Mancini & His Orchestra – Banzai Pipeline02:30 Martin Pavey & Ben Wheatley – Metallic Fields 1 (Full Version) · 12:27 Gonçalo F Cardoso – Medusa Lake16:44 Natasha Barrett-- The Swifts of Pesaro22:40 Ausgesuchtestenohren – Purgatory30:29 LunGao – Mathematical Realism34:01 Wulfin Lieske & William Barton – Djilile41:56 400 Lonely Things – Many Ran48:41 Guy Birkin –Tintinnabuli Mathematica 3c-C51:58 Cathy Berberian – A Hard Day's Night53:37 Luke Slater – Excalibur’s Radar59:17 Woodern Spoon – Untitled 2:221:01:29 Tuonela – Night lights in the high desert1:06:36 KapTep – Losing Yourself in the Answer1:11:56 Jeroen Tel – Tintin on the Moon1:15:33 Helena Czajka – Imagenet1:19:34 Colin Offord – Last Of The Night1:21:52 evergreen avenue – Automatic Sensors in the President's Skull (excerpt)1:48:07 Hekla – Inni1:52:23 LunGao – VioletCarpet1:55:08 Sebby Kowal – Miyashita Park~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Over an over-reverbed version of the track was laid another which was progressively degraded using Audacity effects such as tempo shift, Paulstretch, delay and sliding stretch/pitch shift. A few degraded extracts were overlaid to add to the feeling of decay.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart.Create a new piece of music by employing the provided recording as source material. The goal for your piece is that it should make the Ravel sound like it is falling apart — that is, like it is unraveling, or un-Ravel-ing.More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
“The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria RilkeTrack list and start times:00:00 Alex Roth – Amoeba (from ‘Viscera’)03:47 Wonder City Orchestra – Islander08:27 Suso Sáiz – Floating Into The Avalanche13:52 Then She Reaches For The Gun – Diaphanousness24:30 Ajna – Violet River (Two Suns)31:41 Barton & Priscilla McLean – Voices Of The Invisible37:35 Eiko Ishibashi – Evil Does Not Exist V.243:23 Atticus Ross – Panoramic (from The Book Of Eli)50:12 Lisa Lerkenfeldt – In A Room Clouded By Smoke58:34 Piscean Daydreams – Like Tears in Rain1:03:21 Seaworthy & Matt Rösner – Porcupine Stream1:09:26 Waning End – The Mirror Speaks1:13:35 tamtam – Standby1:17:55 Perila – You Disappear You Find Yourself Again1:25:16 Loo(p)cy – Ethereal Jungle1:28:30 Alex Roth – Hotel Azores (from ‘Viscera’)1:30:54 Blanket Swimming – Empty1:36:14 Indiana Drones – Indiana Drones Part 21:40:39 Ivory Trade & False Moniker – Mirror Image1:45:06 Loo(p)cy – On The Threshold Of The Invisible1:48:42 Hannes Strobl – Diffraction (excerpt)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want. – David H. LevyTrack list and start times:00:00 Night Of The Comet – Intro01:20 Nicholas Britell – The Comet Appears04:01 Pier WILL – Simplicity07:39 Jonathan Beckenstein & Wodwo – The Go-Between12:31 33per – Wordless (naviarhaiku532)15:28 Theo Nugraha – Museum Tua18:25 Compound Bunker – All Devouring Frozen Cavern23:02 halF unusuaL – halF burninG [naviarhaiku567]27:07 Cryxuss – after the fall (naviarhaiku566)30:07 Helen St. John – Love Theme From “Flashdance”33:09 Mr_Lamppost – Waters Unseen - (naviarhaiku - 570)42:43 Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord – Kosmisk Strålning50:37 Lesion – Arrival56:58 Machinefabriek – Verpulver1:00:14 Nicholas Britell – The Call1:02:31 Ray Cobley – Lake and Billowing Cloud (naviarhaiku581)1:07:11 synkrotron – arbitrary1:16:44 Mire & Ana Gagulidze – Live at CONVERGENCE 41:27:54 Paul Beaudoin – Amber1:32:57 Stan Magendanz – Wionys vings1:37:00 Soloi Sounds – Syllables1:40:00 PUCEMOMENT – llotropia 1:48:49 Alessio Dutto – Dentro I1:58:39 Tuonela - Endmix~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.” ― Jack KerouacTrack list and start times:00:00 Jim Tetlow – Core & Smeltery (2023 Mix)07:26 Night Note – Mount Asama (Naviarhaiku 579)11:37 Michael D. Tidwell & Piscean Daydreams – Faint Whisper of a Wraith15:57 Ambient Annie – Improvisation For Guitar And Assorted Ambience20:10 insectarium – hagridden25:56 Pacific Walker – Rainbow Bodies of Light32:28 Scott Lawlor – Amidst the Young Leaves (naviar Haiku 579)40:00 Accasari – Terminus47:51 Elif Yalvaç · Saaramaija Zórawski – Mielimaisema52:24 Virus2020 – Sufi56:10 Hui Panggabean Firman – Thalvol Swell Tamer59:09 Alva Svoboda, Randy Greif – Deep In The Mess Of Night1:03:34 Bad Command Unit – Silent Awakening (excerpt)1:15:47 Joke Lanz And Thomas Rehnert – Combination Without Repetition (excerpt)1:24:10 Then She Reaches for the Gun – I Am Never Freer Than When I Am With You1:27:36 Marco Lucchi & Paul Breaudoin – Dichterisch1:36:01 Voidborn Horde – Endless Descent (naviarhaiku564)1:40:07 Pascal Liguoro – Temps Perdu1:47:51 Puce Moment – Pitgam1:56:20 Spontaneous end mix – Tuonela~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DoomsdayThe idiot bird leaps out and drunken leansAtop the broken universal clock:The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.Out painted stages fall apart by scenesWhile all the actors halt in mortal shock:The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans.Streets crack through in havoc-split ravinesAs the doomstruck city crumbles block by block:The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.Fractured glass flies down in smithereens;Our lucky relics have been put in hock:The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans.The monkey's wrench has blasted all machines;We never thought to hear the holy cock:The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.Too late to ask if end was worth the means,Too late to calculate the toppling stock:The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans,The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.- Sylvia Plath 1954
This is composed solely of musical recordings of variable quality that I made during a tour of southern Spain in 2023; a National Day event in the square in Madrid, a religious parade through the streets of in Granada, a Flamenco show in Seville and the organ (and ambience) of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. I made a rough assembly last year, disliked it and left it. I’ve warmed to it, a bit – it’s now framed by the flamenco school recorded in Seville. All have been slightly treated/enhanced to varying degrees during the mixing process.You must see live flamenco before you die.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year.This project has just one step: finish something you started last year, likely a piece of music you left unfinished.More on the 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
I used the same recording I made in 2013. Multiple edited copies were stretched, pitch-changed, put through different types of reverb, reversed, cut-up and re-edited, all using Audacity effects and plugins. The Vocoder and Phaser got a look in too. ----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.Welcome to a new year of Disquiet Junto communal music projects. This week’s project is as follows. It’s the same project we’ve begun each year with since the very first Junto project, way back in January 2012. The project is, per tradition, just this one step:Step 1: Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.Background: Longtime participants in, and observers of, the Disquiet Junto series will recognize this single-sentence assignment — “Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it” — as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series back on the first Thursday of January 2012. Revisiting it at the start of each January ever since has provided a fitting way to begin the new year. By now, it qualifies as a tradition. A weekly project series can come to overemphasize novelty, and it’s helpful to revisit old projects as much as it is to engage with new ones. Also, by its very nature, the Disquiet Junto suggests itself as a fast pace: a four-day production window, a regular if not weekly habit. It can be beneficial to step back and see things from a longer perspective.More on the 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0679/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Over an existing drone I had made from the “quiet” ambience of my house I added three slightly different versions of a stretched treatment of an electronic version of the opening bars of the theme from Star Trek: Voyager.Also added was a long stretch made from the tonic chord of the theme, pitched an octave down, for a bit of gravitas.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Bury a slow melody deep inside a drone.Step 1: We did a drone project last week and it went well, so let’s do another one. You needn’t have done last week’s to do this week, as is always the case. Again, you may, yourself, be experienced recording drone music, or you may never have recorded any. You may not even be sure what drone music is, in which case read up a bit. Not matter your experience and familiarity, please give some thought as to what constitutes drone music.Step 2: Think about what makes a melody, even a very slow and simple melody, different from a drone.Step 3: Now record a piece of music that is, objectively, a deep drone, but somehow within it, somewhere well below the surface, include a slow-moving melody.More at https://disquiet.com/0676/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
By chance (always a favourite way for things to happen), I was working on just such a drone, ie developing complexity and then relinquishing it, when this dropped.Based on a very old abandoned project using a recording of Also Sprach Zarathustra. Not sure what was done to it originally (alright, I can’t remember), this mix added some duplicated passages pitched down, stretched slightly and repositioned in order to create tonal contrasts.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple.Step 1: You may, yourself, be experienced recording drone music, or you may never have recorded any. You may not even be sure what drone music is, in which case read up a bit. Not matter your experience and familiarity, please give some thought as to what constitutes drone music.Step 2: Now think about what makes a drone simple and what makes a drone complex.Step 3: Now record a piece of drone music that begins simple, gets complex, and then gets simple again. And note: The simple drone at the end needn’t necessarily be the same sort of drone with which the piece opens.More at https://disquiet.com/0675/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Two simple drones, pitched the same, one evolving out of the other. The first is made from my own recording of a thunderclap during a Sydney rainstorm, the second from a recording of the ambience of my house when we are out and the animals are asleep..Minimal and mercifully short. Headphones recommended.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa.Just one step this week: Record a piece of music in which you make loud that which is usually quiet and quiet that which is usually loud.More at https://disquiet.com/0673/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
The source for this is a rather nice, minimal recording of [REDACTED]. Everything else is the work of the Devil, Paulstretch and assorted Audacity plugins and effects.PLAY LOUD!----------------------------------------------More at https://disquiet.com/0668/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Another witches’ brew of sound, lost and found. A drone track of uncertain origin mixed with a heavily mistreated recording of my dog howling, combined with three stretched and pitch-altered versions of a recording of brass sleigh bells treated with excessive amounts of delay and a few other Audacity plugins.Headphones suggested...----------------------------------------------More at https://disquiet.com/0667/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Based on recording of an anxious rehomed cocker spaniel awaiting our return and howling the place down... her name is Tully. We’ve had her for five days. She is still very anxious about the huge change in her life. This recording was made because I was curious to see if she howled when we went out for an hour or so without her. A big “yes”.I was going to do something a little more adventurous/interesting, but ended up just folding, compacting, cutting and reverbing a chunk of it. Also overlaid is a big furry sound. That’s the ambience of the house when she was silent. The odd ringing effect is because one track was pitched up and that5’s how it turned out – an Audacity accident.----------------------------------------------More on the 661st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Consumer Drone Product — The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home — at https://disquiet.com/0661/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
This uses the following sounds from freesound.org: 750214__nancy_sinclair__tranquil-and-deep-soundscape 750215__nancy_sinclair__mysterious-piano-ambience 750719__lukacafuka__mechanical-clock-tickingas well as a couple of my own.
