Disquiet 0692 called for us to record the sound of fire and use it as a percussion layer in a composition.

I broke out my trusty stereo field recorder and captured the sounds of match strikes, a lighter, a gas stove, a gas furnace, and a wooden-wicked candle. I did minimal sonic processing on the samples, mainly touches of distortion here and there. All of the samples except the candle were loaded into a custom sampler set up and programmed as a drum kit. The drum pattern is supported by a full-length recording of the candle, processed rhythmically with a combination of a highly sensitive noise gate, beat breakers, step FX, delay, and quantization.

The percussion is the center of the piece, but there's also some vintage analog synth goodness in the background. All of the synth parts were played and manipulated on a Moog Minitaur, my current favorite desktop analog synth.

More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

Candle Magick (disquiet0692)

A piece inspired by the botanical garden in Lausanne

Globularia nudicaulis

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 587:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku587-paperweights/
Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!
Photo by zenbytes (Vosges Mountains, France, 2012)

paperweights - Naviarhaiku587

Electric guitar, percussion, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, voice, two tube amps, field recording (jackhammer). All sounds, voice, lyrics, mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark. Image: Abandoned doll's head at roadside, Berlin (photo: VSS)

I don't see you
You don't see me

I don't hear you
You don't hear me

I don't touch you
You don't touch me

I can't feel you
You can't feel me

I can't kill you
You can't kill me

I'm alone
And you're alone

I am home
And you are home

We're together
Here forever

We're together 
Here forever...

Together Forever

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
591
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku591-steady-spring-rains/

2025-05-01

steady spring rains... (Naviarhaiku 591)

5Jun25

My naviarhaiku596 track
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku596-spring-dream/
:D

not becoming unhinged [naviarhaiku596]

063025001

2025-07-006

midnight sun

Auren Klyne-Sivra-(Mellon Place Records)

Fractions

SpectrumGrid

Traveller in sound and space.  Enjoying and creating ambient, drone and experimental music.