Old Drummer

Four Tribes — Day 7 of the One Track A Day series (Achronia) Four voices — drone, struck metal, skin, and string — enter one at a time, gather, peak, and dissolve. Tuned to Pelog Selisir, the 66 BPM pulse breathes rather than drives, moving through a four-phase arc: Invocation, Emergence, Transfiguration, Return. By the end, a struck djembe and a Tibetan bell no longer read as percussion at all —...

Hollow Ground strips everything back to skin. No metal, no synth — just frame drum, hand drum, and fingertip texture, pitched through D♭ Major and left to breathe at 72 BPM. The piece moves through four phases: a single grounding tone (Invocation), a second voice answering it (Emergence), a drift into overlapping, phasing loops that dissolve rhythm into pure resonance (Transfiguration), and a retu...

**Interstice** 🌀 A voice caught between two tuning systems, trying to translate itself into being. Built from a leftover blank track, this one grew into something stranger — half retuned Jawar scale, half ordinary 12-TET, same instrument speaking two languages at once. By the end it collapses into a single held note, reverb-soaked, resolved. Then *Transmission*'s scattered voices — drone, metal,...

Transmission is built around a real tuning collision: the ritual instruments (drone, struck metal, hand percussion) are tuned to Jawar (KF) — an authentic Sundanese gamelan tuning from Gamelan Kyai Kangjeng Fatahillah — while the "signal" voices (Absynth 5, Meld) remain in standard tuning, structurally unable to align with the ritual instruments no matter what's played. Four phases: Approach (quie...

disquiet0756 by Old Drummer

Day 3 of One Track a Day. Bardo takes its shape from the Bardo Thodol — the Tibetan Buddhist description of the intermediate state between death and rebirth — mapped onto four musical phases: Chikhai (dissolution), Chönyid (luminosity), Sidpa (seeking), and Return (threshold). Built entirely in Ableton Live using the Kumoi scale (a Japanese pentatonic), with hand percussion, struck metal, and a Wa...

Percussion Ambient · Pelog 7 Tones KF (Sundanese, Bandung — ref. 451.09 Hz) Second piece in a daily series exploring percussion as lead voice, not rhythm section. A four-phase ceremonial arc — Invocation, Emergence, Transfiguration, Return — built through both harmony and material: earth and skin tones open the ritual, air textures join as it widens, metal and pitched percussion peak, then everyth...

Bronze and Skin by Old Drummer

Disquiet0756 In a Flash BPM: 153 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: Length: 1 minute and 16 seconds • Assignment: Contribute sounds to a Flash Gordon–themed 2026 Musikfestival Bern event. • First I consulted with Claude (AI) on the project. • Using Ableton live 12.4 with Producer Pal • Claude was the technical skill and I the creative side. I also made the decision as what to use and what not to u...

"Four storm events built entirely in-the-box using stock Ableton 12. No samples, no third-party plugins — pure synthesis."

Missing Eighth by Old Drummer

The_Captain_20262005 by Old Drummer

The_Captain_20261905 by Old Drummer

Disquiet0750 “Before the Known” BPM:72 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: Bb minor Length: 7:20 sec. Assignment: Record something epic. More on the 750th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Let’s Get Heavy — The Assignment: Record something epic — disquiet.com/0750.

Disquiet0749 Track 3 BPM: 120 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature:? Length: 1:54 seconds Assignment: Record the final third of a trio 1) Chose this track from the unused track from 0747 2) https://soundcloud.com/p-lat-749384570/disquiet-spoken-word?si=18066e61bc7c490daacea5910d2cd23d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing 3) Panned the track full left then full right and ad...

Disquiet0749 Track two 3 of 3 BPM: 144/73 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: A minor Length: 2:20 seconds Assignment: Record the final third of a trio A) Used these two track from 0747 that were not used in 0748. I chose them with a random number generator. B) https://soundcloud.com/hugh-g-333-3/sumpin-1 C) https://soundcloud.com/jessica-the-vi-artist/trio-part-1-disquiet0747 Added a Japanese “Kan...

Disquiet0749 3 of 3 BPM: 130 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: A minor Length: 2:15 seconds Assignment: Record the final third of a trio A) Used these two track from 0747 that were not used in 0748. I chose them with a random number generator. B) https://soundcloud.com/location-service/riparian-dream C) https://soundcloud.com/sinnysounds2/doom-march-disquiet0747 Added a simple drum beat to the ce...

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fmm_song_for_april_2026 by Old Drummer

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Disquiet0748 And a Two (2 of 3) BPM: 104 Time Signature: 4/4 Key Signature: D minor Length: 2:27 secs. Assignment: Record the second third of a trio Chose this track using a random number generator https://soundcloud.com/merlebardenoir/fleuet-disquiet0747 Downloaded some sound files from Freesound a flowing stream, bird chirping, rustling leaves. More on the 748th weekly Disquiet Junto project, An...

Disquiet0747 And a One(1of3) BPM:120 Time Signature:4/4 Key Signature:? Length: 3 minutes Assignment: Record the first third of a trio • Recorded one drum track consisting of an Intro, part 1, part 1a, part 2, part 2a and a outro • There is 1 measure of silence between all 6 parts More on the 747th weekly Disquiet Junto project, And a One (1/3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio —...

drums, perc, bass, synth

Basic drums, perc, bass, synth pad, synth lead