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Lachesi

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  1. New article on La Monte Young. Great read. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/t-magazine/la-monte-young.html He's in debt at 84 years old. This thread would not exist without him This is the GoFundMe page for anyone who might be interested https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/save-the-dream-house-keep-our-dream-alive
  2. Hello drone lovers, I'd like to start sharing and discovering live drone videos. I'll start with this italian percussionist who developed this awesome technique (stunning drone starts at minute 15)
  3. Best quarantine drone discoveries: Enjoy
  4. Don't know what has been already said in this thread. The situation here in Italy is dramatically bad: doctors in the hospitals are dying and all people working there cannot come out because almost every sanitary operator is infected. No one in the streets and every commercial activity is closed, but still paying employees. The crisis at the door will be way worse than 2008. Not sure about what other European states are waiting, you have our example about what is going to happen... For sure the decision in not simple: wait and have more people affected vs. shut everything down and kill immediately internal economic system
  5. How to enjoy first 2 tracks? Pretending it’s a collab with ceephax
  6. I listened to the LP at least ten times. Grew on me, but........ Melodies are its weak point. Not really the melodies themselves, but melodies with standard notes. In the last decade all my favorite electronic tracks have microtonal melodies, from afx to autechre. Today it is very difficult to find melodies using those same 12 semitones that surprise me or that don't sound already heard
  7. Very good point. Totally agree on this. And Phill Niblock is never mentioned enough, one of the finest drone producers of all times, still publishing top quality records at 86. He's even older than Riley and the other famous minimalist composers.
  8. Sorry for my non-brevity! I would write too much if I didn't have my non-native english language as limit I think you should share some of your favorite tracks of the artists you mentioned She's a milestone for me and Kyema is my favorite composition! Perfect example of ultra-minimalistic work where the resonance and harmonics dominate
  9. Personally I distinguish a drone sound made by extra long reverberation from a drone made with a sustained tone. Japan has a tradition of reverbered drone music, Chihei Hatakeyama's style is very similar to the artists you mentioned. Calibrate long tail reverbs is way more difficult than how it seems. For this kind of drone music I really enjoy Rafael Anton Irisarri who's oceanic sound is massive and soft at the same time That being said, sustained tones drone music starts being interesting when you start focusing on the harmonics and the creative sum of tones, which can produce a wide range of emotive transport, from magnificence to softness. Plus you start notice how much movement there is in what seems so static during the first minutes of exposure. I find super interesting the use of acoustic instruments as source for long tones, from cello to organ, but recently many new sonorities have been reach by the use of digital softwares such as Pure Data or Super Collider where you can have no limits in the tuning features. http://isakedberg.com/Λ.wav Bonus suggestion:
  10. Wow didn't know Anthony Child is Surgeon!! Track is stunning
  11. Check out swedish XKatedral label. They mainly publish drone music played on classic instruments tuned in just intonation. Many young composers now quite famous started from this label/collective https://xkatedral.bandcamp.com
  12. So you’re directly involved in this project? anyway, glad you’re back!
  13. Wow never seen this great footage before thank you
  14. New release by ELEH A real drone master, back on the stunning Touch Records after 7 years Living Space by ELEH
  15. In these days I'm going to listen to all this pieces posted I never heard Some time ago I was very interested in the figure of La Monte Young, the godfather of drone in west culture. The shift in perception of the notion of time and structure is the turning point that fundamental composers like him and Riley got from their interest into indian and oriental cultures and music. It's awesome that this happened and it was decisive for the evolution of music. (while other minimalistic composers such as Steve Reich took inspiration from african music with all those patterns, that in my opinion heavily influenced the evolution of electronic dance music) This is where all started:
  16. Stephan Mathieu (along with Kassel Jaeger) is the best discover I made this year!
  17. I've wanted to do this thread for a while. Drone music has many faces, but often hard to find. I've never read anything in this forum about it, except for an old thread where the discussion was more focused into explaining the difference between ambient and drone instead of sharing rare and astonishing drone pieces. Would be great if this thread turns into a nice thing worthy of his pretentious title! I'll start showing what I mean with awesome drone music (in different styles) Classic: Less classic: Avant-garde: http://isakedberg.com/Λ.wav (fucking incredible) Anyone into this kind of stuff?
  18. Have fun and rave! No matter if people around you in those festivals are stuck with phone in hands ?
  19. Wasn't everyone complaining about syro's mastering?
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