Name: ennui [novembeat 2021.02] by null confluence in Novembeat 2021
Duration: 3 min 6 s
Description: The second of 30 days of recording music for Novembeat; the prompt was "ennui", a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement. My poor Luna, who is snoozing behind me on the futon as I compose this, would prefer to be on a multi-mile hike, even though it's 40 degrees, foggy and dark.

"Novembeat is an informal challenge to record one piece of music every day in November. It can be big or small, a mere notion or an entire symphony. Flex the creative muscle and try to learn something new." https://novembeat.com/

Novembeat 2021

The first of 30 days of recording music for Novembeat; the prompt was "health". This represents a 2020 photo I took from my yard of the California skies during the incredibly devastating forest fires, and the feeling of not being able to stop but wanting to but not knowing how.

health [novembeat 2021.01]

The second of 30 days of recording music for Novembeat; the prompt was "ennui", a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement. My poor Luna, who is snoozing behind me on the futon as I compose this, would prefer to be on a multi-mile hike, even though it's 40 degrees, foggy and dark.

ennui [novembeat 2021.02]

The third of 30 days of recording music for Novembeat; the prompt was "love", an intense feeling of deep affection. I don't usually involve my family as the subject of my compositions, but are my first and best audience and are so incredibly patient with me. I love them so.

love [novembeat 2021.03]

The fourth of 30 days of recording music for Novembeat; the prompt was "lost", unable to find one's way; not knowing one's whereabouts. I've been having writer's block for the past couple days and ended up throwing away about two hours worth work in total. Not very efficient. So, in an effort to keep myself from getting lost, I decided that I would just own anything I put down and run with it. I've played in progressive rock bands before, so this is familiar territory.

lost [novembeat 2021.04]

I've been testing a couple of sample libraries with plucked piano and comparing with my own Yamaha upright plucked piano, just fooling around two chords (Cmaj7 ad Fmaj7) to stay on the instructions of this weekly junto challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0514: Chord Channels
The Assignment: Take two chords and connect them over time.

Recorded during the afternoon of November 5th 2021 in Paris , france.

Two Chords Plucked Piano Demo - disquiet0514

The fifth of 30 days of recording music for Novembeat; the prompt was "return", an act of coming or going back to a place or activity. The first synthesizer I really interacted with in a serious way was an Ensoniq EPS 2.40. I still have access to it, although I would need to replace the aging 3.5" floppy drive with a USB drive and that's a really scary operation. I've been enjoying Arturia's SQ 80 V which is an emulation from the same era. I also learned about progressive rock around the same time. It made an impression.

return [novembeat 2021.05]

An audio trailer of the upcoming EP "private enemy".
Releasing January 07, 2022

private enemy Previews

Audiovisual processing, composition, and Field Recoding by Leslie Rollins (337is).
 
Obscure & Relevant 2021, (CC BY-NC 3.0 US): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/

Source sound material gathered from field recordings shared by:

[disquiet0516] outside in #1
https://soundcloud.com/howthenightcame/disquiet0516-outside-in-1/comment-1554004735 
Courtesy of howthenightcame

Radio Info (disquiet0517)
https://soundcloud.com/user-130801280/radio-info-disquiet0517 
Courtesy of user-130801280 (Noodle Twister)

More on this 518th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 3 of 3) (The Assignment: Combine sounds of nature and civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0518/

This is the third and final stage of a three-part project sequence. You needn’t have participated in either of the two preceding stages to do this one. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0518-out-and-in-co-exist-3-of-3/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

NishiaRA[D]I[O] Temple (Naturalised Civilisation)[disquiet0518]

Anger foot soundtrack

Collaboration with my friends from https://soundcloud.com/rawtekk

Hallumakken

Pianoman (ft. Rawtekk)

Sprocketmoss - Hallumakken EP

Released on https://soundcloud.com/yukumusic 2022

Ashes in the Sink

Original Track for Spooktober 4th Annual Visual Novel Jam. Please check it out.
https://studiosuzumi.itch.io/hallow-masquerade

SoulStealer(Last Rites Mix) feat Klayton Hodges

An example prepared by one of sound designers involved in making presets for LuSH-101's factory bank - Aiyn Zahev. Thank you.

www.aiynzahev-sounds.com

Aiyn Zahev - Lush 101

Atlanta-based Richard Devine is an electronic artist and sound designer whose expertise includes composition, sonic mnemonics, and field recording. Besides releasing six full-length albums on imprints like Schematic, Warp, Asphodel, and Sublight, Devine is an in-demand remixer for Aphex Twin and Mike Patton.

@richarddevine [IG / TWITTER]

ennui [novembeat 2021.02]

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