Kozai Mechanism


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Gracie the cat visits for us for this spooky dronescape filmed in rural east texas and featuring fieldrecordings from various urban and rural areas of north central texas.

It’s taken me over a year to release this one. I worked on it on and off from May 2018 to October 2019. The video clips are from June and December 2017. I ran into a paradox of choice. I had too many titles, and too many versions to choose from, and froze. In coming back to it I decided to just release the last file that was tagged and touched. That was easy, wish I’d thought of that before.

TITLE: Kozai Mechanism
DESCR: Shit gets sticky with third-wheels
ALBUM: Dronescapes
TRACK: 56
GENRE: Dronescape
YEAR: 2019
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: field recordings, rural, urban, rain, day, birds, cat, gravity, third-body, Ambient, Drone, dronescape, Soundscape, 56, Slog, SlowRain, Omnibenevolence, KozainRain, subtle, warp, kozai, kozai-mechanism
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube
IMAGES: Frame Grabs
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

More videos on the Kozai Cycle Playlist

Mandala

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TITLE: Mandala
DESCR: Field-recordings.
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 55
GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient
YEAR: 2019
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: field recordings, urban, park, rain, night, insects, water, ducks, traffic, voice, Ambient, Drone, dronescape, Soundscape, 55
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

The Dark Faerie Will Eat Your Soul

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All my recordings are infested with cicadas. So fuck it, I made a track incorporating the damn things instead of trying to cancel them out. Everything you hear here was seeded from the same 3-ish minute clip of cicadas.

TITLE: The Dark Faerie Will Eat Your Soul
DESCR: All cicadas, all the time. And, also, a love story, that ended badly. Beware, she will destroy you.
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 54
GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient
YEAR: 2019
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: Ambient, cicadas, Drone, dronescape, field-recordings, Soundscape, 54
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

bP

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A generated 220 hz tone is modulated with a 1 hz right sawtooth wave (to get sharp transients), and sent through a series of layered delays. MIDI notes are generated from that, randomized and sent through a chord generator, quantized to 128ths, and finally sent through a bass synth.

TITLE: Bass Practice
DESCR: A bass backing track I conjured up for an upcoming project.
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 53
GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient
YEAR: 2019
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: 220 hz, 53, backing track, bass, generated, midi, practice, pure tone, sawtooth, simulated, xtown
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Almost Transparent Pink Alternate Cut

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This isn’t so much of a remix, as it is an unmix—I removed the backing layer from the first release, which originally going to be just this track…but then I started working on the video, I fell in love its audio track, so I added it in to give the composition a transparent feeling.
The pink noise layer holds its own, and perhaps others will find it easier to incorporate into their own projects.
The video has also been updated to fit the track better.

TITLE: Almost Transparent Pink, Alternate Cut
DESCR: Shaped pink noise, no backing layer.
ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
ALBUM: Dronecast
TRACK: 52.5
GENRE: Drone
YEAR: 2019
PUB: Quasigentsia
TAGS: alternate, drone, soundscape, acoustics, dronecast, 52, monk, meditation, pink noise
URL: Persistent
MIRRORS: Archive Audio
Archive Video
Original Release
LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International