new drive

Richard Skelton

Memorious Earth

Marc Weidenbaum

AnotherSunday

ambient d'ambience

*AR ~ Succession (Preview)

Excerpts from Volume Three of the ARCHIVAL SERIES of digital music editions.

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'An Ash-Tree Which the Ignorant Call Holy' by Richard Skelton

'It's Ok' is available on - 
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/b-sides/id995568875
Bandcamp - smarturl.it/itsokbc

VIDEO - http://youtu.be/Khpzs-7WWeA


Keep me here, my heart is near, my love has gone away. 
Tell me true, my heart is new, my love has gone away. 
It's ok i know someday i'm gonna be with you. 
It's ok i know someday i'm gonna be with you. 

Speak to me, my heart is free, my love has gone away. 
Tell me true, my heart is blue, my love has gone away. 
It's ok I know someday i'm gonna be with you. 
It's ok i know someday i'm gonna be with you. 

http://www.tomrosenthal.co.uk/

B-Sides

It's Ok (Acoustic)

Listen on Spotify

Excerpts from Volume Four of the ARCHIVAL SERIES of digital music editions.

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'Form Themselves Into Streams' by Richard Skelton

pfpf pass

....now to something totally different

Urlaub is the second song, which I (tried to) sing and it's one of the saddest Tracks I've ever done. 

Handkerchiefs ready hold ... I have warned you!

Another Track from my upcoming Album "Wer nicht fühlen will"

...a crude translation from bing and me:

URLAUB

Your Holiday is over
The best Time of the Year

You tune yourself in slowly
Think again briefly back

Fresh Meat on the Buffet
Drinks and Beer all in Flux

Evenings animated
Super Beach and nice People

At seven is the night gone
Everyday life has you again

The hours curdle like Porridge
You beat yourself down

And in the Evening is maybe something on TV
In the Evening is maybe something on TV
And in the Evening is maybe something on TV

Hint: If you want to quickly empty the dancefloor or would like the last guests finally stagger home because it's getting late and you want to go to bed ... this is the psycho weapon of choice :-)


...and the original Songtext in german:


URLAUB

Dein Urlaub ist vorbei
die beste Zeit des Jahres

du tunest dich langsam wieder ein
denkst kurz nochmal zurück

Frischfleisch am Buffet
Drinks und Bier alles im Fluß

Abends animiert
super Strand und nette Leute

Um Sieben ist die Nacht vorbei
der Alltag hat dich wieder

die Stunden gerinnen wie Brei
du schlägst dich selber nieder

und abends kommt vielleicht was im Fernsehn
abends kommt vielleicht was im Fernsehn
und abends kommt vielleicht was im Fernsehn



Urlaub

PRIMARY STRUCTURES / 3

Happening really mdrender1

Here are four tracks from The Flood, by The Lyre Ensemble, with Stef Conner on vocals, Andy Lowings on lyre, and produced by Mark Harmer.  

Read about it here: 
http://www.newsweek.com/what-did-ancient-mesopotamian-hits-sound-something-291543

Order album here:
http://lyre-ensemble.com/admin/?page_id=93

The Flood

*AR ~ Diagrams for the Summoning of Wolves (Excerpt)

Trapeze Swinger - Iron & Wine

Soundtrack to the film, Memorious Earth, by Richard Skelton and Autumn Richardson. Limited edition DL and CD-R release:

http://corbelstonepress.com/memorious-earth.htm

*AR ~ Memorious Earth (Excerpts)

'Be Good' on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/be-good-feat.-tom-rosenthal/id1034482006

This song was co-written with Max Brodie, and it is currently featuring on a Vodafone ad in the UK. 

You can see the ad here - https://youtu.be/HuahFRutADs

LYRICS: 

To begin or to remain 
All the questions of the day 
We are just beginning 
There's a smile in your eyes 
What will we find? 

Turn it all around 
Flip that frown upside down 
Let it beat like a drum 
Oh be good and be young. 

