~ LAAPS 034 ~ [SEQ.05 - LP33]

artist : Danny Clay
album : No More Darkness, No More Night
duration : 42.52 mn
date : March 28th, 2024

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / transparent blue LP / selective UV varnish / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : March 01st, 2024 / official release : March 28th, 2024
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Kevin Rogers, violin
Otis Harriel, violin
Taija Warbelow, viola
Doug Machiz, cello
Danny Clay, pedal steel guitar

Special Thanks to Friction Quartet and R. Eric McMaster
Fall 2023, San Francisco, California, US
In Memoriam Hank Williams

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork by Anni Leppälä
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://www.dclaymusic.com/
https://dannyclay.bandcamp.com/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 4 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 3 4

Danny Clay - Part 4

Skyscapes

Twilight Rays

Gazing The Sun Fading

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 558:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku558-cascade-sounds/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Chalk Creek Pass, Colorado, USA, 2024)

cascade sounds - Naviarhaiku 558

Dear friends,

It has been a long time since we last released a compilation – our previous one was back in 2020. For the 100th release of our label, we felt it was the perfect occasion to celebrate in great company! We invited many musicians who have collaborated with Dronarivm in the past to create joint tracks with an artist of their choice. The result is 24 uniquely diverse tracks that showcase the vast musical spectrum of the genre we generally call "Ambient."

We are proud to present Illuminations III, a compilation created as a heartfelt thank-you to everyone who has supported us over the years. This includes musicians, listeners, visual artists, photographers, designers, podcasters, reviewers, and everyone who has helped us grow and move forward.

Illuminations III features over two hours of outstanding music from leading ambient producers, and just like any true gift, it's completely free to download. Of course, if you wish, you can contribute any amount you find appropriate. All proceeds will go toward supporting and further developing our projects.

For those who prefer a physical format, the album is also available as a print-on-demand double CDr.

We hope you enjoy this release – a labor of love that took over six months to create. Thank you for your continued support!

Chihei Hatakeyama & offthesky - Illuminations III (free download) - 02 Frost in April

FROM THE ORIGINAL CIRCA 1997
https://on.soundcloud.com/RFIpz95X7sSQjMLwLg

THE FEELING BEGINS - REWORK 2

Six Three
1: Six Three, 02:32
2: Six Three Touch, 03:00
3: Six Three Orbits, 03:39
4: Six Three Particles, 02:13

Dates:
05-Dec-2025 (inception), 06-Dec-2025 (finalised), 07-Dec-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/six-three

SHORTEN VERSION, excludes Table 1 tuning, see my BandCamp site or my social media page for full details (https://www.facebook.com/norman.freund.545/)

Description:

Marcelo Leal Ref. [1] posts an article on FaceBook group, "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory" and tags me, I looked on with interest. A tuning scale developed using at most harmonics one through to and include sixty three, octave reduced (i.e. divided by powers of 2 to ensure the frequency ratios remained within the 1. to 2. range. 32 Notes were used in this scale with adjacent note intervals starting from 53 cent, gradually reducing to 27 cent for the last interval to the first octave. So loosely speaking a quarter tone tuning with some stretching. I have tried quarter tone equal divisions of the octave tunings (24EDO) in the past and could not really get warm with them. Still, I was intrigued. 

Thirty notes, a lot of intervals to imagine, so I thought some form of colour coding on my Ableton Push2 midi controller would help. My Digital synthesiser, PulseRectOsc has micro-tuning and a user definable colour table, so switched this on and began experimenting. Stepping back just a bit, some preparation work on a spread sheet was necessary to calculate the frequency ratios, figure out a colour system using nearest 12EDO notes as a frame work.

The colour coding was to start the root note out as RED (1), colour all the diatonic notes of the nearest 12EDO major scale notes (the white keys on a piano) in GREEN (10), colour the nearest 12EDO sharp accidentals (#) in BLUE (15) and what was left over (the ^ and \/'s) coloured in PURPLE (18). The note naming convention used here was intended as a performer guide.

The PulseRectOsc synthesiser is a drone with a pulse like wave shape, amplitude modulation, wave folder distortion, a delay+feedback net work and your choice of VST reverb (or other effect). I used the Native Instruments' Raum for reverb. PulseRecOsc has an eight track audio recorder, so I recorded some four note chords to improvise over on the Soma Lyra 8.

The Soma Lyra 8 tuning approach was to tune it by ear to eight notes from the Table 1 tuning for the first track prior to the performance, then improvise a melodic line. Subsequent tracks would use a different four note drone chord from the PulseRectOsc and the Lyra 8 would use the tuning from the previous track as a starting point but alter the tuning during the performance. Each performance would introduce additional entropy into the tuning as performed on the Lyra 8, all done live, by ear, during the performance.

Each track's duration was purposely kept short, I wanted to demonstrate the various flavours of the 63-Limit Otonality tuning and in Lyra 8 style interpret this tuning organically.

The signal chain for the Lyra 8: mono out to the Soma COSMOS (rhythmic firmware, adds reverb and stereo space) -> stereo to digital interface -> 8 track recorder of PulseRectOsc.

The tuning of the Lyra 8 is very organic, is influenced by adjacent oscillators and has a "MOD" dial to accept frequency modulations from what it calls a "Hyper LFO". The Hyper LFO comprises of two low frequency oscillators, I used them here in the OR mode not synchronised, each pulse of the LFO changes the oscillator voice frequency according to the MOD dial. You don't control it strictly, more like guiding it, you listen and decide to increase or decrease the amount of modulation. A very organic approach.

References:
[1] Marcelo Leal, 5-Dec-2025, 63-Limit Otonality by Pitch (tuning scale). FaceBook group "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory" Link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1asmaHiK7G/

Six Three

25sep17

enjoy the journey 

(headphones recommended)

surreal

Halftribe - 'Backwater Revisited'
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-61
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ CS (ltd. 50) / DL
Release date: July 19th, 2019
Pre-order: July 5th 

Melancholia laid bare, stripped back, then dissipating into thin air.

Mastered by Tobias Lorsbach

Backwater Revisited

Buy CD / CS / DL

Maybe

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each release start with the end of the previous one.
in sounds and visually. 
an exquisite corpse with 100 releases which will make the loop.
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