Franklyn Monk's Dronecast

TITLE: Binaural Escape: Winter Meditation DESCR: Created by routing two binaural tone generators through a series of modulators and effects. Mixed and mastered over a week of roving brownouts, and water shortages. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 85 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, experimental, generated, binaural, monk, music, 85, hypnotic, immersive, focus, dream URL: Persis...

TITLE: The Half-Mown Hill DESCR: Full range drone from an audio sample of Houseman’s Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree, interwoven with synths triggered from the same. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 84 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, experimental, monk, music, 84, maverick URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES:...

TITLE: Outer Edges DESCR: An urban soundscape is transformed into calming purgatory ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 83 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: dronescapes, field-recording, monk, traffic, transform, urban, 83 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Inter...

TITLE: Audzox: The Fifteenth Adjudication DESCR: Smooth drone for your meditative needs ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 82 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dronescape, generative, monk, soothing, meditative, 82 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike...

TITLE: Dodie’s Folly DESCR: Glitch noise produced from found video ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 81 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dronescape, experimental, glitch, found audio, found video, monk, noise, 81 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-Share...

TITLE: Loneshoreman DESCR: Found a twenty second, 150 px wide, video clip in my browser cache and stretched it to 1000 seconds, and added effects. For the soundtrack I snagged 24 equally spaced frames, converted those images to audio, stitched them together, and worked on it until I grew weary. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 80 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, drones...

TITLE: Lingering Present DESCR: Longform soundscape ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 79 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dronescape, eternal now, longform, monk, soundscape, timelessness, 79, 4:3, 30fps, 1440×1080 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: SoundCloud | Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlik...

TITLE: Lonesome Valley DESCR: Part 3 of Final Breath . ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 78 GENRE: Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 78, ambient, drone, dronescape, field-recordings, monk, soundscape, Final Breath URL: Persistent MIRRORS: SoundCloud | Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

TITLE: Dead Man Walking DESCR: Pane 2 of the Final Breath triptych ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 77 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, apocalyptic, drone, dronescape, experimental, final breath, generated, gritty, monk, noir, part 2, retro, sinister, soundscape, triptych, ufo, 77 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: SoundCloud | Archive Audio | Archive Video &#1...

TITLE: Executioner’s Song DESCR: The soundtrack of a sinister world. One reviewer described it as “That’s some videodrome wet carnal nightmare. If I had more than a 3 hour old buzz, I don’t think I coulda handled it. There were mirrored images of bodies merging into themselves that are straight out my 7 year old nightmares.” ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 76 GENRE:...

TITLE: Honeydew Avocado DESCR: Drones and percussion ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 75 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, soundscape, 75, monk, disruption, punctuated, equilibrium, generated, long URL: Persistent MIRRORS: SoundCloud | Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

My first long form diversion into percussion. There’s some good parts, but overall, it’s Broadly Crappy . I was floundering—mastering while arranging, while composing—by the time I got to the end I didn’t have enough stems to master. I’d’ve’d to drop back several gens and rebuild from there. Just don’t have it in me. I’ll take my lessons to the next...

Isles of the Blessed: The Wonders of Our Existence, a mythological space opera. Drone-music about creation and eternity through sustained generated tones. TITLE: Isles of the Blessed DESCR: The wonders of our existence ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 73 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: creation, drone, dronemusic, dronecast, dronescape, eternity, existence, galactic, g...

TITLE: Absolution Gap DESCR: My longest ambient soundscape to date is 50 minutes and combines field recordings with synthetic audio. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 72 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 72, ambient, cyclemeter, cycling, drone, dronescape, electronic, experimental, field recording, monk, music, music video, reaper, recording, soundscape URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive...

I’m exceptionally proud of this one. TITLE: In Your Backyard DESCR: It’s the end of days in your backyard, on a night, just before Summer, 2020. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 71 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, experimental, electronic, bluetooth, recording, field recording, soundscape, 71, monk, dronescape, pride URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive...

TITLE: Cetus DESCR: Somewhere… deep in the sky, there’s a river that feeds into an ocean. This is where the Cetus roams. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 70 GENRE: Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 70, ambient, cetus, cosmic, drone, monk, whale, whalesong URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube LICENSE: Attribu...

TITLE: Range 5 DESCR: Five binaural frequency sweeps, interlaced with virtual instruments playing midified transforms of same ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 69 GENRE: Percussive, Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: experimental, ambient, monk, 69, dronescape, percussive, drone, visualization URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud...

TITLE: Black Magic DESCR: None ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 68 GENRE: Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: spokenword, ambient, video, art, animation, drone, 68, reaper, resolve, magic, magicMusicVisuals URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

TITLE: Mere Survival DESCR: Grinding through isolation ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 67 GENRE: Drone, Spokenword YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, soundscape, 67, monk, survival, 2020 isolation, spokenword URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

TITLE: Thunderstorm Doodle DESCR: A simulacrum of a thunderstorm. A small project while I gear up emotionally to take on another big one. Just doodling around in my DAW, there’s some crazy shit going on there. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 66 GENRE: Drone, Ambient YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: thunderstorm, doodle, rain, simulated,ambient, synthetic, play, simulacrum URL...

TITLE: Equanimity DESCR: This has been hanging out on my harddrive while I composed a poem for it. The poem never happened. It took me two months to realize that a poem would cheapen the art. ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 65 GENRE: Drone, synth YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, 65, monk, synth, step sequencer, anti-word URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | YouTube L...

This one comes before 2020, it was just a one off experiment using Devious Machines Texture to randomly play grains of 20 to 2000 ms +/- 20% of a voice memo. YouTube kept blocking it for violations of community guidelines, but eventually brought it back upon appeal. I think it was possibly because the visualization looked like a coronavirus, as the automated transcript contains nothing objectionab...

This was a speed run. Conceived, recorded, cleaned up, and videofied in less than 24 hours. Probably no more than 12 hours actual working time. I don’t have a mic, so I recorded on my phone. Cleaning up that mess is hellish, or else I would’ve recorded the repeating phrases separately instead of cutting up the full audio. The next thing like this I do, I will, but it’ll take forever. TITLE: Rattle...

A series of voice memos recorded in the first quarter of 2020, piled on top of each other, over a drone track. TITLE: 2020 DESCR: A series of voice memos recorded in the first quarter of 2020, stacked on top of each other, over a drone track. ARTIST: Franklyn Monk ALBUM: Dronecast TRACK: 62 GENRE: Drone YEAR: 2020 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 2020, drone, 62, monk, spokenword URL: Persistent MIRRORS: A...

Before going into isolation, 3 weeks ago, a friend warned me to not act to rashly—to think about job, life, etc. This was my response. Unsure if I would change it if I could.