Krakenkraft

My contribution to Disquiet Junto Project 0397: 808 Day. I used the free VSTs Cassette 808 and RVK-808 plus internal 808 core kit in Ableton Live plus some ambient field recordings to create my hommage to the legendary drum rhythm composer, which has an inscription called "computer controlled", which I think is very funny. The second half is more or less my attempt to use the congas as a melodic s...

Disquiet Junto Project 0396: Hum a Few Bars. The Assignment: Make music with by humming a song and then processing the humming. I'm humming an ambient song, so the melody is very minimalistic … to be honest: most from the original recordings, in which I was humming a song, has been deleted in the process of processing the humming, and at the end I decided to stick with two humming samples … I like...

Tender Mutilations by Krakenkraft

eternal time fabric by Krakenkraft

Album playlist: https://soundcloud.com/winterer/sets/undefined-landscapes Full album on Bandcamp https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/album/undefined-landscapes

Based on Narrandera’s BIG guitar samples from: http://www.big-guitar.com/download/ The sample packs were recorded by Tom ‘Wasabi’ Jones and Jason Richardson. CC-BY-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/ Project notes: I used the first three "BENDS-mic…"-WAVs, because they contained voices and I liked them. I granulated these sounds with different tools and joined the results of 10 d...

A whale and a man discussing physics (only to avoid the elephant in the room). Production notice: Two samples have been used: 1. A whale recording. 2. Myself saying "space time continuum". I edited both Samples heavyly, mostly granular synthesis via ambient_v3 and microgranny. I mixed resulting textures in Reaper with some fx fine-tuning. Both sound sources (whale an man) are represented equally....

Nobody Sees And Listens Anymore. Image: Krakenkraft

Visit this album on Bandcamp: https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/album/strange-rooms Another approach in what could be cinematic music … I just wanted to use some timpanis. Track cover based on this PD / Pixabay image by dric: https://pixabay.com/de/illustrations/schwarzes-loch-art-optik-schwarz-2942914/

A remix of particularly liked elements from https://soundcloud.com/winterer/et-in-arcadia-ego (the sequence) https://soundcloud.com/winterer/gasp-of-the-guru-disquiet0384 (the breathing) https://soundcloud.com/winterer/lacus-solitudinis-short-version (the lament sound) remixed using GleetchlabX, because it was a nice opportunity to check out the new version. Image remixed by: 1. disquiet0393 image...

(Image: PD / Ammodramus https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Blue_Swallow_Motel_room_15.JPG )

Dreaming In Cheap Hotels by Krakenkraft

[The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it.] The Beyondophone is a musical space-time location which, due to its non-euclidean geometry, generates musical echoes of very high and very low frequencies, presumably coming from neighboring multiverses. His original architect, Henry Paul Lavercroft, unfortunately disappeared already during the first recordings of the strangly re...

Disquiet Junto Project 0384: Breath Beat The Assignment: Explore breath as a resource for rhythm. I think breathing is the essence of music and I have used breathing or breathing-like rhythms many times, but mostly subtile. This mission however called for an obtrusive LISTEN TO THE BEAT OF THE BREATH! and I decided to make it's presence unmistakeable. It's my own breath (which I found hard to reco...

… not "true, puristic" chiptune, but mostly SID-Sounds from Caustic "8BitSynth" …

The Peace Of Water by Krakenkraft

The Assignment: „Record the sound of an apartment on a large interstellar ship.“ My solution: "Throw in as many samples as you find in one hour." Although I do not believe that human beeings, as we know them, will ever travel interstellar: Here the apartment of bord janitor 7th class, McLane, who misses the comfort of silence. It may seem repetitive, but it is not. All samples placed by human hand...

AEmodular with Seq16 vs. Soma Lyra 8

The lunar mare Lacus Solitudinis (Lake of Solitude / See der Einsamkeit) lives on the dark side of the moon. Most of the time it sings sad songs. Image: NASA/Public Domain

Mission: Use only a small set of defined modules, and use NI Reaktor Blocks. It was quite an obstacle to install NI Reaktor Blocks and get to know it a little first. But after a while the feeling wasn't bad at all. I mapped several buttons on my old Oxygene 8 v2 keyboard and recorded several things, here four less bad minutes. You can imagine the rest.... No edit, besides fade in and out. -- More...

Made with Caustic/Android. Mixed in Reaper. "Mastered" with Schnalz.com (only to try it…)

Special challenge: give feedback to a lengthy ambient drone … Enough movement? Too much movement? I am really a minimalist in my heart and convinced that there is a perfect balance between nothingness and somethingness … (CCBYSA. Remixes welcome.) --- More on this 379th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Open Studios / The Assignment: Share a track, get feedback, and give feedback — at: https://disqu...

… . Image: CC0 Thomas Budach https://pixabay.com/de/illustrations/science-fiction-sci-fi-futuristisch-3212212/ Thanks!

Stairs In Black And White by Krakenkraft

A small metal ball (Pi!) rotates (circular, ergo Pi) on the inner walls of a gong to which a Korg CM-300 contact microphone is attached. Track one of two delivers this relatively realistically with reverb (lighter tones), a second track (darker tones) alienated by a DIY Clouds (all parameters controlled by an Doepfer Quad-Sinus-LFO, Pi again*). All these circular movements (especially my hand move...