ecstaticupliftingchoir

I had the pleasure of making this track for the Naviar Haiku challenge for the haiku below.

This was recorded in preparation for the https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records curated Naviar Haiku Fest at Cafe Oto, London, on 7 December.
More details here: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/naviar-haiku-fest/

Music inspired by this haiku:

The spring sea:
all day long
undulating, undulating.

One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

Haiku by Yosa Buson www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/yosa-buson

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

The Spring Sea [Naviarhaiku456]

Music for Meditation

Imbued

Shard

2017

Septic

A modern alarm clock sound with predominantly guitar.

More on this 273rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Alarm Clocked: Make music for a (new! improved!) slow-waking alarm clock” — at:

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disquiet0273_Alarm Clocked

This is a sparse rendering of a open D minor/dorian mode, originally with a slide, on guitar and various permutations of the same take. All recorded in Logic, bass notes are the same source but played through a sampler.

I look forward to hearing what you do with it!

More on this 315th weekly Disquiet Junto project (First Chair: Record the first third of a trio) at:

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First Chair by encym ((disquiet0315))

This is the score for "Folly", a film by Matthew Benington's show "Building days" at ArtLacuna in Clapham, South London, in April 2018.

This is it, minus the visuals obviously. Enjoy!

The show runs from Thursday 29 March 2018 to 22 April.

More info here: http://artlacuna.org/

A special screening of the film is planned for April. I will share the date once I know more.

Folly (for a film by Matthew Benington)

Music for a film that doesn't yet exist.

Messing about, layering my own sounds I recorded, re-worked and put in storage over the past few years.

Enjoy!

Voyage In

The Wakening Of The Sky [Bliss Version]

As this assignment addressed one of my favourite music genres, I felt compelled to submit at least a vague idea of what the concept "glitch" encompasses for me -- it's "live-playing-like", nervous, stuttering, avoiding the obvious "stressed" parts of the bar, lots of non-repetition, and a certain machine funkiness, perhaps? The synonym "malfunctioning" wasn't a major consideration when I made that track, even though it sounds as if nothing's working right throughout ... Anyway, that was what I was going for in my version. Made in Ableton Live 9.

Enjoy!

More on this 349th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Got Glitch? / The Assignment: Help define “glitch” by glitching something, and explaining what you did) at:

disquiet.com/0349/

Major thanks to Sevenisn, Mark Lentczner, and other folks in the Junto Slack for pitching in on this project’s development.

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2018

Disquiet0349: Got Glitch?

Image: Bussey Building complex, Peckham, South London

Music: Corroded guitars, Take 3

RONS

Hi all -- First track for Twenty Nineteen!

Enjoy!

Quietude

Hi all, this is for the new Junto project.

I have been messing about with my rig to get to a more live/looping feel in my music, by working on the guitar pedals and signal flow. Recorded in Ableton's looper, for lack of a hardware alternative.
This is a radically minimal-ised version of my recent track of the same name. It's been snowing heavily here, and that is where the inspiration & mood came from.


More on this 367th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Trio Initiate / The Assignment: Record the first third of an eventual trio) at:

https://disquiet.com/0367/

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Quietude (Trio Initiate Disquiet0367)

For this collaboration, I let myself guide entirely by Daniel Diaz's enchanting accordina performance https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/initiate-january-10th-disquiet0367.

All guitars, multi-tracked live through miscellaneous effects pedals melting contrasting sounds, into Live, taking into account the fact that one more person will be adding to this (so tried to keep it sparse).

Thanks for listening!

More on this 368th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Engage Duo / The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track.) at:

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Image associated with this project is adapted (edited, color altered, text added) from a photo by Anna J and is used via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/gcojn

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The Engaging Accompanist (disquiet0368)

I had the pleasure of adding to last week's minimal-ish composition https://soundcloud.com/bearp-aw/revolving-spoons-disquiet0368?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0368 by @jesuisgentil and @bearp-aw.

Thanks guys for throwing down such a nice gauntlet!

I added various drum sounds (one IDM-ish, heavily gated one and a 4-to-the-floor bass drum with side-chaining to the basic track) as well as e-bowed guitar.

Enjoy!

More on this 369th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Final Solo / The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track, based itself on a prior pre-existing track) at:

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Image associated with this project is adapted (edited, color altered, text added) from a photo by Anna J and is used via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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spoonfuls (disquiet0369)

This exercise in pasting/collaging/combining sounds aimed at making cinematically effective piece of music, turned into what's quite a dark listen, I'm afraid.

Still, hope you enjoy it ;-)

beauty in darkness

This is a track that I premiered at one of the legendary CDR Projects nights at Plastic People, London (a club with a terrific sound system that had to close a few years ago, sadly). It sounded good down there, and so it was no surprise that Martin, who puts together the brilliant Touched compilations (for Macmillan Cancer Support), chose it for the Touched Two edition in 2014, alongside Autechre, Anders Ilar, Bibio, 808 State, Cristian Vogel and other luminaries.