Oh we're to save the day 
We are gone and on our way 
Light it up and let us go 
To the stars and to the moon 
Start it up we'll be there soon 

Turn it all around 
Flip that frown upside down 
Let it beat like a drum 
Oh be good and be young. 

Behind those eyes
Behind those lies 

Turn it all around 
Flip that frown upside down 
Let it beat like a drum 
Oh be good and be young. 

Buy on iTunes

Be Good

From the album "Liedgut", Raster-Noton 2009


Wellen und Felder

I've wanted to get a white-noise module for awhile, and finally added one to my setup. This module has 7 different noise sources, including white, red, grey, and blue. Each is being triggered by a different sequence. They're all in sync, though one is slightly delayed, which lends a tiny bit of character to the cadence, I think. The only reason I skipped pink is because I don't have any pink cables right now, and the color-coded cables helped me keep track of things.

You can blame this on someone who's listened to too many Chain Reaction releases, too much Consolidated, and too many scores to Michael Mann films.

Slightly more technical information: The sequences are all in CV Toolkit (a piece of software running on my laptop), and they're getting to my modular synthesizer via an Expert Sleepers ES-3 module. The noise-source module is the Quantum Rainbow 2. The white, red, and grey sources are all receiving sequences directly from the software. The blue source is getting a slight trigger delay (and a slightly extended length to the trigger), thanks to the Doepfer A-162. The whole thing is being mixed in an ADDAC 802 VCA Quintet, and out through a Pittsburgh Outs, through a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4. It was recorded in Audacity. 

White Noise Beat

I was asked by the Dutch musician Michel Banabila to contribute a remix to Marilli Remixed, a collection of reworkings of tracks from his very first album, Marilli, released in 1983. I selected the fourth track on the first side of the LP.

The original was elegant, but had percussion throughout. I wanted the ambient quality more formalized, and the percussion a little more muted and arhythmic.

. . .  

Here are some notes on my remix. I’ll note in advance, they’re fairly technical, as a notebook entry on what went into this, and what I learned in the process.

I used the my modular synthesizer (mostly filters, and a little triggered live sampler), the software Audacity (to sequence it, and also for some effects), and my Monome (running the mlr patch in the software Max). 

First I stretched a relatively percussion-less segment of the original track to get an ambient bed, yielding in the end something about 30 seconds long. I set it to run eight times in a row, overlapping to varying degrees at each repeat. 

Then I extracted a small percussion loop from the original. I did a "live performance" of that percussion loop with the Monome (four simultaneous tracks: one straight through, two running tighter sub-loops against each other a little quieter, and one in reverse even quieter still, though it's also the last bit to fade out of that sequence, so it has a little moment in the sun). The loop ran a little slower than the original, and I used a small Novation Launch Control to manage the relative volume of the four tracks within mlr.

And then I used my modular synthesizer to create variations on the ambient bed, which I layered in at various stages. 

In the end I had eight tracks in Audacity:

The 1st and 3rd tracks are the eight sequential repeats of the ambient sound bed, each intersection overlapping to varying degrees.

The 2nd track is a filtered version of the ambient bed, which has a slow LFO on it (giving it a light Laurie Anderson–ish "ha ha ha" feel) and some echo. This was done on the modular using a filter (either the A-121 or the A-136 or the Z2040 — my notes are unclear — influenced by a digital LFO, the Hikari Sine, and then run through an Eko module).

The 4th is the "live performance" on the Monome of the percussion loop, running mlr. It has four tracks of the loop doing different things. I used a Novation Launch Control to balance the volume of those four tracks.

The 5th is a copy of the ambient sound bed, pitched lower for the full length of the loop. This gives it that deep vibe for the penultimate repeat of the ambient bed. In track 1 at that same stage the volume of the original ambient bed is a little quieter, to let the deep version sound even louder than it is, in relative terms. 

The 6th track is a copy of the ambient bed but pitched higher, and I just use it for a very short moment, a final peak before the track fades out. 

And the 7th and 8th are two different instances of the same tweak of the ambient bed, which I did in the modular using a Harvestman Polivoks. It's a tingling, slightly irritating sound, a momentary breach in the ambience.

