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resyn echo Remix

resyn echo Remix

While looking for remixers for the most recent album I stumbled upon resyn echo‘s work in r/Synthesizers and knew they would be a perfect fit. After approaching them they turned in two amazing mixes both created entirely on the Polyend Tracker hardware. Below I have posted the first remix as well as the original track I heard. Follow resyn echo: […]

Instinctive Drowning Response

Instinctive Drowning Response

Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. “Instinctive Drowning Response” is an album documenting some of the most difficult years of my life and my slow journey back to the surface. Available for free download from Bandcamp: https://schemawound.bandcamp.com/album/instinctive-drowning-response Also available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer and a number […]

@@ENTROPY

@@ENTROPY

”@@ENTROPY” is an EP of Schemawound’s work for the Disquiet Junto, compilation tracks and unreleased material. @@ENTROPY by Schemawound Track Listing Poverty Abandonware Jazz Within My Means A History of Invisibility In an Abundance of Caution She Blinded Me With Silence A Touch of Silence Rush Toward The Flame A Breakdown in Negotiations Consider it A Message Credits Track 1 […]

Shades of Purple

Shades of Purple

Growing tired of the usual light and dark themes for code editors I have recently stumbled on a fantastic theme for Visual Studio Code. “Shades of Purple — A professional theme with hand-picked & bold shades of purple to go along with your VSCode” Inspired by boredom or madness I decided to see if I could create a matching theme […]

Triple Ripple

Triple Ripple

Note: An earlier version of this post on my old blog referenced to a video of a live performance which seems to have been taken down. Updated to point to a more relevant video of the same track One of the most fascinating things about releasing your work under a Creative Commons license is to see the life it can […]

Why Be Free?

Why Be Free?

Every now and then someone will ask me “Why don’t you start charging for your music?” It’s a reasonable question. With so many articles recently focusing on the death of the music industry it is only natural that there is a link in peoples mind between music and industry. While I respect that many have chosen to make music their […]

Phlogistine (Master Tape)

Phlogistine (Master Tape)

This is an album I created when I was 16 years old. I discovered the DOS based tracker program ScreamTracker3 and everything changed for me. Using a computer to make music was a concept I had never even considered in the past. MTV’s show Amp aired around the same time and began to show me a side of electronic music […]

What I learned from the Junto

What I learned from the Junto

I recently completed my 10th assignment for the Disquiet Junto and decided that it would be a good time to reflect on what the Disquiet Junto is and what is has meant for me as an artist The Disquiet Junto is a series of weekly musical “assignments” based around the concept of constraint. Marc Weidenbaum, the founder of the project, […]

Limiting Your Limitations

Limitations can be a fantastic device for pushing your work into directions you would never have taken on your own. When I get stuck for inspiration I will often pick out a challenge to take me outside my comfort zone. The trick to it is knowing at what point to abandon the limitation. When I create a track based on […]

Release It.

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” It is a phrase I have seen used dozens of times, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but like many quotes I am suspect of its true origins. The quote perfectly plays into an issue I see far too often with artists: the inability to finish a project. There seems to be a feeling […]

Hello, I Am Asleep

Hello, I Am Asleep

Today C. Reider has released his new album “The Conjucts”. The first track on the album reworks my songs “Hello World, I Am Lonely Too” and “Fall Asleep Walking” as well as field recordings by Manabushimada. Like the song, the entire album is reworked from material that was released with a Creative Commons license allowing derivative works. This album is […]

Mysterybear and Csound

Mysterybear and Csound

Csound is something I have always been meaning to explore a bit further but have not ever gotten around to. Now there is a little more incentive as Mysterybear has released the full Csound and Blue source code for his fantastic Sublimation album. This is a fantastic contribution to the community and I hope to fully explore it soon. The […]

Guest Post: Nicholas Starke – The Same Color As Your Skin (Audiolet Remix) and Sound Check (Audiolet Remix)

Guest Post: Nicholas Starke – The Same Color As Your Skin (Audiolet Remix) and Sound Check (Audiolet Remix)

