Fictional insect synthesis.
'A newly discovered member of the scarab family, Eriolatus allostridor (‘woolly-sided and stridulating strangely’) is a beetle notable particularly for the dense bristles clustered around its lateral spiracles; these bristles are used for defensive stridulation. Moreover, it is believed that rhythmic, spiracular ejection of air is partly responsible for the peculiar ‘modulations’ audible in this insect’s stridulatory performance.'

One oscillator (Mungo w0) playing back a custom waveform and subjected to v/oct and FM from a looping envelope (Cosmotronic Delta-V) and NLC ARSEq into GENiE. Mixed in NLC Clump, including a copy sent through NLC 329 Phase/Flange, with VCA envelopes sequenced from a Gotharman’s Little DeFormer 3 mkII. Mixed in Ableton with a window field recording.

More on this 494th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Insect Menagerie (The Assignment: Record a 20-second clip of the sounds of an insect that you yourself have invented) – at: https://disquiet.com/0494/ 1

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

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The image associated with this project is by dr_relling, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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Disquiet0494 - Eriolatus allostridor

From Grammostola, released by Linear Obsessional Recordings in April 2016. Pro CDR or free download: https://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/grammostola

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Great spotted woodpecker (Dentrocopos major) photographed and recorded in Vuores, Tampere.

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Accidentally stepping into a waist-high bog while out on a soundwalk in Tampere, Finland. 22.11.2017

A field recordist walks into a bog

From The Old Earth (Verz Imprint cassette/digital 2017) https://verzimprint.bandcamp.com

The Old Earth

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https://soundsagainsthumanity.bandcamp.com/album/droxy

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Wind in Pihkaperä forest

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rustedtonerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/weta-weta

Weta & Weta finds Tampere, Finland artist Edward Trethowan attempting textural expressionism via relatively streamlined composition techniques and trifling experimentation. Somewhat irreverent towards genre and narrative, the album still draws very much on tropes of contemporary ambient, modular, leftfield and pop music styles. Choirs, organs, field recordings, transcribed chicken voices, stereo cassette tape, mono reel tape and embittered synthpop songwriting are sent through one-off modular synthesiser patches, spectral signal morphing chains, inevitable granulation and other sample-mangling toys.

Released by Rusted Tone Recordings (rtr011)
Music and design by Net
Music on 'Daddy is water' by Net & Erik
Mastered by Dino Spiluttini
Illustrations by B.Quinn
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