These are a few tracks from my 'Lagrange Point 6' project that are 'extra' or not being released in the usual manner for whatever reason.

Traum (Dune Mix)

JaMuary 24- the aim to create a piece of music (no matter how short or incomplete it is) for as many days as I can during the month.

Most Jamuarys are incomplete or just the start of an idea so I upload them as public here but they are private on my proper Soundcloud page @trevb111 unless completed.... and Ive put them in a playlist you can find here on.soundcloud.com/QUFqo :)

Jam31 Technobitz

SIMILAR SITUATION

More on the 675th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Arc of the Drone — The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple — at https://disquiet.com/0675/

arc of turmoil [disquiet0675]

Seven ocarinas playing a single note each to make a wash, then carved out some texture using a looper patch in VCV Rack with a band-pass filter driven by an LFO.  Three separate instances played together.

Flockarinas_Westcoast_2025-01-05

overnachten

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Day 26 - Clockwork
- have a metronome or a clock be part of the song

This one turned dark pretty fast. Initially, I wanted to make a dreamy soundscape to get lost in but instead it became this monstrous thing with a terrible ending.
Time is a pretty brutal concept.  xD

Lyrics (in no particular order):


    Killing time
    Robbing time
    Suspend time
    Wasting time
    Losing time
    Gaining time
    Spending time
    Stop time

Day 26 - Clockwork

A remix of "LFO Infusion Tisane" with drums (https://soundcloud.com/francois_dion/lfo-infusion-tisane?in=francois_dion/sets/lunchbox)

Another lunchtime experimentation, this time using a Behringer Neutron with a side docked multiples eurorack module and a Zoom MS60B guitar pedal. Battery powered, solar charged. As with "Pulsar Salad", this is recorded in the great outdoors, straight to a Tascam digital recorder.

A single LFO and a Sample and Hold control various aspects of the track. Performance added to the generative piece are tied to two attenuators that further control various aspects.

The remix includes drums done on the Univox SR-95 (Korg Mini Pops)

LFO Infusion Tisane (with Caffeine Beats)

Snow Desert part II

A crowdsource experiment. The instruments were voted for drums, bass, synth, pad, sfx/extra on Mastodon. The results were:

Roland CR-78 for drum machine
Roland JX3P (substituted at the last minute for the modern repro Roland JX03)
Roland D50 for synth
Solina String Ensemble for pads/strings
Yamaha PSS680 Musicstation for sfx

Roland CR78 programmed with a Boss FS5U, but otherwise song mixed and played live (along with arpegiator for the bassline). Various midi devices (merge, split, midi to sync) and a bunch of guitar pedals (like Boss SL20, Pigtronix Echolation, Red Panda Particle, Boss compressor, Mutron octave divider etc were also used, fed into a Boss BX16 mixer, onto 15ips 10" tape. No computer or DAW all the way to tape.

Social Warmup

A crowdsource experiment. The instruments were voted for drums, bass, synth, pad, sfx/extra on Mastodon. The results were:

Roland CR-78 for drum machine
Roland JX3P (substituted at the last minute for the modern repro Roland JX03)
Roland D50 for synth
Solina String Ensemble for pads/strings
Yamaha PSS680 Musicstation for sfx

These were all used on the first track (Social Warmup). For this second track, I replaced the Solina String Ensemble and Yamaha PSS680 by a Behringer Edge and a Behringer RD-6 (TR606).

Roland CR78 programmed with a Boss FS5U, but otherwise song mixed and played live (along with arpegiator for the bassline). Various midi devices (merge, split, midi to sync) and a bunch of guitar pedals (like Boss SL20, Pigtronix Echolation, Red Panda Particle, Boss compressor, Walrus Audio Sloer, Alesis Nanoverb, Pigtronix Mothership 2 etc were also used, fed into a Boss BX16 mixer, onto 15ips 10" tape. No computer or DAW all the way to tape.

Arriving On Time

Canadian Polyglot and polymath living in North Carolina, Francois is Head of Dion Research by day, & artist, maker of instruments & effects, musician, photographer & sound engineer by night.

His interest in music started at a very young age when he studied classical piano and electronics, both of these things would be quite influential on his future work.

He started composing electronic music as a kid in the early 80s and experimenting with sampling on an Apple //e, and would later use the Amiga, Apple IIgs and on the PC, the Gravis Ultrasound wavetable soundcard, and would publish soundbanks for it. Today, most of his music is done without computers, on modular synths and effects built by him, along with some commercial synths and effects.

From 1988 to 1997, he hosted a show on electronic music from its beginning in the early 20th century all the way to modern electronica, and the history of it and the technology that enabled it. He also did a stint at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Videoway / Videotron in Montreal.

In parallel with that, he would continue releasing music through various media, including digital media before MP3 files (through MP2 and ADPCM WAV files on Hyperreal, IUMA etc). In those 30 years to now, he has produced an average of ~1 album (EP or full) a year

LFO Infusion Tisane (with Caffeine Beats)

Francois Dion

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