On the Square

Some behind the scenes here of what the artist does between projects.

They play!

In between projects you play! Try new things out. Sketch. Most of the sketches are thrown out as soon as they’re made. Here’s one I’m about to delete. With it I was toying with automated scene-detection, scen selection, layering, and stretching methods.

To get this thing to work I need some audio, so I just grabbed a stem from a current project—an ambient feedback loop seeded with a recording of the Square made several years back, pre-covid in fact. It’s gonna plug some gaps and make some translations in the broader project (which is taking longer than I thought, because, well, I’ve been playing with video.

Play is important for art.
You have to always be playing.

Thunderstorm Doodle

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TITLE: Thunderstorm Doodle
DESCR: A simulacrum of a thunderstorm. A small project while I gear up emotionally to take on another big one. Just doodling around in my DAW, there’s some crazy shit going on there.
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 66
GENRE: Drone, Ambient
YEAR: 2020
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: thunderstorm, doodle, rain, simulated,ambient, synthetic, play, simulacrum
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International