drone-A-Day #18

All strings tuned to D....and it made not a lick of difference, no pun intended, as I got crazy with the beat repeater preset. Oops...

drone-A-Day #17

cooked the books on the timing a little tonight, as I got a drink with Dre before coming home. anyways, in the end, i couldn't shy away from post-processing, and at a minute and a half or so, I think you'll be glad I did.

drone-A-Day #16

MOAR weird butter knives, bread twisties, and bottle cap resonators!!!

drone-A-Day #15

For the next week I use prepared guitar, I will take off the training wheels/bra of gobs of signal processing (or at least viz modulation).

drone-A-Day #14

And again, I get a second wind just as the week winds up! This was actually my second effort of the night. I made another piece, but was seduced by trying to loop drums to it and thus lost a couple of hours right there. Opted for a simpler approach, as that is the true spirit of the exercise.

autechre 365 Day 14

those strings. that beat.

drone-A-Day #13

I'm kind of looking forward to prepared guitar week next week, and after trying to keep this fresh on solo fretless, synth week seems like it will be a breeze by comparison.

autechre 365 Day 13

drone-A-Day #12

autechre 365 Day 12

autechre 365 Day 11

drone-A-Day #11

Here's the "b-side" of Drone 10. I felt like they worked better split up, and this isn't just laziness. Really. It's not! YOU GUYS!

drone-A-Day #10

quite chuffed my bass tracks sound less like a bass than my guitars sound like guitars :D

autechre 365 Day 10

drone-A-Day #9

At first, I felt even worse about this one than yesterday's entry. Now I think this one may be my favorite so far.

autechre 365 Day 9

drone-A-Day #8

This is like 5% of 1/2 of my first band's 3rd song, from some 16 years ago almost. If it meanders more than usual, well, YOU make a soundscape from a bass chord and then try and operate under a self-constraint of 'but played even MORE freely than usual'

ugh. that's no excuse. Ah well, the first entry wasn't so hot either and things picked up. I think.

autechre 365 Day 8

drone-A-Day #7

And this concludes week one of Drone-A-Day. It's so far been a rousing success as far as getting me back into a more regular music making mode. Not unlike making yourself get x thousand words a day, even if they're shitty ones so that the next day you can at least give your internal editor practice. This has also made me clean up my sound and know my gear better. Unfortunately, the wiring in this house is so weird and old that what is quiet one day is noisy the next. Anyhoo. Next week I'm going to do all the pieces on bass guitar. Week after that I'm thinking guitar again, but this time prepared/lapstyle/extended technique (read: can't get chicks playing this way).

Autechre 365 Day 7

drone-A-Day #6

Even having to do furiously quick performance/mix of these pieces has led me to remember what a real sonic martial art drone guitar can be. Coming very soon, and I mean it, a breakdown of the various styles of gaze-fu. Maybe even with pictures.

Ae 365 day 6

this is the sort of wonderful madness Autechre inspires in their fans (hey, it's kind of meta). not just remixing, but actually decompiling a mix, as if it were a piece of software.

drone-A-Day #5

Ae 365 day 5

drone-A-Day #4

Ae 365 day 4

Ae 365 day 3b

Drone-A-Day #3

luckily "day" = "full sleep cycle" for me, so I'm cheating a little and pre-dating this.

notes: cleaned up my sound a bunch by separating the Moogerfooger & Whammy II outputs. They and the Alesis DM-6 are the noisiest parts of my signal chain. Going forward, these will always be routed through my Line 6 KB-37, chiefly for the noise gate. I wonder if there's a better way of doing this with Ableton or the MOTU?

btw, why are we wearing bras on our heads?

Ae 365 day 3

Kind of a two-fer: here is one track (MCR Quarter) twice: local color from Estonia:

And the full length track, with some of that videogame crap you people like

[as]prone, Drone-A-Day, Episode 2. 01-02-2012

next week: bass guitar-derived drones

365 Days of Autechre, episode 2

To me, the essence of a beautiful Autechre moment is where you find their combo breaker-trademark hypnotic ostinato /simultaneous texture stun. @2:10, por ejemplo.

365 Days of Autechre, rebooted) Day 1

let's try this again, shall we? Every day of 2012, I shall endeavor to post a video or audio clip of my favorite group, Autechre.

the time has come for the best of deeds

It is my goal to try and make one soundscape/drone a day for the next year.