Name: Phantom Oscillator - Transmission No.2 by William Elliott
Duration: 8 min 56 s
Description: A second track featuring short-wave radio transmissions, this one seemingly bouncing off the ionosphere from somewhere in Japan. At least it sounds like Japanese to me. The synths are the IK Uno Synth Pro and the Korg Volca Modular.

This track takes me on a journey through a soundscape I've never experienced before - truly experimental!

This is epic space horror music.  Loving it!

lost to time

failed at conquest
and divination
no compliance, no sensation
now we lead by
self dementia 
and pineal gland erasure
black market
prima donna
pretentious diva with a claymore
seek nothing
find nothing 
but pineal gland erasure

Bewildered

https://kalaminerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-leaves-don-t-leave-the-tree

https://athenenoctu4.bandcamp.com/

02 Diving

Atari Punk Console DIY Eurorack Kit from Ghostizer into Doepfer Multimode VCF A121-3 into Mutable Clouds Clone from Tunefish, LFOs from Doepfer Quad LFO A145-4 and Delta-V (Cosmotronic) mixed and attentuated  running into Filter CV and APC CV.

No external processing, audio straight from Eurorack into Audio Interface.

Atari Punk Console Drone  (live session)

Woodlands [Frederick Foxtrott & asdb collaboration]

A second track featuring short-wave radio transmissions, this one seemingly bouncing off the ionosphere from somewhere in Japan. At least it sounds like Japanese to me. The synths are the IK Uno Synth Pro and the Korg Volca Modular.

Phantom Oscillator - Transmission No.2

I think this track is a failure, maybe not to the assignment, but to my expectations. A random word  generator gave mit the word „arise“, which I loved. My idea was to get the relaxed mood across of getting up on a lazy Saturday, waking up slowly, getting out of bed and getting started with the day. 

The track starts with a dreamy shortwave recording rising in pitch and drenched in reverb, then adds an organ at a slow pace. After a break, things start to get moving, more lines are introduced, finally the drums kick in… but as the track might be something I’d listen to on a Saturday morning, I couldn’t translate the music in my head. It’s just too flat. Still, fun was had ;-) 

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Disquiet Junto Project 0602: Choice Words 
The Assignment: Make a piece of music that strives to express a specific word.

Step 1: Choose a word — either a favorite word, or one at random from a dictionary, a book your reading, or any such source.

Step 2: Compose a short piece of music that expresses that word as best you can. Perhaps it communicates an underlying concept, or follows the shape of the word when spoken, or utilizes it as an extremely short lyric. Come up with your own approach, which might be determined by the word, rather than imposed on the word.

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Step 1: Include “disquiet0602” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

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Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

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Arise [disquiet0602]

Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape
The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing.

In the haunting shadows of a disquiet Halloween, I craved a genuine fright, so I summoned an 8-track version of Bitwig with a cruel code from the sinister pages of "ComputerMusic" magazine (August 2023). Since that blood-curdling Superbooth 23 affair, the eerie Cthulhu call of this DAW has haunted my dreams, yet the terrifying thought of the time needed for mastering IT always kept me at bay. Now, having dared to dance with this phantom... it's eerily … but okay. Alas, this 8-track version, drained by nocturnal vampires, has had many of its limbs horrifically amputated. Thus, even armed with my trusty modular hatchet, it's hard to gauge if braving this ghostly realm is worth it. Be that as it may, a few nocturnal samples, mummified synths, and a disemboweled Lyra8 impro might not raise the dead from the graves, but together they gave me some creeps. (A little bit.)


Track cover made with Dall-e 3.


More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/

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The Synths Have Eyes [disquiet0617]

2023 Christmas Impro #1
Lyrics by me

I let fate take me by the throat
I love to be suffocated 
If fate dares to take my breath 
I will come on its face

Take Me by the Throat

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William Elliott makes experimental synthesizer-based music under a number of aliases, including Phantom Oscillator, GASGIANTS, Interferenzmaschine, and Occam's Raygun. His uncompromising improvisational style has led him to embrace hardware synths such as the iconic Soma Laboratory Lyra-8 and Eurorack modular synths among others.

Phantom Oscillator - Transmission No.2

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