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Old Drummer
by Old Drummer
Drummer and Digital Musician. Creating an experiment in sound while exploring my own unique style. Useing rhythm and sound design .Give me a listen and let me know what you think. [email protected] [email protected]
Episodes
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disquiet0772 (Garden Grow)
Process The soil. A drone on a Bb root with an open fifth, using Ableton’s “Fat Heavy Drone Pad.” Every 16 bars a soft B natural drift in over it. The key. Bb Phrygian at 66 BPM. That B natural is the flat second, the one note that makes it feel ancient and unresolved. The seeds. Four pitched...
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disquiet0771 - PHASE INCIDENT - ASYMPTOTE (disquiet0771)
Two identical bell voices. One holds still. The other drifts away and never comes back, sliding through flams, ripples and a doubled pulse before stopping one hair short of the next alignment. A ten-minute tribute to Steve Reich on his 90th birthday, made for Disquiet Junto Project 0771.…
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disquiet0770 (reverbxreverb)
Reverb x Reverb — Disquiet Junto Project 0770 A single Massive X tone, struck once and let ring, pushed through two reverbs in series rather than one turned up louder: a close copper room first, then that room's own wash fed straight into a second, much larger space — pitch-shifted, shimmering,...
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Sol - day 21
Sol — Day 21 of One Track a Day. The capstone of the planet arc. For nine days I traveled the solar system — Saturn out to Pluto, then Mercury back around to Jupiter. Every one of those tracks orbited something they never visited. This is the Sun. Helioseismology tells us the Sun literally rings...
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disquiet0768 (remix)
Process For "Remix Therapy," I went back to the oldest track in the Achronia catalog: "Bronze and Skin," Day 1 of One Track a Day, recorded back in June before the project had any of its current conventions. The original session was three dry, unprocessed bounces — a tuning bed (bronze drone),...
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Jupiter_Day_20
Day 20 of One Track a Day / One Planet a Day. Ninth planet visited, continuing outward past Mars and the asteroid belt. Jupiter's four largest moons — Io, Europa, and Ganymede — are locked in the Laplace resonance: an exact 4:2:1 orbital ratio that's held stable for billions of years. This track...
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Experiment 1 chopped kit
First drum experiment in a series
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Roche Limit- Day 19
Roche Limit — Day 19 of Achronia's One Planet a Day. Phobos is falling. Mars's larger moon spirals a few centimeters closer every century — in 30 to 50 million years it crosses the Roche limit and comes apart into a ring of its own debris. This one is that descent: four tightening orbital passes…
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disquiet0766 - Obliquity
Obliquity — Day 18, One Planet a Day The seventh stop moving inward through the solar system: Earth. Its axial tilt — 23.5°, fixed in space, never wavering — is the entire reason seasons exist. This track turns that fact into rhythm: a 23-beat ostinato drifting against a straight 4/4 pulse, the…
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The rose of Venus
Day 17 of One Track a Day — Achronia's One Planet a Day arc. The Rose of Venus. Venus is one of the only planets that spins backward — so this one breaks its own rules by literally reversing on itself. Five phases, mirrored around a center: Morning Star, Ascent, The Turn (the axis), Descent...
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Double Sun - Mercury
Old Drummer creates journeys between ancient wisdom and distant futures. Near the sun, Mercury's spin plays a trick on the light — dawn happens twice. This track is built on that rhythm: two voices circling each other, colliding at the climax, then drifting apart again. Day 16 of Achronia's One...
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disquiet0765 - Sonic Kin
--- **Title:** Sonic Kin (Disquiet Junto Project 0765) More on the 765th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sonic Kin — The Assignment: Give space to the unheard voices of animals — at [disquiet.com/0765](https://disquiet.com/0765). For this one I built a four-phase piece around a single cricket...
