MeFi Music

For an installation at Moogfest in 2016, I put a bunch of sensors in a beehive and used the data to generate drone music. The sensors included air temperature and air pressure and some touch and light sensors to sense when bees were entering and exiting the hive. This is a six minute excerpt from an 8 hour recording which is available at Bandcamp (it's free!)
posted by moonmilk on Sep 11, 2023 - 1 comment

Excerpt from the extended Drone Poem, Heavy Storyteller Suite. [more inside]
posted by KickTheBobo on Apr 10, 2023 - 1 comment

ambient/drone
posted by nthdegx on Feb 14, 2023 - 1 comment

ambient/drone [more inside]
posted by nthdegx on Feb 7, 2023 - 3 comments

ambient/drone [more inside]
posted by nthdegx on Feb 2, 2023 - 3 comments

ambient / drone [more inside]
posted by nthdegx on Jan 27, 2023 - 2 comments

Literally, a seven-minute transition between two chords. [more inside]
posted by ignignokt on Nov 7, 2021 - 3 comments

Flawless Victory
posted by Andrei G on Jun 14, 2021 - 0 comments

An ambient/drone piece from my newly released album Float (pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp). I'm breaking a habit of expressing anxiety and foreboding through my music, and aiming to spread some tranquility and wonder instead. [more inside]
posted by Foosnark on Jan 25, 2020 - 1 comment

From my newly released album of the same name, at starthief.bandcamp.com. Something on a spectrum of drone/ambient/abstract electronica. [more inside]
posted by Foosnark on Jun 17, 2018 - 1 comment

Digging back into some old ambient/noise/drone ideas. Synth, guitar, and bowed cymbal. [more inside]
posted by TheCoug on Sep 26, 2017 - 0 comments

I'm working on a set of songs/sounscapes for a friend's online comic project. This is a spooky ambient piece using some recordings I made of a guy moving chairs around in a cathedral in Vienna, some sleep breathing, some musical saw, and a weird broken African instrument a friend gave me.
posted by TheCoug on Aug 5, 2016 - 2 comments

Should be evocative (of something) in and of itself. Don't know, really. One of those things... [more inside]
posted by metagnathous on Sep 14, 2015 - 2 comments

This is one of those "let's drift away" songs... hazy gazey spacey and dreamy all in one… If one is prone to daydreaming or aural hypnosis, this may not be the song for you :) Just the same, this is definitely worth a listen to all others. This is Sounds of Sputnik.
posted by Brodyaga on Oct 25, 2014 - 1 comment

ambient/drone // electric guitar/electric cello [more inside]
posted by swoopstake on Jun 11, 2014 - 2 comments

I bought a cheap casiotone keyboard. I have to figure out how to learn to play it, but in the meantime... drone!
posted by palbo on Jul 19, 2013 - 1 comment

As the unimaginative title suggests, this is my entry for the April MeFi Music challenge. It's an ambient type of thing, largely made from reversed guitar recordings. [more inside]
posted by edlundart on Apr 25, 2013 - 2 comments

Fun with uncleared samples. Stairway to Stardom, Nina, Boots Randolph. Looking for feedback.
posted by Evstar on Aug 16, 2011 - 0 comments

Slow, drony, monochordal, minimalist, ambient electro.
posted by jchgf on Jun 23, 2011 - 1 comment

This began as an improvised piece involving a Poly Evolver synth, a Memory Man pedal, and an iPhone running Moog Filtatron. Then I decided to bury everything in noise, fuzz and tape flutter until it became nigh-unlistenable. Enjoy!
posted by naju on Dec 12, 2010 - 2 comments

a minimal and sombre thing. sounds made by software and double bass. [more inside]
posted by peterkins on Apr 15, 2010 - 2 comments

Some shifting noise and randomness. [more inside]
posted by Jimbob on Nov 13, 2009 - 1 comment

Tape manipulated saxophone and piano. [more inside]
posted by dagosto on Jun 23, 2009 - 5 comments

