This is my first Disquiet Junto submission. I read about it Monday morning and decided quickly to make it before the midnight deadline. Seems pretty cool. I might keep making these because it gives a nice little structure to make something different. Anyways, process:

I used a leftover patch from practicing and learning specific aspects of my new isms system. I sent that through a bunch of guitar pedals I'm much more familiar with to add space, width and create a drone (delay and reverb of course). This went to Ableton and finished with some EQ and dynamics. Throughout the course of the recording I slowly decreased different attributes of the "wetness" until the raw practice patch revealed itself. It's like taking my clothes off but with lower stakes. Then I destroyed it with a big kaboom. There is also an op-1 for low end feel goods.

More on this 240th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music in which a drone slowly, imperceptibly, gives way to something rhythmic and/or melodic” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0240/4

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/5

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place on llllllll.co and on a Junto Slack (send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion).

The image associated with this project is by Michel Banabila, and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/94muSj2

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This has layers of performed effects. The only performed instrument is Clarinet.

Clarinet -> small interview mic -> isms system -> guitar pedals -> Ableton

The clarinet was played while monitoring the effects. The modular system had various syncopated low pass gates driving the beat (no input) and giving rhythm to the clarinet's long held notes with some reverb tank action. this was routed into two separate guitar pedal chains.

1. Thunderbolt drive -> El Capistan -> Big Sky (magneto)
2. Deco -> Big Sky (magneto)

Lots of tape emulation! no tape lolz...

After recording to tracks, I used the Ableton Push to play effects. I split tracks out with a ton of vintage compression to tease out the electronics noises and put that through Resonator. I played the resonator by fading the different resonant frequencies and recorded that. Then I added a some panning LFO's. Lastly I took a master track and used Frequency Shifter with lots of LFO's controlling things slowly along with an EP-34 emulation (more!). I played the shifter and the tape echo in one more pass. Then I mixed all tracks together with EQ, compression and what not.

It's pretty fun to play effects.

Thank you Marc for the great ideas  :)

More on this 241st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a piece of music in which the material processed is secondary to the processing” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0241/1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

llllllll.co/t/foreground-effect-disquiet-junto-project-0241/4134

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by Nadar, and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/iaNB


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