Chiron

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Chiron

Dronecast 45, Franklyn Monk


My 45th track is an ambient/drone piece honoring Chiron, centaur, and mentor.

Can’t stream? Don’t podcast? Boycott YouTube? You can download additional audio or video formats (or grab some out takes) from the Internet Archive.

LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Thomas Run


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TITLE: Thomas Run
DESCR: Ride into the the night with me with this field-recording of a bike ride.
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 39
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2017
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: ambient, audio, bicycle, bike, cycling, drone, dronecast, electronic, experimental, ffmpeg, field recording, franklyn monk, homebrew, indie, no-39, monk, music, podcast, reaper, ride, routing, sound design, soundscape, video
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube
IMAGES: Frame Grabs
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
ISRC: QZZ7P2411338

Stress Response

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Yeah, ok, if I keep putting out these small, non-drone-y, items, I may have to create a new feed for them. But, I don’t produce a lot of content, and it may be fun to have random small things appear, little rocks in the stream.

And…I did it before, these little stepping stones between realities, I called them microcasts…but I had some weird rule that they had to be under, I don’t know, some absurdly small number of seconds, a handful. And one of them, an enhanced podcast, went nuts.

Oh, that was the other thing, microcasts were all going to be enhanced, but there’s a couple weird edge cases where a very short enhanced podcast with a bunch of hires graphics and chapters goes nuts with some podcast directories and aggregators.

Then Apple effectively doomed the format by removing the functionality from GarageBand. Probably for the better, if you’re going to do an enhanced podcast you might as well do a video. Which is what I’ve started doing…I’m getting better.

Anyway, here’s me losing my shit at this guy that started following me, across a vacant lot, middle of the night.
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The Lesser Pump


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This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series The Lesser Pump

The beginning and the end are worn.
Virtual instruments controlled by samples.
A G-man posing as a number station.
A preachy New Year’s reveler.
Ice calving from an iceberg.
A hammer strike.

Dronecast #38 Show Notes: https://fmonk.quasigentsia.com/archives/9270
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Happy Labor Day

AtmosphereGuarantees (Official Video)
From “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold”
Directed by: Bo Hakala
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