Station (remix)

Polaroid Notes is a German artist named Andreas, who lives in the countryside between Munich and the Alps. In addition to his work as an ambient dub electronic musician under the name Kraut Sounds, he started Polaroid Notes almost ten years ago as a side project for contemporary classical music, but in recent times it has become the main focus of his artistic work.
 
Polaroid Notes has released music on Germany based labels Büro für Erdrotation, Drone Works International, Weber & Alcantu and soon on Licht-ung. He has also released albums on Whitelabrecs, including Unsung Memories (2017), Home Diaries 014: Moonlight Sessions and Ghost Sounds (both 2020) and Cloud Anthems (2022). He also released on Whitelabrecs predecessors Tesselate Recordings and Audio Gourmet.
 
Quiet Rooms came about during a strange phase of deliberate and involuntary personal changes and attempts to refocus. Moving back home after nearly eight years of working far away and dealing with one of the most annoying things a musician can experience ; tinnitus.
 
Quiet Rooms was therefore initially a kind of self-healing process to get back onto a decent track with music, focusing on slow-burning, minimalist piano lines, gentle melodies and lots of space in between the individual notes. The tracks ‘Quiet Rooms’ and ‘Two Wrongs Won’t Make It Right’ were the first pieces to be recorded and these set the direction for what was to come in the rest of the album.
 
Everything was improvised and recorded at a time when it felt right. One particular idea was to keep the tracks as transparent as possible, so that light and atmosphere could shine through as if through a piece of gauze. Later, electric piano, reversed loops and some additional electronic and field recording sounds were added. And that’s it. The music is focused, dense and uplifting in its quest for deep contemplation. It instills a sense of serenity with a gently absorbing, balanced stillness.
 
All recordings were made in the evening and at night, with the lights dimmed while the artist's cat slept gently next to the recording equipment. The individual titles of the twelve tracks reflect the mood and hope in which the album was created. What you hear on the album is a carefully curated extract from several hours of recordings. The photos that can be seen across the four gatefold sleeves of the packaging were staged presentations of quiet rooms inside the artist’s home. For us the listener, they serve as fictitious environments to place ourselves, in which to escape into a quiet space.

Quiet Rooms

wlr169 Polaroid Notes - Quiet Rooms

So the Disquiet Junto assignment this week was simply to make a piece of music in 29/16 time. This is a super weird time signature. I remembered fooling about with Dilla-type beats using quintuplets (where you count 5s between every beat) and I figured exploring groups of 5 16ths might be worth it. It's a strange feeling to try and take a very mathsy approach, like fitting beats tightly on a fixed grid of 29 steps, and try to replicate some kind of "real" shuffle.

In the second half of the track I use this sample pack from Freesound. A Korean instrument that sounds like a koto. https://freesound.org/people/spt3125/packs/1534/

More on the 664th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mother Beat — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time — at https://disquiet.com/0664/

Jet Jaguar - Kāo [disquiet0664] (free download)

Welcoming the new piano (R), saying thank you to the old piano (L) at Avalon Café, Bermondsey, 26 September 2024.

Fernando Yada Rodrigues, piano (R);
Jay Austin Keys, piano (L);
Anne Yin Han, violin;
Matthew Gilley, violin;
Freya Hicks, viola;
Rebecca Burden, cello.

Piano(s) And String Quartet (2024)

#4013 (88.47% 523 left): Dec. 9 2024: And momentary pauses of the thought (E.H.Coleridge from Sep. 2, 2024) 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536:
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

CONTENT: daily "Piano Ten Thousand Leaves" movie Youtube PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIo6A8vorVT3q25jUK8Jr3v0nIloQAf3x

New Content: daily "Piano Ten Thousand Leaves" Movie here.
https://youtu.be/jDvDBZKYOLA?si=hr_5i6HTaCu06WJ6
https://youtu.be/UFVogOG0urQ?si=AzUM77S-NxAavJDu
https://youtu.be/SBHy32mYEUE?si=U78rik_4v3zlOpuw
https://youtu.be/jX0eEL8fDuI?si=iHKwgP30rUSFGVqs
https://youtu.be/uJqRVg0TqEM?si=J5m1eJpnPQQ4gP7E
https://youtu.be/NfEk9_buEO0?si=iz4JXZxnybuvQPzm
https://youtu.be/GyYdph65a2k?si=ts2hyX-OXK3ibht6
https://youtu.be/0owQ-2Jg57g?si=CCWlJ-ZKAGx2_equ
https://youtu.be/hvn_pGf3suM?si=k4WEeul2zfdAm_Fv
https://youtu.be/LnEeCGwd3sg?si=MMTLaBDytrBct1uO
https://youtu.be/Am3TkLmr1BY?si=q9un36e8R6Y1XAim
https://youtu.be/v4mrH5R704k?si=sttl8-857qlDmf84
https://youtu.be/A1gSpX0BSTk?si=vY8f9EQkbYbanH_W
https://youtu.be/Kmv3OsX23tQ?si=kDrPOV41ekFx9csf
https://youtu.be/4VsCYv3sGso?si=wCP2UM4T1xzntYJU

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My new message: "Does it make sense to preserve it for 1000 years?

