A multi-pass improv, spotlighting the Pladask Elektrisk Fabrikat. 

Enjoy!

Swirl

Performed live in one take with one overdub, minimal post editing, for the  [Naviarhaiku 457] project.

I am delighted to announce I will be joining @naviar-records at the Naviar Haiku Fest at Cafe Oto London on 7 December, for a duo set with the amazing @georgecrowley.
More details: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/naviar-haiku-fest/

This composition was inspired by this wonderful haiku:

the bracing east wind
cold as a nordic summer;
kicking up white sand


Colin Myles is the author of three haiku poetry collections on Amazon: Scarlet Skyline, Haiku Moments and The Barren Wind. You can find out more about him on his website, Twitter and Instagram pages.

More details about the Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

haiku by Colin Myles https://twitter.com/colinmyles

Winter Winds

Short cue.

What I had in mind was a sort of sinister foreboding, possibly at the beginning, zooming in on what story the movie is about to tell.

Available from Bandcamp:

https://soundcloud.com/encym-soundtracks/sets/aural-films-i-download-on

http://encym.bandcamp.com/album/aural-films-i

Foreboding

Atmospheric introduction, picking up pace.

This cue is featured in the awesome short  "Year Two - Day Thirty Four - The Pier And The Bay" by Felix Brassier.

Vimeo; vimeo.com/92810878
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktoJve1tPXM
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DAYSvideos
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/felixbrassier/days/

Out now Bandcamp:

https://soundcloud.com/encym-soundtracks/sets/aural-films-i
http://encym.bandcamp.com/album/aural-films-i

On The Move

A BoC inspired track. Mysteriousness.

Enjoy!

Station 52

Short film score-type piece involving murf'ed guitar. 

An extended version is at https://soundcloud.com/encym-soundtracks/lateearly-extended-elements

This is available as a free download here: http://weeklybeats.com/#/encym/music/late-early

Enjoy!

Late/Early

Charlotte Hickford Hendy made a very beautiful film for my track Layerings.

Watch it here: https://vimeo.com/101156276



Layerings

Inspired by the magnificent Hiss Tracts (Constellation Records).

Find a different version for download on Weeklybeats:

http://weeklybeats.com/#/encym/music/soft-hiss-2

Soft Hiss

A crackly third part.

A version of this was used in a film by the immensely talented Charlotte HIckford Hendy, check it out here: https://vimeo.com/101156276

Layerings Pt. III

Over Mt. Nethusku

This is my take on London's tremendous richness of sound-exploring activity. 

The sheer number of people exploring the depths of sound, searching for the unheard, performing radical departures from previous notions of what sound art is, is nothing short of inspiring. 

And, just as importantly, there's a huge, attentive audience. That's where the real richness of London's culture shows - the fact that so many people make the extra effort of going out, travelling long distances, to witness with utmost attention to what today's sound makers create.

This is for places and events (without which none of those performances such as Sonic Imperfections, Lume, Café Oto, Tuesdays Post,  Vortex, Servant Jazz Quarters, Mau Mau Bar, Birds Nest Deptford etc. etc. would be possible.

Nowhere (2015)

This is my take on London's tremendous richness of sound-exploring activity. 

The sheer number of people exploring the depths of sound, searching for the unheard, performing radical departures from previous notions of what sound art is, is nothing short of inspiring. 

And, just as importantly, there's a huge, attentive audience. That's where the real richness of London's culture shows - the fact that so many people make the extra effort of going out, travelling long distances, to witness with utmost attention to what today's sound makers create.

This is for places and events (without which none of those performances such as Sonic Imperfections, Lume, Café Oto, Tuesdays Post,  



Estimate - 0-22'30"40

Had great fun remixing Antwerp's great tune.

