junklight

The other night, some what strangely for me., I awoke from a dream not knowing what it was about but instead filled with a strange sense of emptiness. I don't remember much of the dream but part of it took part in a field , filled with ceramic tiles. `the field was marked out in park of some kind. One of those dreams that leave you unsettled - so I made this,

blimey - from back in 2021

a track for this weeks Disquiet Junto https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0741-balance-beam/74223

some late night ambience

see https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0713-airwave-workout/72931

read more at lines https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0712-zebra-code/72862

creativity amongst the chaos

read more here https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0708-vocal-chords/72599

another piece for Disquiet Junto https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0707-chain-of-practice/72525

bathroom music https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0706-tile-one-on/72456

Another entry in the disquiet junto oeuvre. More details (including my notes on this track) at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0705-book-start/72385

This is for the latest disquiet junto https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0704-right-on-cumulus/72333 a sound track to the Cory Arcangel installation Super Mario Clouds It's meant to be 8 bit music - I couldn't dedicate the time to learning actual 8 bit trackers or whatever so I made a generative Max patch in the spirit of 8 bit music - there is only one sound source playing at any one time and the sound is degraded to 8 bit. Kind of playing with the chiptune idea of chords as arpeggios too there is another big influence here but I'll let you spot that for yourselves

This weeks Disquiet Junto asks us to abuse software to make music. I was going to pass on this one quite honestly - there has been lots of interesting work in this field - using data files as audio etc etc. but then, and I’m not quite sure why, a project in an electronics magazine from when I was a child came to mind. In the project they created (an incredibly lofi) video by using electro-mechanical scanning of a light resistor. Seeing video as an analog signal then prompted this. I’ve got a Max/Jitter patch collecting video. The video is split into 4 pieces - each piece is treated as a wavetable and the volume of it is modulated by taking the video segment using the average of each column from left to right scanned at quite a low frequency. A few parameters here and there let me turn it into music rather than noise and there is a reverb and a bit of delay in there for good measure. And then I recorded an improvisation on the whole setup. I’m still not quite sure it counts - surely using Max/MSP to make music is its entire reason for existing! But perhaps it’s ok since ALL the audio signal is generated by a video camera……

love & radiation by junklight

A track for Disquiet Junto - View Frame modular/s4/micro freak

noisy beat oriented music

a little sequencer driven thing that came out of todays practice......

first outing for my "groove" case https://modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/2430896 After quite a long hiatus this year - mostly just lack of time in which to make music sadly - back to exploring the groove as a concept. (& if you like this can I recommend https://junklight.bandcamp.com/album/until-the-apocalypse-comes :-) )

More Angel Heart than burning fires but there you go..... https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0666-beauty-and-the-beast/

trying to get the old music making muscles restarted after a lull

electronic groove

getting back in the saddle making some music. playing with new synths - ID700 , chroma and sax

tracker experiments

a moment

ambient with a hint of the world being on fire

mostly just learning the t1 so bit more accessible than my usual rubbish

back on my Relabi based nonsense.Nearly, but not quite techno for the people who actually listen.......

things

In all these moments. Time stopped. Couldn’t understand. The clock not moving. All aswirl. now we leave. We take ourselves out. Outside. And into the maelstrom. Holding hands together. Making sure we don’t loose each other and all the time we look and analyse. But how will we know. Indeed. How will we know. And can you even see it. Look my friend look. And in the midst of it you must stop. Stop I say. Stop. These moments. Between the movements of the hands. Stopped as they are. These moments are for hiding in. For living in. For making a home. Not a house. A home. A foundation. A foundation for the towers. Those glittering towers never achieved (after the Hafler Trio)

dunno

got all my hardware plugged back in again, had a nap and couldn't resist kind of like the contrasts in this - chilled out but also jarring

recorded for Disquiet Junto https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0621-the-leftovers/64999 Taken from a collection of improvisations using this https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/2110722 it took on an unexpected life of its own when I started doing the junto project......

experiments in serialism Ideally you would listen to this very loud in an empty palace…

techno adjacent slinkiness

in the mountains

this is a "side quest" piece of music. My experimentation on something else reminded me of Mille Plateaux, glitch music and clicks and cuts and I put this together

look, I've needed to get this sax thing out of my system for a while so hard luck......

further transmissions from Viriconium

I liked the rhythm in this patch I made

what do you mean it's not a pop song - it's three minutes long what more do you want!!!!!

crow finally understands........

strange rhythms

one of those rare times when I preferred a later take rather than the first

working on something larger but this little piece came together out of the ideas I was working on

short improvisation with modular & piano and pedals - just trying to let the music flow and not letting thinking get in the way

Meditative and Generative and somehow encompassing recent obsessions including old school frippertronics, frequencies and chaotic generative systems not to mention a nice dress

there is something that this track captures that I couldn't leave alone

dunno. just made this and here you are!

a piano improvisation with uncertain loops

something bright & frenetic for a change!