This is once again a Machinedrum-only track with some post-processing involved. All guitar and bass sounds are played via the MD.

I had lots of fun making this track. Hope you enjoy it!

Featured on the Radiosalvaje Blog: http://radiosalvaje.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/encym-flyfloat/

Fly:Float

A nice bed to layer your creations on top of -- made entirely with Leafcutter John's Forester software, a wildly inspiring MAX/MSP instrument that I sent my sounds through (guitar and beats in this case). No further overdubbing apart from the acoustic guitar coming in around 2/3 of the way through.

Just a quick note: In the instructions, Marc asked for the first layer, this week's basic track, to be panned left in order to leave room for the second and third overdubs in the stereo spectrum. I decided to leave the track as is to not diminish the listening experience. 

Any collaborators wishing to add their sounds should pan this left in their DAW. 

I'm looking forward to listening to what you'll be adding. And for anyone interested in the Forester software: http://leafcutterjohn.com/forester-2022/

More on this 525th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Magic Number (1 of 3) (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio) — at: https://disquiet.com/0525/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0525-magic-number-1-of-3/

Trioism (disquiet0525)

I took Marc's instructions for [disquiet0540] the other way around to explore a different avenue possible with this combination of numbers: Instead of 5/4, I went for a 4/5 feel (so based on five quintuplets rather than four sixteenth notes to the beat. Or you could look at it as a VERY fast 5/4).

This was inspired by Miles Okazaki's excellent book "Fundamentals of Guitar". The chapter about rhythm explores these and far more complex polypulses: https://www.milesokazaki.com/fundamentals-of-guitar
Also, I tried for something along the lines of Strobes from London: https://strobesband.bandcamp.com

So I ended up with a rather unsteady-feeling groove and the tricky task of playing a couple of guitar breaks in quintuplets.
But I spent far more time on the beat, obviously, which was too much fun.

See what you think! Thanks for listening. 

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More on this 540th weekly Disquiet Junto project — 5ive 4our (The Assignment: Take back 5/4 for Jedi time masters Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond) — at: https://disquiet.com/0540/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0540-5ive-4our/

Very delighted to present my first collaboration with fellow ambient guitarist Ray aka Wodwo (@user-364196783-552705040), which we started and completed in July 2022 by sending recordings to and fro. Everything you hear is guitar or electric bass.

Ray also posted the tune on his profile: https://soundcloud.com/user-364196783-552705040/germ-wodwo-encym

Enjoy!

Hyphae

Germ [Wodwo & encym] Out now on Bandcamp

Happy New Year everybody!

This is a live recording in preparation for my recent gig at Cafe Oto, unedited.

Just starting the journey somewhere, working things out as I go along.

Enjoy!

(Original title: Quuquiidelawee)

Ermine St (Live improv, Dec 2022)

This is the closing track off of "Hyphae", a collection of tracks I made with fellow ambient guitarist Wodwo (Ray Robinson -- https://soundcloud.com/user-364196783-552705040). 

It all started with discovering each other’s work on Soundcloud and grew into a lively exchange of ideas and sketches. With both being on a quest to take the less obvious sonic route, always searching for the uncommon guitar sound, and their fondness for spacious and slightly unsettling ambient compositions, the sessions were kickstarted with the appropriately titled "Germ", which gestated into what became the first completed track of this long-distance collaboration between Munich and Derby. 

The title for the second track, "Hyphae" came to mind after reading Merlin Sheldrake’s fascinating “Entangled Life”. It seems apt to draw parallels between the massive mycorrhizal fungi hyphae networks (the "Wood Wide Web") that connect different species of plants and transport substances and information between them, and the to and fro of abstract layers of sonic matter that passed between the two musicians. 

The collection closes with "Simulacrum", probing the terrain where a bright major key tonality coalesces with a bit-crushed low-end undercurrent. And despite what your ears might lead you to believe, no keyboards or synths were used in any of this music! 

