Franklyn Monk's Dronecast

Franklyn Monk's Dronecast

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Franklyn Monk's Dronecast episodes

  • Sacrilegious K: The Traitor

    A tritone sine wave is duplicated, phase inverted, and offset from the original at 1 ms per quarter note. The result is converted to MIDI twice with slightly different parameters for each. These MIDIs are played through the same virtual instrument. The four tracks are stitched together in reverse creation order.

    TITLE: Sacrilegious K: The Traitor

    DESCR: Destructive interference of tritone sine wave
    ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
    ALBUM: Dronescape
    TRACK: 57
    GENRE: Drone, Ambient,
    YEAR: 2019
    PUB: Quasigentsia
    TAGS: disturbed, betrayal, evil, crazy, horrible, lying ass, cunt, bitch, fuck!, aargh!, wrong, corrupt, stupid, mean, Drone, MIDI, math, destructive interference, Monk, 57, Dronescape, Dronecast, comrade, Ambient, Soundscape, tritone, sine wave
    URL: Persistent
    MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
    LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

    6 min
  • Kozai Mechanism

    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

    18 min
  • Mandala

    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

    17 min
  • The Dark Faerie Will Eat Your Soul

    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

    17 min
  • bP

    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

    17 min
  • Almost Transparent Pink Alternate Cut

    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

    18 min
  • Almost Transparent Pink

    TITLE: Almost Transparent Pink

    DESCR: Shaped pink noise.
    ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
    ALBUM: Dronecast
    TRACK: 52
    GENRE: Drone
    YEAR: 2019
    PUB: Quasigentsia
    TAGS: drone, soundscape, acoustics, dronecast, 52, monk, meditation, pink noise
    URL: Persistent
    MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
    LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

    18 min
  • 002A

    TITLE: 002A

    DESCR: Drone and Noise
    ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
    ALBUM: Dronecast
    TRACK: 51
    GENRE: Drone, Ambient
    YEAR: 2019
    PUB: Quasigentsia
    TAGS: drone, ambient, soundscape, electronic, acoustics, sound design, dronecast, 51, monk, meditation
    URL: Persistent
    MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
    LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

    17 min
  • 1024

    1024

    Dronecast 50, Franklyn Monk

    TITLE: 1024

    DESCR: Drone and noise
    ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
    ALBUM: Dronecast
    TRACK: 50
    GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient, Noise
    YEAR: 2019
    PUB: Quasigentsia
    TAGS: drone, noise, ambient, soundscape, generated, electronic, acoustics, sound design, experimental, dronecast, 50, 1024, monk
    URL: Persistent
    MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
    LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

    18 min
  • Fox Song

    Fox Song: Are You Sleeping

    Dronecast 49, Franklyn Monk

    TITLE: Fox Song: Are You Sleeping?

    DESCR: 17 minute drone track.
    ARTIST: Franklyn Monk
    ALBUM: Dronecast
    TRACK: 49
    GENRE: Drone, Soundscape, Ambient
    YEAR: 2018
    PUB: Quasigentsia
    TAGS: 49, Ambient, audio, chapterized, Drone, Dronecast, Franklyn Monk, headphones, narrative, podcast, prologue, quiet, sound design, Soundscape, video, voice over
    URL: Persistent
    MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube
    LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

    17 min

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