This is all Mat's fault https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensembleI used all the 39 Playtime files, in sequence, then folded, processed and tweaked the resulting 2 hour track until... this.Sounds here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1E4neUpW0wVcf1z55iGyG6nBt10Muv1hm if you feel compelled to have a go.Thanks Mat! :)
This is based on a reprocessing of a track by anon8924, https://soundcloud.com/user-920947015/junius
I returned to a track from 2012 called ‘Glory’, a track which used the unique voice of Jessica Crespo (https://soundcloud.com/omnijess )to create something beyond my expectations.https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/gloryI have used the opening part of that to create this drone. I think it works as a ‘day drone’. Where darkness exists, light may also shine.----------------------------------------------More on the 647th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Drone — The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day — at https://disquiet.com/0647/The original image associated with this project is by Guillaume Pelletier, used with a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Made completely from https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/esatonale-5, a wonderful track!
“…as thawing permafrost dumps more of its massive supply of greenhouse gases into the air—warming the climate and melting even more carbon- and methane-emitting permafrost—an unstoppable feedback loop may be triggered, one that could ultimately turn the Arctic from a carbon sink that absorbs emissions to a carbon source.” ~ https://www.nrdc.org/stories/permafrost-everything-you-need-know
Made with and of and around https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/iogicia Another amazing track by Stan Magendanz
The Mutant Orchestra haven't been let out of their cavern for a long time. Possibly with good reason. Probably should have been more careful what or who I fed to them...
Longer version of a track made for Savage Narcotic's Ghetto Underground Collection vol. 9 9.5 hours! of music at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82UUpABIsG4Image: Lobo's Designs
https://soundcloud.com/kwilsonk and I exchanged a couple of tracks. Kwils sent me a very nice ambient track, perfectly good in its own right. It seemed a shame to alter it, but I did anyway :)And, check this out: https://soundcloud.com/kwilsonk/zynthing-tuonela-x-kwils
The more I read (and www.deeptrancenow.com is a good place to start), the more broadly I saw the concepts applying until I grew wings and, transformed, took flight. And then I woke up.This is the soundtrack to that dream.----------------------------------------------Step 1: There are, we’re told, seven stages of alchemy, the ancient occult science concerned with the transformation of matter. The third of these stages is “Separation,” which is symbolized by the element of air. Since air is closely associated with the transmission of sound, Separation suggests itself as a stage of alchemy that might be explored through music. Read up a bit on alchemy.Step 2: Produce a piece of alchemy-inspired music that explores the concepts of "transformation" and "separation" as you interpret them.More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
I returned to the ice I recorded in 2013 and approached it… differently. I put it through the Mangle, then chopped up the result, reversed and muti-tracked it a number of times and downpitched some by several octaves, boosting the bass as well as stretching some sections to create drones.Then did it all over again and added it to the mix, with a dash of crème de menthe and a shot of Talliskers. I wish…----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.Step 1: Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.More on this 627th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Ice Society — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at: https://disquiet.com/0627/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
This is taken from a 42 minute track which is available on my new album here: https://tuonela.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-fall-we-lived-in-splendourYou can download it for free, or throw a few coins in the hat if you wish. Many thanks to those who have already! :)
Made from a track originally by https://soundcloud.com/litykLoud. Or headphones. Or both.
Made from material not used in the construction of https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/sets/the-dead-see-1/
I chose a few short tracks originally used as effects-fodder (not exactly discarded but pinched from other sources then distorted beyond recognition) and subjected them to various plugins found in Audacity – reversing, stretching, tempo-fiddling, distortion, reverb, delay, pitch alteration and tone enhancement. This was done without first auditing the selections, just to make the results a bit more problematic. No step was reversed, no sound discarded.I then tried to make sense of what I’d done – tell a story, perhaps…Turned out marginally better than I expected.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new.Step 1: At the end of the calendar year, people often participate in holidays that result in lots of leftover food. Think about the leftovers — discarded tracks, or MIDI files, or ideas — that result from your music-making process.Step 2: Scrounge around on your hard drive and recording equipment, and in your memory, to access the sort of creative leftovers that came to mind in Step 1.Step 3: Make a new track primarily using the resources that surfaced in Step 2. You can, of course, add new material. And be sure to reheat sufficiently.More on this 621st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Leftovers (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0621/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Disquiet Junto Project 0617 Haunt ScapeDesagrada (disquiet0617)I took a few ominous sounding extracts from a previous track, stretched and mixed them, multi-tracked and reversed one and remixed an excerpt of organ music and speech recorded in the astonishing echo chamber of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing.There is just one step to this project: Halloween is nearly here, so make some haunted sounds for people to play for trick-or-treaters.More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Another oldie from https://tuonela.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-breaks-inside-a-westbound-train
I'm away for a while, enjoy and see you later in the year.
An oldie from a 2017 album.
Available here https://tuonela.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-breaks-inside-a-westbound-train
"A sense of unfamiliarity with, or of never having experienced or seen before, something that should be familiar."
Made using Maxx Black's track https://soundcloud.com/maxx-black/blue-paper-slippers with unexpected results.
Made for Naviar Records' 500th (!!) Haiku Challenge, using Maxx Black's track https://soundcloud.com/maxx-black/blue-paper-slippers with his kind permission (didn't quite go where I wanted it to, but...)
Details of this challenge at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/08/02/naviarhaiku500-morning-solace/
Made for savage Narcotic's Ghetto Underground No 6, enjoy ALL 3 HOURS of it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnsx4823w9w&t=3481s
“In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.” ― Tom Robbins
Made for Naviar Records' 496th Haiku Challenge. Details and other inspirations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/07/05/naviarhaiku496-mountains-red-leaves/
From the album "Light will shatter at the end of time", https://tuonela.bandcamp.com/album/light-will-shatter-at-the-end-of-time
I seem to have a lot of old, unreleased tracks on various hard discs. This is one, from a few years ago.
Made completely from https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/one-hand-piano-n2-you-to-play-with-if-you-like-it
Made from Marco Lucchi's one-handed track No 1 https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/one-hand-piano-n1-you-to-play-with-if-you-like-it
Made for Naviar Records' 489th Haiku Challenge. Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/17/naviarhaiku489-dividing-the-autumn-sky/
Further exploration of the wonderful https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/mountain-puffs-naviarhaiku485
Made for Naviar Records' 487th Haiku Challenge, Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/03/naviarhaiku487-sound-of-mountain/Made from treated elements of https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/mountain-puffs-naviarhaiku485 Thanks Ingvar!
All sounds are drawn from https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails?in=muterial/sets/off-the-rails-collaborations , treated and mistreated with The Mangle, paulstretch and various Audacity plugins and effects, then cut up and reassembled in a counter-intuitive fashion.
Made for Naviar Records' 482nd Haiku Challenge. Details and other inspirations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/03/29/naviarhaiku482-dark-and-light/
Available as a free download at https://tuonela.bandcamp.com/album/incorrect-modalities
All the calcium planets growing in the darkness. All over the body. The flapping body clickety click clickety click. - Scott Walker
Made for Naviar Records' 477th Haiku Challenge. Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/02/22/naviarhaiku477-far-distance-beckons/A remixed version of this track is available (with other stuff) at https://tuonela.bandcamp.com/album/incorrect-modalities
Made using the following:https://freesound.org/people/scale75/sounds/323253/https://freesound.org/people/pier25/sounds/671886/https://freesound.org/people/Seth_Makes_Sounds/sounds/671625/https://freesound.org/people/Solar01/sounds/671836/And a few bits from a couple of my own tracks. And a few seconds from a track by the brilliant Adderal Canyonly.
Made for Naviar Records' 472nd Haiku Challenge - details and other inspirations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/01/18/naviarhaiku472-paper-lantern-bright/
Disquiet Junto Project 0575: On IceIce storm in a tea cup (disquiet0575)Using the same sample I recorded back in 2013, treated with a bit of reverb here, some multi-tracking with pitch drops, (mmm, pitch drops), some copy ‘n paste, a bit of The Mangle and a smattering of various Audacity effects, I have created something pleasing (to me), if a bit hurried and unoriginal.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.More on this 575th weekly Disquiet Junto project — On Ice (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0575/More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Made for Naviar Records' 462nd Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/11/09/naviarhaiku462-icarus/ for details and other inspirations.
I took a few seconds from something I was listening to and stretched it out to this length. Then it was duplicated. Using Sliding Stretch, one track was made to drop an octave over its length; the other to rise an octave. So, by the end they are 2 octaves apart. End of experiment (with an enhanced mix of both tracks added and down-pitched an octave, of course).
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.
This project has just one step: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.
More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
I returned to the Samplebrain tracks from a couple of weeks ago – I had subjected one of the results to my trusty demo copy of The Mangle. One of the original samples was of birdsong, and they reappear in an interestingly altered way, realistic and yet surrealistic/enhanced/dreamlike as well. Which may or may not be what this Disquiet is about. Or both.
Image courtesy of NightCafe AI generator
The Assignment: What does this imaginary genre sound like?
Step 1: Think about what a genre means, where it begins, where it ends, what makes a genre a genre.
Step 2: Familiarize yourself with the concept of magical realism, most often associated with the fiction of such authors as Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Hoffman, and Haruki Murakami, among others.
Step 3: Imagine what “digital magical realism” would sound like, were it the name of a genre.
Step 4: Record a piece of music that sounds like what you think “digital magical realism” sounds like.
ore on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Digital Magical Realism (The Assignment: What does this imaginary genre sound like?) — at: https://disquiet.com/0563/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Made with processed sounds originally generated in samplelicker by samplebrain as in https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/aneurysmatic-disquiet0557 Check it out at https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain
I was probably being too impatient initially. Since I’m still running Windows 7, I just thought it wouldn’t run and forgot about it. Until today. I shortened the three samples, followed the instructions and produced this mess. Well, sort of. This has a reversed version overlaid and a reverb of both tracks mixed. Shortened the whole thing to avoid boring you. Sorry it’s so shit, haven’t got time to do anything else with it, but what a nice little toy!
