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Letting Go is an ambient work derived from a single recording of a struck singing bell. The source material was sustained and extended into a continuous drone composition, preserving the bell’s harmonic spectrum and natural decay characteristics. Release date: February 28, 2026 Written and produced by Franklyn Monk.
Letting Go is an ambient work derived from a single recording of a struck singing bell. The source material was sustained and extended into a continuous drone composition, preserving the bell’s harmonic spectrum and natural decay characteristics. Release date: February 28, 2026 Written and produced by Franklyn Monk.
Letting Go is an ambient work derived from a single recording of a struck singing bell. The source material was sustained and extended into a continuous drone composition, preserving the bell’s harmonic spectrum and natural decay characteristics. Release date: February 28, 2026 Written and produced by Franklyn Monk.
Letting Go is an ambient work derived from a single recording of a struck singing bell. The source material was sustained and extended into a continuous drone composition, preserving the bell’s harmonic spectrum and natural decay characteristics. Release date: February 28, 2026 Written and produced by Franklyn Monk.
Letting Go is an ambient work derived from a single recording of a struck singing bell. The source material was sustained and extended into a continuous drone composition, preserving the bell’s harmonic spectrum and natural decay characteristics. Release date: February 28, 2026 Written and produced by Franklyn Monk.
Letting Go is an ambient work derived from a single recording of a struck singing bell. The source material was sustained and extended into a continuous drone composition, preserving the bell’s harmonic spectrum and natural decay characteristics. Release date: February 28, 2026 Written and produced by Franklyn Monk.
Letting Go is an ambient work derived from a single recording of a struck singing bell. The source material was sustained and extended into a continuous drone composition, preserving the bell’s harmonic spectrum and natural decay characteristics. Release date: February 28, 2026 Written and produced by Franklyn Monk.
ノイズの中の私の世界低く鳴り続けている その響きの中で 同じ揺れの一部 ここで息をする 形づくられる生この作品は、 持続する音、共鳴、揺れ、 そしてその中での注意と呼吸から 形づくられた。都市の環境音、 合成音、 長い持続音を用い、 時間の経過そのものを 聴取の場として構成している。作曲・録音・制作 フランクリン・モンク二〇二六年 テキサス州 デントン
ノイズの中の私の世界低く鳴り続けている その響きの中で 同じ揺れの一部 ここで息をする 形づくられる生この作品は、 持続する音、共鳴、揺れ、 そしてその中での注意と呼吸から 形づくられた。都市の環境音、 合成音、 長い持続音を用い、 時間の経過そのものを 聴取の場として構成している。作曲・録音・制作 フランクリン・モンク二〇二六年 テキサス州 デントン
ノイズの中の私の世界低く鳴り続けている その響きの中で 同じ揺れの一部 ここで息をする 形づくられる生この作品は、 持続する音、共鳴、揺れ、 そしてその中での注意と呼吸から 形づくられた。都市の環境音、 合成音、 長い持続音を用い、 時間の経過そのものを 聴取の場として構成している。作曲・録音・制作 フランクリン・モンク二〇二六年 テキサス州 デントン
ノイズの中の私の世界低く鳴り続けている その響きの中で 同じ揺れの一部 ここで息をする 形づくられる生この作品は、 持続する音、共鳴、揺れ、 そしてその中での注意と呼吸から 形づくられた。都市の環境音、 合成音、 長い持続音を用い、 時間の経過そのものを 聴取の場として構成している。作曲・録音・制作 フランクリン・モンク二〇二六年 テキサス州 デントン
ノイズの中の私の世界低く鳴り続けている その響きの中で 同じ揺れの一部 ここで息をする 形づくられる生この作品は、 持続する音、共鳴、揺れ、 そしてその中での注意と呼吸から 形づくられた。都市の環境音、 合成音、 長い持続音を用い、 時間の経過そのものを 聴取の場として構成している。作曲・録音・制作 フランクリン・モンク二〇二六年 テキサス州 デントン
A meditation on the unity and interconnectedness of all things. This release is an offering—rooted in love, service, compassion, and the human capacity to return, rebuild, and continue.
