This is the tenth piece in a series of Concrete Music pieces. The source is hits and scratches on metal, wood and stone. The music is generative. The source-code can be found at github.com/danielstahl/concrete-music-10.

Concrete Music 10

Dualism

Dopamin - atze187/Frid Mars

Field recording based composition by Alëna Korolëva, with voice of Eki Shola.

Recorded in marble quarries near Borba, Portugal, October 2022.

Strange but true fact: mining is responsible for nearly half of the world’s economy. The history of mining around the world can be read in the open scars that have been left when the sought after resource has been extracted. In these wounds, often larger-than-life pits abandoned by humans, new forms of life have gathered. Inverted Mountains is a documentary record of one of these spaces. 

Portugal’s Borba Region is rich in marble, 400 pit mines dot the landscape, all but 50 are abandoned. In 2018 a wall of one of the biggest quarries collapsed and buried five people in a landslide.

This track offers a detailed examination of sunset at the bottom of the pit, four years after the accident. Pigeons circle in the lower levels, offering a sound of wings, while starlings and swallows gather near the mouth of the pit, 50 meters above. The natural echoing acoustics of the steep walls allow each bird cry to resonate in a living delay, as if there were thousands not hundreds of birds gathering here. At the very end, the lonely bird song is echoed by a human voice, calling out in a plaintive wordless cry, the ghost of all those whose lives were lost in this forsaken place.

Inverted Mountains

Atari Punk Console DIY Eurorack Kit from Ghostizer into Doepfer Multimode VCF A121-3 into Mutable Clouds Clone from Tunefish, LFOs from Doepfer Quad LFO A145-4 and Delta-V (Cosmotronic) mixed and attentuated  running into Filter CV and APC CV.

No external processing, audio straight from Eurorack into Audio Interface.

Atari Punk Console Drone  (live session)

Lune captive

Briser la nuit

DishwasherDrone [Disquiet0591] pt 1

My submission for Disquiet Junto Project 0592: Better Than One
More on this 592nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Better Than One (The Assignment: Record the second third of an asynchronous trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0592/
About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Weekend Away(disquiet0592)

- Abyssus

Progressive degeneration

Another improvisation, this time recorded using mostly SqrtSigil's Exfriend synth + Xaoc Devices Leibniz Binary Subsystem, Mutable Instruments Clouds and Eventide Space.

Enjoy the noise!

Piotr Dąbrowski / Impro #4

Piotr Dąbrowski / musician, producer, sound engineer / curator of Sygnał/Szum (Signal/Noise) concerts and podcasts @sygnalszum / president of the Nobiscum Foundation / author of @randomvariablemusic & @ubielambient

Piotr Dąbrowski / Impro #4

Piotr Dąbrowski

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