TITLE: Black Magic
DESCR: None
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 68
GENRE: Drone, Ambient
YEAR: 2020
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: spokenword, ambient, video, art, animation, drone, 68, reaper, resolve, magic, magicMusicVisuals
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Tag: drone
Mere Survival
TITLE: Mere Survival
DESCR: Grinding through isolation
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 67
GENRE: Drone, Spokenword
YEAR: 2020
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: drone, soundscape, 67, monk, survival, 2020 isolation, spokenword
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Equanimity
TITLE: Equanimity
DESCR: This has been hanging out on my harddrive while I composed a poem for it. The poem never happened. It took me two months to realize that a poem would cheapen the art.
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 65
GENRE: Drone, synth
YEAR: 2020
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: drone, 65, monk, synth, step sequencer, anti-word
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Unquiet Mind
This one comes before 2020, it was just a one off experiment using Devious Machines Texture to randomly play grains of 20 to 2000 ms +/- 20% of a voice memo. YouTube kept blocking it for violations of community guidelines, but eventually brought it back upon appeal. I think it was possibly because the visualization looked like a coronavirus, as the automated transcript contains nothing objectionable. But who knows what automated agents think.
Since it’s already done, and up, I might as well push it to my podcast feed.
TITLE: Unquiet Mind
DESCR: Grains from a voice recording after an eternity in isolation.
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 64
GENRE: Drone
YEAR: 2020
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: isolation, drone, 64, monk, spokenword, granular
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Rattlesnake
This was a speed run. Conceived, recorded, cleaned up, and videofied in less than 24 hours. Probably no more than 12 hours actual working time.
I don’t have a mic, so I recorded on my phone. Cleaning up that mess is hellish, or else I would’ve recorded the repeating phrases separately instead of cutting up the full audio. The next thing like this I do, I will, but it’ll take forever.
TITLE: Rattlesnake
DESCR: “The final Apocalypse is when every man sees what he sees, feels what he feels, and hears what he hears.” Willliam S. Burroughs
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 63
GENRE: Drone, spoken word
YEAR: 2020
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: 2020, drone, 63, monk, spokenword, glitch, voice
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International