Sweep

The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple.
 
Step 1: You may, yourself, be experienced recording drone music, or you may never have recorded any. You may not even be sure what drone music is, in which case read up a bit. Not matter your experience and familiarity, please give some thought as to what constitutes drone music.

Step 2: Now think about what makes a drone simple and what makes a drone complex.

Step 3: Now record a piece of drone music that begins simple, gets complex, and then gets simple again. And note: The simple drone at the end needn’t necessarily be the same sort of drone with which the piece opens.

Edits: 
* Print 2: Reprint to remove clock errors in the outro. Less low end roll-off. 
* Print 3: Removed some Lexicon ticks

Notes:
* Clicky drone: Arturia Microfreak “Cliched Things” into Lexicon PCM 41, full square wave modulation, fed to a spring reverb by a Radial Tank Driver.
* Pad: Waldorf Blofeld “Sonnenaufgang”.
* Piano: Roland MP-600 into Memory Man Deluxe.

More on the 675th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Arc of the Drone — The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple — at https://disquiet.com/0675/

This track is free to download and modify, provided due credit is given to the original artist aka "Schmerzwelt".

Horspielstreifen

Horspielstreifen - (Disquiet0675) - Print 003

19Dec24

My naviarhaiku572 track;
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/770216683274158080/naviarhaiku572-cool-breeze
:D

cloud shadows [naviarhaiku572]

1Feb25
My naviarhaiku578 track
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku578-one-by-one/
:D

winter moon [naviarhaiku578]

looping snippets from a previous recording (not in time hence the wonkiness) + heavily modulated rings (fed particle noise). manually going into fully wet delay+reverb and fully dry.

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More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

disquiet0683 - non-past continuous affirmative

The prompt for this track:

plunging my hand
into the lake...
billowing clouds

Naviar Haiku Challenge 581,details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

A fair amount of experimentation with ways to represent the haiku, some more successful and obvious than others, the rippling sequence is more inspired by the image than the poem but I kept it in to move the music forward.

Other than the samples, sourced from freesound:

rowing boat from inside.wav by Fenodyrie -- https://freesound.org/s/588307/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
oar.wav by bruno.auzet -- https://freesound.org/s/525030/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Everything was made in virtual modular using a combination of VCV Rack and Voltage Modular.  Running VM as a plugin allowed me to run both in parallel and make a single take multitrack recording. 

Billowing Clouds - (naviarhaiku - 581)

paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

The author of the week is Takai Kito, a disciple of Yosa Buson. Despite becoming a professional haikai master in 1771, Kito remained one of Buson's most trusted disciples until the death of the great master and was the de facto coordinator of Buson's haikai group.

haiku by Takai Kito

paperweight [naviarhaiku587]

[naviarhaiku588] the past, immutable

First Reeds

κάθαρσις

the harp player
moves under cover
market day

kjmunro cultivates poetry on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation & the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. She founded & facilitates ‘solstice haiku', a monthly haiku discussion group in Whitehorse, & manages a weekly blog feature for The Haiku Foundation called Haiku Dialogue. She is the recipient of the 2023 Borealis Prize – The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution, her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, & her debut poetry collection is contractions (Red Moon Press, 2019).

haiku by kjmunro

Picture by Indira Tjokorda

The Naviar haiku music challenge invites artists to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre. To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

SONG 125 - NaviarHaiku618 - The Harp Player

I'm primarily a visual artist both 2D and 3D, for the last decade I've operated almost exclusively in the digital 3D realm.   since the late 80s I've made periodic forays into the sonic world, MIDI sequencing, minimalism, musique concrète, found sounds  and improvisation. I am seldom happy with anything and seldom consider a piece finished.

Billowing Clouds - (naviarhaiku - 581)

Mr_Lamppost