../melody in chaos
ambient.drone.guitar
CHAIN
Pigtronix Infinity Looper –Small Sound / Big Sound Sparkle Motion –SS/BS Mini F*ck –Electro-Faustus EF107 Regurgitator (send/receive: tc electronic flashback –Earthquaker Grand Orbiter) –electro-harmonix SuperEgo (send/receive: EQD Arpanoid –Diamond Tremolo) –EQD Afterneath –Strymon blueSky –Line6 Fender Blackface emulator…
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Tuonela (soundcloud, bandcamp), a sound artist and self-described “primitive musician” out of Katoomba, Australia makes sounds using “very basic software.” With no synthesizers and “no idea how Ableton works,” he produces and processes wonderful sounds, and for someone so prolific, his work still exhibits no sameness, jumping across modes and always somehow making the “epic” look, well, effortless.…
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An homage in drone to Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “Wind, Sand and Stars.”
“The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds…”
PROCESS:
Rolled three Yahtzee dice at once on my window sill, under the watch of a scorpion frozen in glass (pictured).
6, 4 and 5 = “Y.O.U.”
Sang tones. Y = F# (I). O = B (V). U = D# (IX).
Pitch shifted each a few times and added them back to create harmonies.…
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This week’s disquiet.com junto project was about drones, and we were charged with composing a piece of drone music using five of twenty provided source tracks. The source tracks (link below) were a series of drones made by Mystified (aka Thomas Park: @mystifiedthomas) from kazoo, bottle, slide whistle, and didgeridoo.…
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my 2nd contribution to the disquiet junto. this one involved turn-of-the-20th-century edison cylinders, which i fed through resonance, delay and finished with a light flange. the drone reminds me of guitar picks gliding down piano strings, which is soothing to me (since home is a metallic-droning megatown).