https://ritualdust.com/tags/music/ Recent content in music on Ritual dust Hugo -- gohugo.io en-ca Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/about/hardware/ Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/about/hardware/ Table of contents Computing Audio Photo and video Computing Apple Macbook Pro 13" mid-2014 with 1TB OWC SSD drive Raspberry Pi 4B+ (I plan to turn it into a resilient computer ) Keychron K6 with green keys Audio Synths Korg Monotron MakeNoise Strega Modular synth Controllers Arturia keystep Arturia beatstep Recorders Tascam DR-40 (Really rugged and the battery lasts a long time, sadly cannot work as an audio interface and the interface isn’t really intuitive) Audio players Vintage Technics cassette deck Audio Technica record player Headphones Hifiman HE350 (sound quality is good but the open back design can be annoying to others and the cord broke at some point) Photo and video I have often bought photo and video gear for specific projects or to explore new ways of making images. https://ritualdust.com/about/tape-collection/ Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/about/tape-collection/ Just listing all the tapes from my collection here Table of contents Dark ambient Synth music Metal Dungeon synth Folk Dark ambient The search for the sulphurous well, Tommy Creep Rites of blood and dust, Blood and dust Sun of serpent, moone of cipher, Them Teeth Auditory witchcraft, Them Teeth Alkemisten & vansinnet, Them Teeth Come, deathless, Surachai Hinterpest, Mumbles Synth music Sortilèges, Potochkine Potochkine, Potochkine The devil rides out, Dream division Surlendemain acides, Autmelodi Careful, Boy Harsher Glider 10 reworks, The Sight below ? https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/dungeon-synth-flyer/ Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/dungeon-synth-flyer/ Flyer for an underground show inspired by old-school fantasy visuals. Flyer for an underground show https://ritualdust.com/music/ashes-of-may/ Sat, 27 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/music/ashes-of-may/ Ashes of May by Ritual Dust A 7-min meditative drone piece that feels like taking a stroll through a field early in the morning, just in time to see the first sun rays peek at the horizon, torch in hand, on your way to light a Bealtaine bonfire. Originally recorded for “This Trembling Place”, a drone compilation put together by fallen lo- https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/exsomnis/ Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/exsomnis/ Logo and sigil for the band Exsomnis. Exsomnis logo Sigil https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/ritual-dust/ Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/ritual-dust/ A series of analog-processed logos for my music project. First version of the logo Second version of the logo Third version of the logo Detail of the texture of the logo https://ritualdust.com/music/vocal-processing/ Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/music/vocal-processing/ Table of contents Layers Effects Layers Layering vocals with more takes of the same lead (called doubles), harmonies and fills creates a much richer and fuller sound giving more energy and presence to the vocals in a track. Doubles Doubles are two other takes of the lead melody sung in the same way with the same pitches, these are then panned all the way left and right and if needed can be chopped and ajusted to fit the rythm of the main lead. https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/inpathos-ep/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/inpathos-ep/ A series of 4 imaginary landscape paintings for the latest EP of Inpathos called ascension . I focussed on the symbolism of the places I depicted and the feeling they conjure in order to illustrate the different songs. Painting of shores with high rocky cliffs and blue moonin the distance Painting of the snowy peak of a mountain lost in the clouds Painting of dense woods with a stream going through it, the background fading to fog Painting for the cover of the album, a mountain pass with steep cliffs and some mountains in the distance, a branch crosses the path we're on and storm clouds are gathering overhead https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/illuminations/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/illuminations/ Painting for the cover of the second album “Illuminations” of the local dungeon synth project Aura Merlin . This second album has more of a new age, melodic ambient vibe with still some solid dungeon synth roots. It’s perfect for daydreaming or pondering the deep knowledge hidden in old illuminated medieval tomes. The arwork for it was inspired by medieval manuscripts and the illuminations that embellishes their handwritten pages. https://ritualdust.com/music/field-recording/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/music/field-recording/ These are my personal notes and reference for field recordings. I researched and wrote those in preparation for a trip to some neolithic sites and caves in Ireland with the goal of making recordings there and using them on my upcoming album. Microphone on a handle, connected to a small recorder Table of contents Intro to field recordings Techniques Equipment Recording Settings Data Storage Links A short intro to field recordings Field recording refers to all audio recordings performed outside of a controlled studio environment. https://ritualdust.com/works/illustration/andy-aquarius/ Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/illustration/andy-aquarius/ A small symbol illustration of an harp and a sword drawn for Andy Aquarius . A small symbol illustration of an harp and a sword Symbol on the cover of the Holy Rude vinyl album https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/the-hookups/ Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/the-hookups/ Death metal style logo for the psych surf rock band The Hookups. The Hookups death metal logo https://ritualdust.com/works/websites/voidxwitch/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/websites/voidxwitch/ https://ritualdust.com/works/video/are-you-ok/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/video/are-you-ok/ Music video / ritual performance for the first song released by Voidxwitch , titled “are you ok?”