the minimalism and constant "log drum" rhythm are so effective

Mystique Wind and EnigmaCurry

#ambicollab with @mystique_wind

𝑰'𝒎 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒏, 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌, 𝒇𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆. 𝑴𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒅𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒅𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑰 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅, 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒐𝒚𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆 𝒋𝒂 𝒗𝒖, 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒄𝒚𝒄𝒍𝒆.

Loop - Mystique Wind | EnigmaCurry

With @mystique_wind

“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

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As already done previously, in this particular jam session I again experimented with something I would call "time-synchronized sampling of percussive sounds". I played back a list of pre-recorded Hip Hop drum breaks at 100 BPM through my humble Eurorack which was also set to 100 BPM. The next step was feeding the drum sounds through the Make Noise LxD module (which is a dual low pass gate that can function as a filter, and also be pinged to produce percussive sounds) and modulating it by a collection of different Eurorack modules. Due to the imperfections in the synchronising, the already percussive sound was "forced" into a slightly skewed percussive structure which results in these intricate glitchy raw rhythms in the first part of the track, and also towards the end. Additionally, an LFO at audio rates in conjunction with the LxD, and also the Beat Thang were used to create auxiliary drum and percussive sounds.

I often end up playing back a Youtube video during my jam sessions, which may or may not fit the session's narrative. This time, I settled on a lecture by Karlheinz Stockhausen, who is considered to be influential but also somewhat controversial composer. Additionally, he is known as one of the pioneers of electronic music. Some of the samples, I was not able to playback in a proper synchtonised fashion, so I added these samples in post-production. For example at 2:03, Stockhausen's voice is imitating electric pulses. Curiously enough, the percussive rhythm that is heard from 0:50 onwards was produced randomly by my humble Eurorack, and it is only when I played back Stockhausen's sample, I realised that his voice matches my electric pulses rhythmically. However, I simply could not play back the sample so that his and my rhythm are perfectly in agreement, even after several attempts; so I had to "fake" it in post. 

As so often the case, this jam session took a couple of hours, and I experimented with a vast amount of sounds, settings and samples, and recorded the result in stereo in Audacity, which I used in post-production to extract the best parts from that jam session in order to create this track. As always, I only used basic audio editing techniques like simple crossfades. Only a touch of soft limiting was applied, no elaborate approaches like mastering were used whatsoever. Thus, the result is raw and highly dynamic in nature, so put on your favourite headphones and turn up that volume knob, because the Loudness War is for losers!

Samples from the following material were used:
- 100 Classic Hip Hop Drum Breaks At 100 BPM FL Studio (Product Of Tha 90s) [www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxLURvusYD4]
- Lecture 5 - (Part 1/3) Karlheinz Stockhausen - Four Criteria of Electronic Music [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xyGtI7KKIY]
- Several videos from the "Worship Pads" series 
[For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRf0KcTScKI]

MAB logo by @maxim-lichtenwald, check him out!

I would like to thank you very much for coming to listen!

Organised Sounds [Jam session sections: RAW2020 - 7]

this is one of a series of tracks i did in the last week or so in the extreme heat of summer here in Southern California.
I wanted to go back to the idm/breakbeat sound of labels like Touching Bass, Skam and WARP,  but basically have fun with synths and old school drum machine sounds

Mood Exhibit - Brutes

"arpeggio"
ゆびさきで風おこす
白い髪渦巻く
花びらを散らすのみか
影吹き払い
ひなたをもつくる

わたしが死んだら
おまえは泣くだろう
涙涸れるまで
だが泣くことはない
人の踏む道は皆同じ
泣くのはおやめ

I can create the wind with my fingertips.
My long grey hair swirls.
Not only wiping out the flowers,
but also blowing away the shadows to
create a sunny place.
I am the radiant winter.

If I die, you will mourn. You will cry until your tears run dry.
But do not cry. Because everyone goes the same way. Do not cry.

Sadness is my nourishment.

Art work: Alyn via Pixabay

母に

arpeggio

noxpox - spleen3

#ambicollab with @mystique_wind

It is very difficult to bypass the dreamguard.
Every time I realize that I’m sleeping now, he opens his eyes and goes to look for me.
Every time he finds me, he takes on different forms.
He can seduce, deceive, scare, buy, distract, surprise.
The Guardian is very good at his art and always chooses what distracts my attention, what interests me.
Once his work is done, sleep engulfs me again. I wake up every morning and understand that he again did not let me into his lands.
Today I sneak through the deserts of his land. I do not succumb to any beauty or miracles that are constantly happening around - because I know that these are his tricks.
This has been happening for so long that I begin to think..if this road is endless, is he himself and my desire to pass him by - is this also his game?

Dream's Guardian - Mystique Wind | EnigmaCurry

Live fully indulgent experimental drone noise fest.
Downloadable for open collab. All are welcome you use any content to create whatever may inspire you. Bring on the noise! 
Playlist of contributors to the Ark- 
https://soundcloud.com/blink-twice-archival/sets/ark-dambient-open-collab
Please refer to original track and pm me so I can repost yours.

Have fun.

Blink Twice - Ark Dambient

A philosophical treatise on the perception of being (possibly)

Momentous sax by Jon Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)

All moments pass, not yours to choose
Which to keep and which to lose
Which to save for a rainy day
Which to bury far away

For more photographs see 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNYwDHQgydM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ1ADA7lNy8

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