Dawn Chorus on Easter Sunday - Ammerland, Bavaria

Dawn Chorus on Easter Sunday

This weeks prompt really intereted me...  I recorded the sound of my coffee grinder as I ground my morning beans on Friday morning. I had just read the Disquiet email a few minutes earlier after waking up and knew later on Friday I would have time to take part in the challenge if I wanted. I quickly made a recording of my morning grinding of coffee but wasn't till after I noticed I had left the radio playing in the kitchen.

After lunch on Friday I sat down and began to make this, cutting up the sounds of the coffee grinder and transposing the sounds and adding other musical sounds. I wanted to do something upbeat and fun and quite noisy! 


Disquiet Junto Project 0487: Carillon Quotidian
Assignment: Turn a recurring sound from your life into music.

This project was developed by Marty Petkovich (aka K Joule) as part of the celebration of the upcoming 500th consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project.

Step 1: Identify a recurring sound in your daily life that isn’t generally considered musical. Try to locate a sound that you would normally ignore: the hum of the dryer, or the way the car trunk resonates when you drop it closed, the sound your boots make on certain stairs, the sound of the water coming out of the kitchen tap, etc.

Step 2: The goal is to explore the innate musicality of the sound you identified in Step 1. When recording the sound identified in Step 1, please keep in mind the effort may require some production techniques, because you want to try to isolate it as best as possible.

Step 3: Make an original piece of music employing the sample you recorded in Step 2 of the sound you decided upon in Step 1. Transpose the recorded sample and compose a short theme to use as the central voice in your composition. Complete your piece with other instrument lines as needed.

Quotidian Coffee Grinder [disquiet0487]

There are very few demos of the legendary, rare and beautiful RSF Polykobol II. To me the best ones are by Sebastien of Mos-lab, on YouTube. I decided to try to recreate (as accurately as possible) the first 2.5 minutes of this demo, my favorite one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H247bhAZOS4   

I wanted to see how close I could get with the Kijimi. Sebastien used quite a bit of reverb and delay on this demo, and I tried to recreate those as accurately as possible too, as well as the mostly mono sound. I ended up with two versions I liked so I added them both here. In the first version Kijimi is slightly more detuned (VCO2 detune, and voice drift setting). In the second version  (starts at 2:30) the VCO and voice tuning is tighter, giving a nice cat purrrrr in the low notes.

Kijimi recreation of Polykobol II demo

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0418-ice-nine/28144/1

This is a recording I made for the 418th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Ice-Nine / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it. I rattled 4 cubes of ice, partially melted in a large thick glass beer stein by my microphone and passed the sounds through my Red Panda Particle pedal and OTO BIM and BAM units as it was being recorded. I further processed the recording through Ableton's Resonators, Saturator, and Reverb.

More on this 418th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Ice-Nine / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0418/

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Ice In A Glass [disquiet0418]

Charles on the Buchla Music Easel, Sean on the Matrix Drums and Buchla 200

21 Jan, 2013

CC Music Easel, Sean Buchla 200 and Matrix Drums

One of the beautiful, pastorally infused tracks off of the lovely new album from English artist, Enofa...entitled "Nerra Ninna Noak"...

Enofa "Nerra Ninna Noak" (Part 7)

Distances

Swamp

Water Mirror

In The Pool

Cybernetic Audio Forms Sample Challenge 2 - "Yama Yama Man" by Ada Jones. 
A track created using only the elements from the sample sound source, no additional instruments or drums, loops, synths were used, this was bashed and manipulated using Ableton Sampler. Additional FX using Native Instruments Guitar Rig and Valhalla Vintage Reverb.
For more info on the original song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yama_Yama_Man

CC Music Easel, Sean Buchla 200 and Matrix Drums

Charles and Sean

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