A meditation on the unity and interconnectedness of all things. This release is an offering—rooted in love, service, compassion, and the human capacity to return, rebuild, and continue.
A meditation on the unity and interconnectedness of all things. This release is an offering—rooted in love, service, compassion, and the human capacity to return, rebuild, and continue.
A meditation on the unity and interconnectedness of all things. This release is an offering—rooted in love, service, compassion, and the human capacity to return, rebuild, and continue.
A meditation on the unity and interconnectedness of all things. This release is an offering—rooted in love, service, compassion, and the human capacity to return, rebuild, and continue.
A meditation on the unity and interconnectedness of all things. This release is an offering—rooted in love, service, compassion, and the human capacity to return, rebuild, and continue.
A meditation on the unity and interconnectedness of all things. This release is an offering—rooted in love, service, compassion, and the human capacity to return, rebuild, and continue.
A meditation on the unity and interconnectedness of all things. This release is an offering—rooted in love, service, compassion, and the human capacity to return, rebuild, and continue.
From static to solidarity: an ambient odyssey of love forging a new world.A five-part speculative ambient journey where love shapes order from noise, guiding listeners through emergence, purpose, and collective transformation.
Shaped noise for studying, meditating, or chilling. This is a condensed version of the entire album, it combines the first 10 seconds of each track for a runtime of 2 minutes.
Calming and thrilling music that can sit back while you concentrate on other tasks, or come to the forefront when you need to take your mind off things.
Calming and thrilling music that can sit back while you concentrate on other tasks, or come to the forefront when you need to take your mind off things.
Calming and thrilling music that can sit back while you concentrate on other tasks, or come to the forefront when you need to take your mind off things.
Calming and thrilling music that can sit back while you concentrate on other tasks, or come to the forefront when you need to take your mind off things.
My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with synthetic audio. Split into ten parts to appease the anti-longform overlords.
My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with synthetic audio. Split into ten parts to appease the anti-longform overlords.
My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with synthetic audio. Split into ten parts to appease the anti-longform overlords.
My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with synthetic audio. Split into ten parts to appease the anti-longform overlords.
My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with synthetic audio. Split into ten parts to appease the anti-longform overlords.
My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with synthetic audio. Split into ten parts to appease the anti-longform overlords.
My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with synthetic audio. Split into ten parts to appease the anti-longform overlords.
My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with synthetic audio. Split into ten parts to appease the anti-longform overlords.
My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with synthetic audio. Split into ten parts to appease the anti-longform overlords.
My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with synthetic audio. Split into ten parts to appease the anti-longform overlords.
For Anna (previously titled Murder She Called It) is an immersive sound sculpture, born from a deeply personal journey through therapy. Inspired by a breakthrough session with my therapist, Anna, this piece explores what it means to confront oneself in the void, where guilt and forgiveness battle in silence.This soundscape captures the raw tension of self-reconciliation. Ethereal vocals, haunting drones, and fragmented textures echo the themes of violence, vulnerability, and the cold, honest work of inner survival. As each layer unfolds, it draws the listener closer to that critical moment of confrontation—the meeting with the self, in all its complexity.Dedicated to Anna, who guided me to face these emotions head-on, For Anna is an exploration of what it means to survive one’s inner turmoil and begin the process of self-forgiveness.Thank you for listening, and I invite you to reflect on your own journey within.Landing page: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/15675
A soundscape of flowing drones. Your guides are angels and snakes, the path is lined with twinkling bells and lanterns.Landing page:https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/15126
The January Protocol is repetitive; cycles within cycles, subtly chaotic, like all Januaries. Relentless hypnotic in its madness.
A study of the discontinuity between the inner self and consensus reality in the form of an experimental field-recording featuring cycling paired with ambient digital signal processing Landing page: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/14947
An electro-ambient meditation on compassion.Landing page: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/14899
Long-form ambient dronemusic soundscape with binaural beats and tones weaving with underlying bassy tone.
