Another piece for _Songs for Girls (The Singles)_, my catch-all for miscellaneous work
I love the dreamy feel of the guitar, the melody being carried by the bassline, and the Roland/Studio Electronics SE-02 analog synth is really nice here as well.
Listen to "Stray Willow" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud.
Disquiet Junto 0633, "Voice Swap", suggested recreating an existing piece using my voice. The easiest way to do this, of course, was to travel back in time and become my own producer.
The original piece, "(It Begins With) Unrest", opened the last album by A Little Fire Scarecrow and also opened my weekly studio stream on twitch during the plague years.
BE ADVISED: You haven't heard a backward drum hit until you've heard it with headphones on.
Listen to "A Recipe for Unrest" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud.
This week's Disquiet Junto prompt was "0631: In a Silent Waveform". The instructions were to "take one held tone and make it dance slowly".
The title of my piece, "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," is taken from a 1906 silent film about a man who gorges himself on Welsh rarebit and falls into a fever dream of pesky imps and a night flight above the rooftops.
I chose 554.37 Hz as my single source tone, and recorded 6 tracks of it: 3 on guitar with ebow, and 3 on a Roland/Studio Electronics SE-02 analog synth. These tracks were then woven together and processed with a variety of rhythm-based effects to make them dance together. Underneath it all is a single unsettling kick drum. The rhythm is everywhere and nowhere, something and nothing, like a fever dream.
NOTE: Your odds of discovering a secret recipe for Welsh rarebit hidden in the audio file may be improved by listening with headphones.
Listen to "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud.
_Songs for Girls (The Singles)_ is a catch-all for miscellaneous work that's not part of a specific project. Like this piece, a work-in-progress that I originally started to just practice drum programming.
I'm pretty fond of the guitar part, especially the solo that comes in just after the 2:00 mark.
Listen to "Someone (or Something)" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud.
My response to the latest Disquiet Junto prompt, "0627 - Just Ice Society", calling for a piece built around the sound of ice in a glass.
The vocals were created by AI-enhanced text-to-speech, with a script adapted from a WikiHow article. The track was recorded and produced at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles, Chicago, IL USA.
Headphones are recommended, and please remember to use your allocated break time to make connections with others in your work unit.
Listen to "Making Ice at Home May Seem Overwhelming" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud.
Following 2022's debut "Five Lies Left" EP, this new release, "The Nine Doors" is a full-length album featuring 9 original songs. The wordless narrative of "The Nine Doors" unfolds through the dark instrumentation, hypnotic rhythms, broken synths, and haunted piano that is the signature sound of Sudre's Violin.
The theme and feel of "The Nine Doors" is inspired by the modern literary classic "The Club Dumas" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. (There's also an obligatory Nick Drake reference, of course.)
Listen or pick up "The Nine Doors" on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Bandcamp, Pandora, Soundcloud, or Spotify.
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After wrapping up A Little Fire Scarecrow in early 2021, I started a new solo project, Sudre's Violin, to reconcile the guitar-centered approach of my pre-transition music ("Dust and a Shadow") with the synth-centered music of 2016-2020.
You can listen to the first Sudre's Violin EP, "Five Lies Left", on Bandcamp, or stream it on Apple Music, Pandora, or Spotify.
Following this 2022 debut, "The Nine Doors" is a full-length album featuring 9 original songs. The wordless narrative of "The Nine Doors" unfolds through the dark instrumentation, hypnotic rhythms, broken synths, and haunted piano that is the signature sound of Sudre's Violin, The theme and feel of "The Nine Doors" is inspired by the modern literary classic "The Club Dumas" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. (There's also an obligatory Nick Drake reference, of course.)
Listen or pick up "The Nine Doors" on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Bandcamp, Pandora, Soundcloud, or Spotify.
A collaboration with composer and experimental musician Craig Chin. We worked asynchronously, taking turns adding or removing layers to compose these pieces.
The name is a reference to the band we were in together in the 90s, Uncle Karma. We had a manifesto. Like I said, it was the 90s.
Listen to Auntie Kismet on Bandcamp.
An unlikely collaboration with synth pop duo Eloquent,Shapes With Two Edges an experiment to see what happens when crisp, precise, crystalline digital meets messy, analog, and atmospheric. The name come from an obscure Euclidean degenerate.
We've got plans for a 4-song LP, digital and vinyl. For now, you can preview our cover of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors".
A Little Fire Scarecrow was a recording project featuring percussion by Jeremy Greenand contributions from Kevin Chatham (bass), Frederick Wells (bass), and Alva Snædís (guitar and bass). It was my return to music after thinking I had lost my creative center. It was an important part of my journey, not only musical but also personal.
4 years, 8 albums, 65 songs. Only 8 songs left standing. RIP 2016-2020
Calamity Orchestra explored contemporary social and political issues through the lends of retro new wave and post-punk musical styles. It was a collaboration between Coraline Ada Ehmke (Guitar, Synth, Vocals), Jeremy Green (Percussion), Frederick Wells (Bass), and Kevin B Chatham (bass, video).
All our music is free or pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp. Everything is released to the commons under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
"Gangs of Ireland" is an experimental project inspired by a 1983 Irish television talk show featuring interviews with young people from goth, mod, and punk subcultures. Starting in 2021, every year on Drone Day I will create and perform a new piece for the five-song EP.
Responses to the weekly Disquiet Junto prompts.
More information about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/
All the videos from my live sessions, original music videos, tribute videos, and short films. Everything is Creative Commons licensed.
As I work on new songs or albums, I upload snapshots of various milestones along the way. The idea is to show how a musical idea evolves over time on its journey from vague sketch to final mix.
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