Drone Study by Noise Trees

Hello friends.

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!

Go watch the complete series of 30 second clips on the Post—Rift YouTube channel for audiovisual reference and inspiration.

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).

Coincidentally it’s Bandcamp Friday today :black_heart:

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Oh and here are a few download codes:

fuag-ebrv
lw9y-3cx9
qptn-hxat
gfnm-v53b
ywd6-krdx

You can redeem them at https://noisetrees.bandcamp.com/yum

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Beautiful stuff, had to grab a code :smile: 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 :heart:

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fuag-ebrv

Thank you! I look forward to digging deeper.

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Thanks @Noisetrees / Jukka! Have grabbed gfnm-v53b. Really looking forward to checking it out - loved your stuff from this year’s Jamuary.

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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 used code qptn-hxat

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Your posts were a highlight of Jamuary for me. Missed the codes but I’ll pick this up today either way :white_heart:

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Thanks for sharing on Apple Music, I’m really liking this a lot!

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Here’s the Dronuary compilation video with the short clips.

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Been listening to this on loop! Really digging it :love_you_gesture:t3:

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Thanks Ed and @roiyaru, glad you both like it :black_heart:

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Hey, I’m thinking of a super limited hand-made run of double cassette sets for this. Would anyone be interested?

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I would be interested, if shipping to the US makes any sense!

i’m just getting into it, but loving this record thank you for sharing :slight_smile: whats the story with the cover art?

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Thank you :black_heart:

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.

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All 31 or nothing!! :slight_smile:

I’d definitely be into a physical copy :+1:

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