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disquiet0764 - Gathering Call
The Assignment: Create a sonic menagerie. --- **Gathering Call (disquiet0764)** Built this one entirely from processed animal one-shots — monkey chest-thumps standing in for a kick, a cockatoo squawk answering as the snare, cricket screeches (one at pitch, one dropped down a fifth-ish for…
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Pluto
Pluto by Old Drummer
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Neptune
Neptune by Old Drummer
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Occultation
Occultation Achronia — One Planet a Day, Day 13: Uranus Ancient rhythms. Future landscapes. One continuous journey. You cannot see the rings directly. You watch a star, and you wait for it to dim — that's how they were found, and that's how this one moves. Launch opens tumbling and off-axis, a...
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disquiet0761
Disquiet0761 When Doves Smile - Achronia BPM: 60 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: Db Major Length: 4:40 Assignment: Compose a piece intended anonymously for someone who caused anger or disappointment — this response leans toward warmth and forgiveness rather than confrontation. Process 1. Chose…
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Shani
Shani — Day 12, Achronia Ancient rhythms. Future landscapes. One continuous journey. Shani opens a new chapter in the One Track a Day series: one planet, one visit, every day — a solar system tour told entirely in Percussion Ambient. Named for the Vedic deity of Saturn, keeper of time and karma,...
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Bonsho
A single strike, and everything that comes after it. Bonsho is built around the sound of a Japanese temple bell — one long tone, decaying, joined slowly by percussion, drone, and voices that don't belong to any known language. Ancient rhythms. Future landscapes. One continuous journey. Bb Minor ·...
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disquiet0760 - Filament Vidyut
Filament - Vidyut | Disquiet Junto 0760 One 65-second recording of a light bulb, slowed to a bassline, sliced into a drum kit, and rung through its own hidden key. Made for Musikfestival Bern's "Harness the Light" — using Michael Vorfeld's bulb recording to explore the pervasiveness of energy.…
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disquiet0759 - rock music
Disquiet0759 Rock Music BPM: 120 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: N/A (unpitched percussion) Length: 4:33 Assignment: Make music with nothing but rocks. Process: 1. Reviewed the Junto 0759 assignment: make music with nothing but rocks. 2. Recorded raw rock sounds (clacks, thumps, scrapes,...
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Gyuto
Gyuto by Old Drummer
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Rūpa Śūnyatā
"Rūpa Śūnyatā" takes its structure from the Heart Sutra — form and emptiness folding into each other. A single struck-metal hit opens the piece, then true silence. A slow-breathing drone fills the emptiness. Hits and reverb tails blur until you can't tell where one ends and the next begins. The...
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Four O'Clock
Four O'Clock Four drums. Four different clocks. One shared beginning. Four O'Clock opens with a single pulse — steady, four-square, unremarkable. Then three more voices arrive, each keeping its own time: a five-beat drag, a seven-eighths flutter, a three-beat sway. None of them agree. None of…
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Four Tribes
Four Tribes — Day 7 of the One Track A Day series (Achronia) Four voices — drone, struck metal, skin, and string — enter one at a time, gather, peak, and dissolve. Tuned to Pelog Selisir, the 66 BPM pulse breathes rather than drives, moving through a four-phase arc: Invocation, Emergence,...
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Hollow_Ground
Hollow Ground strips everything back to skin. No metal, no synth — just frame drum, hand drum, and fingertip texture, pitched through D♭ Major and left to breathe at 72 BPM. The piece moves through four phases: a single grounding tone (Invocation), a second voice answering it (Emergence), a drift...
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Interstice
**Interstice** 🌀 A voice caught between two tuning systems, trying to translate itself into being. Built from a leftover blank track, this one grew into something stranger — half retuned Jawar scale, half ordinary 12-TET, same instrument speaking two languages at once. By the end it collapses…
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Transmission
Transmission is built around a real tuning collision: the ritual instruments (drone, struck metal, hand percussion) are tuned to Jawar (KF) — an authentic Sundanese gamelan tuning from Gamelan Kyai Kangjeng Fatahillah — while the "signal" voices (Absynth 5, Meld) remain in standard tuning,...
