photo by wonderful Elseh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/187686180@N02

A Couch By The River

An ensemble of three sounds:
https://freesound.org/people/Koops/sounds/17871/
https://freesound.org/people/abbahoot/sounds/221649/
https://freesound.org/people/ragamuffin/sounds/186363/

Sound Ensemble #15

Inspired by this haiku written by Mark Miller, an award-winning poet and photographer who has published four books of poetry, the latest being Light and Counterlight (Ginninderra Press, 2020).
Sudden breeze
every strand of the spider’s web
in tune
Picture by Tamas Kolossa https://unsplash.com/@kolossaphoto
Thanks to Naviar Records:
https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-473-sudden-breeze-every
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/01/25/naviarhaiku473-sudden-breeze/

Weaving In A Sudden Breeze (naviarhaiku473)

20230424-1208

Generative patch on the Serge modular. Dark ambient drone.

Base track for collaboration with Disquiet Junto members.

Triskadisko (disquiet 0591)

A second track featuring short-wave radio transmissions, this one seemingly bouncing off the ionosphere from somewhere in Japan. At least it sounds like Japanese to me. The synths are the IK Uno Synth Pro and the Korg Volca Modular.

Phantom Oscillator - Transmission No.2

“Is this really all there is?” - Sir Gawain
“What else ought there be?” - The Green Knight

Completed in response to an AudioBus Forum challenge, in turn derived from Paul David’s YouTube guitar challenge. Created entirely with fx & IPad ‘tape manipulation’ techniques using Paul David’s original guitar backing track found here: https://youtu.be/8Bt3RYy6Y-Y as the sole source material. No instruments used.

The Challenge

"Town Path" was originally created back on September 7, 2022, over a year prior to its release. Nothing about this song was particularly difficult to create; it could have easily been released much earlier.

For a very long time, the working title was simply "Town", and the idea of changing it to "Town Path" was first considered on March 23. I only changed the project title on the release date.

Musically, "Town Path" is very minimalist, which is a deliberate break from the dense production I usually gravitate towards.

Sinny: programming, processing, voices, castanets

Town Path

Inspired by my new Exquis MPE controller, by the free BBC Symphony Orchestra plugin I made this classical track, which is not my typical genre. 
The idea for the title came from my son who is very interested in volcanoes lately and is amused by the name of the volcanoe which sounds like the german word for butt.

Popocatépetl

Hi everybody, it's Mark Rushton.  I released 233 tracks under many different names throughout 2023.  2/3 were music and 1/3 were field recordings.  I pitched about 75 tracks to Spotify for Artists and got some placed into Spotify curated playlists, but nothing in Rap Caviar yet.  The data says I had a lot of random unknowns putting my tracks into their own public playlists and that always puts a smile on my face.  Spotify Radio was very kind to me.  I bought a couple of Spotify Marquees - one was very successful and the other was a dud.  I put a lot of tracks that qualified into Spotify Discovery Mode and that was a huge net positive.  I pitched tracks to Amazon Music for Artists for playlist consideration, but I've never gotten anything accepted there.  Some day, maybe.  Keep pitching!  I created about 300 new public playlists featuring my music and sounds on Spotify and distributed them to other streaming services via Soundiiz.  Most die on the vine, but some don't.  Never give up on your catalog.  I have about 70 tracks at Pond5, the stock music service, and actually made a little money there in 2023.  I submitted pitches to 17 carefully considered sync license agencies and was either rejected or ignored, but that's expected given that I work in ambient and in a very idiosyncratic way.

My web site is usually markrushton.com and say hi at markrushton@gmail.com - I have a weekly Substack mailing list at markrushton.substack.com where I ramble a bit more about music and art.  I have other sites for visual art, videos, making playlist, etc.

If you want to hear more than 5 seconds of each track, I have full track playlists at Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, and YouTube Music. 

Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/59vmaJpV0XaQ6Am4rwru4K?si=cf9eede57d154b93

Apple Music:  https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/mark-rushton-audio-journal-2023-disquiet0626/pl.u-pMyDVojsKlymM2

Pandora:  https://pandora.app.link/jN8lN92gUFb

Deezer:  https://deezer.page.link/wYPmC9HpZWzPWUdX7

Tidal:  https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/39f29346-0103-445b-b0e1-b4d77d4b414c

YouTube Music:  https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLXjSBGQSr3MXyElUG9KDc3yw3dorqWMJ&si=6DOhpnzkYfhJqw7J

5 seconds of each track are:

1.  Mark Rushton featuring Aleodeology - "Forgetting and Forgetting"
2.  Calmer Feeling - "Technical Business"
3.  Mark Rushton featuring Aleodeology - "Processional"
4.  Meditative Drift - "Santa Dodges a Chinese Balloon"
5.  Mark Rushton - "Keep Your Mind Active"
6.  Aleodeology - "Explaining the Universe to a Child"
7.  Aleodeology - "Big Ears" 
8.  Vibrating Wires - "Driving Away in the Middle of the Night"
9.  Chillout Preservation Collective - "Details are Subject to Change at Any Time"
10.  Audio Historians - "Emergency Sirens Going Through Downtown"
11.  Ambient Matyk - "Inside the Graveyard"
12.  Rushton - "Midnight Tunnel"

More on this 626th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Audio Journal 2023 — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at: https://disquiet.com/0626/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Mark Rushton Audio Journal 2023 Disquiet0626

prompt: "take one held tone and make it dance slowly"

patch on my modular system, starting with a sine wave, going into a wavefolder, vcf, vca. coupled LFOs into fold CV (x2), vcf cutoff CV, vca (with some offset/attenuation)

the bit where the waveform gets to dance: manual trigger to freeze LFOs in place, stopping the waveform dancing - let go of trigger to make it dance. 🙃 very quietly feed room mic back in to record physical action of said trigger

levels in ableton live, little bit of reverb

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More on this 631st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Silent Waveform — The Assignment: Take one held tone and make it dance slowly — at: https://disquiet.com/0631/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/

disquiet0631 - waving / not waving

I make way too much electronic music.  This account is solely for my contributions to the Disquiet Junto.  Follow me at Spotify, my mailing list, or my podcast, all linked here.

Mark Rushton Audio Journal 2023 Disquiet0626

Ambient Rushton

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