An experimental audio track featuring WikiLeaks audio of the AbilityOne/SourceAmerica scandal
A percussive no wave industrial techno noise track. Landing Page: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/14391
z₀ may refer to: - Characteristic impedance, a ratio used in electronics - Impedance of free space, a physical constant - Z boson, an elementary particle that mediates the weak forcea rare rail transport modelling scale - Roughness length, a factor used in wind speed calculations - z₀ sex-determination system in biologyLanding: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/8278
I don’t know if the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but here we are.It’s parts being two weeks of exploration and hard work, of chasing tangents and getting lost in your lips. Joy and suffering the whole way has led to this, whatever this is.This is Submerged.Dronecast 42, Franklyn Monkhttps://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/9548
Shit gets sticky with third-wheels
video: https://youtu.be/iRetE3nEZQ0 landingpage: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/10124
Some days I ruminate on it all ending. Like, just can't it be over yet? Other days I'm happy to be alive. Currently I'm worried about a friend, and I don't know if I'll be able to function until I know if they're OK. Please be OK.
Video: https://youtu.be/l2Uo_guFUO8 Landing page: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/13998
An effected soundscape from an affected mind in North Central Texas, Denton to be exact. I'm in love with you, btwTrack Notes: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/13727
A binaural tonal piece in which nine pure tones are randomly played back in packs of three.https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/13636
thirty minutes from inside a ramshackle shed on a damp december afternoon in a north texas city.
Five binaural frequency sweeps, interlaced with virtual instruments playing midified transforms of same
Somewhere… deep in the sky, there's a river that feeds into an ocean. This is where the Cetus roams.
Spring is just in sight of our scanners, but this is as close as we'll ever get to it, as we're on a parallel course. Ah well, would've been grand.
Video at https://youtu.be/f5YyapTQXao
Five channel recording of the central heat constantly turning on and off because roommates can't keep their mitts off it. I filtered out everything but the electrical hum, and mutilated it.
A recording of an urban neighborhood street in North Texas. Notes: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/12333
Exploring the links between perception and memory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDVn9C0aGk
Experimental ambient soundscape. Dronescape #98 Visualization: https://youtu.be/dpQ2_P7U-sg Track Page: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/12192
My 97th Dronescape is an ambient soundscape featuring field-recordings., and percussive drones. Drove me to the brink and my friends even further. Video: https://youtu.be/kt4dipa1LXI
Created by routing two binaural tone generators through a series of modulators and effects. Mixed and mastered over a week of roving brownouts, and water shortages.
https://youtu.be/tcx1kD1yJeM
Full range drone from an audio sample of Houseman’s Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree, interwoven with synths triggered from the same.
https://youtu.be/ObHpnHR8nPw
Like all relationships the continuum thrives beneath chaos. https://youtu.be/CedTfBART9U https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/11968
Late August nights in North Texas. Cicadas sing, and humans lurk beneath summer’s shroud.
https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/11876
Dronescape 91 Sculpted static and noise. No instruments, or cows, were hurt during this filming. https://youtu.be/HxwamtJ7kzk https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/11778
Part 3 of Hotline The final installment of my Hotline series of abstract soundscapes which explores a science fiction future, inspired by Varley's Eight Worlds series.
Video: https://youtu.be/IOuISvHnmLU Web: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/11583
Long-form soundscape, spiritually connected to the Final Breath Triptych video: https://youtu.be/1g-YVyv-XtI web: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/10876
Part three of the Final Breath Triptych video: https://youtu.be/1uyWAHfR0Y0 web: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/10828
Part Two of the Final Breath Triptych video: https://youtu.be/fi_WjxnIsgg web: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/10774
The soundtrack of a sinister world. One reviewer described it as “That’s some videodrome wet carnal nightmare. If I had more than a 3 hour old buzz, I don’t think I coulda handled it. There were mirrored images of bodies merging into themselves that are straight out my 7 year old nightmares.” Video: https://youtu.be/2nA8GXGZZfM Web: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/10739
> Agents are required to complete an immersive training module at the end of each mission.