Hyphae is also available from Wodwo's Bandcamp page: rayrobinson.bandcamp.com/album/hyphae

Released January 27, 2023

Simulacrum  [Out now on "Hyphae" by Wodwo & encym]

Meditations on a haiku by Santōka Taneda's:

Evening sky,
the silhouettes of farmers in their fields
deepen.


(translated by James Abrams)

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.

Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.

More about Santōka Taneda https://www.chzc.org/Nonin.htm

What you're hearing is a live looping performance, spiced up with some granular musings & bottom end grounding.

What you're seeing is the evening sky at Limehouse, London E14

Evening Sky (naviarhaiku471)

Thanks, @death_hags, for featuring this track in your recent Mixcloud set: https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/big-grey-sun-20-09th-september-2023/

My contribution for this week's prompt -- details about the process:
Picked bits of of a heavy gain, utterly over-to-top overdriven guitar improv as it lunges into feedback. Inspired by/reminded me of a Ben Frost gig at Village Underground, London. 
Looped bits of said feedback section and fed them through a step filter plug-in in Cubase, causing it to murph frequency and resonance gradually as it moves through different settings, in a pulsating manner, extracting all sounds of ticklish harmonics that I find very pleasing.

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More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0595-filter-progression/

///Filter Progression///disquiet0595

Multi-dimensional, massively sample-based track track for CDR Dimensions.

Full track available via Bleep on the Dimension Sounds 2014 compilation:

https://bleep.com/release/59646-various-artists-dimension-sounds-2014


I made this tune using fairly basic sample manipulation techniques in Logic and one instance of EXS (for the bass line – also using one of the samples as a basis). 

Basically, the samples led me in this process. So thanks for the many inspiring sounds!

This is obviously inspired by the click/house masters from back in the day: Akufen, Jan Jelinek aka Gramm aka Farben, Mille Plateaux, Pole, as well as DJ Food and other clever sample manipulators.

Samples I probably used:
Antwerp - Fighting Birds - London.2
Antwerp - Fountain in Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross
Ben Houghton - Budapest Street Alarm
Ben Houghton - Hamburg Port
Ben Houghton - Mountain Rocks - Morocco
BenAtWork - Rock Hits Glass Shard- Melbourne
Citizen - Melbourne - Back Down.
Escht - OG
G__D - Basketball Shot
G__D - Keyworth Road Water Pipe
G__D - Metal Work In Backyard
Headgaar - Glass On The Ground
Igor Cvitkovi - Iris Bus Citelis Bus Crash sample - Zagreb, Croatia
Igor Cvitkovi - Iris Bus Citelis Bus Open Hi Hat sample - Zagreb, Croatia
Igor Cvitkovi - Tatra T4 tram FX sample - Zagreb, Croatia
Illumes - Knocking Wooden Toy
Illumes - Pint Glass & Coins
James Bowman - Church Door Handle
Joakim Lartey - Chimey
Joakim Lartey - Single Cicada - 17 Year Cicadas - New Paltz NY
 Joakim Lartey - Tree Frogs (Peepers) - Minnewaska, NY
John Morgan - Haunting Bar - Dalston
Tesselator - Pedestrian crossing clicks, Domain Interchange, 2am.3
Unknown - Skripanje Marina
Vladimir Radinović - Belgrade - Elevator Bass Kick

Enjoy!

Dimension Sounds 2014

Buy from Bleep

Concrète

Finally unearthed, for your listening pleasure! A close relative of dense/hyphae.

Enjoy.

basil (dense/hyphae II)

Rolling along nicely -- slightly rough around the edges. Hope you like it!

Change Here For Services To

This is my version of the "missing" Atomos IV.

Thanks to A Winged Victory For The Sullen for their tremendously inspiring work.

Literally all the sounds were made on guitar, either semi-acoustic or acoustic.

Enjoy!

