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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Suspended Sunbeam (disquiet0647)

Happy Drone Day 2024 to those who celebrate.

I recorded this using an OP-1 field while staying at a farm house in the Adelaide Hills. All production, mixing, and mastering was done on the OP-1 field. Volume normalisation, trimming, and fades were done using audio editing software prior to uploading.

The four layers are:

1. Bass made with the stock "Metal Mat" sample through the excellent Terminal effect.
2. Pad made with the String engine and Phone effect.
3. Interesting sounding radio noise recorded from the built-in receiver.
4. A field recording made outside the house with the OP-1 field built-in mic. It was cold and dark, and there was very little natural sound. I mostly picked up a low hum of road noise from a distant highway. There was an outdoor light on a sensitive motion detector, set to turn off after about ten seconds of stillness. The lights made a loud click when they turned on and off. I decided to play with this by sitting still until they clicked off, and then waving my arms to turn them on again.

The parts were recorded onto the Porta 4-Track tape mode. Then, the mix is run through the Mother reverb and master Drive to bring out the noise.

I enabled downloads and a very permissive Creative Commons license, so feel free to incorporate this into your own creations. I'd love to hear the results.

Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash 
https://unsplash.com/photos/grayscale-photo-of-trees-and-pathway-rydQVdwcgUQ

Through The Darkest Night, Lights Both Seen And Unseen

Happy Drone Day! Here's a 20 minute improvised drone on Novation BS2, Summit, Modular synth, and a little Legend Live organ for good measure.

DroneDay2024

More on the 647th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Drone — The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day — at https://disquiet.com/0647/

Day Drone (Birth) - (disquiet0647)

mind is empty, heart is full

Made on May 25th for Drone Day 2024. This track is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0647: Day Drone. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0647-day-drone/67356/21.

Axiom of Joys

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

Last week I had a workshop in the alps. I recorded some cow bells (around 5 minutes, early in the morning) that I liked very much (I instantly thought: this is pure ambient, even without any addition). I added some reverbs and other things to alienate them. I consider this drone, because it's always the same cow bell sounds. I think they do pretty well as "daylight drones"…

Fun fact: Because the musical mind of Soundcloud is just a few femtometres long, this track is apparently classified as ASMR. That's the only reason why I tagged it afterwards.

More on the 647th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Drone — The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day — at https://disquiet.com/0647/

Alpine Cowbell Drone [disquiet0647]

Studio version. Year 4 of the Gangs of Ireland project: "The Mod".

Gangs of Ireland

The Mod (Drone Day 2024)

Live version. Year 3 of Gangs of Ireland: "The Iconoclast". Recorded at a Drone Day festival on a farm in the Hudson Valley, New York.

The Iconoclast (Drone Day 2023 LIVE)

This is just a little drone-heavy track I threw together in celebration of the 2024 Drone Day.  It features four tracks of Spitfire Audio's PHOBOS VST, one track of Spitfire Audio Cassette Symphony (woodwinds patch), and one track of Arturia's Mini V 4.  A happy does of other plugins to shape the sounds, add warmth, and Seventh Heaven reverb added for a bit of taste.

Happy Drone Day 2024

Set for DroneDay2024
Performed live on the 25th of May 2024 at the multi level translation car park in Belgrave, Melbourne VIC as part of an international online streamed 47hr drone music marathon, streamed via online group kyivpastran.records to support those serving and surviving in the Ukraine conflict.

AMNION - LIVE SET DRONE DAY 2024 [online stream]

Recording from Droneday24

@spingsule
@nerdamas

Spingsulė @ Drone Day 24

During the 11th International Drone Day we attempted once more to make a noise together that stretches around the globe, a sonic defiance of borders. Amidst such ongoing horror, i believe it’s so important to take moments to resource ourselves and get in touch with our subtle bodies, to offer love to ones cells. Drone has the transformative power to awaken tiny vibrations in our skin, between bones, and tickling the fascia.

t r a n s i e n c e is honoured to have a new generative composition from multi-instrumentalist, drone extraordinaire Olle Holmberg. The piece, Untitled (Consequence of Sound) employs a series of subharmonic sevenths creating a floating feeling somewhere between major and minor. This is a music for folding the past and future into the present. We’re also humbled to include some fragments from ‘The Jewel Maker, The Great Tantra on the Consequence of Sound’, which offer some ancient wisdom apt for these times.

The episode begins with a new piece from myself, a repurposed ending, kind of low-fi, cosy duvet embrace for melancholic moments for feeling held. Slow and minimal, i invite you to dive into the feathers and get lost in the folds.

☁️☁️☁️

For more about Drone Day: droneday.org

Digital colourfield painting generously donated by Ligovskoï for the occasion.

transience #56 - Dr(((o)))ne Day with Lou Drago

transience #56 - Dr(((o)))ne Day with Olle Holmberg - Untitled II (Consequence Of Sound)

Drone Day 2025

drone day 2025: a study in meteorology
lane - modular synth, digital synth; 
louise - guitar, ebow, pedals: flanger, reverb, overdrive, and digital delay.

drone day 2025

My EMS live set for Drone Day 2025. Enjoy!

