Name: Whirling (2022) by Eden Lonsdale
Duration: 9 min 3 s
Description: Ensemble intercontemporain cond. Jean Deroyer

Piano solo improvisation on my own heartbeat recording.

Cardio (Mon cœur mis à nu)

Web Search 回顧 (Techno loop)

Dissonant Lights

Ensemble intercontemporain cond. Jean Deroyer

Whirling (2022)

Another one that I have had sitting around for quite some time, I really love how this one springs off in so many weirdly tangential directions whilst still remaining cohesive somehow. I also enjoy how all the the different fidelities clash to produce a sort of handmade texture that feels authentically like collage in a scissors and glue sort of way.

contentcore doldrums

Disquiet Junto Project 0571: Child’s Play
The Assignment: Make music inspired by a nursery rhyme.

I opted for "Fuchs Du hast die Gans gestohlen" (Fox you stole the goose), a German nursery rhyme from around 1824 based on an older folksong. Which seems to be, by what so ever strange reason, also very popular in Japan. It was written by Ernst Anschütz, whom you may know via "O Tannenbaum". Because I am just in love with some presets (yes) in Pigments, which use wavetables based on the MicroQ I once had (for the interested ones: Playhugger Microns https://www.plughugger.com/pigments-microns.html ), I currently do everything with these pads, and the results may be doubted. Anyway, I went for a slow ambient pads arrangement of this song, using only the original melody material plus some probabilities. At the end it did not sound like a lullaby at all (and does not say anything about nursery rhymes), but I liked it very much for what it is. At one point I added some sweet bells and stuff, but I always went back to this somehow brutal and unkrakenkrafty version. 

Notesheet and song text
https://www.lieder-archiv.de/fuchs_du_hast_die_gans_gestohlen-notenblatt_300721.html

Some youtubes with different versions of the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbtqrXwjD3w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz--4Jmnr1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwZRRsh6khA


Track image by DALL·E: "a goose and a fox, edward hopper" (more complicated prompts did not work and there were many ducks instead of geese…)


More on this 571st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Child’s Play (The Assignment: Make music inspired by a nursery rhyme) — at: https://disquiet.com/0571/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0571-childs-play/

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Fuchs Du Hast Die Gans Gestohlen [disquiet0571]

This track was created by randomly fading in and out individually the instruments and recordings of the original track https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/winter-slow-and-even-tempered. The created spaces enrich the track, give more emphasis to the remaining instruments - and a deeper meaning of its own to this composition.  As contradictory as this may seem...

The creation was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0586 (details see below).

I owe my thanks to @user-957729823 (Ha Kéko) for providing the great field-recording https://soundcloud.com/user-957729823/snow-removal_2. An ambient version of this recording was created with PaulXStretch.
These tracks can be heard if hazard determines to fade them in...

More on this 586th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chance the Eraser (The Assignment: Use probability to remove material from a track), at: https://disquiet.com/0586/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ 1

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0586-chance-the-eraser/

Winter, slow and even-tempered, embracing Spaces (Disquiet0586)

Solo Piano - Chris Bright

true clear sky - 4:21:24, 7.57 PM

A live set, opening for Russian-American dark ambient group Darkrad, recorded at the Drone Factory in Regina, Canada, on April 29, 2017.

pulsewidth at the drone factory-04292017

"Endless" live jam video here: https://youtu.be/fkjKPKbRLvs

A track from "Haunted Houses" album. Released by Laverna label. Digital copy is available for free download here: http://www.laverna.net/releases/Lav85.html

Composed, recorded and mixed by Alessandro Barbanera (march - july 2020)
Mastered by Francis M. Gri

"Haunted Houses" is a collection of seven tracks in slow, melancholy, dreamlike, nocturnal mood. It's a work made of waiting, of grainy sounds and silences full of rustles. It's a work talking about isolation, either in a physical and mental space; which talks about full spaces and empty or restricted spaces, of presences and absences, of memory and hope, of distances, of houses and rooms. Rooms innervated with restlessness and waiting (the opening track "Sleepless"). Houses where memories crowd, layered memories that coexist with the present (the title-track "Haunted Houses" is a short electroacoustic study on perception: indistinct, evanescent sounds, old pianos in the distance, confused and ectoplasmic voices, furniture that moves from the floor above, sighs...). And then there are presences such as those of literary characters, which can come to life in the mind while reading ("The death of Joe Christmas" is inspired by the restless and controversial character narrated by William Faulkner in "Light in August"). 
Even absences find space in the album, manifesting themselves in their impalpable distance (the piece "In Absence"), as memories of a past that has no place in the present. Then the rooms can become places overloaded with pain (the track "Torture Room"), where this suffering and effort can take an expiatory, spiritual, meditative form. And after all this inner torment, even isolation can turn into an opportunity for reflection, "redemption" and sincere change: the final tracks "Pure" and "Endless" try to capture this renewed spirit, following a strongly emotional path. “Endless” closes the circle, but it can also reopen it. 

"Haunted Houses" was made with guitars, contact microphones, an old cassette recorder, field recordings, dusty and grainy lo-fi sounds, found objects, recordings of streets at night, sounds of a carpentry workshop, slowed sounds, manipulation of loops of classical music taken from the radio. Every detail, every sound has been carved and polished day after day, chiseled and positioned with care and devotion, in a work of "sound craftsmanship".

Haunted Houses

Endless

Costruzione1
A song created a long time ago, starting from small loops left by chance inside a loop station. After years of forgetting about the song, I found it again and discovered it’s much longer and layered than I remembered leaving it.
As if in all this time the modules that built it had gradually replicated themselves and made it grow like a plant. Maybe a distorted memory.
Maybe it wanted to live.
credits
released June 16, 2020

Performed & recorded by Matteo Mariano between 2005 & 2020
Mastered by Andrea Porcu

Thanks to Rich Dodgin

Cover art: "Portrait of God" by Chiara Di Salvo - www.chiaradisalvo.com
(Gran Paradiso sand, pigment, oil, china, gold leaf on wood - 2018)

Matteo Mariano - www.macrogramma.com

Record label: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series
Publisher: ROHS! RECORDS

Copyright © 2020 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

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Costruzione 1

NEW ALBUM!!

https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/clear-and-hazy-moons

Whirling (2022)

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