Today's cover ART is created by #Midjourney (Art Generating #AI), according to my wish. Happy if you like it.

spotify playlist 18 hours 449 songs, makes you fully relaxed.
 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RCxA8SaySzoFzpQmTCLfo?si=92c44191513340ff

Recent My Weekly Video Magazine of piano ten thousand leaves
https://youtu.be/yCCufZCMnDQ?si=pLt98vOleJcioH-m

Weekly Piano Ten Thousand Leaves Magazine ; super beautiful video .. 
https://youtu.be/nn5_M4Nrvhg?si=N7hL_xrnDqc46si_

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Piano Ten Thousand Leaves - Tweets Creation Note: An epic story of wandering music creation
https://a.co/d/0RN78Ga ( 1.36US$ #amazon #kindle, #Paperback also available: 20.11US$)
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I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.



######## NEW 28th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Forest in Moon Light" - the 28th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
https://youtu.be/CwTVgfDHCn4?si=1QktmBR1FEGA-tQH

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/1RxJBVCU5vdt5O6kGUMbnv?si=hLjW3kbTThegEBOjgTHUbw

appleMusic
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/forest-in-moon-light/1773383143

amazonMusic
https://amazon.co.jp/music/player/albums/B0DJVSVF5K?marketplaceId=A1VC38T7YXB528&musicTerritory=JP&ref=dm_sh_V1XCbECO4uUYzRVs8apKAEEBl

all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/SYNa3ueY?lang=en

and momentary pauses of the thought - #4013 (88R47 percent 523 left) by chair house 241209

#4016 (88.54% 520 left): Dec. 12 2024: Quietly shining to the quiet moon (E.H.Coleridge from Sep. 2, 2024) 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536:
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

CONTENT: daily "Piano Ten Thousand Leaves" movie Youtube PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIo6A8vorVT3q25jUK8Jr3v0nIloQAf3x

New Content: daily "Piano Ten Thousand Leaves" Movie here.
https://youtu.be/jDvDBZKYOLA?si=hr_5i6HTaCu06WJ6
https://youtu.be/UFVogOG0urQ?si=AzUM77S-NxAavJDu
https://youtu.be/SBHy32mYEUE?si=U78rik_4v3zlOpuw
https://youtu.be/jX0eEL8fDuI?si=iHKwgP30rUSFGVqs
https://youtu.be/uJqRVg0TqEM?si=J5m1eJpnPQQ4gP7E
https://youtu.be/NfEk9_buEO0?si=iz4JXZxnybuvQPzm
https://youtu.be/GyYdph65a2k?si=ts2hyX-OXK3ibht6
https://youtu.be/0owQ-2Jg57g?si=CCWlJ-ZKAGx2_equ
https://youtu.be/hvn_pGf3suM?si=k4WEeul2zfdAm_Fv
https://youtu.be/LnEeCGwd3sg?si=MMTLaBDytrBct1uO
https://youtu.be/Am3TkLmr1BY?si=q9un36e8R6Y1XAim
https://youtu.be/v4mrH5R704k?si=sttl8-857qlDmf84
https://youtu.be/A1gSpX0BSTk?si=vY8f9EQkbYbanH_W
https://youtu.be/Kmv3OsX23tQ?si=kDrPOV41ekFx9csf
https://youtu.be/4VsCYv3sGso?si=wCP2UM4T1xzntYJU

**********

My new message: "Does it make sense to preserve it for 1000 years?

Today's cover ART is created by #Midjourney (Art Generating #AI), according to my wish. Happy if you like it.

spotify playlist 18 hours 449 songs, makes you fully relaxed.
 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RCxA8SaySzoFzpQmTCLfo?si=92c44191513340ff

Recent My Weekly Video Magazine of piano ten thousand leaves
https://youtu.be/yCCufZCMnDQ?si=pLt98vOleJcioH-m

Weekly Piano Ten Thousand Leaves Magazine ; super beautiful video .. 
https://youtu.be/nn5_M4Nrvhg?si=N7hL_xrnDqc46si_

======
Piano Ten Thousand Leaves - Tweets Creation Note: An epic story of wandering music creation
https://a.co/d/0RN78Ga ( 1.36US$ #amazon #kindle, #Paperback also available: 20.11US$)
======

I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.



######## NEW 28th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Forest in Moon Light" - the 28th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
https://youtu.be/CwTVgfDHCn4?si=1QktmBR1FEGA-tQH

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/1RxJBVCU5vdt5O6kGUMbnv?si=hLjW3kbTThegEBOjgTHUbw

appleMusic
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/forest-in-moon-light/1773383143

amazonMusic
https://amazon.co.jp/music/player/albums/B0DJVSVF5K?marketplaceId=A1VC38T7YXB528&musicTerritory=JP&ref=dm_sh_V1XCbECO4uUYzRVs8apKAEEBl

all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/SYNa3ueY?lang=en

quietly shining to the quiet moon - #4016 (88R54 percent 520 left) by chair house 241212

More on the 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0679/

The Ice Is Reich (disquiet0679)

Untitled Sketch, with Shortwave Radio, Water, Electric Kettle, Clock 

Recorded in 2024. Edited and completed in January 2025.

Untitled Sketch, with Shortwave Radio, Water, Electric Kettle, Clock (disquiet0680)

in a world of confusion I held on to the things that made sense to me, the trees swaying in the wind, the crickets and bugs making noise, retro video game songs that filled me with life. these are the things that made me who I am.

my whole life I wanted to be seen, I wanted to feel emotions. but the world always found a way to take it from me. this is me attempting to give a space that doesn't take anything, a space that gives you compassion and empathy. 

I want to make sounds that inspire others to feel too.

take what you need from this space. 

Piano(s) And String Quartet (2024)

James M. Creed