. Shot in one night after a storm in rural Quebec. We took plenty of inspiration from witchhouse and traumacore while developing visuals that are unique to Hex’s project. Most of the shots were lit with a light mounted on the camera to emulate old-school camcorders like the one used in Blair Witch, we also shot the whole thing handheld to be able to follow the movements of Hex during the performance and add some nice camera shake. https://ritualdust.com/music/mixing/ Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/music/mixing/ Table of contents mixing process focussed listening midrange-focussed mixing The Mixing Process Organization Volume Panning Equalization Double checking Exporting stems Organization Tips Group all related tracks together (drums, voice, synths, etc.) and color-code them. Name all the tracks in a way that makes it easier to find what is what. Remove all unused tracks and sounds. https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/voidxwitch/ Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/voidxwitch/ I made this logo for VOIDXWITCH based on a scribbled text they made. The concept was to play around with some angry but childlike drawing style and the void tearing at it. Scribbled logo in white on black Voidxwitch logo in use in their first music video https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/orchid-lodge-album-cover/ Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/orchid-lodge-album-cover/ Album cover designed for the latest Orchid Lodge album In This Wet Place , inspired by 80’s and 90’s 4AD releases. Orchid Lodge - In This Wet Place album cover I also designed a cassette sleeve variant of this for a short-run self-published tape of the album. Front of the cassette case and sleeve Back of the cassette case and sleeve Cassette and case Outside of the sleeve Inside of the sleeve with additional text Cassette with pad print https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/ossuary-wraith/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/ossuary-wraith/ Ghastly bone-covered logo for the black metal band Ossuary Wraith Ossuary Wraith logo Ossuary Wraith symbol https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/aura-merlin/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/aura-merlin/ Wizardy dungeon synth logo for Aura Merlin Aura Merlin logo https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/vear/ Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/vear/ I made this logo for the ritual noise project Vear inspired by occult symbolism and sigils. Logo for vear, occult-like symbols and letters overlapping each others https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/aura-merlin-3-swords/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/aura-merlin-3-swords/ Painting for the cover of the first album “Three Swords” of the local dungeon synth project Aura Merlin . The concept for the album was a lonely wanderer making their way to this cave in the woods in a quest to find three magical swords. “Attack, threaten or defend A gift, three swords, one choice A passage to transcend Through a smoky cavern, a voice..” I was inspired by Russian landscape painters from the turn of the century for the colors and ruggedness of the trees in these kinds of snow-covered landscapes. https://ritualdust.com/folklore/folk-horror/ Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/folklore/folk-horror/ The sun symbol from the titles of the Wicker Man movie Table of contents Introduction Movies and television Literature Music Links Folk Horror refers to a mode of story-telling, a set of themes and to some extent an aesthetic movement fascinated by exploring the ways in which old rites, traditions and folklore can embed itself in the land and places, it digs for the ways in which humans over thousands of generations have imprinted the landscape and also how the landscape leave impressions on the human psyche. https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/swamp-lantern/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/swamp-lantern/ Mushy, heavy and psychedelic logo shrouded in thick smoke for the occult doom band Swamp Lantern . Logo and icon Logo only Icon only https://ritualdust.com/music/research/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/music/research/ Instruments Early music shop Irish bones McNeela Irish instruments Bodhran Music production Music Giant list of anti-fascist metal bands https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/hex-ritual/ Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/hex-ritual/ All the variants of the logo and sigil Logo in black with texture Logo in white, alone Sketching process