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Disquiet Junto: Byzantine Valentine

Disquiet Junto 0664: Mother Beat invited us to compose a piece in 29/16 time. I have never done so much math to make a song. I hope I got it right.

I subdivided the 29 16th notes into measures of 3/ and 5/16. I started with percussion this time, and spent a lot of time programming and visually manipulating the beat mappings until I found something that didn’t feel gimmicky. I created 3 variations to make a loop of a four-part drum progression.

The top screaming synth follows the rhythm precisely but blurs the lines at that 5/16 transition. I think it wraps around the beat nicely.

I was daunted at first but I learned a ton composing this piece, and ended up having a lot of fun.

Listen to "Byzantine Valentine" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud.

Album Release: Seven Souls

Following 2022's debut "Five Lies Left" EP, and 2023's "The Nine Doors", "Seven Souls" is the latest release from Sudre's Violin. As successive layers of veils are lifted from their eyes, the listener is taken on a journey through 7 sonic landscapes haunted by broken synths, throaty guitars, eerie pianos, and hypnotic rhythms.

"Seven Souls" is available on:

• Apple Music,
• Amazon Music,
• Bandcamp,
• Pandora,
• Soundcloud, and
• Spotify.

Disquiet Junto: The Voight-Kampff Concerto

Disquiet Junto 0649 had me consider the form of the concerto: its constraints, its traditions; and to create our own composition based on these traits. I read up, listened, read some more, and made my list of rules and constraints. Then I set to it.

The solo instrument is an ARP2600 that I sampled in the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) a couple of years ago. I improvised some chord movement with a generic pad and got the thin, flute-like ARP lead kind of dancing around on it in a single take. The overall feel reminded me of "Deckard's Blues" from the Blade Runner soundtrack, so I ran with that. The entire composition is 4 tracks of analog synths and an illegal quantity of reverb.

Listen to "The Voight-Kampff Concerto" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud wearing good headphones, like the ones you got at that little shop under the glittering c-beams near the Tannhauser Gate.

Drone Day 2024

May 25, 2024 made year 4 of my 5-year "Gangs of Ireland" project. Starting in 2021, each year on Drone Day (droneday.org) I've created a new experimental piece inspired by a segment from an 80s-era Irish talk show featuring young goths, punks, & mods. This year was "The Mod".

The performance was live-streamed, and you can see the concert video from the livestream broadcast from NO SIGNAL Multimedia Labs.

The studio and live versions of this track are available on the "Gangs of Ireland" playlist on SoundCloud.

Coraline's music on bandcamp

All my music is available free-or-pay-what-you-want on bandcamp:

• Sudre's Violin
• A Little Fire Scarecrow
• Auntie Kismet
• Calamity Orchestra

Friends on bandcamp

Some folks in my community I recommend checking out:

• In Good Company
• I Kong Kult
• Errant Space
• Savage Republic
• Jenn Vix
• Layer Cake