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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:59:26 UTC mcc

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   What I'm listening to today: "DarkMatter by Lefty’sSoundLab+Eventide BlackHole drone improvisation", Arkady Marto

   This is a sorrowful audio inkblot made by a handmade drone synth covered in mysterious knobs. Hypnotic but constantly changing, saws like low horns over a foggy Thames at the start of a spy movie. About 12 minutes in I realized I was convinced I had been hearing a sequence of 3 bass notes for many minutes continuously, but when I concentrated they evaporated

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ51UBKksuc

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:59:27 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "AMBIVALENT", Human Motives

     Humming buzzing noises and bright chords like sunlight glinting off metal, this is six minutes of ambient music made on a modular pipeline that features not one but two granular sound-stretchers chained end to end. Something relaxed.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLw59F34y_Q

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:59:27 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Neutral Labs Elmyra DIY drone synthesizer & friends", nyppy

     The Elmyra was a DIY/"Open Hardware" clone of the SOMA LYRA-8, with 3 operators instead of 8. A drone box, basically. In this video the box's designer demos the Elmyra with a variety of other equipment (including, in some clips, a LYRA-8). A buffet of atmospheric booming sounds.

     I try to limit this thread to single tracks but frankly, all 22 of these pieces are really compelling.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I5FMplMQOY

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:59:27 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "The Day Of Opening The Tomb", Aural Holograms

     This is a 23-minute recording of atmospheric drone ambient, from 2008 and a genre somewhere adjacent to black metal. Metal sounds and distant clanking, sounds that could be wailing or maybe just wind. The YouTube thumbnail actually summarizes this track better than I could. As a connoisseur of structured humming noises, the 23 minutes I spent listening to this were very high-quality ones.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zkoprENdAo

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:59:28 UTC mcc

     What I'm listening to today: "Morning Practice", Todd Barton

     Made on a modern reissue of one of Buchla's "Easel" style suitcase units, this is an improvised performance of strange, quietly unnerving alien sounds. You may not recognize this as "music". It's basically the noises you'd hear in the background in some sort of science lab or alien spacecraft in a 60s movie (probably because those sounds, in those movies, were in fact made on Buchlas). It's definitely intense.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrvpTaMl6nw