Krakenkraft

Disquiet Junto Project 0740: Polychord Amorous The Assignment: Write a piece of music based on a chord progression of polychords. Four polychords in a slow, cyclical loop, the lower ones in a pad progression, the upper ones arpeggiated. A rhythmic boiling egg. More on the 740th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polychord Amorous — The Assignment: Write a piece of music based on a chord progression of...

Disquiet Junto Project 0729: Community Remix (Nina) The Assignment: Rework a shared recording from over 100 years ago A beautiful recording of a violoncello solo with orchestra from 105 years ago, written around 250 years ago. Just image all that. – I first separated the music from the background noise, continued working with a noise-reduced version, and stretched it in various ways. I selected so...

Disquiet Junto Project 0718: Planet Jam It. The Assignment: Record the sound of an advanced alien civilization. This recording was made in 2126 as part of Krakenkraft Interstellar Inc.'s ARP (Audio Reconnaissance Program), and its significance is only now being fully understood. We are most probably hearing the dream singers of Yith, a mentally time-traveling civilization. Unfortunately, despite i...

Disquiet Junto Project 0700: View Frame The Assignment: Share the view and some sounds inspired by the view. The cover picture shows the view from my window. I used a virtual modular system and wanted to create the feeling of crowded chaos, of structure and nervousness, of importance and frivolity. All from a distance, as I am still outside the picture looking out of the window. The (cover) image...

Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio. For internal use only: this is a panned version of https://soundcloud.com/winterer/do-the-right-thing-meccaniche-del-suono-krakenkraft-disquiet0698

Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio. For the second track, I worked with a solo that no one else had used. I liked https://soundcloud.com/meccaniche-del-suono/first-tongue-ram-disquiet0697?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0697 by Meccaniche del Suono, because it somehow talked to me and seemed wonderfully inaccessible. Something I woul...

Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio. For internal use only: this is a panned version of https://soundcloud.com/winterer/unmaking-together-krakenkraft-joins-raincat-disquiet0697

Disquiet Junto Project 0698: Second Third The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio. I chose ‘Unmaking Music’ because of its physical materiality. https://soundcloud.com/raincat-306596410/unmaking-music-disquiet0697 I had initially made a first version that contained many different movements on six tracks. That was pretty okay. But then I added some lurking piano - and somehow I felt that...

Disquiet Junto Project 0697: First Third The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio. I made a simple sequence, that should leave a lot of room for two musicians. It should be Fminor with 70bpm in 6/4. --- Duets here: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/alpha-crucis-with-krakenkraft https://soundcloud.com/boundaryobjects/song-95-disquietjunto0698 Trios here: https://soundcloud.com/lee-evans-72...

Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer. I used "Waking Up in a Strange Room" from "Strange Rooms" https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/album/strange-rooms The original from 2020 was heavy on delay and reverb. I removed all delay and reverb and even added two reverb-removing filters. So I "dryed" the sound. – I additionally made it short...

Disquiet Junto Project 0692: Combust a Move The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track. While tidying up unfinished tracks I stumbled upon a somehow phasered pad that I liked very much and for which I have long forgotten what I once did it for and how. I did not want to delete it, but I was not able to do something with it either. The unruly sound simply rejected all my attempts to...

Disquiet Junto Project 0691: Un-Ravel The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart. I took the liberty of picking out a passage that I really liked. The idea was to free the sound itself from the string quartet (but not from the recording medium). Did I really unravel the piece? I doubt it. I will certainly burn in hell for this offence against Ravel. -- Original track source in...

Disquiet Junto Project 0687: Applied Science The Assignment: Record a piece of music that explores physiological and behavioral techniques. I wanted to record a tape loop as a physiological rhythm and I tried to use a cheap cassette to mp3 recorder that I had bought some years ago (and never used until today). It didn’t work at first and instead I just recorded some noises. The result you hear is...

Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant. Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant. This weeks prompt immediately gave me the idea of combining an inherently natural reverb sound with a guaranteed unnatural, reverb-free sound. The natural reverberated sound comes from two layers of a field...

Disquiet Junto Project 0681: Drama Course The Assignment: Record a piece of music to transform a walk or a run into something theatrical. I started with a bassline and had a kind of wet step drum. I wanted the bass and drums to swell on and off, two people chasing each other and stopping to look around. The main motif that builds up depicts the chaser getting closer and closer. All but the masteri...

Disquiet Junto Project 0680: Reverse Resolution The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year. I remember when I started this one year ago I was sitting in a train and in love with Abletons "Operator" FM synth and a mutating sequence on loop. There was no bass at all, because I had bad simple earphones and in the train I was only able to hear the high bells. Honestly, everytime...

Disquiet Junto Project 0679: Ice Age The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it. With my Zoom H5 I recorded some Ice Cubes falling into and moving inside a salad bowl made of glass. I made a lot of efforts to get most out of the sound, for example I placed the bowl on a clotheshorse, so that it can swing more freely … but at the end I didn't use these sounds. I a...

Disquiet Junto Project 0675: Arc of the Drone The Assignment: Record a drone that goes from simple to complex to simple. A few years ago, I was addicted to drones. I stopped doing it because I felt I had nothing more to say with it. So it was fun to make one again. It's a single note from a single synthesizer, of course, and the complexity is added by half a dozen of different parameter modifiers...

Disquiet Junto Project 0673: Switch Back The Assignment: Make the quiet part loud, and vice-versa. I am busy right now but I wanted to participate and had already a track in mind. It's a simple remix from an unreleased ambient track, that was planned to have two silent noisefloors, one abstract, one of me walking trough leaves. It's now shorter, and I killed the abstract noise floor; the walking t...

Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own. This is the atmosphere inside the possibility space (Möglichkeitsraum). No Samples, only Synths, FX & Filters. More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right of Way — The Assignment: Music for turn signals — at https://disquiet.com/0671/ https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0671-in-the-a...

Zeither by Krakenkraft

Modular sessions, recut in Ableton, mixed in Reaper. Yes, way too long, but I liked the basic loop, too hypnotic to resist.

The "piano" draft of https://soundcloud.com/winterer/soyuz-tma-16-approaching-iss - because I liked it, too.

Image: NASA/PD https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soyuz_TMA-16_approaching_ISS.jpg

Disquiet Junto Project 0468: Mirror Rorrim. The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together. Andreas likes software, ambient pads and (mostly) avoids repetition – and he has recently tried out "Quadrivium" by Giorgio Sancristoforo. Saerdna likes hardware, beats and repetition and tries to do rhythms with noises recorded out of the "Soma Ether" by Vlad Kreimer. I found...