An extended transmission can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/encym/iv-xiv

This was featured in the December Terminal Radio transmission:

https://soundcloud.com/loose-link/va-terminal-radio-transmission-25-edgar-froese-tribute-021315

Atomos IV [unearthed]

Based on Great Bells of Fire created by @ray_cobley and @33per: https://on.soundcloud.com/41Mg671BgkPgyLmX8

Feeling instantly inspired -- this reminded me of the duo work of Mark Fell and Will Guthrie -- I set about improvising some bassy, repetitive riffs on my Tele through 1440 looper, Pladask Elektrisk's Fabrikat and some other tone-shaping gadgets. Includes minuscule edits, albeit with loads of after-the-fact looping etc., to create more of an illusion of synchronicity. Enjoy!

More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/

Fells Of Fire (disquiet0638)

Lots of great duos to choose from -- so went for adding ingredients to https://on.soundcloud.com/yEVsaczJg9y3fz1R8 by @blaaroed and @he_nu_ri. Strictly improvisatory approach, first take of what came to my mind off the top of my head. Panned dead centre as per the instructions, hence the song title (the post code for London's Centre Point building).

Enjoy!


More on the 638th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Center (3 of 3) — The Assignment: Complete a trio begun by two other musicians — at https://disquiet.com/0638/


Centre Point innit.....

WC2H 8LH_disquiet0638

Exercise in delightful improvising, sculpting, layering.

Light|Delight

Here's a mix with snippets from the debut album "Crown Shyness" by Wodwo (@user-364196783-552705040) and myself. The full release is available through
https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/crown-shyness
and
https://rayrobinson.bandcamp.com/album/crown-shyness

About this project:

Crown Shyness is a collaborative project between ambient musicians encym and Wodwo. 

Since connecting in 2021, they have developed their music through a continuous exchange of ideas and sounds, constructing each composition layer by layer. This collaborative approach has blurred the lines between their contributions, creating a seamless blend of influences and styles that makes it nearly impossible to tell who contributed what to each track. 

The project draws its title from a fascinating natural phenomenon where the crowns of trees avoid touching each other, forming gaps in the canopy. This term metaphorically reflects the nature of this musical collaboration—each artist maintaining their unique presence while contributing to a unified whole, leaving just enough space for the other to inhabit.

Crown Shyness

Crown Shyness (encym & Wodwo)

New wip, built for deep listening. Layers upon layers.... perhaps a bit too many?

Enjoy!

Room 39

From inspiration to realisation is only a matter of minutes, sometimes.

This is one such instance, encompassing guitar --> looping --> layering --> getting rid of loads of that stuff and --> shifting the remainder back and forth until it seemed to fit.

Enjoy!

(Note: the tuning on this is C G C G B F)

Rambling

Back after what seems like a rather long hiatus.

Take your time to take in this rumbling affair that I've been chiselling away at for quite a bit.

Hope it turns out a rewarding listening experience for you all!

7.927 [mint]

Thanks for listening! I carried on working on this after submitting, and that (slightly cleaned-up) version is available for download here: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/clique-plaisir

This Disquiet Junto prompt in honour of the late Achim Szepanski and the "clicks_+_cuts" compilations issued through his Mille Plateaux label made me revisit my past: I used to produce clicks'n'cuts tracks and perform them live with my band. That work was inspired by Jan Jelinek/Farben/Gramm, Andrew Pekler, Pole, Akufen, Swayzak, Perlon, ~scape and, of course, Mille Plateaux.

I found this to be an exhiliarating ride upon wave after wave of inspiration. Couldn't help but extend it and name it Chaiselongue -- so much fun working on this, hope you're having at least as much listening to it!

This was quite a rush job, starting with sample hunting in my very own treasure trove, finding micro samples of cuts, bursts of noise, vocal snippets -- then proceeded to recording some sub bass lines with my Fender Jazz bass, Boss Octave and Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter -- shuffled everything around until it felt halfway right -- et voilá!