Thanks Marc!
The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software.
Step 1: There’s a new piece of freely available software called Samplebrain. It was designed by Aphex Twin and developed by Dave Griffiths of Then Try This. Download Samplebrain and read up at:
https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain 25
Step 2: Create a piece of music using Samplebrain. For source audio, only use sounds tagged “bird” or “rain” or “night” from freesound.org 6. Use as many as you like. Be sure to credit the source material when posting your finished track.
More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project – Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) – at: https://disquiet.com/0561/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Unpublished thing from 2013. Can't recall what C2 was or if it was ever understood.
Edit: Okay, it was a track from this album: https://archive.org/details/tn038 by Adrià Bofarull & Joan Saura, originally used in an early disquiet junto piece
Made for SENOR NOISE https://soundcloud.com/user-873769606 for the Ghetto Underground No 3 compilation, hear all 5 HOURS+ of it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtqUeBAtPK8 !!!!
I was going to sit this one out. Then I wondered what the image would sound like imported as raw data into Audacity. Great blasts of white noise static, no surprise there. About to delete it, I put it through multiple layers of full reverb on a whim and was pleasantly surprised to hear it transform into a huge, bell-like drone which seemed to crawl around inside itself.
I tried importing the image using different parameters and got a much longer blast of noise, which was similarly treated and became the canvas on which four differently treated versions of the first, shorter one have been arranged in the manner of the image (using the ‘completeness’ of each circle to decide how much to treat each track). These were treated with BlueCat, Convoluter, Phaser and Harmonic Adder, along with being double-tracked out of phase in differing pitches and degrees of reverb.
Sorry it’s so long, I needed a big canvas.
The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score that depicts four phases.
A combined play on a Brian Eno phrase and a John Cage visual motif is pretty much foundational Disquiet Junto territory. This week, interpret this image as a graphic score: https://www.dropbox.com/s/frxh96qwx5a2qgm/junto-0557-weidenbaum.png?dl=0
More on this 557th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Condensation Is a Form of Change (The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score that depicts four phases) — at: https://disquiet.com/0557/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Being way out of touch and not having any idea what gabber was, I took a crash course. Turns out to be good ol’ hardcore techno! Can’t say it ever did much for me, but that’s probably just an age thing. Our own https://soundcloud.com/lityk has even been generous enough to use some of my sounds in his work, like this one: https://soundcloud.com/lityk/dronebrute and an earlier one which even came out on vinyl! https://www.discogs.com/release/8227918-Lityk-Feat-Tuonela-3-Kotti-Telepath-Subsonic-002
Anyway, many of the tracks I came across had some fascinating dynamics. I picked this one as a sound source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss8aTYJVMyw&list=PLwt1yl0k-dTevOoOXJaEOKna3WjTumUHz&index=16
ie Kesj & Donut - Total confusionz
and fed it into my trusty outdated ambient v.3 software.
And this, with some multi-tracking and tonal tweaking, was the result. For me, it’s ambient but still has elements of the brutal power of the original. And just 1 real beat in 5 minutes!
The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre.
Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.
Gabber and ambient music seem like polar opposites. Gabber is typified by a constant distorted kick drum pummelling you at upwards of 200bpm. Ambient, on the other hand, can be deeply immersive or barely noticeable. This project asks the question: is “gabber ambient” possible?
Step 1: Consider what makes gabber gabber and what makes ambient ambient. Where is there crossover?
Step 2: Make a track that could be construed as “gabba ambient.”
Step 3: You’re probably going to want to delete it. Try not to. Save and upload.
More on this 556th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gabber Ambient (The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre) — at: https://disquiet.com/0556/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
The chord was converted directly to a wav file, stretched and edited into a three-minute loopable drone.
The chord was treated (gently) in ambient v.3 and the result was sprinkled over the drone in various stages of reverb and enhancement.
The title is 2 anagrams of ‘Cage drone’. Not sure why…
The Assignment: Riff on a chord by John Cage.
Step 1: Consider this chord:
E5 A#4 E4 D#4 Db3 C3
Step 2: You might read up a bit about the source of the chord, the piece “Organ²/ASLSP” by John Cage. Cage desired the piece to be played “As Slow As Possible.” Currently it is being performed in Halberstadt, Germany, on a special organ that will play it for a total of 639 years. It’s been going for 21 years so far, and is at this moment playing the above chord. Read up here:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-04/john-cage-organ-slow-as-possible-halberstadt-germany
Step 3: Produce a loopable drone (duration between one and three minutes) of your own based on that chord.
More on this 549th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sidelines (The Assignment: Get intentional with stereo) — at: https://disquiet.com/0549/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Night sea journey. An archetypal motif in mythology, psychologically associated with depression and the loss of energy characteristic of neurosis.
"The night sea journey is a kind of descensus ad inferos--a descent into Hades and a journey to the land of ghosts somewhere beyond this world, beyond consciousness, hence an immersion in the unconscious." [“The Psychology of the Transference,”CW16, par. 455.]
Mythologically, the night sea journey motif usually involves being swallowed by a dragon or sea monster. It is also represented by imprisonment or crucifixion, dismemberment or abduction, experiences traditionally weathered by sun-gods and heroes: Gilgamesh, Osiris, Christ, Dante, Odysseus, Aeneas. In the language of the mystics it is the dark night of the soul.
Jung interpreted such legends symbolically, as illustrations of the regressive movement of energy in an outbreak of neurosis and its potential progression.
Not sure if this fits the bill, but… A five beat rhythm track was created in Audacity, then multi-tracked and mixed with different pitches and effects and assigned to extreme left or right channels – with one mix being in “true” stereo and one dead centre in mono. A couple of mixes were placed to provide a counter-rhythm. I hope.
A drone track was added in 2 octaves (one left, one right) as well as a Bluecat mix which gives that jittery effect.
Nice and short for a change.
The Assignment: Get intentional with stereo.
Step 1: Think about stereo for a moment.
Step 2: Now think about it a bit more — specifically, think less about using stereo as a means to give a sense of a physical space to a recording, and more about using stereo as a compositional tool.
Step 3: Record a piece of music in which you engage with stereo based on the ideas you formulated in Step 1 and Step 2.
More on this 549th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sidelines (The Assignment: Get intentional with stereo) — at: https://disquiet.com/0549/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Made for Naviar Records' 442nd Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/06/22/naviarhaiku442-eruption-of-light/
Made from a six second DTMF tone generated in Audacity.
All mistakes, glitches, accidents, indecisions, twists of fate, acts of karma and signs from the Universe have been retained.
These are a few of my favourite things… Using old online e synths to create sounds (rather than music), in this case the Ancient Solfeggio Synthesizer I found in 2012. Then, putting the result into ambient v.3 software and improvising on it. Lots of reverb, always lots of reverb. Then, manipulating the original synth sounds in Audacity, using its simplified version of Paulstretch, copying and cutting bits and modifying them to create drones (especially ones to cover abrupt endings and accidents). Then, overlaying the Ambient version, multitracking it and balancing the whole thing until it sounds like this…
The Assignment: Share a tip from your method toolbox.
Step 1: Think of some technique — small or larger, simple or complex — that you employ when making music.
Step 2: Make a piece of music employing that technique.
Step 3: When sharing the piece of music, describe the technique so that others might employ it.
More on this 543rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Technique Check (The Assignment: Share a tip from your method toolbox) — at: https://disquiet.com/0543/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
Another re-imagining of https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali/marco-lucchi-triumph-you-to-play-with-if-you-like-it?in=musichevirtuali/sets/triumph
Headphones recommended.
Made for Naviar Records' 436th Haiku Challenge, See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/05/11/naviarhaiku436-lightning-thunder/ for details.
10 years ago, https://soundcloud.com/maxx-black/i-had-a-flying-dream was a very popular track. And now I come along and do this to it...
Hey, Roy, I hope all is well :)
Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War ~ Louis Pasteur
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. ~ Voltaire
My mangling and reinterpretation of Marco's magnificent track https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali/marco-lucchi-triumph-you-to-play-with-if-you-like-it?in=musichevirtuali/sets/triumph
By a strange bit of synchronicity (always sounds better than ‘coincidence’), I was already working on something inspired by this same concept.
Very simple, just a short burst of sound culled from a work in progress, subjected to many passes through Audacity’s “Sliding Stretch” and further enhanced by modified sections of drone sourced from the stretched results. Some unexpected rhythmic pulses appear as well, adding to the fun.
The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill.
Step 1: Your goal with this piece is to guide someone from a place of intense stress to something more sedate. Keep that in mind.
Step 2: A lot of meditation-oriented music takes the end point as the start. Consider that it can be jarring to listen to calm music when you are anything but calm.
Step 3: Compose a piece of music that starts in a state of accelerated tension, allows the listener to align their own tension with that of the music, and then slowly proceeds to calm down, until the music is sustainably peaceful.
More on this 538th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Guided Decompression (The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill) — at: https://disquiet.com/0538/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein
Made for Naviar records' 429th Haiku Challenge. Details and other inspirations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/03/23/naviarhaiku429-over-the-moon/
Headphones and closed eyes recommended...
Made for Senor Noise's 2nd compilation of noise, ambient, experimental and just plain mental music, hear it all at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RhxPmNwPn0
Senor Noise is at https://soundcloud.com/user-873769606
A failed experiment, originally conceived for disquiet529, in which a 23 second sample is repeated 23 times, lowering a semitone in pitch each time. A 23 note random tune is overlaid over this in various ways and... anyway, this was the result.
And, according to SoundCloud, it's my 2030th track...
Made for Naviar Records' 421st Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/01/26/naviarhaiku421-white-and-white/ for details and other inspirations.
See https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/mountain-beat
Agnostura Elwar - Rhythm track and noises
Tuonela - Air guitar and other noises, mixing
Every decade or so Frank Herbert’s epic Dune saga inspires a new generation of artists, musicians, composers, filmmakers, bakers, storytellers, noisemakers and dreamers. I’m not exactly new generation (I read it when it was first published), but Dune is still inspiring…
Been here before... https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/arrakis
Made for Naviar Records' 412th Haiku Challenge. Details and other illuminations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/11/24/naviarhaiku412-even-the-fields/
Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. ~ William Gibson
A couple of tracks which had been prepared for an earlier disquiet project, and then abandoned, were resurrected and remixed. Then, a glitch collage of speech and sounds was laid over it and spookified in the Spookatorium. Then the lights went out and some eldritch horror began to seep into the room and was about to absorb my being into its foul, polyp-crawling, many fanged maw when it realised it had the wrong address and vanished, leaving seething puddles of noxious, other-worldly, Lovecraftian slime all over the place. At least, that’s what I told the cleaner.
