Disquiet Junto Project 0169: HTML505

Scrambled Egg Beater [disquiet0169-html505]

I created the most terrible, ugly, unmusical and least rhythmic drum track you’ve ever heard on my first attempt at using the machine. (You know, ‘what does this button do?’) It sounds like two drum kits fighting while falling down stairs. So I decided to use it. You can hear it in the background of this, heavily reverbed and delayed.

I processed the track using ambient V.3 into one of my semi-industrial soundscapes, cut it in half and overlaid the two resulting tracks.

I snipped a tiny (random) beat out of the original track and cloned it into the hopping rhythm that develops behind this (double tracked and down-pitched an octave from about half way in).



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The Assignment: 

Make a track using only an HTML5 drum machine.

Step 1: Go to the following webpage in a browser that supports HTML5:

http://html5drummachine.com

Step 2: Create an original track using only this tool.


More on this 169th Disquiet Junto project — “Make a track using only an HTML5 drum machine” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/03/26/disquiet0169-html505/

More on the drum machine at:

http://html5drummachine.com/


Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/    




Scrambled Egg Beater [disquiet0169-HTML505]

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...

Scrambled Egg Beater [disquiet0169-HTML505]

Tuonela