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

Prelude to Isolation

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Before going into isolation, 3 weeks ago, a friend warned me to not act to rashly—to think about job, life, etc.
This was my response.

Unsure if I would change it if I could.

WIP 3949: For the Bear

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A poem about isolation in the time of covid-19.

A snippet from an upcoming project.