This is my interpretation of Catherine Christer Hennix's classic drone piece The Electric Harpsichord. Not a duplicate or recreation of the original, but an attempt to honor the essence of the piece as I understand it.

We don't have (to my knowledge) any score or written notes from Hennix herself, but we know from Henry Flynt that she used the North Indian Multani scale, tuned according to Alain Danielou's "Ragas of Northern Indian Music", and this is what I used here. (I refer to it as a scale and not as a raga because it is not used in a way that conforms with raga performance practice, although near the beginning you can hear the canonic ascending and descending forms of the raga.)

Hennix performed this piece on a retuned Yamaha electronic keyboard using the harpsichord setting, accompanied by sine wave generators. I am using two Meng Qi Wingie2 resonators (with custom firmware for the tuning), one for the bass and melodic figurations and one to resonate similarly to sympathetic strings. The little 7-note arpeggios/glissandi are implemented using MIDI, but it is all triggered by hand. This recording captures a single session, performed in real time. All of the sounds issue from the two WIngies, except for the underlying sine-wave drone, which is implemented in Csound.

A partial list of the other gear used includes Soma Labs Cosmos looper and Chase Bliss CXM 1978 reverb.

This track is also on Bandcamp: https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/track/homage-to-hennix-the-electric-harpsichord-reinterpreted

Image from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arabic_Alif.gif

Homage to Catherine Christer Hennix - The Electric Harpsichord (Redux)

From the album "Dimensions of Mind" available now on all platforms.

Bandcamp: https://dreamstatelogic.bandcamp.com/album/dimensions-of-mind
Apple Music: https://https://music.apple.com/us/album/dimensions-of-mind/1818676504
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2kvlMac8i3b3QBuIbKnrfG
Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0FBWN55JW

Follow Dreamstate Logic:

▪ http://www.dreamstatelogic.com
▪ http://www.youtube.com/dreamstatelogic
▪ http://www.soundcloud.com/dreamstatelogic
▪ http://www.instagram.com/dreamstatelogic
▪ http://www.facebook.com/dreamstatelogic

 [ #spacemusic / #spaceambient / #electronicmusic ]

Deep Within

🔗 Listen & support:
Spotify · Bandcamp · YouTube · more → linktr.ee/amb1Matt3r

🎧 Music for:
sleep · deep focus · meditation · inner drift · slow time · space dreaming

📎 Tags:
#ambient #drone #granular #spacemusic #sleepmusic #darkambient #soundscape

Driftphase

Heim

Alfheim

Astral Gateway

Traurigkeit des SEINS

Hanuš is out now from @stereoscenic :
https://dreone.bandcamp.com/album/hanu

Digipack with a hard-book style cover, 7mm spine. Glass-mastered CD with paper inner-sleeve is held in a printed sleeve (3mm spine) glued to the inside of the book. Edition of 100.

Also streaming:
Spotify 
https://open.spotify.com/album/4kT5pNtEoedBdqYe37pgJ6

Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.com/artists/B08QYPYMMQ

Hanuš is a holistic collection of remembrance and reflection of my late friends John and Jacob, both of which are the names of the main characters in the film Spaceman which coincidentally became a deep inspiration while writing, recording and forming its concept. The overall theme of the Dreone project (as some may already know from Driftdown Procedure) is that the souls and spirit of my fallen companions live within the systems of a sentient spacecraft and its humanoid manifestation/android, the notion of which allows me the mental freedom to explore the cosmos through music and be a bit more experimental with my sound. This album in particular is about them traveling together through the echoes of memories and the loneliness of space to witness the beginning and end of everything, leading the listener to acceptance through catharsis. 

Gear used on this album includes, Arturia Mini and Microfreak, Arturia Pigments, Tascam 414 MKII tape loops, Luftrum Bioscape, ESP LTD MH-400 B Baritone guitar, Collision Devices Blackhole Symmetry, and Bitwig.
music & artwork by Bryan Hilyard 
with special guests AJK and Brian Stegmann 
mastering by Andrew Klimek 

Bandcamp

Dreone - Declination

Dreone - Sefyr

Dreone - Analemma

Dreone - Maranatha

Dreone - Render (feat. Velvet Rope Crowd Control)

Ambient textures, granular atmospheres, and evolving soundscapes.

100% human-made music - no AI involved.

I release new tracks almost daily - fragments of tone shaped by silence, noise, and time.

Follow to drift with me.

Driftphase

ambiMatter