The Assignment: Play that spooky music.
There is just one step for this project. It is Halloween. Make some holiday-specific background music.
More on this 513th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Ghost OST (The Assignment: Play that spooky music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0513/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
I have a new album at https://tuonela.bandcamp.com/ called "Eternal sky".
This is on it.
Made for Naviar Records; 403rd Haiku Challenge. Enlightenment at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/09/22/naviarhaiku403-on-the-spring-equinox/
I laid DD’s samples end to end and made them into a wav file in Audacity. This was then explored using my demo copy of The Mangle (using a bit more restraint than I usually display). The result was cut up and rearranged over several drones created from the cello sample, with some reverb added and some other fiddling with track lengths and channels. A few glitches were cleaned up and some extra bits from the mangle remixed and sprinkled over the beginning and end sections.
I doubt that the end result is still in C, and probably has strayed into many other keys, hence the title.
The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key.
Step 1: This week’s project is based on a great “construction kit” of WAV files in the key of C recorded for us by Disquiet Junto member Daniel Díaz.
Step 2: Listen through the tracks, which include piano, two electric guitars, melodica, bowed upright bass, and other instruments.
Step 3: Record your own track employing the source audio.
More on this 507th weekly Disquiet Junto project — In DD’s Key of C (The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key) — at: https://disquiet.com/0507/
Trawling through the hard drives is turning up a lot of unpublished stuff, like this one from 2015.
Made for Naviar Records' 401st haiku challenge. Enlightenment at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/09/08/naviarhaiku401-floating-lanterns/
I've posted a new album at https://tuonela.bandcamp.com/album/borrowed-reflections, a few recent-ish Soundcloud tracks and a couple of 40 minute monsters which are released elsewhere. This track is an edit of one of those.
For Naviar Records' 399th Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/08/25/naviarhaiku399-such-a-still-water/ for enlightenment.
Made for Naviar;s 397th Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/03/04/naviarhaiku322-the-sun-set-behind/ for enlightenment.
For the dream I took a soundscape I’d been working on for another track and “alienated” it even more than it was.
Treated bird noises from an English coastal village were stretched and distorted further to add exotica.
Then real train recordings from a British railcam were brought into to represent the “real” world.
The dream has the last tweet…
The Assignment: Record the sound of a Martian daydream, interrupted.
Step 1: Early on in the Philip K. Dick short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” a man name Quail has a daydream interrupted. He dreams of visiting Mars, but then reality intrudes: “the daylight, the mundane noise of his wife now brushing her hair before the bedroom mirror — everything conspired to remind him of what he was.” As the reader will learn, Quail has in fact already visited Mars, subsequent to which his mind was wiped free of the visit. His daydream at the start of the story is as much a remnant memory as it is a wish to be fulfilled. Keep this scenario in mind, and maybe read the short story.
Step 2: Record the sound of some realistic-feeling alien landscape, perhaps Martian, and then at the very end of the recording have real-world sounds appear to break the spell.
More on this 501st weekly Disquiet Junto project — PKD Playback (The Assignment: Record the sound of a Martian daydream, interrupted) — at: https://disquiet.com/0501/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Hell Feeder proudly announce The Mabon Remix Project. An international remix collaboration with admired artists on Soundcloud.
hellfeeder.com/mabon
The celebration of the Autumnal Equinox, Harvest Home, Mabon, the Feast of the Ingathering, is a modern Pagan ritual of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth and a recognition of the need to share them to secure the blessings of the Goddess and the God during the coming winter months. The name Mabon was coined by Aidan Kelly around 1970 as a reference to Mabon ap Modron, a character from Welsh mythology. Among the Sabbats, it is the second of the three Pagan harvest festivals, preceded by Lammas / Lughnasadh and followed by Samhain. (Source Wikipedia)
A remix of the backing track for https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/parachutes-antonella-tuonela, an earlier collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/antonella-eye-porcelluzzi
Made for the 394th Haiku Challenge by Naviar Records. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/07/21/naviarhaiku394-having-a-dream/ for details and other inspirations.
“If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.” — Brian Eno
here and gone
here, humans built a world, lived in concord, dreaming daring dreams. believing in the words of men with wisdom’s glimmer they sought to sublimate the power of good and beat their ploughshares into swords.
set on this course, they channeled down dark minds, installed them in Palladian halls and granted them the powers of gods. in mass destruction’s questing, these tricksters broke apart their sacred pledges until all men were simply dead and gone.
--iamacamera, 2009
Made for Naviar Records' 388th Haiku Challenge, details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/06/09/naviarhaiku388-im-seeing-the-blue-sea/
Made for Naviar Records' 386th Haiku Challenge. Enlightenment at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/05/26/naviarhaiku386-so-the-earth-may-run/
Messing about with https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/behringer-2600-first-contact
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (One good Adams quote deserves another!)
Made for the 385th Naviar Records Haiku Challenge. Details and other inspirations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/05/19/naviarhaiku385-moonbeams/
An oldie - From the album "Glimpses of why and why not" at https://tuonela.bandcamp.com/album/glimpses-of-why-and-why-not
I had this odd unfinished track made from a strange glassy ambient noise created in Audiopaint with a sort of earthbeat made out of a skipping Pink Floyd cd… so I finished it.
I hope the name speaks for itself. We should clean up our act before we go out to meet other civilisations.
The Assignment: Celebrate Earth Day on or for another planet.
Step 1: Each Disquiet Junto project begins on a Thursday. This Thursday happens to be Earth Day. Reflect on the concept of Earth Day, and how it might map beyond our big blue marble.
Step 2: Record a piece of music or sound celebrating Earth Day for or as if on another planet.
More on this 486th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Earths Days (The Assignment: Celebrate Earth Day on or for another planet) — at:
https://disquiet.com/0486/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Have a listen to this new version as well - https://soundcloud.com/rosmarinobaia/dandeluma-tuonela-piano-and-sax-overdub
Taking Pablo's invitation https://soundcloud.com/pablomoretti/malambo-open-collab and having some fun with it :)
Made for Naviar's 370th Haiku Challenge, details and other inspirations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/02/03/naviarhaiku370-since-my-house-burned-down/
Made for Naviar records' 367th Haiku Challenge. Have a look at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/01/13/naviarhaiku367-morning-light/ for details and other inspirations.
Made for Naviar Records; 366th Haiku Challenge, details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2021/01/06/naviarhaiku366-an-old-carousel/
I remixed/remangled/reimagined a previous ice-originated piece, one that had already been through numerous incarnations, all based on my original ice recording in 2013 (I think).
Interestingly, you can still hear moments of tinkling iciness buried in the noise…
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.
Welcome to a new year of Disquiet Junto communal music projects. This week’s project is as follows. It’s the same project we’ve begun each year with since the very first Junto project, way back in January 2012. The project is, per tradition, just this one step:
Step 1: Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.
More on this 471st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phase Transition / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at:
https://disquiet.com/0471/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
A continuation of my bit of fun with Gwen's bit of fun, https://soundcloud.com/rumblin_cynth_rampo/2020-christmas-modular-freak-out
I created a short noise mix to fill out my latest mixtape at Mixcloud, at https://www.mixcloud.com/Tuonela/eclectic-current-in-a-turbine-of-an-old-design/
This is a remix / extension of it. And a plug for the mix! :)
This is a late-night bit of fun with Gwen's bit of fun, https://soundcloud.com/rumblin_cynth_rampo/2020-christmas-modular-freak-out
The beats are all Gwen's :)
Made for Naviar Records' 365th Haiku Challenge on the 365th day of The Year Of the Plague. Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/12/30/naviarhaiku365-things-just-happen/
Made for Naviar Records' 364th Haiku Challenge. Details and other inspirations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/12/23/naviarhaiku364-deep-in-the-water/
This was made using some field recordings and a track called Chant For Peace made for Christmas in 2013 by https://soundcloud.com/wilhelm-matthies
Made for Naviar Records' 361st Haiku Challenge. Details and other inspirations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/12/02/naviarhaiku361-abandoned-farmhouse/
A rather twisted reworking of Stan's brilliant track https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/nothing-was-everything-and-the-day-was-night
This is a plug for my latest attempt at a podcast. It can be heard at https://www.mixcloud.com/Tuonela/eclectic-current-the-darkness-of-mere-being/, along with a whole lot of others, many of them featuring tracks by fellow Soundclouders.
Special thanks to Frank van den Bogaard for letting me use his Music Special Bandido intro :)
A reimagination of Milan's wonderful track https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/fairy-tales-of-a-thousand-and-one-nights
Having some fun with https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/project-2-octobre-invitation and pleasantly surprised with the results.
I was also surprised by the amount of artwork out there relating to wolves and fireflies...
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~ William Dement
Made for Naviar Records' 351st Haiku Challenge - details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/09/23/naviarhaiku351-urban-chorus/
I didn’t know her work at all. I spent some time looking through a number of images and this one grabbed me. I like that while it is apparently linear and structured, like most of her work at that time, it has small irregularities and blips, unlike much of her work and much like most of my soundscapes.
I created a short “arched” sine tone which dropped a few tones and made a 15 second sonic piece, then replicated it, building a slightly irregular “structure” with uneven changes of pitch and tempo. This structure was duplicated and the mix treated with reverb. These were layered over a foundation tone made from the original tone structure and stretched and treated in the Abstract Chamber.
It’s a little ragged around the edges, but then, so is the image.
The Assignment: Interpret a painting by Agnes Martin as if it were a graphic score.
Step 1: Look at the work of painter Agnes Martin, best known for her parallel lines.
Step 2: Select an individual work that suggests itself to you as a musical score.
Step 3: Record a short piece of music that interprets the painting selected in Step 2 as if it were a musical score.
More on this 456th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Line Up (The Assignment: Interpret a painting by Agnes Martin as if it were a graphic score), at:
https://disquiet.com/0456/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
The ghostly Rhizostoma luteum is a jellyfish so elusive that decades often pass without a single sighting. The creature was first discovered by naturalists in 1827, but it wasn't until 2013 – nearly 200 years later – that the species was confirmed to be real. Read more about it here: https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/it-took-200-years-to-prove-this-jellyfish-is-real-and-now-its-breeding-in-captivity/
I dug out an ancient track that had been a mutation of a piano track in a Soundcloud competition, back in the days of groups when we did stuff like that.
And further mutated it with reverse, reverb, The Mangle and remix.
And this is it. If you thought it was quiet down there in the depths, you can’t hear like a jellyfish…
The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?
