Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0300: The 300th Project
@disquiet

The project: 3 chords x 100 seconds

After reading the project description, I keyed in on the idea of creating sounds that would sustain for the entire 100 seconds, rather than replaying or retriggering an instrument periodically. I realized that the trick was that while I had plenty of ways to make sounds that would sustain for the duration... they were single tones, and I couldn't generate a chord. Conversely, I had plenty of instruments that would play lovely triads... but they would trail out long before the 100 seconds (unless I decided to use a synth patch that I could tweak). So I set about looking first for sound sources that would sustain or resonate, and then would try to figure out how to process those sounds into chords later on. After banging on a lot of diningware, some toys, and random resonant surfaces, I settled on:

1. My voice singing a single note, then pitch and frozen-delay processed through a Red Panda Particle granular delay pedal.

2. The hum of the touch panel keyboard on my Volca Beats, recorded through an electromagnetic pickup, and pitch processed through an Old Blood Noise Dark Star 'orchestral' delay pedal.

3. An organ-ish patch on my Volca FM, processed through an Earthquaker Avalanche Run reverse delay and reverb.

I used B/D/A as my chord structure - based on the pitch from the EM pickup on the Volca Beats, and complimentary harmonies on the Dark Star. The processed vocal and the noise/hum patch created from the EM pickup both wound up being generative/infinite sustain sounds. The FM organ is the only one where I fudged my idea a little - creating most of the sustain by adjusting the envelope decay time in the synth.

A little filtering, fading, and slight delay (iZotope DDLY) and reverb (Valhalla Shimmer) were added to sweeten the mix. 

Congrats to Marc on #300! Thank you for stirring the creative pot that gets our ideas simmering. Here's to 300 more - Cheers!

More on this 300th weekly Disquiet Junto project (3 chords x 100 seconds) at:

https://disquiet.com/0300/

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https://disquiet.com/junto/

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100 Grains in the Infinite Hum [ disquiet0300 - the300thproject ]

Haphazard/precise maker of music/noise.
Veers ambient.

Double LP Conjunctions with @megmulhearn on Fallen Moon Recordings
https://fallenmoonrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/conjunctions

LP Aura on @triplicaterecords:
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/aura

EP brokendatapool on @couriersound:
https://couriersound.bandcamp.com/album/brokendatapool

20x20 Project: blue is the color of my true love's light
https://20x20project.bandcamp.com/album/blue-is-the-color-of-my-true-loves-light

More sounds found on:
Mailbox (UK)
Past Inside the Present (US)
@verses_records (US) 
@romeda-records (UK) 


Happy participant of:
 @disquiet
Cities And Memory (https://citiesandmemory.com/)
1esf5m (http://1esf5m.buzzsprout.com/)
Phonography on Aleatoric Forest (http://phonography.radio.af/)

#ambient #experimental #fieldrecordings #musiqueconcrete #foundsound #foundobjects #abstract #ambientglitch #piano #electroacoustic #electronica #glitch #soundtrack #chill #brokendatapool #courier #chairchimes

Thank you for taking the time to listen to my tunes for love and your music..
Sera. 💙✨️

100 Grains in the Infinite Hum [ disquiet0300 - the300thproject ]

Belly Full Of Stars