MAINTAINING ALLEGORICAL READINESS
Deep Learn Level 2 Supplemental Packs Series 3 Cart 1 Siphon 12 Distributed by Quasigentsia DLS3C1-88_SPN-12 https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/11448
The beginning and the end are worn. A hammer strike. Ice calving from an iceberg. Virtual instruments driven by samples. A G-man posing as a number station. A preachy New Year’s reveler.
Franklyn Monk, The Lesser Pump http://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/9270
Franklyn Monk Dronecast #36
TITLE: Follow Your Heart ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 36 GENRE: Experimental YEAR: 2016 PUBLISHER: Quasigentsia URL: http://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/8356 LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International LICENSE URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ TAGS: ambient, dronecast, monk, franklyn monk, podcast, drone, experimental, music, reaper, 36, Internationale, classical, orchestral, electronic, field recording, audio
EPISODE LINK: http://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/8356 ARCHIVE ITEM: https://archive.org/details/FranklynMonkPodcast36 YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/_0ppjZGWyew SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/asip/follow-your-heart
DOWNLOAD LOSSLESS: https://archive.org/download/FranklynMonkPodcast36/followYourHeart.flac 54.1M https://archive.org/download/FranklynMonkPodcast36/followYourHeart.m4a 57.7M https://archive.org/download/FranklynMonkPodcast36/followYourHeart.wav 169.9M LOSSY: https://archive.org/download/FranklynMonkPodcast36/followYourHeart-lossy.m4a 16.0M https://archive.org/download/FranklynMonkPodcast36/followYourHeart.ogg 14.5M https://archive.org/download/FranklynMonkPodcast36/followYourHeart.mp3 13.7M https://archive.org/download/FranklynMonkPodcast36/followYourHeart.opus 11.6M VIDEO: https://archive.org/download/FranklynMonkPodcast36/followYourHeart.mp4
SOURCES: 1. TIME: 7:46-9:08 TITLE: The Internationale - Instrumental DESCRIPTION: Classical orchestral version MUSIC: P. Degeyter 1871. URL: http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/download.php?fname=intern2 2. TIME: 12:24-12:42 TITLE: The Internationale DESCRIPTION: Music box URL: https://archive.org/details/TheInternationale-MuxicBox
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Dronecase #33: The Longness of You Franklyn Monk
Between the longness of you And my shortness of breath Cicadas sing Our moon falls into shadow
Episode: http://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/8299 YouTube: https://youtu.be/s_bD0kuKBx0 Twitter: @fqmonk Facebook: /fqmonk
Franklyn Monk Dronecast #32: Raumo: z₀
Audio: REAPER Video: ffmpeg, with heavy postprocessing in ShotCut and iMovie Titles: inkscape, and no I'm not satisfied with them. I just had to stop, I had to stop, I'll do better next time. 2016, from the Dronecast project.
Episode link: http://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/8278 Archive.org item: https://archive.org/details/FranklynMonkPodcast32 Youtube: https://youtu.be/WLhGOF0OFv8
“A Throne!” by Franklyn Monk
“You, you,” he points at you, “You can’t be in my audience,” And collapses.
There are no stagehands here To shuffle away his bones, “It’s a one man show!”
He now understands his mistake, But he’s proud of shrinking The universe down to a man. Who does that? “The Artist!” he’ll inevitably cry And laugh because it’s ludicrous.
“I took tickets too.” And he cleaned the aisles And he built you a throne With cheesecloth and cardboard, “And my soul!” Yes, yes, of course.
And there now you are In the throne he constructed And he’s not ready to be seen or heard “Or exist!” No, no, of course.
http://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/5542
A recording of an early spring storm.
What I like most about this one is the white noise at the end is so loud and so oppressive that when it finally slams to an end I’m catapulted into heady relief. I’m left weightless, numb, and free for the first time.
Franklyn Monk Dronecast #17
An ambient soundtrack with looping vocals which, perhaps, demonstrates what it’s like to be swept into rumination. At 16m40s it’s a good length for a short meditative sit.
Franklyn Monk Dronecast #14
The Gratzi is a hard poem to read. It’s taken me years, but I finally gave up on ever getting it and released this reading disguised.
Franklyn Monk Dronecast #13