I love this slow evolution from a very peaceful atmosphere to a strange, energetic mood and back.

Sex Watson

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Everyone Means Well

A deeply personal narrative set against the backdrop of Jay's abrupt transition from homeschooling to the imposing gates of a boarding school at just 14.

Ghosts

I chose to revise a track from Jamuary ‘24 because its description on SoundCloud reads “Wanted to make something lovely, quiet, relaxed with Meadowphysics but it turned into a 128 BPM Techno jam.” This asked for a redo.

Most of my tracks are live recordings in AUM or on Norns. This one was based around Meadowphysics and Icarus. These parts were lost (as I never save anything on Norns) and impossible to recreate. So the revision is built upon on what was still working in the AUM file - Quanta Synth, a beat and a field recording. I cut the beat down to one kick and added the fabulous wavematrix. The rest is hitting a few Synth notes and live mixing.

Field recording CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED - TWICIASTY/Freesound. Thank you very much for letting me use this!

This is the original track https://on.soundcloud.com/iQjJ2RwjeS25e5ZZ9

More on the 641st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Re-re-re-re-revise — The Assignment: Take an old track and make it better — at https://disquiet.com/0641/

Disquiet0641 - Leipzig (Revised)

Marco Lucchi, based in Modena, Italy, and Henrik Meierkord, based in Stockholm, Sweden, have a lengthy collaboration to their reciprocal credit, and they accomplish it far and near alike. A testament to the interplay of their work together is that a listener might be hard-pressed to discern which of their recordings are the result of long-distance file-trading, and which occurred when the two managed to be in the same place at the same time.

Several aspects of their respective music-making serve them well as creative partners. First of all, both tend toward the ambient, given as they are generally to a slow pace and to a sensibility that manages to be at once radiant and intimate. Secondly, while both are multi-instrumentalists, there is a complementary nature to their specialties, Lucchi being more of a keyboardist, Meierkord more of a string player. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, they are both immersed in techniques drawn from electronic music.

In particular, both men are experienced with live multitrack recording, in which they process and layer their own performances in real time. Meierkord is fond of layering sinuous tones to create scenarios of unique dimensions. It becomes uncertain — even unimportant — to the listener what preceded what, so intricate is his deployment of interplay. Lucchi likewise finds parallels between classical orchestration and the opportunity for drones lent by modern synthesizers; in a small room he can create a vast space. There is often an oceanic depth to such efforts, part composed and part improvisatory, in which playing is a tool toward composition, rather than the other way around.

Throughout their new record, there is an underlying melancholy, a nostalgic beauty, and a reflective consideration — a virtue that is foundational to their ongoing collaboration. The result is particularly rich in plaintive scene setting, as on the glacially paced “La bestia umana,” which emerges from a neighborly field recording of a dog barking, and “Kosmisk Strålning II,” which maintains a dream-like quietude, more shadow than light. One “Like tears in rain”, what sounds like a synthesizer is, in fact, a piano, a recording of which has been stretched beyond the point of it being readily identifiable.

On first listen, their leaning toward unimpeachable steadiness can seem uniform, but listen more closely and you’ll recognize how explicitly they emote on a track like “The Third Stage,” due not just to the reaching melodic surges (which, in turn, match the sampled recordings of bird calls) but to the slight discordances that suggest trouble and tension. In a different manner, there is “A warm and golden October,” which balances breaking-dawn hush with piercing overtones. That track features a motif at the end, played on a celesta; those bell-like tones edge the piece out of dreaminess without entirely breaking the spell.

The greatest outlier — dog barking notwithstanding — may be on “Oändlig,” not just for its fierce pulse, but because of its more immediately electronic vibe. “Oändlig” is an exceptional piece, bringing to mind the minimalism of Terry Riley and the rave classics of Underworld.

Marc Weidenbaum 


Produced and mixed by Marco Lucchi and Henrik Meierkord
Marco Lucchi: mellotron, piano, celesta and synthesizers
Henrik Meierkord: cello, viola, zither, piano, organ and FX
Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf) with AI
Artwork and cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

https://www.chitrarecords.com

Lieder Ohne Worte

Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Kosmisk Strålning

Summits

2Jun24

My naviarhaiku543 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/751815862899605504/naviarhaiku543-rain-on-the-cherry-blossoms
:D

bamboo in the mist [naviarhaiku543]

VB - 32

small dogs dream big

based upon a field recording, I developed a musical sketch about the brief moment of a passing by plane. A small dog was a little upset and – possibly – immerged into his own world for a second, conducted by this intense experience.

the assignment: record a piece of music in which a passing siren blossoms into something else entirely.

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More on the 650th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Doppler, Interrupted — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which a passing siren blossoms into something else entirely — at https://disquiet.com/0650/

note of a world (disquiet650)

Kurzweil. Created in real time, no edits.

Photo by Darren Lovecchio, www.ImpactImages831.com.

Disquiet0641 - Leipzig (Revised)

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