Name: The Scissors Grinder by Matthew M. Conroy
Duration: 4 min 59 s
Description: Guitar, and guitar feedback, mixed and modified with Csound.

Guitar, and guitar feedback, mixed and modified with Csound.

The Scissors Grinder

A textured drone sequence, sounds created using Pure Data.

Warm and Hazy (naviarhaiku592)

derivata quarta

My first junto project- disquiet0698. Adding the 2nd part of a trio (right channel), to Alan Blip's- B-Drone starter (left channel) .  
You are hearing some shortwave recording of military weather reports, and what is (allegedly) a Russian diplomatic service transmission (time-stretched), bad violin playing and the sound of wind in the trees of my garden. Kinda concerned I've packed too much in here, but hope there's space for someone to add something more in part 3. It's been fun- thanks Alan Blip & Junto crew for the provocation :)

More on the 698th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Second Third — The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio — at disquiet.com/0698/

disquiet0698_

"There is an abyss of being which man has never fathomed."

I stared. Chalmers had risen to his feet and he was gesticulating helplessly with his arms. "I am passing through unearthly angles; I am approaching—oh, the burning horror of it!"

"Chalmers!" I cried. "Do you wish me to interfere?"

He brought his right hand quickly before his face, as though to shut out a vision unspeakable. "Not yet!" he cried; "I will go on. I will see—what—lies—beyond——"

- The Hounds of Tindalos, Frank Belknap Long

The Edge of Potential


Iarð skal rifna
ok upphiminn

Earth shall be riven
and the over-heaven.

- Skarpåker stone, Sweden

Art credit: Christopher Le Brun

The Breaking of Bifröst

For a second effort I took the track by Meccaniche del Suono and Krakenkraft (https://soundcloud.com/winterer/do-the-right-thing-meccaniche-del-suono-krakenkraft-disquiet0698) and added an electronic sequence.

More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/

Right, Left and Centre Things - with Meccaniche del Suono and Krakenkraft(disquiet0699)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

Envy (naviarhaiku594)

A quick example using the first of three Morphagene reels I made using existing recordings of IPA phonemes. This one uses the vowels reel. The Morphagene is being manipulated by various Wogglebug outputs. A bit of the way through, I add delay processing with Mimeophon. Reverb: CXM 1978.

The three reels (vowels, consonants, a diaphonemes) are available on Freesound: https://freesound.org/people/DaveSeidel/packs/43523/

IPA Vowels Morphagene Reel example

Demo of current setup, prepping for Wire Factory (Lowell, MA) show on June 7. The central devices are the Ciat-Lonbarde Clicker and the Ciat-Lonbarde Peterlin. There is some serious low-frequency content.

Multinoise in-progress demo

My version of a chaconne, an application of a bit of Henry Cowell's ideas for rhythm (as previously embodied in Leon Theremin's Rhythmicon). Written using a seven-note subset of a microtonal Meta-Slendro scale. This is my first published work to incorporate percussion (albeit synthesized or sampled)

This was recorded in a single take. There is post-processing (mixing and mastering) but no edits or overdubs. Some effects are digital, but all sound sources are analog, as are some of the effects.

Layers:
- a cloud of tones from two Wingie2 resonators, triggered by chaotic/stochastic triggers
- a slow repeating melody rendered on modular synth (XPO + DPO) with multiple layers in unison (including a layer processed by the Cosmodio Glitch Witch pitch-modulated fuzz pedal), using Make Noise 0-Ctrl as sequencer
- a bass line that follows the melody, produced by the EAE Prismatic Wall resonator pedal with the Red Panda Labs Radius ring modulator, also driven by the 0-Coast 
- synthetic percussion, a combination of the Neutral Labs Scrooge (triggered by the Beast-Tek Amoeba and Mystic Circuits IDUM modules) and Disting EX sample playback (also triggered by Amoeba)

Image credit: https://throughlightandtime.com/ldn-122-lrgb-dr-350-29-june-2025-2/

A Furious Calm

A math person making and modifying sounds with custom code, Csound, homemade electronics.

The Scissors Grinder

Matthew M. Conroy

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