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- Tinselectomy [disquiet0415]Funny, this coming along after me complaining to Mrs T, as she put up decorations, that we haven’t had tinsel for years. See, she hates the stuff.So, I used the sound of a bell tree (you know, those ones that feature a whole string of miniature tubular bells) and did all the usual stuff to it.----------------------------------------------The Assignment: Tinsel is your latest instrument.There is just one step this week: Make a piece of music that explores tinsel for its sonic properties.Of course, feel free to interpret this as literally or figuratively as you desire.Step 1: Include “disquiet0415” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your track.More on this 415th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Seasonal Metal / The Assignment: Tinsel is your latest instrument.:https://disquiet.com/0415/Join the Disquiet Junto at:http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/5 min
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- Windsea [naviarhaiku309]Made for Naviar Records' 309th Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/12/04/naviarhaiku309-bitter-winter-wind/ for details and other contributions.6 min
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- The Portland Mangle MixSecond of two remixes of https://soundcloud.com/wilwilwil/wilfried-hanrath-portland-an-invitation-for-an-open-collabThis one made using my funny little standalone demo copy of The Mangle, which did most of the work as I mostly sat back and listened, with a tweak here and there.11 min
- The Portland Ambient MixFirst (well, second actually) of two remixes of https://soundcloud.com/wilwilwil/wilfried-hanrath-portland-an-invitation-for-an-open-collabThis one made mainly using Audiobulb's ambient software (the old version).8 min
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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust... - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau
All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.
In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.
I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s.
Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...
I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...