a reworked version (minus samples) now appears on:

https://howthenightcame.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-architects

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late night guitar meditations to "Wind Harp, Walltown Crags" by :zoviet*france:

https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/wind-harp-walltown-crags

A dual contact microphone recording of a temporary wind harp.

Recorded 15 February 2021 at Walltown Crags, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'24.0"N 2°30'46.0"W
Google Maps: goo.gl/maps/GLVb4qVRaCbDXk8y9

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

////hive mind////

a reworked version (minus samples) now appears on:

https://howthenightcame.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-architects

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////your electric prairies////

late night guitar meditations to "Wire Fence, Rabbit Heugh" by :zoviet*france:

https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/wire-fence-rabbit-heugh

A dual contact microphone recording of a wire fence moving and resonating in the wind.

Recorded 4 March 2021 at Rabbit Heugh, Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'15.9"N 2°31'06.9"W
Google Maps: goo.gl/maps/YoKEjbv2FSqgawwK6

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Track art derived from https://www.lowwintersun.org/work/road

////your electric prairies////

a good friend of mine painted a series of images based on descartes' "meditations on first philosophy."

https://www.lowwintersun.org/work/descartes-meditations

i took painting number 6, sliced it into five strips, fed the images into photosounder, the converted the resulting .wav files to MIDI (quantized to 16ths). i used the MIDI clips separately to trigger various samples: kick; snare; low tom; floor tom; hi-hat. i added a steady hi-hat pedal to help navigate the slightly offbeat rhythms.

finally, i layered in a live guitar piece (played through VCV rack, which i first encountered through disquiet junto, many moons ago...)

some possible questions: how can we think about the relationship between something rhythmic (the "beat") and something a-rhythmic (the "ambient" guitar)?
do they feel like two utterly separate streams, or do they somehow inform each other?
also, my track is only one minute long - can something so short be called 'ambient'?
more generally, can such a brief composition claim to establish a mood or atmosphere?

(wittgensteinian thought: i can claim to have felt sad for one minute, but not to have been depressed for one minute. certain moods or states require longer stretches of time to operate.)

all the best, htnc

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More on this 544th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Feedback Loop (The Assignment: Share music-in-progress for input from others) — at: https://disquiet.com/0544/

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[disquiet0544] cartesian drummer

a reworked version now appears on:

https://howthenightcame.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-architects

[naviarhaiku508] //// moonlight ////

a reworked version now appears on:

https://howthenightcame.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-architects

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first time layering two sampled drum beats

More on this 613th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Test Drive (The Assignment: The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do), at: https://disquiet.com/0613/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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[disquiet0613] test drive

hello everyone,

in 1971, flower travellin' band released their epic album "satori". i found a reuters' news report from the same year and fed it through the excellent text-to-speech function built into microsoft edge, and then slowly added grit using audiothing's wires. i don't own a bass guitar, so i laid down the bass line with my gibson guitar and pitched shifted the recording down an octave. drums are native to ableton (64 pad rock kit). i also added some spitfire strings, four layers of live guitar, and one or two granular things. enjoy!!

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More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0618-burying-the-lede/

[disquiet0618] burying the lede

[naviarhaiku513] black dog

hello everyone,

i took one of my favourite lines from wallace stevens

"sad men made angels of the sun"

and converted it to morse code midi, which i then used to trigger the different parts of a sampled drum kit.

kick = steady beat

sad = hihats
men = snare
made = floor tom
angels = rack toms
of = ride cymbal
the = agogo
sun = finger cymbals

the drums slowly fade into a return track (shifter at -12st >> reverb >> distortion)

the cymbals slowly fade into another return track (arturia efx fragments) which then slowly bleeds back into the first return track

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More on this 619th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beat Accrual (The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch), at: https://disquiet.com/0619/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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[disquiet0619] beat the sun

two drum and bass drum loops hand cut and glitched. layers of distortion, feedback, electric guitar, sub drones, voices and multiple field recorded one shots.

[naviarhaiku534] dawn, pre-inertia

[naviarhaiku546] swallowed by the world

[naviarhaiku548] silence (is a door to nowhere)

[naviarhaiku554] the light

[naviarhaiku557] write, erase, rewrite

beat adapted from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-pBYti3GoY

guitars done in one take each. i don't own a bass guitar so i added a saw synth for a bit of rumble. screams courtesy of a zombie-based video game.

comes in at 66.6 seconds = hail satan.