There is just one step:
Step 1: Compose a piece of sound/music that summons up what a moment, or an instance, or a day in the life of a jellyfish is like to the jellyfish.
More on this 455th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Inner Invertebrate (The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?), at:
https://disquiet.com/0455/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
A modification of Boson Spin's track, which can be found at https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/early-sunday-morning-160820
It's the closing track for this - enjoy! https://www.mixcloud.com/Tuonela/eclectic-current-data-collection-in-the-age-of-fear/
Made for Naviar Records' 345th Haiku Challenge - see details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/08/12/naviarhaiku345-a-cathedral-of-pines/
Not really an inspired effort, a bit rushed but still fun. I looped one of the ambient tracks and put it through a lot of reverb, Abstract Chamber and made a background. Then used the Tool tracks to make a single wav file and subjected that to various indignities using ambient v.3. This was cut up and remixed over the backing and… a sound sculpture, I guess.
The Assignment: Create a piece of music from sounds related to working with rocks.
Welcome to the 450th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project. Thanks to everyone who has participated, supported, and pitched in along the way.
This project is the third of three that are being done over the course of as many months in collaboration with the 2020 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 2 through 6 under the motto “Tektonik” (“Tectonics”). For this reason, a German translation is provided below. We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the second year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern. Select recordings resulting from these three Disquiet Junto projects will be played on a listening booth at the Steinatelier on September 5, as well as being aired on Radio RaBe (rabe.ch), an independent local radio station partnering with the festival.
Step 1: Download the field recordings made at Carlo Bernasconi AG, a company that has been working in stone for over a century. The sounds range from machines to manual tools to spatial ambience.
Step 2: Listen for aspects of the recordings that attract your ears. Focus on textures in particular.
Step 3: Create a piece of music combining elements from as few or as many as you chose in Step 2.
More on this 450th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Texture Analysis — The Assignment: Create a piece of music from sounds related to working with rocks) at:
https://disquiet.com/0450/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Another (less elegant) collaboration with fellow Aussie Douglas James's DarkWaterBlue https://soundcloud.com/user295849933 as part of his July Conversations Series. Like the previous one, this uses his 3rd and 4th tracks. See https://soundcloud.com/user295849933/sets/july-conversation-pieces and join in :)
Not having Disquieted for some time, and not being completely on board with the intention of the project after admittedly skimming various pages, I got all enthusiastic when I saw Bernie Krause’s name and realised the sonic lineage of the assembled creators.
I delved into my old “field recordings” folder (okay, me playing with a Tascam) and chose three or five, then cut them up, treated them and reprocessed them (according to whim and instinct) in Audacity using basic effects and plugins.
I still have no idea if this really fits the brief or not but it was fun.
The Assignment: Celebrate World Listening Day for the whole weekend.
Step 1: This weekend it’s World Listening Day, which occurs every year on July 18, which is the birthday of R. Murray Schafer, the composer and acoustic ecologist. This year, the theme for World Listening Day is “The Collective Field,” as proposed by Katherine Krause.
Step 2: Read about this theme, “The Collective Field,” at:
https://worldlisteningday.org/
Step 3: Make a piece of music for World Listening Day, inspired by the theme, or just in the spirit of the occasion.
More on this 446th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0446: WWWLDD — The Assignment: Celebrate World Listening Day for the whole weekend — at:
https://disquiet.com/0446/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Based on a traditional piece played on the guqin by Yin Yihao Nan.
Created for Naviar Records' 341st Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/15/naviarhaiku341-a-fragrant-breeze/ for details and other inspirations.
A Processional for the Children of the Plague.
Returning to a vintage sound source, hence the Playlist.
Made for Naviar Records' 340th Haiku Challenge. Details and other inspirations at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/08/naviarhaiku340-all-across-the-sky/
My interpretation of https://soundcloud.com/user295849933/conversations-13-june-2020-02
I haven't actually added anything, so I guess it's more like one of those conversations you have in the pub on a sunny afternoon...
Uses both https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/collaborate-june-16 and https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/collaborate-june-26 , both processed with Audiobulb's ambient software.
Agnostura Elwar asked for collaborations based on a couple of wonderful guitar tracks. This track is based on https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/collaborate-june-26 It's mostly live, with a couple of post-production tweaks in the second half and a bit of madness in the last minute which is the result of one of those "what would happen if I did this?" moments.
Made for Naviar Records' 335th Haiku Challenge. Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/06/03/naviarhaiku335-spring-breeze/
Made for Naviar Records' 334th haiku Challenge, details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/05/27/naviarhaiku334-bright-the-full-moon-shines/
Made for Naviar Records' 332nd Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/05/13/naviarhaiku332-from-evening-mist/ for info.
This is an oldie from 2016, floating around out there on a limited-edition memory stick called Nagual 2, released by ...txt
Something to relax to...
Made in response to Naviar Records' 331st Haiku Challenge. See details and other responses at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/05/06/naviarhaiku331-peaks-of-cloud/
My latest mix to blast the boredom is up at https://www.mixcloud.com/Tuonela/eclectic-current-witnessing-the-solar-journey/
Some of our SoundCloud friends are on it (although you couldn't tell from the teaser, I know...) Tracklist below.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ life remains a mystery, so please don't question me. for I am just a divine baboon witnessing the solar journey.
~ Gary Shearston “Witnessing”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tracklist: Esquivel – Dark Eyes Nick Drake – Cello Song Kamikaze Ambulance – Existential Ramblings Andy Sundstrom – Northern Territory letterfounder – reading patterns mr smith – kitty in a basket Eden Rose – Man On Fire Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Ventilator Blues The Sweet Disorder – In Afterlife Ivan Black – Revolution Ambient 9 Sven Libaek – Dark World Miles Davis, Larry Carlton, David Sanborn & Paul Shaffer – We Three Kings Of Orient Are Jimmy Smith – I Got A woman AndAWan – Instant TranceGear Bob Tavis (Bobbotov) – Mirage Michael Nyman Band – Time Lapse (from A Zed And Two Noughts) Tolubai – Melange Tjutjuna - Mousetrap Brian Routh (RIP) – Imperialism is a disease (hedges master)
Made for Naviar Records' 330th Kaiku Challenge, details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/04/29/naviarhaiku330-a-bird-flew-past/
Remixing / mangling / re-imagining / recarpeting https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/327-invitation-for-warpification
Such a great track to work with I might have another go..
2 hours + of all sorts of stuff at https://www.mixcloud.com/Tuonela/eclectic-current-music-for-a-fall-through-the-dark/
A remix of Walter Fini's fine track https://soundcloud.com/walterfini1/the-mystery-and-the-enchantment
An old track updated and, mercifully, shortened.
And now part of this mix: https://www.mixcloud.com/Tuonela/eclectic-current-standing-in-the-ruins-of-the-future
Two hours of... all sorts of things. Hear it at https://www.mixcloud.com/Tuonela/eclectic-current-ancestral-lands/
Made for an unofficial challenge at ambientonline (see https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/107133-unofficial-one-sample-redux) using all of the samples provided at http://soundcloud.com/ao_onesampledare
Oh no, he's made another one. It's at https://www.mixcloud.com/Tuonela/eclectic-current-droneing-in-part-three/
It's all in here, somewhere...
It's there, somewhere... Made for Naviar Records' 325th Haiku Challenge. See more at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/03/27/naviarhaiku325-true-tranquillity/
Headphones are strongly recommended ;)
Looking for another hour to kill while you self-isolate? Check out my first attempt at a podcast! A loose collection of favourites and stuff assembled under the tenuous banner of drone-seeking, you can check it out here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Tuonela/eclectic-current-droneing-in-part-one/ (I once wanted to be a DJ, back in the days of radio and cassette tapes...)
This PROMO is the complete version (which I can't put up on SoundCloud), just speeded up, tweaked, reversed and generally messed with. You can download it, cause it's a promo and they're collectable. Enjoy!
Please excuse the crunchy bits.
I keep getting spammers asking if I want to go viral...
All sounds are derived from Marco Lucchi’s track https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/eine-kleine-elektronische-meditation
Now with added download...
Made for Naviar Records' 322nd Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/03/04/naviarhaiku322-the-sun-set-behind/ for details and other inspirations.
Uses https://freesound.org/people/UncleSigmund/sounds/29945/ for percussive effect.
Made from field recordings I'd forgotten about: Local birdlife celebrating the rain, a trolley ride through the supermarket where my father died, a family conversation about breakfast, water dripping by chance into a resonant bowl.
Made for Naviar Records 321st Haiku Challenge. Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/02/26/naviarhaiku321-figures-sculpted/
I slightly modified the assignment (read: I misunderstood it at first and did something different) to portray how even a more-or–less okay piece of music can be degraded and subverted by being used as aural mogadon by a call centre, especially if you’ve been listening for 40 minutes and your ears are bleeding.
This uses a YouTube clip by Channel Swimmer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s6bv4yayOk which has 1hr10min of on-hold music, some of it quite fun listening. Most of this is based on progressively more degraded versions of the first piece, lasting a couple of minutes. I kept the whole thing and put the rest through a sliding stretch (several times) in order to bring down the time and turn it into an appropriately and increasingly featureless blur of sound.
The last degradation, using an Audacity distortion plugin I just discovered, is actually the sort of thing I would rather listen to if I had to be on hold for any length of time. That, or the sound of the relevant company’s CEO being flogged with red hot chains and rolled in salt.
The Assignment: Record music intended to sound just as garbled as the hold music on a phone call.
Step 1: Think of a time when you were put on hold by customer service or waiting for a conference call to begin. Think about such a situation when the hold music sounded like it had been run through a washing machine, or put through a bit crusher, or photocopied 100 times in sequence before it got to your ear.
Step 2: Record a short piece of music intended to sound just as garbled as the hold music on a modern phone call. Think of this as “hold noise.”
More on this 423rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Hold Noise / The Assignment: Record music intended to sound just as garbled as the hold music on a phone call — at:
https://disquiet.com/0423/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
“Young mudlarks searching the river quag for scrap had been known to step into some discoloured patch of mud and start speaking long-dead languages, or find locusts in their hair, or fade slowly to translucency and disappear.” ― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station
Artwork: “Perdido Street Station” by Ang Chen
Sentimental and subjective all the way. The backing is a stretched version of the Lawrence of Arabia theme, one of the most majestic themes in movies, introed by a piece from Field of Dreams and the sound of an old movie theatre projector. Over this I’ve sprinkled bits of dialogue from some of my favourite movies. On another day I’d probably choose others but some I picked to align with the theme of age, decay and lost time. Some of the cuts are a bit clumsy but, well… I ran out of time.
