from 20 to 20000 hz #25 : the drone effect

from 20 to 20000 hz #25 : the drone effect
2008 [85min]

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[20020 series at artesonoro.org radio]
[SoundSpace Oscillations X: Drone]

The drone (bourdon) effect reflects the presence of a constant layer of stable pitch in a sound ensemble with no noticeable variation in intensity. Linked to music in its designation (the drone is a permanent bass note over which other elements are laid), the drone effect can also be observed in urban and industrial soundscapes. Many technical systems generate constant sounds that are close to a drone, even if the frequencies concerned are not limited to the bass range that originally characterized it.

Sonic Experience; Ed Jean-François Augoyard and Henry Torgue
McGill-Queen’s University Press (2005) (p.40-46)

[Recommended listening: loud volume + darkened space + nice sound system with subwoofer or headphones].

sleep research facility | ‘2.1’ | dead weather machine (manifold records, 2004)
bernhard günter | ‘stone circles’ | details agrandis (table of the elements, 1998)
yen pox | ‘deliver’ | deliver 7” (drone records, 1995)
lull | ‘slow fall inward’ | cold summer (sentrax, 1994)
bj nilsen | ‘breathe’ | va – spire : organ works past, present & future (touch, 2003)
la monte young | ‘for brass’ (1957) | der zweck dieser serie is nicht unterhaltung vol. 1 (unofficial release, 2003)
eliane radigue | ‘adnos i’ | adnos (table of the elements, 2002)
catherine christer hennix | ‘electric harpsichord no. 1’ (mid-1970s) | (ubu.com, 2003)
ellen fullman | ‘work for 4’ | body music (experimental intermedia, 1993)
pablo sanz | ‘ph13_drone’ (20020.org, 2008)
eric la casa | ‘01’ | air.ratio (sirr records, 2006)
eliane radigue | ‘kyema’ | trilogie de la mort (experimental intermedia, 1998)
marhaug + asheim | ‘clavaeolina’ | grand mutation (touch, 2007)
aube | ‘ne tuoi occhi’ | reworks stefano gentile (silentes, 2005)
boris | ‘interference demon’ | dronevil – final (inoxia records, 2006)
sunn o))) | ‘nn o)))’ | øø void (rise above records, 2000)
spacemen 3 | ‘ecstasy in slow motion’ | dreamweapon (live, 1990)
time machines (coil) | ‘2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethyl-amphetamine’ | time machines
time machines (coil) | ‘5-methoxy-n,n-dimethyl’ | time machines (eskaton, 1998)
brendan murray | commonwealth (23five, 2008)
oren ambarchi + martin ng | ‘procession’ | reconnaissance (staubgold, 2000)
paul panhuysen | a magic square to listen to (plinkity plonk records, 2004)
jean-françois laporte | ‘mantra’ | soundmatters (23five, 2007)
michael j. schumacher | ‘still’ | room pieces (experimental intermedia, 2003)
francisco lópez | untitled single piece 7” (drone records, 1996)
chas smith | ‘descent’ | descent (cold blue music, 2005)
sachiko m | bar sachiko (improvised music from japan, 2004)
tucker martine | brokenhearted dragonflies: insect electronica from southeast asia (sublime frequencies, 2004)