Franklyn Monk's Dronecast

Franklyn Monk's Dronecast

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Franklyn Monk's Dronecast episodes

  • Thomas Run

    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

    17 min
  • Stress Response

    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.

    Walking back from the store when I hear drunk clapping and hollering a ways down. Goes on for a while before I decide to record—it’s always good to capture a rowdy voice.

    And it goes quiet almost instantly, I’m almost disappointed, but that’s just the nature of field recording, you’re never quick enough.

    The rowdy clapping is back,

    And closer
    And following me
    When it reaches the other side of the street I turn and confront
    the potbellied man
    I yell. He stumbles back, and keeps coming.
    I shout NO! And he ambles away.
    I watch for a few minutes, make sure he’s gone before I move on.
    He looks back a couple times, mumbling about how he was going to invite me to his camp by the dumpster, and oh my, and fuck you, before vanishing in the shadows.

    On the way there, a bicycle comes weaving up the street at me and asks if I wanavotel. Takes me a few, but, no, I don’t need a bottle, I wave him off, I’m good.

    2 min
  • 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
    Download: audio, video






    * TITLE: The Lesser Pump
    * SHORTDESC: Experimental track featuring virtual instruments driven by samples
    * ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
    * ALBUM: Dronecast
    * TRACK: 38
    * GENRE: Ambient, Drone, Experimental, Field recording
    * YEAR: 2017
    * PUBLISHER: Quasigentsia
    * LINKS

    * Permalink
    * Archive Audio
    * Archive Video


    * TAGS: music, experimental, electronic, ambient, drone, field recording, homebrew, franklyn monk, dronecast, podcast, 38, reaper, audio, video, sound effect, MIDI CC, samples, FBI, NOAA, PMEL, cleaving, vinyl, hammer strike
    * MIRRORS:

    * YouTube
    * FaceBook
    * SoundCloud


    * SOFTWARE:

    * Audio REAPER (v. 5.33.0)
    * Video Shotcut (v. 17.02)


    * SOURCES:

    * United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau Of Investigation. The Salvage Racket, 1956
    * Carpenters (2 Cuts). 78 shellac record
    * sardana. File Under Toner
    * PMEL Acoustics Program (NOAA). Cryogenic (Ice)


    * LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
    17 min
  • Behind Junkie
    Example of my Technique



    Brusier.m4a is a field recording I made on a warm October morning between a dry cleaners and a restaurant. A downspout was producing a crazy discordant noise. I think it was ice from a freezing up A/C unit on the roof, but I'm not sure.

    Kids and dogs wandered by wondering what the hell I was doing crouched down holding my phone up to the downspout.

    The recording became bibruser3_stems_OuiDecay-001 the rhythmic jangly stringy percussive cohesive backing layer of Junkie.



    Episode Link | Archive Item
    3 min
  • WIP: Number Stream
    A quick render from something I'm working on.



    g2sdr.mp3, 0:33, 2.4M
    https://archive.org/download/fmonk_WIPNS/g2sdr.mp3



    Bonus Track (not in podcast feed)

    NSCC.mp3, 16:40, 23M
    https://archive.org/download/fmonk_WIPNS/NSCC.mp3


     


    Episode Link | Archive Item



    WIP: Number Stream by Franklyn Monk is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
    Based on a work at archive.org.
    1 min
  • The Tenth Day

    TITLE: The Tenth Day
    DESCR: An experimental audio track featuring WikiLeaks audio of the AbilityOne/SourceAmerica scandal
    ALBUM: Dronescapes
    TRACK: 37
    GENRE: Dronescape
    YEAR: 2016
    PUB: Quasigentsia
    TAGS: ambient, dronecast, monk, franklyn monk, podcast, drone, experimental, music, reaper, 37, electronic, field recording, audio, wikileaks, AbilityOne, SourceAmerica, scandal
    URL: Persistent
    MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube
    IMAGES: Frame Grabs
    LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International








    SOURCES:1. Audio #1.1 (Download) ofThe SourceAmerica TapesDESC: On 16 November 2015 8:30 am EST, WikiLeaks publishes the 30 hours of secret tapes and transcripts at the heart of the AbilityOne/SourceAmerica scandal.







    License:The Tenth Day by Franklyn Monk is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Based on a work at http://j.mp/2atEzkt.







    Follow meMastodon: @[email protected] | YouTube: @FranklynMonk | Website: fmonk.quasigentsia.com
    17 min
  • Follow Your Heart
    Franklyn Monk Dronecast #36



    TITLE: Follow Your Heart
    ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
    ALBUM: Dronecast
    TRACK: 36
    GENRE: Experimental
    YEAR: 2016
    PUBLISHER: Quasigentsia
    URL: http://j.mp/2avZapC
    LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International



    DOWNLOAD
    LOSSLESS: flac 54.1 MB | m4a 57.7 MB | wav 169.9 MB
    LOSSY: m4a 16.0 MB | ogg 14.5 MB | mp3 13.7 MB | opus 11.6 MB
    VIDEO: mp4 1.1 GB



    EPISODE LINK | ARCHIVE ITEM | YOUTUBE | SOUNDCLOUD



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    Facebook: facebook.com/fqmonk
    Website: fmonk.quasigentsia.com
    17 min
  • Junkie
    Franklyn Monk Dronecast #35

    Episode link | Archive.org item | Youtube
    17 min
  • Badaboom
    Franklyn Monk Dronecast #34

    So, I sold blood plasma in order to keep this website going.
    And cycled back in the Texas heat, and passed out on my porch.
    Smashing my head on brick. Ended up with thirty stitches.
    A week later I get them taken out to find they "didn't take" and I'm gonna loose a huge chunk of my eyebrow. I'm bummed about it.
    I'm going to do it again as soon as I'm healed enough to donate.
    I'm serious about my art.



    Episode link | Archive.org item | Youtube



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    Twitter: @fqmonk
    Facebook: facebook.com/fqmonk
    Website: fmonk.quasigentsia.com
    5 min

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