The Assignment: What sounds haunt a discarded movie theater in the middle of the night?
This week’s project is just one step:
Step 1: What sounds haunt a discarded movie theater in the middle of the night?
More on this 421st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Marquee Ghosts / The Assignment: What sounds haunt a discarded movie theater in the middle of the night?
https://disquiet.com/0421/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
"When TV signals are sent out, they don't stop. They keep going. They pick up speed as they leave the solar system. By now, the first TV programs ever made have been traveling for thirty years. They are well beyond our solar system now. All those characters from cowboy serials, variety hours and quiz shows are sailing out. They are the first true voyagers into deep space. And they sail farther and farther out, intact, still talking
And as we listen with our instruments, as we learn to listen farther and farther into space, we can hear them. We listen farther and that is all we hear. They are jamming our lines. We listen and we hear them talking, traveling, going faster and faster ... getting fainter and fainter. And as our instruments become more sophisticated, we can hear them better .... speeding away ... the sound of speeding away ... like a phone continuously ringing." (Laurie Anderson, from “Three Songs For Paper, Film And Video” 1984)
Made for Naviar Records' 316th Haiku Challenge.
See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/01/22/naviarhaiku316-a-dark-corridor/ for information and inspiration.
To you, from the land of fire. Made for Naviar Records' 315th Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/01/15/naviarhaiku315-ambushed-by-bush-fire/ for more info and other inspirations.
Created for ambientonline.org's 33rd Image Dare - see https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/105181-image-inspire-dare-33-christmas-19-double-challenge
My contribution to the 314th kaiku challenge posted by Naviar Records. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/01/08/naviarhaiku314-buoyantly-we-go/ for info and other inspirations.
I made a single track out of all the samples, an easy task thanks to Audacity. Probably should have balanced them then, but I was too lazy. This track was multi-tracked; all were repeatedly “ambiented” using plugins, 2 being pitched down a tone as well. Another was put through a subtle reverb. A bit tricky as I hadn’t balanced the samples and had to go in and manually reduce peaks on all tracks using Audacity’s Envelope Tool.
The track was also improvised on in Audiobulb’s ambient, then doubled and overlaid on the 2nd half of the mix with one reverbed. This produced some strange moments which don’t sound vocal at all. Which is why I like it!
Track image is pinched from the Wikipedia image of the cover of James Lane Allen’s 1897 book and modified.
The Assignment: Make music from 100+ vocal samples of held syllables by members of the Disquiet Junto.
Step 1: Welcome to a large, asynchronous, distributed choir. The Dischoir consists of 113 samples of held syllables by over 50 participants in the Disquiet Junto. You can access the files at the following URL. Note that a few of them deviate from the initial instructions: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pkuvmzwcdz6dx27/AACUsNclLLqToLp-OJWVkaQXa?dl=0
Step 2: Create a piece of choral music from the provided samples. You are encouraged to make music that feels “human,” that feels like it is simply a lot of people singing at once. However, of course, the end result is up to you; you can and should mix, mash, and create as you please.
More on this 419th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Dischoir / The Assignment: Make music from 100+ vocal samples of held syllables by members of the Disquiet Junto — at: https://disquiet.com/0419/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Another one made for ambientonline.org's 68th One Sample Dare, details at https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/105180-one-sample-challenge-68-christmas-19-double-challenge
Made for ambientonline.org's 68th One Sample Dare, details at https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/105180-one-sample-challenge-68-christmas-19-double-challenge
I used three samples involving ice in a glass: the original Disquiet ice recording I made in 2013, a treated version of it and one I created last year.
Last year’s was enhanced into a quasi-organ drone using several passes through good old Paulstretch on different settings. The other samples were then layered onto this mix in Audacity, altered in pitch and tempo and treated with reverb, flanger, echo and Crazy Ivan.
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it.
Welcome to a new year (the ninth!) of Disquiet Junto communal music projects. This week’s project is as follows. It’s the same project we’ve begun each year with since the very first Junto project, way back in January 2012. The project is, per tradition, just this one step:
Step 1: Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.
More on this 418th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Ice-Nine / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it — at:
https://disquiet.com/0418/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
This track uses a couple of fragments of sound from tracks by https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar and https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual and does terrible things with them... as well as a lot of stuff I threw in.
Made for Naviar Records' 312th Haiku Challenge, details and other responses at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/12/25/naviarhaiku312-frozen-trough/
Original track recorded by Dimitri Schkoda: 6 demotracks for HGFortune STS-26 VSTi
https://soundcloud.com/innerdreamer/hymn-for-a-dying-earth
https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=157555
https://archive.org/details/HGFortuneNFG/Sts-26-01_hymnForADyingEarth.mp3
Funny, this coming along after me complaining to Mrs T, as she put up decorations, that we haven’t had tinsel for years. See, she hates the stuff.
So, I used the sound of a bell tree (you know, those ones that feature a whole string of miniature tubular bells) and did all the usual stuff to it.
The Assignment: Tinsel is your latest instrument.
There is just one step this week: Make a piece of music that explores tinsel for its sonic properties.
Of course, feel free to interpret this as literally or figuratively as you desire.
Step 1: Include “disquiet0415” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your track.
More on this 415th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Seasonal Metal / The Assignment: Tinsel is your latest instrument.:
https://disquiet.com/0415/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Made for Naviar Records' 309th Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/12/04/naviarhaiku309-bitter-winter-wind/ for details and other contributions.
Second of two remixes of https://soundcloud.com/wilwilwil/wilfried-hanrath-portland-an-invitation-for-an-open-collab
This one made using my funny little standalone demo copy of The Mangle, which did most of the work as I mostly sat back and listened, with a tweak here and there.
First (well, second actually) of two remixes of https://soundcloud.com/wilwilwil/wilfried-hanrath-portland-an-invitation-for-an-open-collab
This one made mainly using Audiobulb's ambient software (the old version).
For Naviar Records' 307th Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/11/20/naviarhaiku307-innumerable-stars/ for details and other inspirations.
Made for Naviar Records' 305th (!!) Haiku Challenge. Details and playlist at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/11/06/naviarhaiku305-walking-the-sky/
Continuing my preoccupation with BWV 639. Was going to call it "Bach To The Future" but that's a little worn out these days.
See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/10/30/naviarhaiku304-re%ef%ac%82ection/ for information and other inspirations.
Not quite melodies. Minor key suggestions of the otherworldly. Suspense. Something behind you. Something in front of you. In the dark. Dissonant overtones. Disturbing rumbles. You know the sort of thing…
So I pinched some sounds from various sources, took a few seconds of each, did some stretching and pitch altering, played with it in ambient v.3 and added some reverbing and reversing. And I reckon it’s a bit spooky…
I did another track for this Junto, before this one, but it ended up like a bumpy ride through Hell. It’s called “Sabbat”. Watch this space. Or, one like it.
The Assignment: Raise haunting music to the next level.
Step 1: Consider what makes music spooky.
Step 2: Make some music that considerably outdoes what you thought of in Step 1.
More on this 409th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Spooky 3.0 / The Assignment: Raise haunting music to the next level — at:
https://disquiet.com/0409/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Something dredged up from the depths of an old hard drive, given a lick o' paint and a name.
Made for Naviar Records' 296th Haiku Challenge. Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/09/04/naviarhaiku296-evening-haze/
Malka Older – The Divided – Part 5/9 disquiet0400
I used the voice track of Part 5 to create 4 ambient backgrounds. One normal, processed to a soft blur. This was also overlaid in slightly reverbed form. Another was reversed and likewise processed, then bass boosted and dropped an octave. Another was put through a convoluter and overlaid, though at a subliminal level.
The second half was duplicated and processed through a corkscrew plugin, then also overlaid at very low volume.
Finally a one minute section of an old Luminth recording was chosen and used as a ‘musical’ backing.
The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio.
Step 1: The author Malka Older (Infomocracy, Ninth Step Station, Orphan Black: The Next Chapter) has generously recorded herself reading her own short story, “The Divided,” and made that recording available to the Disquiet Junto community for this project. Acquire the nine (roughly) one-minute segments of the recording in this zip file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mgwx9fa9bwz76ll/0400-stems.zip
Step 2: Select one of the nine tracks at random.
Step 3: Listen to the entire story, which is about nine and a half minutes long. Consider the narrative sensibility of your assigned subset of that story.
Step 4: Create a score and sound design to accompany Older’s reading of her own short story in the track that you selected in Step 2. Primarily use Older’s own voice as the source material for your score — bend it, shape it, extract from it, and burnish it to your creative ends. Additional sonic elements, both musical and foley, are welcome, but a substantial percentage of the sound should be from Older’s own voice. Also: keep Older’s own reading audible and inteligible; don’t slow or speed or otherwise edit it. Your score should accompany the reading, not supplant it.
More on this 400th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sub Divided / The Assignment: Create a score to a Malka Older story using the author’s own voice as source audio — at:
https://disquiet.com/0400/
Thanks to Malka Older for providing the audio and collaborating on this. Thanks to Alex Hawthorn for audio technical assistance. Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
One of many unfinished (until now), unreleased tracks lurking on disks and dust-covered drives attached to my creaky old PC...
Continuing my obsession with this prelude, which has been described as "a supplication in time of despair." I think we're there...
I improvised on the big guitar. Picked 5 tracks from the samples and went crazy for 30 minutes, posted this just before midnight. No rationale, no plan. Hey, it was Australian, it was my patriotic duty :)
Made for Naviar Records' 289th Haiku Challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/07/17/naviarhaiku289-bioluminescence/ for details and other inspirations.
Some of this is made from elements of two different granulations of a track that Marco Lucchi (https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali) made for Naviar Records, https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali/marco-lucchi-bright-star-naviar-haiku-287?in=naviar-records/sets/haiku-287-a-bright-star-in-a
Andy's wonderful original track is here: https://soundcloud.com/synkrotron/hillside-path-naviarhaiku-285
Made for Naviar Records' 287th Haiku Challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/07/03/naviarhaiku287-a-bright-star/ for details and other creations.
Made for Naviar Records' 286th haiku challenge. Have a look and a listen at http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/06/26/naviarhaiku286-when-i-gazed-down-the-ocean/
Made for Naviar Records' 285th Haiku Challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/06/19/naviarhaiku285-im-on-the-shore-of-a-river/ for information and other inspirations.
Made for Naviar Records' 280th Haiku Challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/05/15/naviarhaiku280-night-ends-in-hills/ for details and other inspired tracks.
Check out the Memoria Technica site. Nico is one of my new heroes. This track doesn't really do her justice.
