We are hosting a Midsummer Night's musical ritual for the Summer Solstice - broadcasting live on Star & Shadow Radio.

Tuesday, June 21, 2022 9:30 PM – Wednesday, June 22 2022, 4:30 AM

The Solstice this year in the Northern Hemisphere is exactly 10.13 Tuesday June 22nd 2022 and different folk celebrate Midsummer on days between June 19th and 25th depending on tradition. Our intention is to drone from sunset to sunrise overnight from Tuesday 21st to Wednesday 22nd, the night after the Solstice.

You are invited to take part wherever you are and whenever you can. You can set a drone going in your own home to synchronise with us or follow your local custom. You can submit materials to us (loops, whole tracks) which we will play on your behalf. You can submit some code. You can think of us warmly. Whatever you like.

Send your tracks to us ( tynesidesounds at gmail dot com ) via wetransfer 

We will stream our drone and we invite you to do the same. That way we can mix in each other's drones around the world. If you observe your Midsummer Night drone before us, please link us to a recording so we can incorporate you.

Use the hashtag #AMND2022. to join the chat on the socials.

Tuning Instructions
If you prepare drones to play with us, you are free to use whatever tuning you like. But if you like a little maths/theory/occultism you might try notes which are harmonics of the earth's orbit around the sun or of the earth on its own axis. The earth orbits the sun in about 365.25 days. Up 31 octaves this is 69.05Hz, a slightly flat C sharp. This Midsummer the earth will rotate on its own axis in 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59.9998932 seconds. Up 21 octaves this is 24.269Hz, a slightly flat G.

If you want the music of the spheres, you could do worse than play C sharp and G which make a nice discord when played together.

If you want a third note to represent the interaction of the earth's rotation and orbit which together make up ‘Midsummer Night', you could play the product of the two (1651.53Hz) or an octave of it, a slightly flat G sharp.

These 3 notes together will make quite a dense chord. Johannes Kepler would be proud!

Find Out Your Midsummer Night Times
We are taking our Midsummer Night to be the night of 21st/22nd June. You can use http://www.suncalc.org/ to find out your local sunrise/sunset times. Do not be deterred if you live in the Southern Hemisphere and this is your midwinter. Create an event for your midsummer and we will join in in six months' time.

Background

The Midsummer Drone tradition was initiated in 2011 in England at a WW2 observation post looking east over the sea in Suffolk, England (AMND2011). More recently we droned the night away at Allenheads Contemporary Arts in Northumberland (AMND2016, AMND2017, AMND2018, AMND2019) while AMND2020 took place online on RadioBAL.

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