Ambient Drones

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Disquiet Junto Project 0245: Practical Music

Marc Weidenbaum

my tracks for the diquiet junto group/project.

photo by james blackledge

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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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Disquiet 0244
This is a remix proposed @ Disquiet Junto Project 0244: Euro Mixin
The Assignment: Combine tracks from three different European netlabels (Portugal, Spain, Switzerland) into one sonic union.
Source tracks (20 first seconds each)
 “The Station and the Underclass,” performed by the Phonetic Orchestra, released on the Insub. netlabel based in Geneva:
“Cloud Scissors” composed by Lo Wei; performed by Cristián Alvear, Santiago Astaburuaga, Gudinni Cortina, and Rolando Hernández, released on the Impulsive Habitat netlabel based in Portugal:
“Zraerza,” performed by Geeksha Beka and Berio Molina, released on the Alg-a netlabel based in Galicia

hard-disquiet0244 by DD
September 2nd 2016; Paris, France.

00:00 zraerza + ebow Strato solo
00:24 zraerza + ebow Strato solo + vox continental (organ) drone
01:04 cloud scissors, + gradually zraerza + ebow Strato solo
01:47 The Station and the Underclass + vox continental (organ) drone 
02:07 zraerza + ebow start solo
02:20 zraerza + ebow start solo + cloud scissors
03:20 I’m done
 
FX used : delay, reverb, filter, comrpession

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Hard - disquiet0244

This week's Junto is to record a simple, rhythmic piece of music that exudes tidiness and efficiency, and that is eminently playable on repeat — music to listen to while doing routine tasks.

For some reason, this just brought to mind the old music that you would hear between the programmes for schools that were played on BBC2 in the 1970s (when the teachers would wheel out the great big TV set and we'd all have to sit quietly waiting for the programme to come on). Anyway, that vibe in mind, I set to work. This turned out to be a complicated patch, that creates new and less repetitive sequences from a few short sequences. I started with a drone that has a sort of 'vacuum cleaner' essence about it, and some spiky notes borrowed from the other oscillators by Clouds, that might be considered to be 'dust'. I then faded in some echoed sine waves, which are of course eminently clean. A nice little working bassline follows, and some percussion to add a bit of momentum and sparkle. Then the dust and hoover fade away, for a clean finish. It could have been much longer, very easily. Rinse and repeat :-) 

For the benefit of my international friends - back in the days when we only had three TV channels, none of which were on air continuously, there used to be programming especially for schools, and before the programme started, there would be a clock shown, while music played, allowing the school time to get the TV ready. This link is an actual recording from 1982:  best started from about 1 minute in (after the Ceefax text and completely black screen!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NwuHPfhHDE   

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Interstellar Vacuum Cleaner [Practical Music (Disquiet0245)]

I was wanting to get a funky free flavor but remain slave to the beat.  Ah the wonders of the workplace where we surrender so many of our hours. 
Wide Awake in a Field of Deadbolts
By Nick Twemlow 
Slight whiff of toner, or is it White-Out?           
  Brief heat of manuscript
                           lifted from the printer, against my face.
 
What is it about the new hire
             that has everybody talking?
                           Her newness, perhaps, her éclat
 
cutting through
             each of us, like a sword
                           through wet bamboo; it’s a graceful
 
violation. And then the water
             breaks, and then a darkening
                           sky rolls over the lake, and then
 
a meeting is called to introduce her,
             to make her understand,
                           to allow her to share in our delights!
 
Here is the coffee machine, there are the filters.
             You may store your lunch
                           in the communal refrigerator, but please
 
remember to empty yourself,
             all of you. Feel free to decorate
                           your cubicle with pictures, tack up a view
 
of the lake behind you
             to remind you of the lake
                           behind you. Don’t listen to those of us
 
who are certain
             of the small death
                           each photo you tack up represents.
           
Familiarity breeds
             intent, intent signals purpose,
                           purpose is a proposition you make to those
           
who observe, quantify
             and assess you; and use as many legal
                           pads as you like. And the retractable pencils,
 
they’re all yours. Marigolds.
             Sunflowers. Black-Eyed Susans. Just keep it
                           yellow. Paper cuts will happen. Band-Aids
 
are in the top left drawer
             in the kitchen,
                           next to the cake-cutting knife
 
we pull out for anniversaries, birthdays,
             retirements, record days,
                           or the first time you see all of us converge
 
on the conference room, leaving you alone in your cube.
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Wide Awake in a Field of Deadbolts By Nick Twemlow (disquiet0245)

choral ambient mindful music for kitchen chores

loop quietly

these are remixes of https://sevenism.bandcamp.com/track/yesterday-i-saw-her

“If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were
a nuisance, then we are not "washing the dishes to wash the dishes." What's more, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes. In fact we are completely incapable of realizing the miracle of life while standing at the sink. If we can't wash the dishes, the chances are we won't be able to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands. Thus we are sucked away into the future -and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.” 
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness

......
Disquiet Junto Project 0245: Practical Music
Write a piece of music for getting things done, suitable for playing on repeat.
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yesterday i saw her (memory) (disquiet0245)

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.