I heard Rumblin Cynth Rampo's track https://soundcloud.com/rumblin_cynth_rampo/experimental-snippet-0010 and this just happened...
Made for Naviar Records' 276th Haiku Challenge. Info and further inspirations can be found at http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/04/17/naviarhaiku276-rain-soaked-wind/
A late entry for naviar Records' 273rd Haiku Challenge.
See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/03/27/naviarhaiku273-twirl-among-the-trees/
"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." ~ Oscar Wilde
The Dream Garden
Augustus awoke with a glassy tinkling in his ears. It was so cold that there was a sparkle of fine frost over the dormitory. On his bed lay a long, elegant crystal, shimmering from within. It was his last dream, frozen solid.
Wrapping his ragged blanket around him, Augustus cradled the frigid fantasy and sneaked out. He felt sick with fear as he descended the steep, narrow staircase. His bare feet were numb and he clenched his jaw to stop his teeth chattering
He knelt by the grey stone wall at the end of the garden, rocking the glistening gem in his arms until the first beam of the rising sun fell upon it. The crystal gradually lost its luster, fading and shriveling until Augustus was left holding the body of a large lizard with glowing skin. Its diamond eyes faded in the dawn light.
Fighting back tears, he scraped a hole in the vegetable patch with his bare hands, burying the body with the others. As he crept back to bed, he prayed he would dream no more dreams, at least until it was warmer and they could find their own way to the garden.
Made for Naviar records' 272nd haiku challenge - see http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/03/20/naviarhaiku272-the-falling-tide/ for details and other inspirations.
Made for Naviar Records' 270th Haiku Challenge:
snowing through the blizzard particles of me
See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/03/06/naviarhaiku270-snowing/ for details and other inspirations.
The track I chose was a melange of sounds produced by an online synth called “Surprise”, accessed without design and operated without talent or forethought, which was then reprocessed (equally randomly) using Granulab in ways it wasn’t designed to be used… so it was pretty glitch to start with. This was double-tracked and time-tinkered to do funny things to the stereo image.
This was then “improvised” on using The Mangle (also in unintended ways). The result was also double-tracked and time-tinkered, then laid over the original tracks and cut into three and spread out so that the original track could peek through in places – though it’s pretty difficult to tell where since they tend to sound somewhat similar.
Then I did the same thing to the image.
The Assignment: what happens when you glitch something that’s been glitched?
Step 1: Take a recording. Glitch it.
Step 2: Glitch it a second time, in some different manner, and try to have moments where the initial glitch remains evident and untarnished (well, un-further-tarnished).
More on this 374th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Glitch Glitch / The Assignment: what happens when you glitch something that’s been glitched? — at:
https://disquiet.com/0374/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
My contribution to ambientonline's 32nd Image Inspired Dare - details etc at https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/95486-image-inspired-dare-32
“The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.” ~ Frank Zappa, explaining why he hated and distrusted Artificial Intelligence.
Made for Naviar Records' 265th Haiku Challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/01/30/naviarhaiku265-dark-moon/ for details and other inspirations.
Just checking my wardrobe...
"Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?" ~ King Lear
Fortress of Solitude [disquiet0366]
Took some clinks of varying pitches out of the recording I made in 2013 and arranged into a “melody” of a few seconds. This was duplicated many times, at different pitches, and became a 1 minute ambient track. This in turn was multiplied, with some tracks being reversed, pitched down and given slight reverb. The resulting track was then treated in both The Mangle and ambient software and the two tracks then mixed and further treated with Audacity plugins.
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it.
Welcome to a new year of Disquiet Junto projects. This week’s project is as follows. It’s the same project we’ve begun each year with since the very first Junto project, way back in January 2012. The project is, per tradition, just this one sentence:
Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.
More on this 366th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Ice Breaker / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it — at:
https://disquiet.com/0366/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
My entry in the 31st Image Dare at ambientonline.org - see https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/93451-image-inspired-dare-31 for details and other entries
A collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin, made from his track https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/soundscapery4
Thanks Stan, always a pleasure :)
Shaper Shaped
In days gone by I used to be A potter who would feel His fingers mould the yielding clay To patterns on his wheel; But now, through wisdom lately won, That pride has gone away, I have ceased to be the potter And have learned to be the clay.
In other days I used to be A poet through whose pen Innumerable songs would come To win the hearts of men; But now, through new-got knowledge Which I hadn't had so long, I have ceased to be the poet And have learned to be the song.
I was a fashioner of swords, In days that now are gone, Which on a hundred battle-fields Glittered and gleamed and shone; But now I am brimming with The silence of the Lord, I have ceased to be sword-maker And have learned to be the sword.
In by-gone days I used to be A dreamer who would hurl On every side an insolence Of emerald and pearl But now I am kneeling At the feet of the Supreme I have ceased to be the dreamer And have learned to be the dream.
- Harindranath Chattopadhyay (for Ramana Maharshi) 1945
Made for Naviar Records' 258th Haiku challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/12/12/naviarhaiku258-high-resolution-snowflake/ for details and other inspiriations.
Transmuted gymnopédie [disquiet0363]
First half is a recording of the Gymnopédie No 1 played through my creaky demo copy of The Mangle, rather more carefully than usual, with a definite intention to keep the results recognisable and within the musical back yard of the original. This graduates into the same piece transformed by Audiobulb’s ambient software – rather less recognisable but still retaining some of the ambience of the original. Both halves involved multi-tracking with selective addition of reverb, delay and equalisation.
Disquiet Junto Project 0363: Gymnopédie Rats
The Assignment: Make over Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No. 1” in your chosen genre.
Just one step this week: Make over Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No. 1” in your chosen genre: metal gymnopédie, britpop gymnopédie, R&B gymnopédie, high school choir gymnopédie, slowed-down-800% gymnopédie, …
More on this 363rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gymnopédie Rats: Make over Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No. 1” in your chosen genre — at:
https://disquiet.com/0363/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
good morning mr bunny https://soundcloud.com/user-207632080 sent me some stems but, since I’m useless at remixing in any conventional way, I did these things to them instead. I hope the results give pleasure, I quite like them :)
good morning mr bunny https://soundcloud.com/user-207632080 sent me some stems but, since I’m useless at remixing in any conventional way, I did these things to them instead. I hope the results give pleasure, I quite like them :)
good morning mr bunny https://soundcloud.com/user-207632080 sent me some stems but, since I’m useless at remixing in any conventional way, I did these things to them instead. I hope the results give pleasure, I quite like them :)
My contribution to the sonic fun and games at ambientonline's 64th One Sample Dare, https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/93123-one-sample-challenge-64
Made for Naviar Records' 254th Kaiku Challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/11/14/naviarhaiku254-my-soul-is-the-wind/
When they die, we die...
Made for ambientonline's 30th Image Inspired Dare, see https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/91938-image-inspired-dare-30 for details and other inspirations.
Made for ambientonline's 63rd One Sample Dare, from a clip supplied by https://soundcloud.com/user-859240368.
See https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/91594-one-sample-dare-challenge-63 for details and other responses.
Made for Naviar Records' 249th Haiku Challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/10/10/naviarhaiku249-dont-know-about-the-people/
A short section of the ceremony, during which the body is cleansed and prepared. The full piece lasts eighteen hours.
The death march was made from a one second cut from the bass diddley bow, copied, pasted, pitch altered, stretched etc into what you hear. The rest was made from two of the spring tracks, including a segment treated in The Mangle, which provides the melodic percussion sequence.
I tried to keep the sound as ‘unprocessed’ as possible, in keeping with the concept.
Disquiet Junto Project 0354: Rituals & Canticles
The Assignment: Make music using instruments from a future that doesn’t fully remember our present.
Background: Nathan Moody didn’t create a concept album when he recorded his recent album, The Right Side of Mystery, but he had a framework for deciding how to make his instruments, and even how he composed. He imagined a future American tribe living in the ruins of our current civilization, scrounging for materials to make instruments for their rituals, from everyday events to significant milestones of years and lives. The music itself would be incorrectly remembered combinations of past musical traditions and styles, melded together.
Step 1: Consider that scenario of the future.
Step 2: Check out instruments that Moody made to act out his imagined future:
Step 3: Download the sonic source material that Moody recorded with those instruments, and that he has made available to participants in this Disquiet Junto project:
http://bit.ly/junto-moody-revised
Step 4: Roll one six-sided die, which will determine which of these tribe events/rituals you’ll compose music for:
1 = Marriage 2 = Death 3 = Lullaby 4 = Solstice or Harvest 5 = Coming of Age 6 = Coronation
Step 5: Re-read the background description up above, and compose a piece of music for the event assigned to you in Step 4 using the sounds from Step 3. Bonus interim round: create your own instrument modeled after Moody’s.
More on this 354th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Rituals & Canticles / The Assignment: Make music using instruments from a future that doesn’t fully remember our present) at:
https://disquiet.com/0354/
Thanks to Nathan Moody (noisejockey.net) for proposing and providing the sounds and images and ideas for this project.
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Illustration = ‘Sacred’ (30 x 30cm) Human facial bones with cup sponges and bones from cow,sheep, and ostrich in a custom box made from recycled wood. ~ Bruce Mahalski – 2015
Made for Naviar Records' 247th Haiku Challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/09/26/naviarhaiku247-a-carpet-of-snow/ for information and other tracks
This is my entry for the 29th Image Inspired Dare over at ambientonline.org. Check it out at https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/90867-image-inspired-dare-29
My contribution to Naviar Records' 245th Haiku Challenge - see http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/09/12/naviarhaiku245-flowers-of-morning-glory/
My contribution to ambientonline.org's 62nd One Sample Dare, at https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/90838-one-sample-dare-challenge-62. This uses https://freesound.org/people/venaportae/sounds/272179/ as the sole source.
Made for Naviar Records' 242nd Haiku Callenge, see http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/08/22/naviarhaiku242-the-pine-shadow-falls-on-the-tent-wall/
Made for Naviar Records' 241st Haiku Challenge. See details at http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/08/15/naviarhaiku241-nightfall/
My submission for ambientonline.org's 28th Image Inspired Dare. See https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/89809-image-inspired-dare-28
I used 2 samples from 2 works in progress, both made from a vst syth improve recorded on 03082018, which gives this its title.
Sample 1 was reversed and appended to itself, creating the initial palindrome. This was stretched and expanded.
Sample 2 was similarly appended, then treated 3 different ways and multitracked to create the deep palindrone(!) which underlies the central section.