This is his profile: https://soundcloud.com/antwerp-sound-design

Antwerp - Music For Jostling Commuters [Re-Jostled by encym]

(m)Egoless [version]

Almost all of the sounds on this track (including the pad) come from the following samples, for which I would like to thank the recordists very much indeed: 

Antwerp - Doppler Ultrasound Genoa
Antwerp - The Persistence of Memory - The Melting Watch
Bo-z EXP - Higurashi
Bo-z EXP - Prayer Wheel
Bo-z EXP - Rainy Sound
Bo-z EXP - The Sounds Of The Temple 2
Dnsdobai - Banbury St Mary's Church
Dnsdobai - Fence 2
Dnsdobai - Library Scanners 1
Dnsdobai - Seagull
Earth Vibes - Microwave
Filip Scekic - Bus Ride Home
Filip Scekic - Dolac Market 2
Flyaway_Sounds - Stand Back From The Platform
Ishfaq - Printer
James Bowman - Bin Hit
James Bowman - Motor Bike
James Bowman - Wood Work
Janadam - Katowice 1
Joe Wilkinson - Brighton - Skateboard on Cobblestones
Joe Wilkinson - Choose One Word To Describe London
Joe Wilkinson - London - Albney Park Birds
Joe Wilkinson - London - Brixton Marimba
LG Sound DesignMetal - Saw Hits 2 - Medium (Old Farm Picardie)
LG Sound DesignMetal - Saw Tap - Big (Old Farm Picardie)
Nsdobai - Library Scanners 2
Outside Pipe
Poly Titian - AM Car Radio Malfunction
Poly Titian - Ceiling In The Compartment
Poly Titian - Outdoor Voltage Transformer
Poly Titian - Water Pipe Hum

Can't believe I used this many, but those are all in the relevant folder, so probably just a few milliseconds of each.

Production notes:
I chucked all of these into Live, pushed the lot down the stairs, and this is what came out :-)

With some SD/perc sounds of my own thrown in.

The pad is one of these sounds played in Kontakt with another sample used for the convolution reverb.

Rather chaotic this tune, but that's the way I like it.
Massively inspired by Mouse on Mars.







encym - Randomezzo

1983 (Strange Place)

New/old.

Enjoy!

Version: https://soundcloud.com/encym-soundtracks/23yrsfromnow

Outbound Journey

Experimental mix (of two tunes previously posted on this profile).

23yrsfromnow

wider_Sens

I chose "Super Tiny Sound" by Audio Obscura which has great build-up and drama. 

Here's the original track: https://soundcloud.com/audio-obscura-music/super-tiny-sound-disquiet-junto-project-0215-tiny-rhythms?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0215

The work consisted of trying to find the structure and match my recordings - guitar, synths, noises - to what I thought of essentially two parts - an exposition culminating in frantic IDM-type drums followed by a short coda. 

To do this, I helped myself to samples recorded over the past two decades and collected in my personal sample library. Compiled and mixed in Live, with some final "mastering" in Logic.

Thanks for checking this out, thanks to Marc for organising this awesome project and, last but not least, thanks to Audio Obscura for an incredibly inspiring backing track.

Enjoy!

I 

More on this 216th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Add a thin foundational bed to beats of pin-prick audio”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0216

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

The image associated with this project is by Evelyn Flint, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/rKoG1i

Clarity [disquiet0216 - Thinlayers]

Free-flowing sound sculpture track. 

Enjoy!

Ov:unD

Touched 3 is out now, featuring some amazing artists. 417 tracks from artists including 808 State, Amon Tobin, Autechre, Bibio, Future Sound of London, Luke Vibert, Nils Frahm, Plaid, Leafcutter John, Team Doyobi and many, many more. 

Get downloading - it's all for a good cause -- Macmillan Cancer Support.

Very humbled to be part of this - check it out:

https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-3



Touched 3

Under The Radar - featured on Touched 3. Out now!

Untrestled

vers.ion.zee

Happy New Year!

This track is featured on the Petroglyph Xmas compilation.
Very honoured to be part of this!

Elektron Machinedrum only, with guitar etc fed into it. Original version premiered ca. 2014 at Les Digitales. This version has some additional crunchy bacon on top if you know what I mean.

Hope you like it!

Get it for free here:

https://archive.org/details/Petroglyph507-TheX-MasCompilation2016

or here:

https://petroglyphmusic.bandcamp.com/album/507-christmas-2016

Enjoy!

