fave listenings of May

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Zygmunt Krauze

"musica assoluta" (maggio 2024)

Disquiet Junto Project 0647: Day Drone
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.


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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.

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

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

Disquiet Junto Project 0647: Day Drone

Dedicated to Jello Biafra :)

Hexfarm is

Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Flutes
Dane Renshaw - Drums
Mat Ward - Bass Guitar/Vox

Track 3 from Hexfarm - who meet once a year to jam for a couple of days then head back to their various corners of the world : )

Drink Wank Cry - Hexfarm

CHAINS (2024)

..someone say that May is a crucial month in the year.
 it has always brought strange suggestions to me, difficult to describe.
 clear skies, oppression, promises.
 a sense of latency, something imminent that never comes to an end.
It's the second version, i find new parts for a more rich harmonic, melodic and rythmic structure. now need to work on the dinamic of notes and the legatos with the pedal.

The title refers to the magnificent poem of the same name 
by Arthur Rimabud, written in May 1872.

Still in progress

Bannières de mai:

Aux branches claires des tilleuls
Meurt un maladif hallali.
Mais des chansons spirituelles
Voltigent parmi les groseilles.
Que notre sang rie en nos veines,
Voici s’enchevêtrer les vignes.
Le ciel est joli comme un ange.
L’azur et l’onde communient.
Je sors. Si un rayon me blesse
Je succomberai sur la mousse.
Qu’on patiente et qu’on s’ennuie
C’est trop simple. Fi de mes peines.
Je veux que l’été dramatique
Me lie à son char de fortune.
Que par toi beaucoup, ô Nature,
– Ah moins seul et moins nul! – je meure.
Au lieu que les Bergers, c’est drôle,
Meurent à peu près par le monde.
Je veux bien que les saisons m’usent.
À toi, Nature, je me rends;
Et ma faim et toute ma soif.
Et, s’il te plaît, nourris, abreuve.
Rien de rien ne m’illusionne;
C’est rire aux parents, qu’au soleil,
Mais moi je ne veux rire à rien;
Et libre soit cette infortune.

Mai 1872

Bandiere di maggio:

Tra i rami dei tigli
muore un esangue grido di caccia.
Ma canzoni argute
volteggiano fra l’uva spina.
Il sangue rida nelle nostre vene:
ecco che già s’intrecciano le viti.
Il cielo è leggero come un angelo.
L’azzurro e l’onda si confondono.
Esco. Se un raggio mi ferisce
io morirò sul muschio.
Pazientare ed annoiarsi
è troppo semplice. Al diavolo le mie pene.
Io voglio che la drammatica estate
mi leghi al suo carro della fortuna.
Possa io morire per opera tua, Natura,
ma meno vuoto e meno solo!
Mentre i Pastori, è strano,
muoiono quasi per opera del mondo.
Desidero che le stagioni mi consumino.
A te, Natura, io mi arrendo,
con la mia fame e tutta la mia sete.
E tu, per favore, nutri e disseta.
Niente, più niente mi illude;
ridere al sole, è ridere ai genitori,
ma io non voglio ridere più a nulla;
e libera sia questa sventura.
Maggio 1872

bandiere di maggio *2nd.study

"緑陰 (shade of trees)"

art work: Cheerfully_lost via pixabay

緑陰 (shade of trees)

As a boy, my dad raised seahorses as a hobby.   He always told me that after the babies were born, the mom had to be removed from the tank so she wouldn't eat them.   I later realized this was a metaphor.

seahorses

The idea of a 'day drone' took me straight to the hazy summer drones of sonic youth and yo la tango so naturally i reached for my guitar, tuned a load of strings in unison, recorded to tape loop and slowed down the pitches for extra dreaminess. From there i reacted to what the tape was creating and improvised some tremolo melodies. to me this feels like grassy fields and buzzing insects. i'd be interested to know if that's just my associations or if it's universal?

2024-05-23 daydrone (disquiet0647)

Happy Drone Day 25th May 2024! www.droneday.org

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

more halF unusuaL

halF dronedaY [disquiet0647]

D Day Drone (disquiet0647)

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

Weather Satellite (disquiet0647)

Hey, I've been recording a commissioned album using my new Ronroco (got it a month ago in Argentina and did my very first recording right [there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJBdmS7yqtk)) 

Now it's on my studio along with a fellow, old Ronroco I had and a little brother, my charango.

I have to record 5-6 pieces using mostly that instrument with eventual appearances of other instruments and the other two (ronroco+charango).

This prompt gave me the idea of an ambient track, there's this technique of strumming the instrument, widely used on South American folklore, that produces a steady drone, no rhythm just the sustained strumming.

I recorded several tracks of that, along with loads of reverb and delays and some simple arpeggios .

There's a low filtered brass drone (sample libraries) but this is 99% the ronroco droning.

The track started this early after noon is finished now, and it's still day here, so a true day-drone for you.

Cheers
dd
23-may-2024

for this challenge
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0647-day-drone/




ronroco day drone - disquiet0647

Sunshine on a Cloudy Day Drone [Disquiet0647]

mikey_a is an ambient and soundscape artist living in Melbourne, Australia.
Though now producing mainly in the box with a mix of VST and field recordings he still likes to occasionally crank out some of the physical treasures he's owned since the '80s: a Korg MonoPoly, a Roland TR-606, TB-303, S-10 and D-110 along with a TEAC 3440 reel-to-reel.
He is a frequent contributor to the Naviar Records' Haiku Challenge and Disquiet Junto projects.