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3:33 (disquiet0480)

RIP X - TheBeatCrook

Hades ft Black Mirror

yeah, improv.
2 hexe reVOLVER pedals.
ronin "blooey" guitar.
fryette d120 amp.
neunaber slate reverb pedal, digitech obscura delay pedal.
BLUE mic.

another day of didn't

Community Music project. Recorded by Jo Kennedy.

Soloist: Craig Ogden (guitar)
Musica Kirklees Youth Orchestra
Musica Kirklees Massed Guitars and Ukuleles
Calderdale Trust Guitars

Conducted by Thom Meredith (orchestra), Ginette Eady (guitars) and Hannah Roulson (ukuleles). Premiered at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 23.11.2018.

Untroubled Light - Craig Ogden & Youth Orchestra

(22/09/20) Cuidar do Corpo e do Espírito - Cap. XVII, Item 11.  Evangelho CAK Sacramento

Bakevja

Bakevja (Josseman)

This has been a stormy fall, and in Finland has been already 40 days with stormy wind speeds as the average is 27 a year.  A small, but intense low pressure passed over creating wind speeds up to 31,3 m/s in the gusts and 27 m/s as average. 

I couldn’t resist recording this storm just in our backyard as it was evident when I opened the front door in the morning that this wind is going to make damage. (The picture)

Recording storms creates mostly undefined white noise that’s not very pleasant to listen. But it seems, that when the wind gets hard enough, there occurs (more or less) strange noise patterns with regular shapes that can make it sound interesting. 

In situ I could hear cars passing and chainsaws running.  I hope there’s a bit of this weird noise left in this recording, at least when listening with headphones.

And yes, when the gusts were as strongest, two trees come down. One pine on the roof of our neighbors sauna building 6.50 and an other one with the tree trunk breaking 8.28 

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, nothing done in edit, 24/48 flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Storm in my Backyard - 19/11/2020 - Makholma Finland

“The thing with analog circuits is they follow very simple, natural laws,” says synthesizer designer and builder Jessica Rylan, “just like breaking a tree branch, or like water, or even like birds flying in a V — they push and are pushed into that pattern because it’s the path of least resistance … like you turn on the power, it’s just following whatever the vibration would do. And the sound it produces is the exact same as the electricity producing it.”

There are many such nuggets to be found in Tara Rodgers’ excellent book Pink Noises, which compiles interviews with twenty-four women working in electronic music and sound art. Rodgers’ conversation with Rylan, coupled with pandemic isolation, inspired Suss Müsik to explore the craft of DIY synthesis and digital instrument hacking.

As a result, Suss Müsik’s toolbox is now teeming with circuit boards, jumper cables, soldering equipment, resistors / capacitors / inductors of all sizes, a kaleidoscope of LED lights, touch-sensitive / knob potentiometers, plastic casing of varying sizes, and a lifetime supply of 9-volt batteries. It’s great fun.

A key learning was that acoustic instruments create sound by moving air — a string is plucked, a drum is hit, a mouthpiece receives wind — while electronic instruments make sound by moving voltage. Nature is a rich ecosystem of patterns, and the ability to manipulate patterns of electrical current is the core of synthesized music. 

This short piece is an excerpt from a series of compositions played mostly with custom-built and hacked instruments. In this particular instance, you’ll hear an piezo-amplified kalimba, a homemade sawtooth oscillator, and a photo-sensitive harmonic generator played with a flashlight and touch-ring interface.

The cover image is by visual artist B.G. Madden.

More on this 467th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Toolbox Show & Tell (The Assignment: Share a tip for making music that you learned during the pandemic), at:

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