My name is Nicholas Starke. I did two remixes for Schemawound’s remix album “Body Movements”. Before I began working on these two remixes, I decided that I would not remix the sound of Schemawound’s tracks, but instead I would remix the ideas. For a couple of weeks, in the evenings I would pour over Schemawound’s source, analyzing his Supercollider code. […]

Guest Post: Bassling – Dawn Dub

Guest Post: Bassling – Dawn Dub

Schemawound’s call for remixes must’ve gone out a few weeks before I discovered his blog through the Disquiet Junto. It also coincided with my remix-crazy January, in which I remixed eight songs. The track Dawn appealed to me when I heard the album. I think it took me places because it reminded me of ‘the wires’ I worked with from […]

Guest Post: Katie Gately – Hymncycle

Guest Post: Katie Gately – Hymncycle

Hi, my name’s Katie Gately and I created the second remix onSchemawound’s “Body Movements” titled Hymncycle. Schemawoundapproached me on Soundcloud to do this remix via the Disquiet Juntogroup. I discovered the group recently after Marc Weidenbaum found mymusic online and reviewed a track on Disquiet.com. Until then, mymusic had been heard by zero people. This is my first remix. I […]

Body Movement: Reflections

Body Movement: Reflections

A remix album? I am not sure where the thought came from. My recent album “They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Wan’t To Hold You Perfectly Still.” is not what I would have considered ideal material to have remixed. Despite my doubts I decided to throw caution to the wind, upload the raw tracks and source code, and […]

Feed It Or It Will Die

Feed It Or It Will Die

Over the past year I have become much more involved with netlabels and creative projects such as the Disquiet Junto. This has led me to discover a vast network of amazing musicians providing their material for free. Either through trying to gather remixers for my upcoming album or just plain old fan mail I have been in contact with quite […]

Stand Up And Be Tagged

Stand Up And Be Tagged

This morning I made a statement: Followed by another: While those statements pretty well sum up my opinions I thought maybe I should expand upon them a little bit because I want to make it clear why it is important. Imagine you bought a CD through the mail, when you opened the box the CD, book and jewel case were […]

Use Your Ears

After college I took an internship with a local post-production facility. The engineer I was assigned to was constantly overbooked and I was often given free run of one of the small studio rooms. I had been using DAWs such as Cakewalk and Cubase for several years so I was very surprised to see what they were using. They were […]

Helping Until It Hurts

While learning Supercollider I have found several cases where convenience methods and syntactic sugar can actually impede the learning process. Below I mention two cases that have caused me trouble in the past. Both these methods are often used in introductory tutorials. My belief is they are used as a way to hook the new user in by providing immediate […]

It’s OK Not To Know

A while back I was questioned on why I had used a .tanh in some code I had posted on the Supercollider Facebook group. I had to give the most detailed answer I could about it. “I don’t know, it sounded good.” I do not have a strong enough math background to tell you exactly what a .tanh will do […]

A Love Song For Scission

A Love Song For Scission

According to Scission’s page on BandCamp: Scission was a improvisational noise band from Connecticut, ranging between 2 and 8 members during its life span. Scission also featured many guest performers. Their sole public performance was an apocalyptic three hour set on Easter Sunday in 2001.  Scission embraced chaos in their entirely improvisational sets. Scission sometimes recorded in “glorious monophonic” and […]

Paperstays @ 10 years

Paperstays @ 10 years

Today is the 10 year anniversary of the my album Paperstays under the project name Vesicant.  This was the first solo album I released that I could could feel truly proud of.  While quite a lot has changed in the previous 10 years I still think the album holds up fairly well.  Paperstays is available as a free download from BandCamp. Paperstays […]

Once More (With Feeling)

The act of creation is easy, with very little effort you can create a song.  I have always felt what separates a good artist from a mediocre one is mostly a matter of good taste, you must know when you are on to something special and when you are bullshitting yourself. I have a strong suspicion I may have been bullshitting myself […]