For Disquiet Junto #disquiet0643, we were asked to create a piece of music inspired by a line of poetry from Yoko Ono: "Take the sound of a stone aging". Thus was born an ancient city, a blasphemous ruin of basalt, constructed at angles that defy geometry. We hear it rising from a raging ocean.

The unsettling whirring sound is a sample of a replica prehistoric stone woer-woer, or bullroar. The bell-like tapping is quantized but otherwise unprocessed field recordings of the "ringing rocks" in Buck County, Pennsylvania: so-called "sonorous stones" that ring like bells when struck with a hammer. One of the pads is based on a sample of my own voice. All of the ocean sounds (except in the outro) were created capturing a live performance of high- and low-pass filter sweeps on a pitched-down white noise source.

Best enjoyed with speakers with good bass response.

Recorded at NO SIGNAL Multimedia Labs in The Shambles, Chicago, USA. Don't be afraid to #makeunpopularmusic.

More about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0643

Disquiet Junto

R'lyeh Rising (disquiet0643)

Mage

The cormorant in the forest;
The cherry blossoms
Along the evening path.

Tan Taigi was a haiku poet of the Edo period. He was a wanderer for most of his life and admired by Yosa Buson for his ability to transcend his eclectic and unconventional lifestyle with sublime poetry.

haiku by Tan Taigi

The cormorant in the forest (naviarhaiku539)

Composition inspired by haiku by Katō Kyōtai

heat in waves ̶
in the stones
angry reverberations

for Naviar Records' haiku music challenge.

Heat In Waves

Heat In Waves - (naviarhaiku541)

built a chord from a square wave into a clock divider and mixing 4/5/6/7 divisions back together, each division vca with a random looping envelope

as per the prompt, run through a high pass filter to keep things bright and breezy

mult the result and pass copies, again independently random envelope vca, through various effects (delay, granular, reverb) and mix back together

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More on the 647th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Drone — The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day — at https://disquiet.com/0647/

The original image associated with this project is by Guillaume Pelletier, used with a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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disquiet0647 - one chord drone

More on the 647th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Drone — The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day — at https://disquiet.com/0647/

The original image associated with this project is by Guillaume Pelletier, used with a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drone_bee_(32-image_macro_stack).jpg

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Sunshine on a Cloudy Day Drone [Disquiet0647]

The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day.

Step 1: May 25 each year is Drone Day, more about which at droneday.org. This Junto project begins before Drone Day, on the 23rd, and ends after, on the 27th. So, take Drone Day in spirit if not as a calendrical certainty.  

Step 2: Think about drones, and the tonality they suggest.

Step 3: Think about making drones that suggest daylight instead of, say, darkness.

Step 4: Record a “day drone” in light of the thinking you did in Step 3.

More on the 647th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Drone — The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day — at https://disquiet.com/0647/

day drone [disquiet0647]

the tape is now the music

Browsing through some old files I found a couple of recordings from some live sets in a distant past. Very distant. 2013 to be more precise. This was from a birthday-party for a friend. I remember that evening, it was great! I recorded some parts of the show, this is the intro.

day drone [disquiet0647]

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