https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/dungeon-synth-covers/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/dungeon-synth-covers/ Cassette sleeve designs for fictional dungeon synth albums, I’m definitely interested in making real ones so if you have a dungeon synth project and are looking for some cover art contact me! Silent Gnome - A Contemplative Stroll Through the Castle ruins Mournful Sorcery - A Dark Conjuring of Shadows Depressive Goblin - Into the Deep Caves of Despair https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/around-your-grave-ill-light-a-ring-of-fire/ Sat, 13 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/around-your-grave-ill-light-a-ring-of-fire/ Cover artwork for a new single by Blood and Dust, listen to it on BandCamp here: https://blood-and-dust.bandcamp.com/track/around-your-grave-ill-light-a-ring-of-fire https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/vacarme-hurlant/ Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/vacarme-hurlant/ Logo for a blackened death metal band from Quebec. Vacarme Hurlant logo in white on black Vacarme Hurlant logo in black on white https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/foulest-witch/ Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/foulest-witch/ Hand-drawn logo, sigil and illustrations for Foulest Witch, a black metal, dark ambient and ritual music label. Complete logo with sigil and lettering Sigil Sigil with text Dagger and candleholder https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/nicole-marxen/ Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/nicole-marxen/ Hand-drawn band logo for the solo project of Nicole Marxen , a mix of avant-garde pop, synthwave and experimental rock. Her first album is a meditation on grief and the painful and messy process of going through these feelings, in her own words: “I often compare the experience to uncovering a crystal, digging through foundation to discover something both jagged and brilliantly beautiful.” Logo on a project photo Logo in grey on black https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/nihtgengan/ Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/nihtgengan/ Hand-drawn band logo for the oniric dungeon synth / darkambient project Nihtgengan Nihtgengan logo in white on black Nihtgengan logo in black on white https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/rites-of-blood-and-dust/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/rites-of-blood-and-dust/ Album cover and cassette sleeve design for the first Blood and Dust release. The texture used as a background to the design was photographed indoors from soil, leaves and branches collected outside and with the addition of a good amount of fake blood. The concept for this album design, especially the cassette version was to make a physical vessel to contain the music, like an ancient cursed object holding the intense emotions and energy channelled in the songs. https://ritualdust.com/music/crom-cruach/ Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/music/crom-cruach/ CROM CRUACH by Surgeryhead/Blood & Dust https://ritualdust.com/music/crust/ Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/music/crust/ CRUST Narrated by Peter Baker by Blood and Dust https://ritualdust.com/music/rites-of-blood-and-dust/ Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/music/rites-of-blood-and-dust/ Rites of Blood and Dust by Blood and Dust https://ritualdust.com/works/photo/dodecae/ Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/photo/dodecae/ https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/grimhowl/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/grimhowl/ Grim Howl logo https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/blood_and_dust/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/layouts/blood_and_dust/ Logo and visuals for the ritualistic horror drone project I’m doing with Hex. You can find more over on our band website: https://blood-and-dust.com/ https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/curious-moth/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/curious-moth/ Curious moth logo Inked logo initial sketch https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/ariel/ Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/lettering/ariel/ Ariel logo Ariel crest Ariel logo in context https://ritualdust.com/works/video/ich_hab_die_nacht/ Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/video/ich_hab_die_nacht/ Credits and details Direction / Art direction: Geneviève Lamarche Reid Photography / Editing: Lizbeth Poirier Singer / Actress: Viky Boyer Shot on the Sony A6300 with a 24mm prime lens Edited and color graded in Premiere Pro https://ritualdust.com/works/video/warm_wishes_video/ Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/video/warm_wishes_video/ Iconoclastic short video accompanied by one of my modular synth compositions, shot in slow motion with practical fire effects. Credits Art direction / Photography / Editing: Lizbeth Poirier-Morissette Production Assistant: Geneviève Lamarche Reid Model: Evey lp Music: Haunted Attic (Devil Worship Rework) by Principe d’incertitude Shot on the Sony A6300 with a 24mm prime lens Edited and color graded in Premiere Pro https://ritualdust.com/works/video/dead-tongues/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/video/dead-tongues/ Preview video for the song Dead Tongues by Blood and dust . Credits Photography / Editing: Lizbeth Poirier Assistant: Hex Evans Shot on the Sony A6300 with a 24mm prime lens Edited and color graded in Premiere Pro