Enjoy!


More on the 665th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Clicks + Cuts Music Factory — The Assignment: Record a track in honor of the late Achim Szepanski — at https://disquiet.com/0665/

Clique Plaisir

Download

Clique Plaisir (Chaiselongue Version) [disquiet0665]

Setting a vibe.

Be sure to check out Applicant's amazing remix: https://soundcloud.com/encym/umoth-applicant-remix?in=encym/sets/umoth

Milla, 16 Jan 2025
https://milla-club.de/fields-and-currents/

Enjoy!

Umoth

Back after a lengthy absence from the Disquiet Junto.

The prompt aligned perfectly with my ongoing research into bell-like tones through ring modulation and frequency shifting, inspired by Oren Ambarchi's work, in particular "Grapes From The Estate" (Touch). 
Electric guitar, mostly harmonics, through ring mod plus some atrocious, violent guitar bits and bobs from my archive. 

Hope you enjoy!

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

Unring [disquiet0682]

San Franciso's Applicant kindly crafted this remix/rework of my track "Umoth", bringing to the fore elements hidden and buried underneath. Here's the original track: https://soundcloud.com/encym/gy02umoth24

Thanks for reworking my tune in such a profound and sensitive manner, turning it upside down for a completely different angle!

Be sure to check out Applicant's work here: https://soundcloud.com/applicant

Umoth [Applicant Remix]

Hey - thanks for listening to this live improv, performed & looped & overdubbed as presented here. Hope you like it!

Note: [open E - A - E - A - B - E] [+ ehxbeat]
[rehearsals for Japan]

avigate_rx

Found instant inspiration in the haiku that goes as follows:


here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets

Arii Shokyu-Ni was a haiku poetess during the Edo period who began a wandering life after running away from her husband at 29 with the haiku poet Kohaku. Just like Matsuo Basho, "the Nun Shokyu" traveled to the Deep North of Japan.

Made for the Naviar Haiku, find out more here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/

scorched fields, wild violets (naviarhaiku582)

#Nogenre 

This found its way from my room to yours.

Enjoy.

V.wip02.

Lotric

Hey all - thanks for popping in to listen to my looping improv, 100% live and performed in real time, exactly the way you hear it here. 
Simple setup -> Tele, 20% More, looper, reverb. That's basically it. Zero edits, so what you hear is how it happened, an outtake from an extended, joyful session. 

Enjoy!

Ixert Evac

Detun'd

Improv on top of layer and layers of guitars found lying dormant. 

An alley leading off of a main road to a restaurant (or other business) is what I found a striking urban feature as I wandered around Kyoto.

Multiple, mostly inaudible, enhancements implemented.

Enjoy!

tinalley

This is an improv with minor editing comprising of three distinct parts. 

This is an edited version; the full track is available from Naviar Records: https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/7-years-of-naviar-haiku

Very simple set-up: Fender Tele --> various boxes --> Logic.

This week's Naviar Haiku: 

slanting rain,
gentle breeze,
no need to return home

This translates into three distinct parts. The "valleys" in the waveform give away where they start and end.

Part I: Skittering clouds, downpours.
Part II: Like wind brushing past, with uneasiness creeping in towards the end
Part III: Major key mood, closing with Koto-ish textures and an abrupt ending

haiku by Zhang Zhihe http://www.silkqin.com/09hist/other/zhangzhihe.htm

picture by Dave Hoefler https://unsplash.com/@johnwestrock

More about this project can be found here:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/12/09/naviarhaiku362-slanting-rain/

Thanks for listening!

7 years of naviar haiku

Tri-ing (Naviarhaiku362) [Short Version]

Abstract sample sculptures, minimal/maximal, weird beats, broken ambient.

Latest: "Clique Plaisir" on BC: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/clique-plaisir

"Crown Shyness" by encym & Wodwo: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/crown-shyness

encym

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