2016

Fly/Float (Refurbished/2016 Edit)

Having opened the cupboard/drawer, I found all manner of enticing objects so had a go at recording myself messing about with all sorts of kitched gadgets and wine glasses, and not for cooking a meal for once.

All recorded into Logic, and frickled about in various ways, including pitch shifting, loading into samplers, using them for melodic and rhythmic instruments.

Hope you enjoy listening to this track as much as I did making it!

My main profile is at www.soundcloud.com/encym.

More on this 265th weekly Disquiet Junto project, “Kitchen Music: Record a piece of music that uses items from just one drawer”:

http://disquiet.com/0265/

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:

llllllll.co/t/kitchen-music-disquiet-junto-project-0265/6244

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

Image associated with this track is by Lyn Lomasi and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

flic.kr/p/d8adVd

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

The Dangerous Kitchen [disquiet0265: Kitchen Music]

nonstatic

I plundered my treasure trove = sample library of custom-made samples, and this is what came out after a lot of tuning and fine tuning in Ableton.

Thanks to Dave De Rose (https://soundcloud.com/ddr) for the excellent drum loop!

And of course thanks to all of you listeners, for taking the time & for your comments!

More on this 277th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Chew Concrète: Make music inspired by C. Reider’s Chew Cinders album procedures” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0277/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/chew-some-concrete-sounds-disquiet-junto-project-0277/

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

Image associated with this project is adapted from Thomas Jung's art for the cover of the album that inspired the project, C. Reider's Chew Cinders:

midnightcircles.bandcamp.com/album/chew-cinders

LDNTWLGHT EP

Schpool {disquiet0277}

Thanks for another inspirational project this week.

I opted for using Bassel's statement for the end, building a track with a rather maximal approach.

Starting with recording a simple guitar line on my ES-330, I added layers of bass, micro samples and variations and ended up with something rather melancholic but funky.

All put together in Ableton.

Hope you like it!

More on this 294th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Offline Status: Pay tribute to the late Bassel Khartabil by turning his spoken words into music. — at:
disquiet.com/0294/3

Thanks to Niki Korth, Jon Phillips, and Barry Threw for encouraging this project. More on Bassel here:
freebassel.org

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

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…294-offline-status/

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

Offline Status [disquiet0294]

While working on this assignment, I found out once again how incredibly hard it is to do very little: Since music for meditation should allow for emptying the mind. It should not distract. And yet, there should be something there that helps one get into a spiritual, contemplative mood, let any thoughts pass and then, a state of non-thinking, of pure presence.

As a consequence, music for this purpose should/can have several properties:

Modal - which allows a stable, calm state of mind

Quietness and space - making sure the music doesn't overwhelm, neither by quantity nor by information overload

Far-eastern sound connotations - As in many "spiritual" purpose-made music releases, this seems to aid obtaining a certain mood, often by raga-type sounds, or sounds that get used in "puja" ceremonies in India (and heard in yoga/spiritual paraphernalia shops all over in places such as Rishikesh).


Since all of these are optional anyway - and are cliché-ridden on top of that -- I chose to simply use an electric guitar, for drone-like sounds, and after considering sitar-like moves, opted against those (for reasons of economy). Everything got recorded into Logic Pro, with generous helpings of delay and reverb, obviously.
I layered six guitar tracks (plus one track for the chime) on top of each other and tried for them not to get into each others' way too much, to allow for the composition to consist of very little information.
Enjoy your meditation!
More on this 323rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Music for Meditation: Record a piece of music suited to meditation) at:
disquiet.com/0323/2
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
disquiet.com/junto/
Subscribe to project announcements here:
tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/1
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…sic-for-meditation/

Music for Meditation

Music For Meditation [Disquiet0323]

Cinematic noise. London.

"Clique Plaisir" now available through Bandcamp: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/clique-plaisir

Debut album with Wodwo "Crown Shyness" out now:
https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/crown-shyness


More recent releases:
"Bloom/Foam": https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-foam
"Hyphe" with Wodwo: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/hyphae
"Trajectorize EP": encym.bandcamp.com/album/trajectorize-ep
"Music for Meditation": https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-meditation

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