Drone and Bell sounds, created with VOSIM oscillators I made in VCV Rack, joined into a composition. A play with consonance and dissonance, tranquility and turmoil.

Tranquility and Turmoil (drone and bells)

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sound recording made this evening at a deserted industrial area on the edge of the city near harbor.
cell Phone placed in the metal tube that was lying there.
3 layers of the same recording. One without editing, one with treble, one 12 tones higher. 

“Franz Kafka was preoccupied with noise as a literary object for his entire mature writing life, from 1912 until his death in 1924. Early on, Kafka described how everyday household sounds and city noise broke his concentration and prevented him from writing. Near the end, disruptive sounds were still invading and unsettling his creative process, but they had become inextricable from writing. Many of the central figures in Kafka’s late works, from Josefine the singer to the burrowing creature, are defined by their struggle with noise. Though it originally stood in the way of writing, noise became the condition of...”

Unfinished fragment from 
“Chapter 1 Dreaming in Sound: Listening to Kafka Cinematically’
of the book ‘Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary Modernism’
Kata Gellen.
Copyright Date: 2019.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv37wprjj?turn_away=true

 


city edge

crude cell phone recording of a Golden Oriole \ Wielewaal \ Oriolus oriolus

12 mei 2025 veluwe, nl. mk.

image: © Sepp 
‘Goudmereld of Willewael’
Oriolus. Volume 1 Plate 011
From: ‘Nedelandsche vogelen’ (Dutch birds)
Cornelius Nozeman (1721-1786) and Martinus Houttuyn (1720-1798).
Artists: Christiaan Sepp (1700-1775), Jan Christiaan Sepp (1739-1811) and Jan Sepp (1778-1853)
Source: https://www.heritage-prints.com/product/nozeman-1-011-wielewaal/



Wielewaal \ Oriolus oriolus

resonanz-1-2-3-mix-1

expansive additive process (& some indeterminateness) sequencing using VCV Rack with percussive sounds

expansive additive process sequencing 1b 2Hz 4

music for a while ensemble testing the waters

josquin

Creating electronic sounds and abstract experimental compositions.

Tranquility and Turmoil (drone and bells)

florisvanrijswijk