#dronoise

EON - HAN-723 dronoise/ experimental ambient 161130_9i 1.HAN-723-1 01:58 2.HAN-723-2 04:56 3.HAN-723-3 12:34 4.HAN-723-4 09:57 5.HAN-723-5 05:01 http://eonexp.bandcamp.com/album/han-723

Today's experiment in distressed dronage. Synthrotek NAND synth to 4ms Sweptoner to Repeater/4MS Noise Swash to Moogerfooger Freqbox to Moogerfooger ClusterFlux to Boomerang III. Live take, unedited.

This is track 3 from my new release on the Vuzh Music netlabel, "The Quiet Sun". For more information, and to download and/or stream the album in its entirety for free, please visit http://vuzhmusic.com/releases/sun.html.

This was my set at the Disquiet Junto concert at The Walnut Room in Denver, Colorado on Sunday August 19, 2012. The first four minutes or so comprises my take on the Disquiet Junto "Expanded Glass Harp" project, and features an amplified wine glass. It then segues into a second section where the primary sound source was a cell phone played with an E-Bow. More about this below. My equipment consisted of: - wine glass (partially filled with water) to which a transducer was taped - Vibe It (transducer and driver) - contact mic (of Crank Sturgeon vintage) - Grunge distortion pedal - Heavy Metal distortion pedal - Drone Lab - Moogerfooger FreqBox - 3x3 passive matrix mixer (made by Repeater Electronics) - Deluxe Memory Man - E-Bow - Motorola DroidX running the GaussWave app In Section One, the sound was produced by a feedback loop driven through the wine glass by the Vibe It (taped to one side of the glass) and picked up by a contact mic (held and rubbed against the other side of the glass). I also at times "played" the glass by rubbing the moistened tip of my index finder around the rim. In Section Two, I unplugged the contact mic and replaced it with a cable coming from my mobile. I was running the GaussWave app, which graphs and sonifies the data being picked up by the phone's internal magnetometer (a sensor that "sees" magnetic fields and is sensitive to changes in those fields). I provoked the magnetometer with an E-Bow, a small hand-held device designed for creating infinite sustain with a guitar string by emitting a pulsating magnetic field. Many thanks to C. Reider who helped me home in on the piece, to Marc Weidenbaum for creating the Disquiet Junto project and emceeing (in the old sense) the concert, and to C. Reider and Carl Ritger for doing the work of making it all happen. (Is it really just a coincidence that they have the same initials?) The image is called "resonance cascade" by neonarcade on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/neonarcade/16453557/ and is available under a Creative Commons license.