A late-night drone piece, composed from the manipulation of a single sample. [more inside]
posted by Jimbob on Jun 20, 2009 - 0 comments

Mine is the last voice you will ever hear.
posted by mykescipark on Jun 2, 2009 - 1 comment

Languid and lingual. [more inside]
posted by doubtfulpalace on Apr 29, 2009 - 3 comments

A curious alien has snatched one of our spacecraft from orbit and sent back a very strange signal...
posted by wastelands on Apr 25, 2009 - 3 comments

Something a spacecraft might hear on the edge of the solar system
posted by wastelands on Mar 29, 2009 - 2 comments

In the soundtrack to my life, this song is the last two days. [more inside]
posted by idiopath on Mar 6, 2009 - 10 comments

A dark, drone/noise piece that develops slowly
posted by wastelands on Feb 23, 2009 - 0 comments

A relaxing drone; noise waveforms are dominant again
posted by wastelands on Feb 19, 2009 - 3 comments

Dark and moody. Lots of reverb. This is my fourth generative piece.
posted by wastelands on Jan 20, 2009 - 3 comments

A few minutes of crazy space noise and strange particle interactions. [more inside]
posted by Jimbob on Dec 18, 2008 - 1 comment

A quiet, haunting track with drones, chimes, and muted bass beats [more inside]
posted by wastelands on Dec 18, 2008 - 2 comments

Endcaps of warbling drone punctuated by bass stabs, and a middle section of high rhythmic complexity [more inside]
posted by wastelands on Nov 29, 2008 - 0 comments

An ambient noise / drone piece with a dark mood.
posted by wastelands on Nov 22, 2008 - 0 comments

More ambient / noise / drone stuff. [more inside]
posted by wastelands on Nov 8, 2008 - 2 comments

My second song ever, made in Ableton Live. I figured out how to use the automation controls for better fades in/fades out, and I think it has a cleaner sound overall than my first one. Comments welcome.
posted by wastelands on Nov 3, 2008 - 2 comments

My first song; made in Ableton Live 7 LE. It's a drone/ambient noise piece. Comments welcome, but please be gentle. (Warning: high dynamic range, starts out quiet, but gets loud.) [more inside]
posted by wastelands on Nov 2, 2008 - 1 comment

Music for unseasonable weather.
posted by Jimbob on Aug 18, 2007 - 1 comment

Acid-ambient space dub loops. This is a live jam I did with a friend while visiting him in Seattle. The rig was comprised of me playing small and very slow beat loops in Traktor at BPMs relationally fractional to a master tempo of 110 BPM, while my friend looped samples in Live, both from prerecorded and live samples from mixboard outputs and sends. There is a Macbook microphone involved in the sampling of the room and as a feedback and reverb source. There is no shared MIDI clock in use - all tempo/pitch control is manual, and listen for long beat-count tempo-drifts of loop components, which are manipulated and intentional. The majority of this dub takes place as variations of two beats in one "measure", sometimes four but never more. This cut of the track is the last ten minutes of approximately one hour of play and loop building. It is pre-release version intended for derivitive works, remixes and redubs. (If you wish to remix, sample, splice, loop, fuck, deconstruct or otherwise destroy this track, I would vastly prefer that you please contact me via the email in my profile for the uncompressed and unprocessed file and the full Creative Commons license. Please do not use this low-bitrate file.)
posted by loquacious on Dec 2, 2006 - 2 comments

The bees argue, in their black ball, A flying hedgehog, all prickles. The man with grey hands stands under the honeycomb Of their dreams, the hived station Where trains, faithful to their steel arcs, Leave and arrive, and there is no end to the country.
posted by Blazecock Pileon on Jul 28, 2006 - 0 comments

Dark ambience with strange, swelling synths. Okay, I admit it, I can't even remember recording this track.
posted by Jimbob on Jul 14, 2006 - 0 comments

Here's one of my earlier experiments in drone music. It's electric guitar, played live through delay, fuzz and volume pedals.
posted by soplerfo on Jul 7, 2006 - 4 comments