Cascaderie [naviarhaiku558]

taming ghosts

cascade sounds
 along a mountain path – 
the blistering heat

Haiku by Kubota Shunko

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Contribution for naviarrecords:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku558-cascade-sounds/

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taming ghosts

taming ghosts (naviarhaiku558)

Disquiet Junto 0663 was an invitation to compose music to accompany a spinning-platter hard drive. 

I thought I would miss this one, as I was traveling abroad these past two weeks without any gear, not even a pair of decent headphones. But inspiration struck at the kitchen table in a rented flat in Manchester UK and there was no ignoring the impulse. This piece was recorded off the tempo grid, the notes were painted in a piano roll, and the automation was done with a trackpad. A very different creation experience and set of constraints for me! 

I like a little percussion with my drones, so I used the new stem splitter feature in Logic Pro to extract a few isolated samples of the hard drive chitter to establish a rhythmic foundation.

You will experience the song differently played through computer speakers vs headphones, and I can't say which way is the right way.

More about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0663

The Lake Shore Drive Incident (disquiet0663)

IN   MEMORIAM   JOHN  CAGE

postpwned

Enter the danger zone! ... See the accompanying visuals and download the patch at https://youtu.be/wNy9nG9AaQU ... Create your own version of a volatile bytebeat atmos in VCV Rack! 😁

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

visuals & patch

halF volatilE [disquiet0671]

The ancient and languid waters of the sea of death

Yaleyt Digestap

labradorite

This track goes absolutely no where, I was just in the mood to make random drone music.

Birds

The forest was holding its breath.

Mist drifted between the trees, blurring depth and distance. Leaves muffled the ground, turning each step into a whisper. Nothing moved quickly here. Nothing asked to be understood.

A lone figure stood among the trunks, cloaked against the cold. They were not lost, and not waiting. Pale light filtered through bare branches, thin but deliberate, the quiet promise of morning beginning to take shape.

This place had once felt heavy. Now it felt attentive. As if the forest itself was listening.

A bird called. The fog loosened. The figure stepped forward, not because the path was clear, but because it no longer needed to be.

The light would grow.
The ground would hold.
And whatever had been left behind could remain, undisturbed.

There. Shorter. Still breathing. Still hopeful.

The Void Remembers. 

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Echoes Part 5 - Deep, Sci-fi, Nature Ambient [Sleep/Study/Relaxation]

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

Cascaderie [naviarhaiku558]

Tuonela