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disquiet0756
disquiet0756 by Old Drummer
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Bardo
Day 3 of One Track a Day. Bardo takes its shape from the Bardo Thodol — the Tibetan Buddhist description of the intermediate state between death and rebirth — mapped onto four musical phases: Chikhai (dissolution), Chönyid (luminosity), Sidpa (seeking), and Return (threshold). Built entirely in...
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Achronia Day Two
Percussion Ambient · Pelog 7 Tones KF (Sundanese, Bandung — ref. 451.09 Hz) Second piece in a daily series exploring percussion as lead voice, not rhythm section. A four-phase ceremonial arc — Invocation, Emergence, Transfiguration, Return — built through both harmony and material: earth and skin...
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Bronze and Skin
Bronze and Skin by Old Drummer
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disquiet0756
Disquiet0756 In a Flash BPM: 153 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: Length: 1 minute and 16 seconds • Assignment: Contribute sounds to a Flash Gordon–themed 2026 Musikfestival Bern event. • First I consulted with Claude (AI) on the project. • Using Ableton live 12.4 with Producer Pal • Claude was...
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disquiet0752 - Storm Sequence
"Four storm events built entirely in-the-box using stock Ableton 12. No samples, no third-party plugins — pure synthesis."
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Missing Eighth
Missing Eighth by Old Drummer
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The_Captain_20262005
The_Captain_20262005 by Old Drummer
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The_Captain_20261905
The_Captain_20261905 by Old Drummer
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disquiet0750
Disquiet0750 “Before the Known” BPM:72 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: Bb minor Length: 7:20 sec. Assignment: Record something epic. More on the 750th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Let’s Get Heavy — The Assignment: Record something epic — disquiet.com/0750.
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disquiet0749 - track three
Disquiet0749 Track 3 BPM: 120 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature:? Length: 1:54 seconds Assignment: Record the final third of a trio 1) Chose this track from the unused track from 0747 2)...
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disquiet0749 Track two
Disquiet0749 Track two 3 of 3 BPM: 144/73 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: A minor Length: 2:20 seconds Assignment: Record the final third of a trio A) Used these two track from 0747 that were not used in 0748. I chose them with a random number generator. B)...
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disquiet0749
Disquiet0749 3 of 3 BPM: 130 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: A minor Length: 2:15 seconds Assignment: Record the final third of a trio A) Used these two track from 0747 that were not used in 0748. I chose them with a random number generator. B)...
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fmm_song_for_april_2026
fmm_song_for_april_2026 by Old Drummer
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Fire the Steering Rockets
FMM feedback
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Regret 2
FMM feedback
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disquiet0748
https://soundcloud.com/vanwindmill/disquiet0747-the-writer?si=1914350f6ff2405190f217c47d3e35ce&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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disquiet0748
Disquiet0748 And a Two (2 of 3) BPM: 104 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: D minor Length: 2:27 secs. Assignment: Record the second third of a trio Chose this track using a random number generator https://soundcloud.com/merlebardenoir/fleuet-disquiet0747 Downloaded some sound files from…
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disquiet0747
Disquiet0747 And a One(1of3) BPM:120 Time Signature:4/4 Key Signature:? Length: 3 minutes Assignment: Record the first third of a trio • Recorded one drum track consisting of an Intro, part 1, part 1a, part 2, part 2a and a outro • There is 1 measure of silence between all 6 parts More on the…
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New B
drums, perc, bass, synth
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New A
Basic drums, perc, bass, synth pad, synth lead
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disquiet0745
Disquiet0745 Double Down BPM:116 Time Signature: 7/16 Key Signature: All Maqamat 24 EDO Length: 4’33” DAW: Ableton Live 12 Assignment: Do something you do too much even more 1. I think I use too many pad sounds 2. So for this song I used all pad sounds More on the 745th weekly Disquiet Junto...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Drummer and Digital Musician. Creating an experiment in sound while exploring my own unique style. Useing rhythm and sound design .Give me a listen and let me know what you think. [email protected] [email protected]
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