drone day is coming up on may 29th this year, and like the previous three years i will make a
long-form drone and publish it for free download on bandcamp, with contributions from you guys and gals!
this year i will be making the drone again in e, but using the pentatonic hon-kumoi-joshi scale.
in e this scale is e f a b c. the lack of 3rd and 7th gives it a haunting, floating, unresolved character.
maybe, similar to last year’s drone, we can at the end resolve it to e major. so if you want to submit something for that, let me know.
this year i want to go for a theme of forgotten technology. i’m imagining some early industrial era lo-fi electronics and steampunk vibes.
so, please send me your stems, field recordings, and anything else that would fit in a drone piece. i will mix it all together into one long-form drone.
i would prefer your stems to be dry, or with just a short reverb, as I will apply a long lush reverb in the mix.
dropbox, google drive, wetransfer, etc should all work just fine. lossless files (flac, wav) preferred. you can email me at yngwin@gmail.com with your link(s).
Just shared something with you via Dropbox. I think I pressed the share button before I finished typing the message, so it might just say, “Further…” and then nothing else. Edit: It’s basically five minutes of this patch… (careful when you first open it as it can get loud.)
Can’t I just put a link on here from Soundcloud with a few of my drones?
O go on go on!
Just making some now in my rendition of the Ultomaton in VCV Rack.
Or if I can get wetransfer.com to work, I could use that!
Just sent 2 files via wetransfer-hope they make the grade!
I can supply drones in E, just made some, also approximations of electrical m/cery in VCV Rack. Would tape machine mc hum do? I’ll send by wetransfer again a bit later on.
Right just sending now!
Not sure whether this is what you want but here is a set of 5 (with the patch to generate more if necessary) in tuning E3, F3, A3, B3 and C4. The tuning mainly affects the overtones.
Each section is 57 seconds long with a small lead-in lead-out but I think you can cut in anywhere and loop using crossfading tricks. Samples are including in the patch zip.
Hey @ablaut, here’s a WeTransfer link to some stuff I hope you find useful. I included some VCV texture samples I had lying around, some radio samples, and a long field recording.