Autumn By The Lake

More on the 676th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sub Melody — The Assignment: Bury a slow melody deep inside a drone — at https://disquiet.com/0676/

submerged [disquiet0676]

Snow*Omen/Velvet Something Superdark collaboration based on Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" (1972). Recording of partly improvised live performances (Y.A.: voice, fretless 4-string-cbg, e-bow, VSS: electric guitars, pedal noise, background voice). All sounds: @snow_omen. Mixing and production: VSS.

Perfect Day, Extended

White Structure

Snow Mantle

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
576
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku576-amongst-the-rushes/

2025-01-15

Amongst The Rushes, (Naviarhaiku 576 )

RIP David Lynch.

Disquiet Junto 0681 directed us to compose a sonic scene from a thriller, a walk or run to remember. If you're familiar with my work you know that I love a good narrative piece, and recently the Junto has encouraged a bit of sound design, so I felt well-prepared.

I wanted to avoid the trope of a woman being followed late at night, and instead went with the trope of the hitchhiker who may not be all that she seems to be. I spent a lot of time on stereo orchestration so please use headphones when listening.

Instrumentation was simple: a custom pad called "Shipwreck Organ" provided the pedal tone, with a lonely live guitar following along with minimal and mournful notes. 

There were a lot of samples used in this piece. The cars passing along the highway were hidden deep in Apple's Final Cut Pro library folder. The sound of single car approaching, idling, car door slamming, and pulling away is a composite of samples from Pixabay and field recordings. The BBC archive provided the car crash sample. The night sounds were from a field recording made in rural Virginia. The crunch of gravel underfoot took a bit of foley work: a recording of a potato mashing into a bowl of granola and manipulated a bit in Logic. The under-the-breath singing and humming of the hitchhiker was a live vocal performance recorded in studio and processed.

More on the 681st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drama Course — The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical — at https://disquiet.com/0681/

The Hitchhiker (disquiet0681)

I imagined a walk in the woods, which starts out blissfully enough and then ends in darkness and a tangle of aggressive branches and unseen monsters. Hence the cheery sequence, all in C major, that starts off the track which then begins to break down, first with a bit of dissonance before being completely taken over by a low drone that takes the hapless walker into the dark lodge of their dreams. All this was done in Logic, using Arturia's "mallets" plug in and granular effects.

disquiet0681

An exploration of not bells ... be careful, though ... the SoundCloud algorithm doesn't consider this music, and I didn't really want to "modify your track to make it eligible" for recommendation to potentially interested listeners! 😂

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

more halF unusuaL

halF unrunG [disquiet0682]

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.



Thought Takes Flight (naviarhaiku577)

There's a little bit of everything in this one... opening with some ominous taiko drums. The crackling of a fire persists as you walk through the scorched fields as you come across some electric guitar, vocals and a darbuka drum towards the end that give it an almost mid eastern tinge along with the usual electronic sound suspects. Hope you like it :-)

Scorched Fields (naviarhaiku582)

2025-04-26

hummingbird

Brief eclectic electronic experimental excursions. All songs are available as a free download. Thanks for listening :-)

Scorched Fields (naviarhaiku582)

Addisonic