The unstretched Sample 1 palindrome was doubled and expanded to match the first iteration in length, then lowered in pitch and treated with reverb. This provides a double palindromic accompaniment to the first. I hope. It’s tired and I’m getting late…
(The picture hints that the palindrome may not be perfect…)
Disquiet Junto Project 0344: Careful Symmetries
The Assignment: Explore palindromes in musical form.
Step 1: Consider how palindromes might be expressed in sound.
Step 2: Compose a piece of music employing multiple palindromes.
More on this 344th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Careful Symmetries: The Assignment: Explore palindromes in musical form) at:
https://disquiet.com/0344/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Made for Naviar Records' 238th Haiku Challenge. See details and other inspirations at http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/07/25/naviarhaiku238-two-lights-of-the-village/
Made from Andy's wonderful track https://soundcloud.com/synkrotron/modular-live-session-050518
This was made from a phone recording of pigeons and fish, which is not a band, made by https://soundcloud.com/7777777777. Find out how and hear other tracks at https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/89666-one-sample-dare-challenge-61
No fish or fowl were harmed during production, though a passing squid was traumatised.
Illustration is by the incomparable M.C. Escher.
I used a recording I made some years ago of water dripping into a large porcelain bowl. The single drip motif imitating the piano is an obvious anchor, treated to sound a little more percussive. The entire recording is compressed, re-stretched and reverbed, made to descend six semitones with a progressively stretched ending and replicated seven times at different pitches.
Then the recording was treated using The Mangle, and the result was replicated and – in one case reversed – and, er, dropped into several places in the mix, according more to whim than any sense of musicality, and certainly with NO intention of replicating the wonderfully disciplined and rhythmic structure of Terry Riley’s composition.
Disquiet Junto Project 0342: In Sea The Assignment: Record a piece of music in tribute to Terry Riley’s In C using only samples of water sounds.
Step 1: You’ll be recording a piece of music in tribute to Terry Riley’s In C. (If you’re unfamiliar, read up and listen.) Don’t use the actual composition. Consider aspects of it, and choose ways to emulate them, to extrapolate compositional ideas from them.
Step 2: Record a piece of music employing the decisions you made in Step 1. Only use samples of water sounds as your source audio. (Side note: collaborating with others is encouraged but not necessary.)
More on this 341st weekly Disquiet Junto project (In Sea / The Assignment: Record a piece of music in tribute to Terry Riley’s In C using only samples of water sounds) at:
https://disquiet.com/0342/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Made for Naviar Records' 237th Haiku Challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/07/18/naviarhaiku237-the-distant-mountains/ for details and other tracks.
Rude Danube [disquiet0339]
Stretching the idea of “rude” to include what we are doing to our home planet, this is a version of the Blue Danube, taken from a crackly LP recording of an old Swiss music box (mechanical music) in the famous Bornand Collection, which has had various rude things done to it (using effects and vst plugins in Audacity) to paint a sonic image of what is now the most polluted waterway in Europe.
More on this 339th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Rude Mechanicals: The Assignment: Record a piece of music in this imaginary genre) at:
https://disquiet.com/0339/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
I took Stan's perfectly good track https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/go-into-138 and did this to it...
Made for Naviar Records' 233rd Haiku Challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/06/20/naviarhaiku233-a-lucid-mirage/ for fetails and other inspirations.
Naviar Quartet [disquiet0338]
I laid out the four tracks in sequence, balanced and mixed them and created a source track. This was then subjected to my usual indignities with The Mangle and Audiobulb’s ambient software, mixed and decorated with its own entrails.
Thanks to the Naviar family for providing such wonderful tracks to work with.
In collaboration with Naviar Haiku, make a four-person band from the provided four live solo recordings.
Step 1: First, major thanks to Neil Stringfellow (aka Audio Obscura) for proposing this collaboration between the Disquiet Junto and the Naviar Haiku series, and for the support of Naviar’s Marco Sebastiano Alessi. We’ll be making music based on segments of recordings by four musicians from the May 25, 2018, Naviar Haiku Fest. Get the four recordings here from the Zip file:
http://bit.ly/juntonaviar
Step 2: Having downloaded the four tracks (by Ikjoyce, Audio Obscura, Subsepai, and sevenism), listen to them. Each is a single minute from longer solo performances. Imagine how they might work together.
Step 3: Create a new track employing material from all four (and no other external sound sources, though processing is OK) that suggests the existence of a quartet performing live.
More on this 337th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Disquiet Junto Project 0338: Imaginary Quartet / In collaboration with Naviar Haiku, make a four-person band from the provided four live solo recordings.) at:
https://disquiet.com/0338/
Major thanks to Neil Stringfellow (aka Audio Obscura) for proposing this collaboration between the Disquiet Junto and the Naviar Haiku series, and for the support of Naviar’s Marco Sebastiano Alessi. The audio employed as raw material in this project is from live recordings by Ikjoyce, Audio Obscura, Subsepai, and sevenism. More on the Naviar Haiku at:
http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Made for Naviar Records' 232nd Haiku Challenge
http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/06/13/naviarhaiku232-indian-summer/
Made for Naviar Records' 231st Haiku Challenge, see http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/06/06/naviarhaiku231-men-women/
Created for the 27th Image Inspired Dare at ambientonline.org
See https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/88135-image-inspired-dare-27
Made for Naviar Records' 230th Haiku Challenge - http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/05/30/naviarhaiku230-to-the-end-of-the-field/
A Clouseau-style investigation of the events of https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/go-into-128
First rule of Disquiet Club: Step outside the guidelines.
So I used ZynAddSubFX and NanoStudio to create a rough, layered 1 minute track with a synth-y layer and an acid guitar layer, rather than a strictly ‘single sound’ source.
This was then multiplied, stretched, tempo-shifted, reversed, treated with Crazy Ivan, reverb, cut up and multi-tracked until it sort of made sense. Sort of. I do love that last chord…
"My opinion is this: Everything is right and everything is wrong; everything is yes and everything is no; everything is continuous and everything is not – all at once." – Glenn Branca
Record a massive multi-layered tribute to the legendary guitarist-composer.
Major thanks to James Britt for contributing this Junto project prompt.
Step 1: This project is a tribute to the late avant-garde composer and guitarist Glenn Branca, who died earlier this month. Among Branca’s many musical systems was to have a vast number of musicians, say 100 guitarists for example, perform together. We’re going to explore that mass of sound to produce a mass in Branca’s memory. It will be a Mass Mass.
Step 2: Pick a single sound source, an instrument perhaps, but really anything that makes a specific sound. One thing to aim for is a sound source that is rich in overtones.
Step 3: Use multiple layers (with “multiple” being defined as you see fit — 100 layers would be awesome, but so too would 10, 30, 50, etc.) of this sound source to record a piece of music.
More on this 334th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Disquiet Junto Project 0334: Mass Branca / Record a massive multi-layered tribute to the legendary guitarist-composer) at:
https://disquiet.com/0334/
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Made for Naviar records' 227th haiku challenge. Details and other inspirations at http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/05/09/naviarhaiku227-morning-coolness/
This is a remix/mangle of https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/ambient-bite-286, a track very much worth checking out.
An ancient, dos-era image as part of the 286 tribute thing. I had an Amstrad way back then.
Made from a recording supplied by https://soundcloud.com/user-849250038 for ambientonline's 59th One Sample Dare. The sample was soooo quiet that it seemed like doing something LOUD with it was the way to go...
Check out https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/87682-one-sample-dare-challenge-59 for info and other results.
Pic is from the movie "Avatar"
This incorporates Lotte Lenya's original version of The Alabama Song, one of the great songs about alcohol. Made for Naviar Records' 224th haiku challenge. See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/04/18/naviarhaiku224-the-milky-way/
Returning to Gwen's track https://soundcloud.com/rumblin_cynth_rampo/jozyxq for another go - this is a one-take improv using ambient v.3 software, with a bit of delay and reverb added.
This is my re-imagining of Wilfried Hanrath's https://soundcloud.com/flyingtonefish/wilfried-hanrath-something-in?in=flyingtonefish/sets/remix-project-something-in-the, using his track and a couple of very altered noises pinched from an old record.
A mutation of https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/a-brief-unexpected-incident-in-deep-space. Nothing added. All sounds produced by attacking Stan's track with cheap software and Audacity plugins.
A remix/mangle/mutation/reassignment of https://soundcloud.com/rumblin_cynth_rampo/jozyxq
And now, a remixed remix! https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/a-reversal-of-chaos-tuonela-rumblin-cynth-rampo-boson-spin-collab
My second remix of https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/tides-looking-for-contributors-reworkers-morphers-and-so-on?in=musichevirtuali/sets/tides-open-project
See this project - https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali/sets/tides-open-project for other tracks and inspiration...
Made for naviar Records' 222nd haiku challenge.
See http://www.naviarrecords.com/2018/04/04/naviarhaiku222-ghostly-melody/
A remix of https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/tides-looking-for-contributors-reworkers-morphers-and-so-on?in=musichevirtuali/sets/tides-open-project
This project - https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali/sets/tides-open-project - has had a phenomenal response, a measure of the esteem this community has for Marco and his music.
I generated 3 x 2 second sine waves of 111 hz, 333 hz and 666 hz. These were then drawn out and broken apart using Audacity, mixed together, reverbed and balanced in order to create a sort of sine-drone thunderscape. Then a Freesound recording (see below) of turntable and vinyl surface noise was edited, likewise broken apart and reverbed and mixed in. It was multi-tracked, then each was reverbed at different levels and also eq’d to enhance both bass and treble.
Uses https://freesound.org/people/jamesabdulrahman/sounds/266786/
Disquiet Junto Project 0326: Wave Turntable In collaboration with composer Danny Clay, make music for his exhibit with artist Jon Fischer using only sine waves and turntable surface noise.
Step 1: Tracks in this project will be played as part of a free event in San Francisco at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (mcevoyarts.org) on Saturday, April 7, 2018, for an exhibit by composer Danny Clay (dclaymusic.com) and artist Jon Fischer (feather2pixels.com). The project was developed in collaboration with Clay. Before proceeding, consider the sort of music that might be conducive as partially-heard, partially-background music for an art event.
Step 2: Compose a short piece of music using only sine waves and the surface sounds of vinyl played on a turntable. Those two sources are inspirations for the Clay/Fischer exhibit. (The cover image to this project shows some of Fischer’s turntable art.)
More on this 326th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Wave Turntable: In collaboration with composer Danny Clay, make music for his exhibit with artist Jon Fischer using only sine waves and turntable surface noise) at:
https://disquiet.com/0326/
More on Clay and Fischer at:
http://dclaymusic.com http://feather2pixels.com
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/