If you like it, please get it from the "Buy" link above, as it's for a good cause!

This tune was done predominantly on the Machinedrum (the beats), a Jazz bass and a couple of takes of electric guitar, as well.

Thanks for listening!

touched two

Impromptu [90"]

Some aural meandering ... enjoy!

Now available for download via http://encym.bandcamp.com/album/3-3

... And All Of A Sudden, I Was Somebody Else.

This minimal piece/jam required very little in the way of post production. 

Very simple: guitar --> pedal --> computer.

Featured on Resonance FM London: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/sonic-imperfections-25th-march-2019/?fbclid=IwAR2X0iKykGsyyIofsfWA09Q43j3pjJ1oPKlrh8JZMAPC2BS-UYDx1VYsy40

Both this tune and its longer sibling https://soundcloud.com/encymlll/33-pillow-mix are now available as PWYW downloads through the "Buy" link above.

3:3 (concise mix)

By popular demand, I made a longer version of https://soundcloud.com/encymlll/33a. 

Basically, this one takes more time developing things, discreetly adding select guitar/OBNE Dark Star sounds while keeping true to the essence of the original recording.

Featured on Resonance FM London: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/sonic-imperfections-25th-march-2019/?fbclid=IwAR2X0iKykGsyyIofsfWA09Q43j3pjJ1oPKlrh8JZMAPC2BS-UYDx1VYsy40

Both tunes are now available as name your price downloads through the "Buy" link above.

Enjoy!

3:3 (pillow mix)

This is an ambient guitar improv, using essentially two pedals & two sounds. Very quick editing for the intro, followed by two passes of guitars for the main bit and chunks of noisier overdubs later on, recorded at the beginning of the session and initially intended to be the musical "motif". 

This took about an hour and a bit, which is to say it's nowhere near where it could be so Junto participants' valued feedback on where to take this very much invited & appreciated! Thanks.

More on this 379th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Open Studios / The Assignment: Share a track, get feedback, and give feedback — at:

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Crossingborders [disquiet0379]

Just dug this up from the vault while on the lookout for unreleased stuff .... This was put together in London, ca 2013.

Enjoy!

2013

Dormant

I made this in around 2014 at my West London studio. And forgot all about it until now. 

This can be found on that year's Weeklybeats, a great productivity-enhancing platform.

Enjoy!

Replicant's Wisdom

This is based on my crunchy track "Kaverne" -- which I made using only the Elektron Machinedrum a couple of years ago. It was inspired Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals. 
I pitched & slowed that basic track down and added other elements, standout amongst these the guitar chords that I chose as the intro, and carried on playing through the whole piece. 
I layered on top of that some micro-sounds I stole from elsewhere in my personal sample library and loaded the aforementioned chordal guitar into Sampler, fading a minimal-ish high-pitched bit of that in towards the end.

More on this 389th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Long Then / The Assignment: Take an old song, and make it (much) slower, and add something — at:

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kaverne's elysium (collab with my younger self) (disquiet0389)

Find my most recent work at my main profile www.soundcloud.com/encym

This track is comprised of a couple of motifs that I came up with playing through the Chase Bliss Audio Mood, which has become an integral part of my setup.

Now available thru the fine Neotantra label:
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-meditation

The music is only guitars, lots of looping, inspired very much by music I discovered while based in London, at various venues such as New River Studios (hence the name of this track), Vortex, Free Movements at Set Dalston, CDR at Plastic People, Cafe Oto, Servant Jazz Quarters, Power Lunches, Total Refreshment Centre, Birds Nest, Con Cellar Jazz, Waiting Room, Sebright Arms ....the list goes on.

New River || Edit 4

Here's more live looping with just a Strat & Chase Bliss Mood. Enjoy!

beginnings continued

Live improv looping with the Chase Bliss Mood. Enjoy!

Download: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/in-fact-ill-be-staying-in-tonight

In fact, I'll be staying in tonight

Utility Pad

Download available at https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/in-fact-ill-be-staying-in-tonight

https://soundcloud.com/wilwilwil used this as a basis for a nice re-work/merge transmission, listen here: https://soundcloud.com/wilwilwil/wilfried-hanrath-feat-encym-portland

W:I:L:'s rework is available here: https://weareallghosts.bandcamp.com/album/portland-vol-iv-waag-pdx004

Way out

The Modernist

An interlude.

Enjoy!

Download: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/in-fact-ill-be-staying-in-tonight

Klangfühler

New ambient piece, enjoy!

Pictured: Barbican (detail), City of London.

Download: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/in-fact-ill-be-staying-in-tonight

In Fact, I'll Be Staying In Tonight

LDNTWLGHT out now: https://stilll-off.bandcamp.com/album/ldntwlght

Bloom/Foam (2023): https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-foam

"Hyphae" with Wodwo (2023) ---> encym.bandcamp.com/album/hyphae

"Trajectorize EP" (2022): encym.bandcamp.com/album/trajectorize-ep

Main profile at soundcloud.com/encym

More music at https://soundcloud.com/encym-soundtracks

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