Dawn Chorus on Easter Sunday - Ammerland, Bavaria

Dawn Chorus on Easter Sunday

This weeks prompt really intereted me...  I recorded the sound of my coffee grinder as I ground my morning beans on Friday morning. I had just read the Disquiet email a few minutes earlier after waking up and knew later on Friday I would have time to take part in the challenge if I wanted. I quickly made a recording of my morning grinding of coffee but wasn't till after I noticed I had left the radio playing in the kitchen.

After lunch on Friday I sat down and began to make this, cutting up the sounds of the coffee grinder and transposing the sounds and adding other musical sounds. I wanted to do something upbeat and fun and quite noisy! 


Disquiet Junto Project 0487: Carillon Quotidian
Assignment: Turn a recurring sound from your life into music.

This project was developed by Marty Petkovich (aka K Joule) as part of the celebration of the upcoming 500th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project.

Step 1: Identify a recurring sound in your daily life that isn’t generally considered musical. Try to locate a sound that you would normally ignore: the hum of the dryer, or the way the car trunk resonates when you drop it closed, the sound your boots make on certain stairs, the sound of the water coming out of the kitchen tap, etc.

Step 2: The goal is to explore the innate musicality of the sound you identified in Step 1. When recording the sound identified in Step 1, please keep in mind the effort may require some production techniques, because you want to try to isolate it as best as possible.

Step 3: Make an original piece of music employing the sample you recorded in Step 2 of the sound you decided upon in Step 1. Transpose the recorded sample and compose a short theme to use as the central voice in your composition. Complete your piece with other instrument lines as needed.

Quotidian Coffee Grinder [disquiet0487]

Aufnahme vom 13.4.2004 live im Freien Radio Stuttgart und 25.9.2003 im Elektronischen Studio der Musikhochschule Stuttgart
Das Ensemble Unterton (Stuttgart)waren: Anja Füsti: Perkussion, Vibrafon, Sounds; Oli Prechtl: Elektronik (https://soundcloud.com/oliverprechtl), momentmusik: Piano, Inside Piano, Samples und Effekte
Foto: Volker Kühn (2002)
Mix / Master: momentmusik (2018)

momentmusik presents Unterton

Playing Instruments (Free Download)

YouTube version here 
https://youtu.be/KNkjA08G7PI

Patch I made the other day in the style of Penderecki

"Black Truffle is honoured to present the first reissue of a true underground masterpiece, Massimo Toniutti’s Il Museo Selvatico (The Wild Museum), originally self-released on LP in 1991. Like his better-known brother Giancarlo (whose classic 1985 Broken Flag LP La Mutazione was reissued by Black Truffle in 2015), Massimo Toniutti was active in the vibrant underground industrial/noise scene of the 1980s, contributing to releases on legendary labels such as Broken Flag and RRR and self-releasing a series of cassettes between 1984 and 1988. Existing in a private world apart from the noise and dark industrial tropes of many of his contemporaries, Toniutti’s Il Museo Selvatico is an entirely singular work of domestic electro-acoustic exploration.

Made up primarily of what Toniutti calls ‘small and rare noises’ or sonic ‘knick-knacks’ recorded between 1987 and 1990, the five pieces that make up the original LP usher us into a crepuscular space populated by mysterious traces of everyday life. Toniutti weaves a loose net of distant clanks, dull thuds, metallic resonance and skittering percussive sounds, allowing the sounds to breathe against a backdrop of near-silent atmosphere. Although the haunted ambience recalls the work of contemporaries like Organum, Toniutti generally steers clear of long tones and drones, preferring to arrange brief, sometimes staccato sonic objects into patters of repeating figures and isolated events whose overall compositional shape remains somehow ungraspable. Although glimpses of recognisable location recordings and instrumental sounds can occasionally be made out, for most of the record the sources of the sounds we hear remain teasingly mysterious, an abstracted memory of everyday actions and atmospheres. l Museo Selvatico is accompanied here by an additional LP of material recorded at the same time, composed especially for this reissue into two side-long suites that inhabit the same haunted space as the original LP while occasionally making use of more maximal compositional strategies.

Black Truffle is pleased to return this overlooked masterwork to the world. Essential listening for fans of Organum, Nurse With Wound, Christoph Heemann, and the tradition of outsider musique concrète. Remastered at D&M, Berlin"

BT040 - Massimo Toniutti - Canti a forbice

There are very few demos of the legendary, rare and beautiful RSF Polykobol II. To me the best ones are by Sebastien of Mos-lab, on YouTube. I decided to try to recreate (as accurately as possible) the first 2.5 minutes of this demo, my favorite one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H247bhAZOS4   

I wanted to see how close I could get with the Kijimi. Sebastien used quite a bit of reverb and delay on this demo, and I tried to recreate those as accurately as possible too, as well as the mostly mono sound. I ended up with two versions I liked so I added them both here. In the first version Kijimi is slightly more detuned (VCO2 detune, and voice drift setting). In the second version  (starts at 2:30) the VCO and voice tuning is tighter, giving a nice cat purrrrr in the low notes.

Kijimi recreation of Polykobol II demo

Charles on the Buchla Music Easel, Sean on the Matrix Drums and Buchla 200

21 Jan, 2013

CC Music Easel, Sean Buchla 200 and Matrix Drums

Field recordings, cassettes, granular synthesis, one take, trying to give form to a childhood memory: Manitoba marshlands in late winter/early spring.

.:Oak Hammock 4:. (demo edit)

20200615

Vinyl version: https://comphol.bandcamp.com/album/worn-2

~'Worn' was written in the summer of 2019 and was recorded using a Yamaha MT3X multitrack cassette recorder.
The cassette tape itself was an old cassette tape which I used to record voice memos on when I was little.

The recording process involved the recording of several sketches, which I then revisited and overdubbed every week over the course of 2019's summer.

CC Music Easel, Sean Buchla 200 and Matrix Drums

Charles and Sean