The whole idea is it opens with this expanse, and then goes to something a little tribal, and then returns to the expanse. I'll be honest about my influences here. The ambient bed is striving toward Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon, and the rhythmic part has Peter Gabriel's soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ in mind. The first appearance of the Polivoks "irritant" is then repeated toward the end to provide a sense of reflection on where the piece started, but in between is that percussion performance. The deep vibe in track 5 gives an orchestral sense of closure, and the peak in track 6 is little filigree, like the clouds breaking, before it all ends.

At least that's where I ended up. It wasn't where I started. When I started, it was all gonna be about this firecracker/rattle sound in the original, but in the end I went a totally different direction.

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"A4. Marilli Rmxd 14"

disquiet 0245
Disquiet Junto Project 0245: Practical Music
Write a piece of music for getting things done, suitable for playing on repeat.

Clean up, routine, tiding up....that leads me to repetitive stuff.
I played a simple riff on my “diaz custom5”  drake bass guitar, very repetitive and yet variations going from A to D to D/E with no real structure.
Added a synth bass drone, and a Wurlitzer A200 electric piano improvising a bit.
Then some repetitive voices (tah-tah-tah-tah...) in four part harmony/
My usual rhythmic delays played a big role, here in 1/8th and 1/4th notes.
You can loop this, there’s no lead in or lead off.
Love
DD
Recorded in Paris, France September 9th  2016.

More on this 245th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Write a piece of music for getting things done, suitable for playing on repeat” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0245/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0243-synth-trial/4288

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by jurek d. and is used thanks to Flicker and a Creative Commons license:

http://flic.kr/p/npLwcU

clean it and loop it - disquiet0245

This is based on a Pure Data patch I made called "Oval Noise" because it reminded me of Markus Popp's ovalcommers-era sound. 

The patch is a mess since I just kind of threw it together with 3 oscillators playing one of four pitches randomly, with 2 of them summed up and the other being sent to another effect along with being summed with the other 2. 

Pure Data measures tempo by millisecond, so I started at 500 (i beat every half second), then divided it by 2, 4 and 6. The last little bit is divided by 8. 

Recorded into Audacity where I cropped it and fixed some clipping issues. 

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More on this 246th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music that increases speed in stages as it proceeds.” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0246/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/double-quadruple-sextuple-music-disquiet-junto-project-0246/4549

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Oliver Gouldthorpe and is used thanks to Flicker and a Creative Commons license:

flic.kr/p/sMDxq

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Latticeworks (disquiet0246)

From "Verse of Birds" by Richard Skelton.
Tracks: Vessel, Calm Bearer, Bond that does not break, Promontory, The narrow rooms, Of the sea, Grey-back (for Ceapaigh an Bhaile).
Released by Corbel Stone Press, 2012.



Verse of Birds ~ Richard Skelton (Preview)

From disc two of "Verse of Birds" by Richard Skelton.
Tracks: Ascend, Little knives, A kill, Véarsa éan, Domain.
Released by Corbel Stone Press, 2012.

Véarsa Éan ~ Richard Skelton (Preview)

Z-Sides

To You Alone (Acoustic)

Preview of the forthcoming book/cd release, Limnology, on  Corbel Stone Press.

Limnology by Richard Skelton (Preview)

Swarm Swamp Swim

Swarm Swamp Swim (feat. Cosmo Sheldrake)

Wolf Notes by *AR

DAY9-Happy begins

Evenings "Babe" Shigeto Remix off his LP "Yore" on Friends of Friends.
Hear and purchase the release here:
http://fofmusic.bandcamp.com/

Evenings - Babe [Shigeto Remix]

From the ARCHIVAL SERIES of digital music editions:

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Riftmusic (Part Two)

LIES-021
Terekke-Amaze
to be released June 1st 2013

Terekke-Amaze (L.I.E.S.-021)

Excerpts from Volume Two of the ARCHIVAL SERIES of digital music editions.

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*AR ~ Diagrams for the Summoning of Wolves (Excerpt)

c/s/p