This is Drone Study, a collection of 31 pieces studying repetition, sustained sound, fragile tones, and oscillating walls of sound. It began as an audiovisual series of works for a social creativity challenge (Jamuary/Dronuary), but I soon realized I wanted to explore the theme further. The end result is unnecessarily long for an album, but just right for a study in long-form sound. At two hours and six minutes it’s a bit much but if you’re into it, what’s two hours in a lifetime?
The album is out now on Bandcamp and most streaming services. Here are links for Tidal, Apple Music, and Spotify. Good luck!
All music composed, performed, and realised by Noise Trees / Jukka Koops. Mixing help by Tuukka Jääskeläinen was greatly appreciated. Mastering was done masterfully by OVRSCN (Holosuite Mastering).
Beautiful stuff, had to grab a code Makes a good listen as some background noise, but is intricate (if that is the right word, didn’t want to use interesting lol) enough to not get boring when listened to on its own. Great work, definitely a good use of two hours
I really enjoyed listening these snippets of drones & delicate textures during Jamuary. The blur of blue and green crt image for the cover is lovely too. Look forward to listening. Thanks for sharing.
I was thinking of making a pretty manual batch with unique covers and on demand duplication, so the price would just cover materials and postage really. I’ll get back to you with a price.
The cover image is the output of an analogue video synth patch by a friend, modulated by the droning bass pad on Study Three.