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More on the 666th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Beauty and the Beast — The Assignment: We’ve hit a devilish numerical milestone. Do your thing. — at https://disquiet.com/0666/

[disquiet0666] the beauty of the beast

i live on nathan avenue, not far from the silent hill historical society. whenever i dream of pyramids, music floats up from toluca lake and seeps through the dank walls of the prison. he has returned.

******  ******  ******(*)

More on the 667th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Neighbor of the Beast — The Assignment: What’s it sound like when the devil lives across the street? — at https://disquiet.com/0667/

[disquiet0667] the neighbour of the beast

will be reworked for my new ongoing project at:

https://museumofhistoricalmaterials.bandcamp.com

[naviarhaiku578] withdrawing

[naviarhaiku 579] fumes and ash

yellow crystal

will be reworked for my new ongoing project at:

https://museumofhistoricalmaterials.bandcamp.com

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buried deep in the mix are two morse code patterns playing two separate ride cymbals --

left channel: "resident evil"
right channel: "a secure place"

as to the track, it's a mashup of two "resident evil 2" tracks - "secure place (save room)" and "ada's theme". there are also nods to bjork's track "play dead" and the guitar work of the cure. i went for a motoric beat to hold things together, before fading out with a sample from a company called "Ethereal 2080" (ds_bitter_sweet_textured_piano_loop_80_dm_wet")

a secure place for ada

this track is a semi-industrial take on a beautiful ambient piece called "ancient noise" from Resident Evil 5. various samples from RE1 and RE2 are used for a simple click track and ambient SFX. a morse code message - "this ancient noise" - is used to trigger a random selection of finger-struck snares. i managed to cut the volume fade guitars near the outro in 27 takes - i'm getting faster.

:::: this ancient noise ::::

this is an excerpt from a collaborative project with "lessthanone". based on the game "Fatal Frame 2", i finally found an opportunity to record something in the style of early melvins // old man gloom // SUNN O))) ...

crimson butterfly

sadly, i cannot play piano. so, to create tracks like this, i play single notes to a click track at half speed and then double their bpm. this enables me to slowly create and layer sounds that i'm not able to play live...

this track is an amalgamation of three reworked melodies from the silent hill series: "the terminal show", "innocent moon", and "lost innocence". there are three pianos, an upright bass, a temple lyre, two female choirs, some live guitar, and a very quiet sample from SH2 ("help me"). i reduced the bpm from 136 to 124 in the middle section to make time gently suggest it's own terminus.

[naviarhaiku580] touching not

drum and bass beats, melodies, and textural samples from several different companies (ethereal 2080, shaman stems, glitched tones, touch loops, undrgrnd sounds), two tracks of live guitar, one synth melody (arturia pigments) and one channel of morse code ("plunging my hand into the lake... billowing clouds") played on a group of randomly triggered small cymbals at 170bpm. the track closes with a sample of toluca lake.

[naviarhaiku581] into the lake

curiosity

based on the track "rest and intensify" from resident evil: revelations. i guess i took intesify literally, channeling post-rock through black metal?

rest and intensify (DEMO)

based on the track "mother" from resident evil 2, with thematically relevant vocal samples from silent hill 4. no live guitar in this one - when i work up the demo, i'll either add live guitar or make the beats more complex.

mother (DEMO)

[naviarhaiku582] scorched fields

save theme

over the next year i'm hoping to write 64 tracks, each exactly 64 seconds long. i'll be encouraging myself to experiment more in terms of sampling, composition and production. here is a prototype track.

fluid (temple melody) DEMO

based around a synth pad from the PS1 game "fluid". i added some lightly hand-edited dub drum loops, and later programmed a second kit to play call and response with the dub drums. a bass pulse was added to keep things moving. the "2001 space" patch from newfangled audio's generate synth was layered in, as was an improvised lead piano line. textural samples from mode audio and another PS1 game, "silent hill", help thicken the atmosphere. some quiet volume-faded guitar emerges before the closing vinyl slowdown effect (unfiltered audio's needlepoint vst).

[naviarhaiku583] out of the blue

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