Fourteen Years

A track recorded in AUM using Patterning 2 (using samples from a Pulsar23)going through Varispeed app and Reelbus tape effect. Synth sounds from DRC app with effects from OtherDessertCities with notes from Euclidian (midi notes generator).

Ghost Hackers I - False Flag

Every year around my birthday I've been tapping out an explanation of where I stand and what I'm trying to accomplish in this humble little slice of the digital universe here. As a crowdfunded writer it seems important to be fully transparent about what I'm doing and where I'm coming from so that people can decide on their own if my strange operation is something they care to support, and since my readership has grown a fair bit over the last year I figure I should repeat the yearly tradition.

Reading by Tim Foley.

What My Little Project Here Is All About

Michael Parenti has said that "Poor countries are not 'under-developed', they are over-exploited." The west tends to look down on the rest of the world for reasons that either directly or indirectly relate to the poverty in those nations, which is silly because that poverty comes largely from western theft and exploitation. It's like mugging someone and then scorning them for their empty wallet.

If you boil it right down and get real about it, most of the pride in western civilization is ultimately pride in being better at killing and stealing than other people. We're still morally at the level of invading and plundering nations while claiming it's justified because we are stronger than them, it's just procedurally a few clicks removed from doing that directly.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Robbing The Global South, Then Scorning Its Poverty

Margot in my mind

Gladlynt

Disquiet Junto Project 0590: Concrète Roots 
The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback

I was in Paris and brought my recorder along. Our hotel was right outside of Gare de l’Est. The little four note tune that’s at the start of the French Railroad service announcements was in the room about every two minutes, and so became somewhat emblematic of the trip. Also, there was this fluorescent tube light in the hotel bathroom that had a… je ne said quoi. Perhaps it’s the sound of arriving in a work place — a garage, storage space or studio — in the very early morning, still dark, at an hour when no one who has any choice in the matter is not in bed, everything quiet, all alone, and then this tingling, almost glitchy tone as the lights come on. You don’t see/hear them as much as you used to. 
So those recordings, together with a recording of a departing train, became the basis of this track.

The field recordings are accompanied by a feedback part, which was inspired by things I read in the llllllll cybernetic music thread: https://llllllll.co/t/cybernetic-music-roland-kayn-feedback-systems-ai/40635. 
I suppose it is a take on work by Jaap Vink. The audio signal goes into a delay, is then sent through some effects (in Vink’s setup, a ring modulator and a filter, if I recall correctly), then a reverb, and then sent back to the input, with some form of attenuation that is controlled by an envelope follower. The result is an audio signal loop that keeps its feedback in check automatically.
In my case everything was made on an iPad, which is surprisingly good and versatile for creative audio routing. Instead of a ring modulator, I used an app that has a bunch of resonators that you can actually ‘play’ using a keyboard: playing a note on the keyboard will activate the resonator tuned to that note. Playing the resonators subtly shifts/nudges the feedbacking audio into different parts of the frequency spectrum (in a way that is roughly analogous to what the ring modulator and filter do in Vink’s setup).

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/

Disquiet Junto

Concrète Roots- disquiet0590

Thunder field recordings by Mike Koening
Wind field recordings by Chris Watson
Epiphone Sheraton electric guitar strums by me
I copied the guitar  feedbacks and manipulated it a little bit.
Recorded today, Friday 21st April 2023 during the early morning, in paris , france.
Photo by David Moum



for this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0590-concrete-roots

Feedback And Thunder (disquiet0590)

Söt Och Slemmig

Composed with Logic ProX.
BB contests Loops and Mastering by n1CKed (@tim_spencer - https://soundcloud.com/tim_spencer/in-the-bassment - to check his other songs)
Synth voice with EmVoice/Keela
Riff recorded with Fender Stratocaster SRV.

Lyrics:
Meow (x4)

There is a wicked sound in the basement
Meow, Meow
It creeps up slowly, never hesitant, 
Meow, Meow
It’s got tune that’s so wickedly sweet
Meow, Meow
Don’t go there, if you’re easily spooked
Meow, Meow
It might make you jump or make you fall
Meow, Meow
But if you’re brave, and you don’t scare easy
Meow, Meow
You might find yourself quite breezy
Meow, Meow
It gets louder, the closer you get
Meow, Meow
It’s just the wicked song, playing its game
Meow, Meow

Meow, Meow (x6)

Wicked Cat In The Basement (ft. NiCKed)

AK'sAndWives(TPC322)

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.

Robbing The Global South, Then Scorning Its Poverty

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