stortion 2 40 bpm 12125 take 2

zonedout - ETHEREAL AURA (prod. phntmzn bR)

OH NO

2nd Piece in a small suite based on field recordings taken in the 19th Arrondissement on Paris in early 2020. This work uses manipulated field recordings taken in and around the Cité De La Musique  a beautiful building both inside and out featuring a museum of instruments, archives and state of the art concert halls.

Cité De La Musique (Paris - 19th Arrondissement #2 )

dispatch from lockdown city

paper-cuts

to suffer quietly

Based on : Piano pattern  n.1 by Marco Lucchi , remix by Walter Fini 
Marco Lucchi : piano and fx
Walter Fini : piano & synths, fx
Original Track : https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/piano-patterns-no-1

Stormi - Marco Lucchi e Walter Fini

Dispersive Frequencies

Marco Lucchi : piano

5 ottobre 2020

*****

No soul more loving or tender than mine has ever existed, no soul so full of kindness, of pity, of all the things of tenderness and of love. Yet no soul is so lonely as mine — not lonely, be it noted, from exterior, but from interior circumstances. I mean this: together with my great tenderness and kindness an element of an entirely opposite kind entered into my character, an element of sadness, of self - centredness, of selfishness therefore, whose effect is two - fold: to warp and hinder the development and full internal play of those other qualities, and to hinder, by affecting the will depressingly, their full external play, their manifestation. I shall analyse this, one day I shall examine better, discriminate, the elements of my character, for my curiosity of all things, linked to my curiosity for myself and for my own character, leads to one attempt to understand my personality.

                                  *

It was on account of these characteristics that I wrote, describing myself, in The Writers Day:

One like Rousseau...

A misanthropic lover of mankind.

I have, as a matter of fact, many, too many affinities with Rousseau. In certain things our characters are identical. The warm, intense, inexpressible love of mankind, and the portion of selfishness balancing it — this is a fundamental characteristic of his character and, as well, of mine.

Fernando Pessoa (original in english)

piano patterns no 7

I like recording short snatches of radio from my Fieldkit and I used one for this week's project. The brief asked for a tortured sound so I performed a variety of mashing, slowing and speeding up, saturating and reverbing until the string sample became a dirty wall of noise. The track starts with the end result and then morphs into the original sample. The audio degradation then proceeds in the order they were applied with the resulting wavs overlapping a little to give a sense of continuity.


More on this 460th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Creative Destruction (The Assignment: Show how you got to a tortured sound), at:

https://disquiet.com/0460/

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Image associated with this project is by Chris Smart and used via Flickr thanks to a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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Fear Of What's To Come (disquiet0460)

pict free wallpaper
a little experiment with Orba as a midi controller. The main line - free strings from Spitfire Labs in Ableton - Orba as a controller and the alternation of lead and chord positions - controlled by Orba. Then the standard keyboard line of virtual Ventus duduk and bass strings - Laboratory sound work, haha.

2020-11-18

frozen Time

Fueled by a distaste for all that is mainstream, Mike Leporte formed his own one-man band as an outlet for a dizzying array of cosmic noise. The name of this intriguing new project is Used Alien Mind, and that unique moniker is accompanied by plenty of unique noise. 
“Positive Mental Theme is so irresistibly peculiar and, yeah, fun. Your normal friends will hate it!” -Jim Santo’s Demo Universe 

“Brooding lo-fi noise and fractured left field indie pop…he sings like a broken amplifier.” -Splendid 

“UAM’s Mike Leporte takes the listener into dark corners, sunlit playrooms, and interstellar journeys…this music is for head-tripping.” -Culture Bunker 

“I love albums that take me by surprise.” -Space City Rock 

Used Alien Mind’s second album, “The Placement Aside” offers a cosmic kaleidoscope of experimental noise-pastiche-blues-art-rock leanings; a slight departure from his punk-rock infused solo debut, “Positive Mental Theme”. Used Alien Mind’s new album is stylistically eclectic as a result of collaborating with long-time friends Jon Wohl, Robert Wohl, Pete Weiss and newcomer Katie Beckman on many of the songs. The album’s distinctive sound is also due in part to working in different studios, and using a mixture of lo-fi and high-end recording equipment. The end result creates a brooding, hazy array of sound collages and musical landscapes. Kick back, throw on the head phones, light up and dig the space grooves. Zonked Records

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used alien mind