Paul Amlehn - Arrangement, Editing, Mixing, Production
T.S. Eliot - Text
Marlon Brando - Vocal Performance
John Cage - Prepared Piano Composition
Steffen Schleiermacher - Prepared Piano Performance
Francis Ford Coppola - Sound Design for Singing and Field Recordings
David Lynch - Visual Art

Dedicated to the memory of my father Mike Amlehn

The Hollow Men

Performed by Duo Dubois.
Ciclo Continuo (2021) for soprano saxophone & percussion:
prepared snare drum, singing bowls, tuning forks, crotale.
Composition Ciclo Continuo seeks to achieve a hybrid organic timbre while associating atypical instruments to complement each other. A snare drum is used as a resonating body for the objects. The snare drum's wire also serves as a saturation effect changing the timbre of metallic instruments and also reacting to the saxophone's sound. Dyads and multiphonics are predominant in the saxophone part while pitched, but very fragile and unstable sounds are used in the percussion section. Harmony is enriched with beatings creating synergy between musicians, unfolding timeless processes. The duo plays the cycle that is on loop, an endless repetition devoid of narration, a basso continuo of an
unsung aria.

Ciclo Continuo

music, vocal mix, final arrangement & master . Monkey Blood Lowdown @monkeybloodlowdown
lyrics, vocals & their premix, cover design . Mariam Zohra D : Myrh
photo by Michael Louw; artwork includes MBL's avatar

THE CEDAR BOARDS
__________________________
Redwood Love
Gives it away

Our own scent is mixed within it.....
our own scent is mixed....

our own scent is mixed
our own scent is mixed
the coolness lets the heat escape
lets the heat escape
lets the heat escape

the coolness
the coolness

Redwood Love
Redwood Love
Redwood Love

Aroma

The cedar boards and the rays of sun
Gives it away

hey, as i wake
as i wake
a fire burns
to my senses
but the cedar boards
the cedar boards
give it away
give it away

Gives it away!
Coolness
Coolness

The coolness
The coolness
lets the heat escape

Heat!

Redwood Love

The Consolers

The Cedar Boards | The Consolers

Organ + fixed media electronics piece incorporating vocal and pipe organ sampled sounds with heavy distortion.

OGRAL (2022-3)

disquiet 0562
Record something to help someone fall asleep


This track I created today is supposed to help somebody fall asleep *and* have nightmares. That's licit right?

I had this piano track recorded this summer using a guitar pick on my upright piano, along with some regularly played notes and chords. Very simple , very spacious and lovely natural sound.
Just added some synth noises and Valhalla Supermassive. Easy and rewarding Thursday afternoon.
Cheers
DD

Composed and recorded by dd in paris, Oct 6th 2022

photo by jaroslav devia

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0562-sheep-music/

Yes, You Are Asleep (disquiet0562)

Disquiet 0581 - this weeks challenge was to download a rhythmic field recording and make it part of a track or incorporate it somehow.

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/

I loaded the field recording into Ableton and put it into a drum rack. I then took all the bits between the beats (hiss and non rhythmic parts) and started to mess about with these, adding filters and effects and also playing them as drum hits - that is how the track opens. 
I them loaded all these hiss parts into a synth and stretched and played them as keys, creating the additional synth sounds with effects changing the sounds somewhat.  After jamming about for 30 / 40 minutes I hit reccord and laid down a fairly basic arrangement. 
I tweaked this slightly, adding a little more effects until I had a nice short experimental track i'm pretty happy with!

More or less the whole track was made with the source sounds but it's debatable if the original sound is recognisable?  However I took the prompot to "to sample and rework the source material" as a guide! 

Disquiet Junto Project 0581: Helsinki Downspout

The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track.

Step 1: This is a shared sample project, one in which all the participants will utilize the same provided recording, about a minute and a half long, as the rhythmic element for their own music. Access the track, originally recorded by Scott Fletcher and used with his permission, here:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout

Step 2: Listen to the provided track several times. Think about ways to map its content, perhaps making notations about when certain unique, momentary aspects surface.

Step 3: Record an original piece of music for which the provided music is the underlying rhythm. You might take this quite literally, using the source as it is, resulting in a track that is precisely 1:35 long. Alternately, you might elect to sample and rework the source material. If you go the latter route, make certain that the original sound is, at least at some point in the finished track, recognizable.

Step 4: Because this is a Creative Commons resource, be sure to identify Scott Fletcher as the original recorder of the source material, and include a link to the source track. Identify the license as: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).

Audio Obscura - Helsinki Downpour [disquiet0581]

This week's prompt was to choose six brief segments of sound that I recently recorded and then to arrange them, semi-randomly, in descending order of volume.

I am teaching at a summer music camp in New Hampshire, so of course I have been recording lots of sounds! I pulled 5  off of my recorder and used one sound back from my home in Connecticut.

I assigned them numerical values and then rolled an online 6-sided die to arrange what sounds would be louder, quietest, and in the middle. The results were, in descending order of loudness:
1) A recording of rain falling on the other side of a door
2) Some weird AM radio static playing from the speaker of a small bus
3) The alarm of a truck backing up
4) The sound of me walking in my apartment and opening the window to record some birds
5) 4th of July fireworks
6)Some crickets by a pond

I quickly adjusted the volume of each track to put them in order. 
Then, I added a small amount of volume automation via sidechaining so that track 2's volume dipped down when track 1's volume peaked, track 3's volume dipped when track 2's volume peaked, etc. 

Next, I added a little panning to make space for everything.

I tried a LITTLE bit of EQ, but found myself running into the interesting problem of things with less high frequencies "feeling" quieter. So, I was pretty minimalist with the EQ.

After that I added a small amount of FX for some ear candy, including making a delay for the AM radio static, panning the crickets from left to right, and adding some flanger and granular delay to certain points in the rain recording.

There's a lot of percussive sounds in here, which makes it sound pretty dense, but hopefully it will stand on its own as a listening experience!

Soundscrape (disquiet0601)

premiered by Ensemble NEXT at Conservatoire de Paris, Espace Maurice-Fleuret, March 21, 2023.

Simon Proust, conductor
Minaya Chapelain, flute
Jasmine Daquin, oboe
Akiho Nishimura, bass clarinet
David Mengelle, percussion I
Quentin Broyart, percussions II
Arzhel Rouxel, piano/celesta
Julia Sinoimeri, accordeon
Reika Sato, violin
Sengyun Kim, viola
Yi Zhou, violoncello
Vincent Alves De Palma D'Elia, contrabass
Nathan Robain, mix and mastering

Interruptions in the Hallucinatory Realm

Sound Fantasy on

Caterpillar
Opens her new wings
Metamorphosis

by Darren Bourne
Naviarrecords Haiku challenge 503

New Wings

New Wings_Naviarhaiku503

I'm currently exploring a setup (see picture) and unfolding it over on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd

Dream Machine 1

Comment les sons s'écoulent.
Comment les sons découlent, les uns des autres.
Comment les sons s'écoulent-ils les uns dans les autres.
comment un son, d'abord contenu, peut-il se déverser
Et nous offrir une surface
Sur laquelle nous pourrions pratiquer divers sports.
Comment une corde pincée pourrait-elle devenir
Le support mouvant de nos déambulations

pièce instrumentale pour 14 musiciens:Clarinette Basse; Contrebasson; 2 Trombones Basses; 2Timbaliers; Harpe; Piano; 2 Altos; 2 Violoncelles; Contrebasse)  
joué au CNSMDP par les étudiants
enregistré par le service audio visuel

Comment les sons s'écoulent

Louis Bona

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