Errant thoughts of a January night (Quando Orion dal clielo...)

Created on iPad with AUM
Mixed and mastered with Cubase 13 and Ozone 10

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 541:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku541-heat-in-waves/

Photo by zenbytes (2015, La Palma, Spain)

stones angry reverberations - Naviarhaiku 541

This week's Disquiet Junto suggested a drone made for the daytime. 

I started with a field recording from my front window. I took the first clean 4 minutes of that, and discovered a lone cicada singing around the 3:30 mark. This is the first cicada I've heard in the neighborhood this year. I supplemented that field recording with some crows that I captured in Virginia a few years ago.

The drone was recorded in a single take on a slide steel guitar with ebow and a collection of pedals. Underneath it all is a sample of a ceramic drum.

The title is taken from the Wikipedia entry for cicadas, describing them as being able to blend in with their surroundings. You can experience this for yourself with a good pair of headphones.

More about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0647

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Most Cicadas are Cryptic (disquiet0647)

A textured drone sequence, a mix of original recordings & electronics.

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.

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Full Day (disquiet0647)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0647: Day Drone

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0647 discussion thread on Lines:

This ambient drone was created using a Novation Peak controlled by an Arturia Keystep 37. Found a preset called “Happy Days” that seemed to fit this week’s theme nicely. The audio from the synth was recorded into Ableton Live where I added more reverb in addition to what the Peak produced. An additional texture track was created using a chopped up sample of the original audio. Used AudioThing Noises on another track for atmosphere. The “bee buzz” tones in some parts seemed to align with the assignment photo perfectly. Happy Drone Day 2024! 

MMore 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
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Conversations With Clouds [disquiet0647]

There is poetry in self-contained mechanics, pressurized systems and circuits being part of a bigger circle.

Using field recordings of a waste-to-energy plant in the nearby forest. It supplies my city with heat.

Disquiet Junto Project 0647: Day Drone 
The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day.

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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/

machine day dream

machine day dream (disquiet0647)

To me drones in daylight suggest, obviously, brightness but perhaps also a kind of straightforward simplicity and purity. For me, the sine wave rendered in the major scale represents these qualities. Hence this track is the result of a one lone sine wave oscillator tuned to the C-major scale. There is of course lots of looping and over looping and the requisite reverb.

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Tangle

A breath of embric_02

Recorded & mixed on 19 & 20 Sep 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Process notes -
For this, I put together a 4 track piece in FL Studio and exported stems on Thursday and then reworked those stems along with an altered piece of the full mix in Ableton Live on Friday. 

While I was in FL, I edited 32/16 patterns into 29/16 and also some other time sigs. I tried to keep it minimal, which also makes it a bit harder to count out but in the spirit of the prompt’s description, I enjoy the ambiguity.

Tools used - Fruity Kick,  Caelum Audio Tape Cassette, Arturia Delay TAPE-201, Puremagnetik Gelm,  Moog MF-1045, FL Plucked, Output Portal, FL Pitch Shifter, Ableton Creative Extensions Re-Enveloper, FL DirectWave,  Puremagnetik Pastfabric, Ableton Buffer Shuffler 2, Spectral Blur, Pitchloop89 & other Live native devices.

Artwork/Photography -
Hampton Bays, NY 29 Mar 2015

This original version of “Context Plays A Crucial Role In Determining Meaning” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0664: Mother Beat. The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time.

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

More on the 664th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mother Beat — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time — at https://disquiet.com/0664/

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Context Plays A Crucial Role In Determining Meaning (disquiet0664)

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Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental abstract animation videos.
It is my aim to create and/or edit my tracks & videos using free or open-source software only.
Influences include: J.S. Bach, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Wolff, Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Bernard Parmegiani, Ana-Maria Avram, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Renaissance Polyphony.
All my work is published under a Creative Commons licence & can be freely downloaded (as wav) or remixed.

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