Yesterday (24th May, 2025) was Drone Day ... https://droneday.org ... This calming little track is a little late, but in honour of the sound of the drone ... Enjoy! ❤️

more halF unusuaL

halF droneD

Time is demanded. Escape and find solace. 

This was recorded on and made for Drone Day 2025. 

https://droneday.org/index.html

This Place

Podcasts, artists support, radio shows, electronic music & modern culture events.
Since 2006

Welcome to halF unusuaL, an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity. Listen freely, explore deeply, and for the sounds to live for your eyes as well as your ears, please stop by the YouTube channel. Thank you for joining this journey! Your support helps keep this afloat ... and is HUGELY appreciated 🥰

Noise maker, making noise, that sometimes sounds like music!

AMNION is the brainchild of Roderick Price and is the vehicle for his dark, brooding style of electronic music. AMNION composes dense seething soundscapes using abstracted field recordings made from his localized surroundings and treated with generated electronic material. Apart from pursuing his interest in ambient industrial music AMNION is also concerned with ideas related to surround sound and sonic immersion, both in production and performance.

I create original experimental, postpunk, and experiential music from my studio in Chicago. The Hard Times described my work as "creepy, haunted, but also a little bit uplifting." Prolific.

This is the archive of our regular show on Cashmere Radio, Berlin. 

It is undeniable that we are living in uncertain times. For those of us failing - or refusing - to fit the patriarchal, racist, neoliberal mould we have lost hope in the future. We can see capitalism is not working but we cannot yet envisage an alternative. We discover that the stability we were instructed to obtain whether it be financial, political or ecological, is fleeting, if at all. The resulting anxiety is an instrument of neoliberalism that prevents many of us from being able to raise consciousness of the structural injustices that alienate us.

In a world where security is no longer feasible, the only constant we can rely on is change. Barad teaches us that the world is a dynamic process of intra-activity and materialisation, an ongoing ebb and flow of agency. The Buddhist Law of Impermanence proves that nothing in this world is eternal. Regardless of ones point of reference we can understand that every aspect of life, physical and mental is in flux and perhaps this transience is the only thing we can depend on.

Each month host @lou_drago invites an artist to ruminate on these ideas and create an hour of relief from these anxieties. A temporary suspension of reality, where the listener can speculate on alternate futures free from all systems of oppression.

Photographs 1-30: courtesy Ángela de la Serna
(except 25: courtesy of Sybil @syberkid)
Photographs 31 onward: courtesy Janusz Lorent (except from 37 with is a digital colourfield work by @ligovskoi) 
42 until now’s photographs are from Micki Rosi Richter (except 43 which is another digital colourfield work by @Ligovskoi.)

Cover art by Micki Rosi Richter

Contact: lou.drago @ pm.me

past listening occasions: 

kwia, berlin ~ 19 january 2025
with :
olle holmberg
marum
yuri shimaoka 
lou drago

kwia, berlin ~ 9 may 2024
with: 
ligovskoï
dan nicholls
yuri shimaoka
lou drago

Electronic music, field recordings and weird electroacoustic sounds.

Electronic musician mostly playing live jams on modular synths.

Ambient electronica, Berlin School, Chillout & Kosmische Space Musik from Munich, Germany. ► Soundcloud is my musical diary - expect lightfooted drafts, soundchecks, playthings & misfits here. ► Go Bandcamp for finished pieces & more serious musical works.

CORE (she/her) is an amateur musician and group drone collaborator, one half of the duo LANE/LOUISE with partner CHRIS TROTTER. 

contributing member of COSMIC HOMEOSTASIS under the pseudonym ABIGAIL TROTSKY and occasional AUDIOPOLINATION contributor. 

player of guitar, radio, ebow, flanger, effects and diy instrumentation. 

likes: iderdown, daphne oram, sonic youth, outerspace, ambiance, various shades of noise, and other stuff too, xocore

This will be my place for Naviar Haiku and Disquiet Junto entries.
-Experiments may appear on YouTube from time to time: 
https://www.youtube.com/user/ikjoyce
-Albums will be released on Bandcamp: 
https://ikjoyce.bandcamp.com/

New album "The Endless Solitude Of A Skylark's Song" now available:
https://ikjoyce.bandcamp.com/album/the-endless-solitude-of-a-skylarks-song

Album 'Selene' now available on Cassette / Download from Naviar Records: 
https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/selene 

**Albums now available on iTunes, Amazon, Deezer, Spotify, and Google Play**  

I make electronic ambient and drone music using modular synthesis to explore themes of nature, space, isolation, man/machine interaction, and the borders of the sleep/wake cycle.

New tracks tagged #droneday