piano sketch, part four

Created with the Arturia Microfreak and MakeNoise Strega.
Recorded and mixed in Reaper

A song from the hidden valley

Tread Lightly

Flint

Flint (Jun. 2024)

Chicha

https://www.beatport.com/release/iii-lp/3590439

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Disquiet Junto 0663 was an invitation to compose music to accompany a spinning-platter hard drive. 

I thought I would miss this one, as I was traveling abroad these past two weeks without any gear, not even a pair of decent headphones. But inspiration struck at the kitchen table in a rented flat in Manchester UK and there was no ignoring the impulse. This piece was recorded off the tempo grid, the notes were painted in a piano roll, and the automation was done with a trackpad. A very different creation experience and set of constraints for me! 

I like a little percussion with my drones, so I used the new stem splitter feature in Logic Pro to extract a few isolated samples of the hard drive chitter to establish a rhythmic foundation.

You will experience the song differently played through computer speakers vs headphones, and I can't say which way is the right way.

More about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0663

The Lake Shore Drive Incident (disquiet0663)

Ambient track using the Korg wave station.
The track is about the Ocean the Waves and the pollution our species has pushed into it.

Wavestate

I was gifted with a pleasant surprise from a calligrapher in Scotland who wrote out "BonkWave" in Lapis Majuscules for me. It inspired this exploration of Blippoo Box (in VCV) which I lovingly gnawed upon with my Shermanik Filterbank Bitwig fxGrid preset for extra character. French horns and Tuba serenade along to a crunchy beat.

Lapis Majuscules

Bhopal

"Shall I believe in ripples as the sea?--that is, the ripplehood of ripples? -- Jack Keruoac

Baltic Ozones 2 Ripples

covalent state.WAV

Electronic music of a dreamy, travelling quality. #horns #fieldRecordings #HopePunk #SailPunk #ambient #horns @marketing-audio-modeling #SwamHorns

Lapis Majuscules

AmbientSpace