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clean it and loop it - disquiet0245

Nothing brings me more joy than to clean. I am constantly battling against the kibble and losing. 

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Joy to Pee Wee- To be played on a loop til insane (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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Latticeworks (disquiet0246)

Disquiet Junto Project 0246: Double, Quadruple, Sextuple
Compose a piece of music that increases speed in stages as it proceeds.

Steve Reich meet Western Spaghetti !
Mostly repetitive and simple guitar parts, nod to Electric Counterpoint perhaps?
Martin J15 acoustic and Schecter 1985 Stratocaster
I added an organ (Arturia’s Vox Continental) to glue everything, perhaps not a good idea?
Time (and you fellas) will tell.

I didn’t quite follow the increase speed in terms of overall tempo but in terms beat subdivision. Both in performance and delay rhythms:

70BPM throughout, always the same little motif: Ab-C-G-Ab-F 
So you have 70 motif notes per minute at the beginning and we reach 420 per minute in the finale.

1st part  is plain 1/4th   notes melody with a large 4 beats delay.
2nd melody enters with delay in 1/8th notes
3rd 4th and 5th parts switches progressively to 1/16th notes delays over the same basic motif performed in quarter and eight notes simultaneously.
6th is performed in 8th notes but delays become triplets (1/8th notes triplets)
7th part is the melody performed in 1/8th notes with delays in 1/8th note triplets.
8th part  is the melody performed in 1/8th note triplets with  delays in 1/16th note triplets (thus multiplying tempo by 6, ie 420BPM on those staccato notes)
9th is the “grand finale” with every delay in 1/16th notes triplets and one Martin and 3 Strats playing simultaneously different versions of the 5 note motif + 2 Matin guitars playing simple chords.

Instrumentation:
00:00 Martin 1 + Strat washes.
00:42 Martin 2 & Martin 3 (left-right) + Strat melody
01:13 Martin 1 + Martin 2 & Martin 3 chords (left-right) + Strat 1 melody + Start 2 staccato.
01:40 Martin 1  + Strat 1 staccato + Start 2 staccato.
02:08 Martin 1 + Martin 2 & Martin 3 (left-right) + Strat 1 melody + Start 2 staccato + Strat 3 staccato
02:35 Triplets: Martin 1 + Strat 1 chords + Start 2 staccato 
03:03 Martin 2 & Martin 3 (left-right) + Strat 1 staccato
03:27 Finale (tutti)

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Western Multipliers - disquiet0246

Waltz Definitely (La Boite A Musique) disquiet 0247

This one was so obvious to me, the illustration reminds me of a silly game we do with my kids, (game that they still love really) where I paint faces on our fingertips with a Sharpie, weird faces, happy faces, angry, surprised faces, etc) and we play roles and fake stories with our finger-tip-marionettes.
That’s the illustration alright, no doubt for me.

Waltz maybe? The idea was to perform a silly waltz with this mechanical toy piano I bought for my kids (but ended up squatted in my studio and finding its way to some major productions, little bastard!)
The piano is the one on the photo I took for this post. Who can resist a red piano?


So I went for a bunch of tracks I recorded with that piano previously and found that 90% where actually waltzes. I choose this one, so I am cheating (am I?) cause this is an existing recording, but couldn’t resist. Sorry.

The music it’s a proper composer’s composition, with chords, melodies, and all that old school stuff I like. 
Structure is A (major)-A (major)-A (major)-B (Major/Minor) - A (major)

But it is performed as if it was a Music Box. 

Now: trying to reproduce the issues, pranks and casualties you find in music boxes with an actual performance was a threat! And a whole lot of fun honestly. Those ridiculous tempo shifts and weird phrasing, took me hours lol.
One toy piano, a microphone and a drunken tempo, this is the antidote for any click based techno music overdose.

Hope you dig it. Love DD


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Waltz Definitely (La Boite A Musique) disquiet0247

disquiet 0248
Celebrate the new celestial holiday in music.

Here’s my angry chaotic interstellar trip to this birthday party far out there. A one minute and-a-half journey.

I took some of NASA’s free downloadable files I’ve got( from their Soundcloud account most probably) and that I use a lot.

Here, 16 first seconds of the track is full NASA sounds, including the low stabs in F that set the tonal centre and the amazing 5/8 groove that plays throughout. And astronaut’s (and Houston's) voices and a Saturn noise pad that glues everything, that's all NASA shares..

Then added some synths, played a F minor sequence , translated the 5/8 NASA groove to a distorted to hell midi drum track, and that’s it.

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Vortex Me, Please - disquiet0248

Disquiet Junto Project 0250: Soothing Sounds for Junto
Make some peaceful music for an infant child.

