#122

I’m creeping into Phill Niblock territory with a new piece I’m recording. I found this interview by James Saunders very insightful, especially the comments on composition and the technical aspect of it all.

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#123

I am still working on my pieces with instruments, but now I am sick in bed, so I found some fitting drone pieces and released them.

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#124

Anybody have ideas what kind of setup(s) Ben Vida uses on this brilliant 4 hour record

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#125

I’ve done a couple drone-ish things for Jamuary this year. I thiiink the photos match the patches. :smiley: Neither case is geared towards drones, in particular. No squencers, just knob-twiddling and some uncloked modulation.

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#126

Hi. Just wanted to share a 2017 collaboration with great Ariana van Gelder who uses her voice via effects to construct drone textures.

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#127

Great material everybody. I love drones!

#129

Check out the John Fahey mixtapes. Drone starts at 10:30, but the other songs are pretty cool too: https://soundcloud.com/nbraddo/fahey-1-1?in=nbraddo/sets/john-fahey-mix-tapes-1

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#130

For all you VCVRack users out there. I made the greatest feedback/noise/disaster machine today in VCV by taking Plaits in Granular Cloud mode (although any of the noise modes should work) trigerring Elements, with the outputs patched into Prism Rainbow, then into Chronoblob and then back to the external inputs on Elements. Then sending the L&R outs of Elements to a mixer (you could throw a big verb in there too if you wanted).

This combination was very controllable and seemingly unpredictable at the same time.

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#131

Prism Rainbow is one of my favorite modules that I’ve never managed to use satisfactorily; maybe I’ll give your approach a go. If you want a good way to spread the Prism Rainbow’s poly output across a stereo field, GTG-Rack’s Metro City Bus mixing module serves well.

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#132

I don’t think I’ve ever heard Klaus Wiese mentioned on lines or elsewhere. A new discovery for me, although I’ve known about Popol Vuh for years. His music has a meditative quality and focus. He also has a ton of recordings, some easy to find others not. There’s a bandcamp page that is releasing some remasters and unpublished work. Enjoy!

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#133

Alright. A new release of instrument drones. Function generators, electric guitar, clarinet, trombone, harmonica, zither and church organ.

Enjoy.

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#134

A question for drone music creators: if you’re using multiple layers, how do you pick drone timbres that will be complementary? And how do you mix/eq them? I’m dipping my toe into drone production but I’m finding it very hard to not produce mud.

#135

Yes, lots of mixing/EQing slowly, over time, for me. I’ve been having trouble not making drones or mellow dubby techno, even when I go in saying I’m going to make a “pop” or “dance” track, only because “sculpting” sound has become my favorite part of making music.

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#136

For me if I a using more than a single voice I usually use chord tones and typically will be a different octave.

If you have low or mid frequencies that are competing, modulating volume or filter cutoff of Both frequencies can allow both to shine

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#137

Making sure the drone layers aren’t too similar—both in pitch and texture. Filtering and EQ are a big help—and a stereo multi-pole filter is great for shifting timbres between channels. If you can get your hands on a fixed filter bank, it’s great for fine control of timbre. Panning sources is a powerful tool, too.

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#139

nice! Thanks for sharing

#140

first track is awesome!!! can’t wait to hear more!

#141

This started off as a very minimal drone piece, but it ended up somewhere else.

Enjoy.

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#142

Secret sneak preview just for us lines people of a drone/ambient thing I’m working on, inspired by the Creative convolution: share your impulse responses! thread…This is Reaper’s tone generator plugin played live thru convolution reverb with a couple of different samples of concrete blocks scraping used as the impulse. Three recordings just quickly crossfaded together into 1 track, with a bit more conv reverb over the whole rendered track afterwards. Will further mix/edit and do something with it at some point :slight_smile:

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#143

Churn.

Function generators and Supercollider.

Take care.

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