Tag: drone

Unquiet Mind

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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

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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

2020

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A series of voice memos recorded in the first quarter of 2020, piled on top of each other, over a drone track.

TITLE: 2020
DESCR: A series of voice memos recorded in the first quarter of 2020, stacked on top of each other, over a drone track.
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 62
GENRE: Drone
YEAR: 2020
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: 2020, drone, 62, monk, spokenword
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Avulsion The Great Disruption

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TITLE: Avulsion
DESCR: In sedimentary geology and fluvial geomorphology, avulsion is the rapid abandonment of a river channel and the formation of a new river channel.
In real property law, avulsion refers to a sudden loss of land, which results from the action of water. It differs from accretion, which describes a gradual addition to land resulting from the action of water. ~Wikipedia
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 61
GENRE: Drone
YEAR: 2020
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: drone, soundscape, 61, monk, disruption, punctuated equilibrium
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Splendor

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TITLE: Splendor
DESCR: A click track fed through two sequencers, and a volley of effects.
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 60
GENRE: Drone
YEAR: 2020
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: ambient, drone, dronecast, dronescapes, monk
ART: Covers
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International