This project finds me re-editing and mixing tracks I composed and recorded last year for a film that needed some “clear”, “transparent” and “crystalline” music according to director.
So I went for a sample instrument called Glass Works from Soniccouture that I ended up using quite a lot, samples from “translucent” glass instruments such as Chamber Bowls, Cristal Baschet and Glass Harmonica. 
https://soundcloud.com/soniccouture

I kept the same template yesterday night and build this Welcome! sound to Karin and Bruce’s sweetheart, wishing them all a lot of happiness.

Basic tracks are:
-Cristal Baschet (arpeggio)
-Bowls (w/mallets) 
-Glass Harmonica
-Bowed bowls pad

So the basic track is full midi.

Then I added my beloved Accordina (start @ 0:34) and (bassist me) a pizzicato upright bass section (6 overdubs of the same basic bass part to make it sound like a bass orchestra).
I thought this was a bad idea, (removing the aerial mood and giving some rhythmic root) but today it seems good.
Still, at 3AM I added some “Vangelis” noises and cutoff falls ‘cause something in the sound reminds me the Love Theme from Blade Runner, so I tried to imitate those unique “ffffsshhhh” sound Vangelis masters.
I also thought this was a bad idea and now, the morning after I can confirm. It’s actually number 37 in my list “50 worst ideas of 2016”
But can’s get to the studio to remove it now, so here it goes, lets support some bad ideas from time to time, shall we?

A magic moment is at 01:05 when the glass harmonica takes the lead playing the melody the Accordina just played (and accordina starts improvising) , both timbre sound so alike that it’s amazing, such disparate instruments.


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Welcome Little One - disquiet0250

Yamaha CP70, real basses bowed section, sample string orchestra, field recording (frogs), Ondes Martenot mono synth.

Music for this Haiku:

"thick mist and the loudest of bird song 
steal no silence or sight away
from this place"

Poem by Best Left Wild https://www.bestleftwild.com
Photo by NASA (Caspian sea from the air)

http://www.naviarrecords.com/2017/06/14/naviarhaiku180-thick-mist-and-the-loudest-of-bird-song/

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Silence And A Sight Before You Go (naviarhaiku180)

Synthesisers and electric piano.
Dedicated to Rick Wright and Simone Veil.
Paris 2017.
Photo by Elena Nicolai

In The Fundamental Mood

Updated and expanded version, September 2021

Music for this Haiku:

"Gratitude
tears melting into
mountain snow"

Performed by DD: acoustic piano, electronica, string and orchestra samples. Arpeggiators.
Paris, October 2017.

Dedicated to Tom Petty

Photo by Ian Dooley
Poem by Soen Nakagawa Roshi (1907–1984)

@naviar-records

Gratitude (naviarhaiku197)

The challenge:
Record conference-call hold music — a private limbo of your own making.

The thing that worries me the most on hold music is that it’s so repetitive and un-interesting, and it’s supposed to keep you entertained while you wait? No way.
No variations, no emotion, no flow, nothing in it’s (electronic) performance, and let’s forget about audio quality, everything is poor and cheap.
So I recorded an purely electronic piece of music, 6 synth tracks, it is repetitive and  tame, always the same 6 sound sources, all notes follow cascades of 5th intervals, melodic or harmonic, but still, it changes all the time. Subtlety , but it does change, there’s no more than  2 measures with the exact same information.

Synths by D.D.
Photo by Igor Ovsyannikov
Friday 1st of June 2018, quiet after noon in Paris, France.


More on this 335th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Disquiet Junto Project 0335: Alone Time / Record conference-call hold music — a private limbo of your own making) at:
https://disquiet.com/0335/

Phone Hold Music (disquiet0335)

This is a Glacial Ambient Drone I made in Sylenth1.

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Glacial Ambient Drone

Urbaani Digital (ambient mix)

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TenSuns - Heart Of The Sun (Ambient Mix) 432Hz

multi-instrumentalist & composer.
Genre fluid music for images / instrumental / contemporary post-fusion / experimental jazz / electro acoustic ambient / melodic noise / neoclassical / naive hard core / cosmopolitan world music.

bio here:
http://dedeland.com/daniel-diaz-bio/


In some words:
Composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist. Born in Argentina,
I studied music in Buenos Aires, New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Paris.

For 20 years, I developed an important career as a session and backing musician in Argentina and Europe, playing, among other instruments, the bass, touring and recording with many jazz, rock, fusion, world, Latin and tango bands.

At the same time, I worked as an arranger, producer and musical director with many projects and artists in the USA, Argentina and Europe.

From 1992 to 1997, I performed my compositions live with my own band in Buenos Aires and began a solo recording career with the worldwide release of my first album "The Years Alone" on the North American label Green Linnet/Xenophile. On this album I arranged and performed 11 of my songs written between 1986 and 1993. I played most of the instruments, but included guest appearances by some great South American players.

My recording career continued with "Segundo Ciclo" (1997), released worldwide by Timeless Records, and 12 more albums released between 2000 and 2016.

Currently, I work as an on-demand film/TV composer while continuing to play live and produce.

clean it and loop it - disquiet0245

Daniel Diaz