More on this 204th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Add a foundational rhythm to an ambient foreground”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/11/26/disquiet0204-underbeat/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

The image associated with this project is a light reworking of the image that accompanied the track, Toaster’s “Beacon, For Marissa,” that is the source audio for this week’s project:

https://soundcloud.com/toaster-1/beacon-for-marissa

Disquiet Junto Project 0204: Under Beat

Disquiet Junto submissions

From the challenge at http://disquiet.com/2015/04/23/disquiet0173-overversion/

Associated photo from Gareth, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/trois-tetes/147640480/
part used as graphic with this soundcloud track, and rendered from photo to sound with Audacity.

The phrase "The Past is Breaking Through" synthesized using this service: http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/

Since the source track is bass and rhythm-oriented I focused on higher-pitched or non-percussive sounds.  The Sears field recordings were made this weekend so they were on my mind when composing as a sound source. I can see seven tracks but hope the disparate "sounds" unify into one musical piece in the listeners' minds.

Manipulating A Machine

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The Past Is Breaking Through (disquiet0173-overversion)

For the assignment detailed here: http://disquiet.com/2015/10/22/disquiet0199-spacecrickets/

All sounds are from Soundtransit at http://archive.turbulence.org/soundtransit/index.html
except one track of a field recording of cicadas I made in North Carolina this summer; and a second of a slowed-down piledriver from the building work around China Basin in San Francisco. The SoundTransit sounds are all reused under their Creative Commons license.

All sounds arranged and mixed in Garageband. 

My intent was to make the basic foley sound of a spaceship in space at the moment a character plays a cassette featuring the crickets/rain earth sounds. From the movie I expect lots of engine rumble and pipe sounds during their long journey. Matt Damon was creepy in that movie.

Space Crickets [for disquiet0199-spacecrickets]

Submission for the Disquiet Junto assignment, here: http://disquiet.com/2015/11/12/disquiet0202-costoffreedom/

My plan was to maintain focus on the speaking, while rendering the text with a text-to-speech synthesizer and adding background sounds. 

Text-to-speech service used is here: http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/
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More on this 202nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Create an audiobook chapter from the new essay collection The Cost of Freedom) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/11/12/disquiet0202-costoffreedom/

The source of the text in this project is from the book The Cost of Freedom, which raises awareness about the ongoing detainment of Creative Commons coder/artist Bassel Khartabil Sadafi. More on it here:

http://costoffreedom.cc

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Image, Identity, Attribution, Authorship - Disquiet0202 - Costoffreedom

**Production Notes**

Quadupled the source material in Ableton Live. Reduced three tracks to their transients, so that they produced audible spikes. Pitched this material +12 and -24 notes. 

Added several send FX chains, consisting mainly of NI Replica delays. Started the track. First you hear the original track, then I started fiddling with the send knobs, later with the delay times. 

Added a slight compression to the mastering chain. 

Thanks for your messages: The tooth‘s back to normal again, no need for sampling the dentist ;-)

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I** Disquiet Junto Project 0204: Under Beat**

Add a foundational rhythm to an ambient foreground.

This week’s project is a complement to last week’s — but you can do this week’s project without having done, or even been aware of, last week’s. Last week we added a foreground to an underlying beat. This week we’re adding an underlying beat to a foreground.

Step 1: Listen to and download the track “Beacon, For Marissa” by Toaster:

https://soundcloud.com/toaster-1/beacon-for-marissa

Step 2: You’ll be adding a foundational, underlying rhythm — a beat, that is — to the track. The original is quite long, at over 17 minutes. You can certainly utilize the full piece, but it’s recommended that you select a segment of between 2 to 4 minutes.

Step 3: Please create a new track by adding a beat to the source audio from Step 2. (Do not change the source audio, other than perhaps fading in and out at the start and end, though you can use it as raw material for whatever beat you choose to add.)

Step 4: Upload your completed track from Step 3 to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

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More on this 204th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Add a foundational rhythm to an ambient foreground”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/11/26/disquiet0204-underbeat/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

The image associated with this project is a light reworking of the image that accompanied the track, Toaster’s “Beacon, For Marissa,” that is the source audio for this week’s project:

https://soundcloud.com/toaster-1/beacon-for-marissa

Inside Out [disquiet0204-underbeat]

NI was running a 50% off sale so I grabbed the pulsewerk expansion for my mikro. I was just jamming on top playing the sets and took loops from that. I record live from machine and I have no idea what the tempo was for this song so I just try to find a groove. As a former bad bass player I had to add some bass but I kept it strictly rhythm section. I hope it forms a full background to the great track provided. The title comes from what every bacon lover saw when he looked the first time at the track title,More on this 204th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Add a foundational rhythm to an ambient foreground”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/11/26/disquiet0204-underbeat/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

The image associated with this project is a light reworking of the image that accompanied the track, Toaster’s “Beacon, For Marissa,” that is the source audio for this week’s project:

https://soundcloud.com/toaster-1/beacon-for-marissa

By Marc Weidenbaum


Bacon, For Marissa (disquiet0204-underbeat) Tabu Remix

disquiet0204-underbeat

Created as part of the Disquiet Junto project  no. 204, structured around the audio provided at https://soundcloud.com/toaster-1/beacon-for-marissa

For this project I abandoned the set BPM of the garageband file and just drummed along with the ambient track, and then added in a few other sound elements.

More on this 204th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Add a foundational rhythm to an ambient foreground”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/11/26/disquiet0204-underbeat/


Beacon - Toaster - Remix (Disquiet0204 - Underbeat)

For this Disquiet assignment, looking at the graphic notation, the main keyboard plays the three full notes and pause. The drum tattoos were an attempt to play the second notation hidden behind the first but I lost track. The third track slides and panning represent the spiral, telescoping edge of the wooden object behind the two sheets.

I used this wikipedia guide to determine what the fourth piece of notation was on that top sheet (a quarter note rest) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols

Garageband instruments are: Titanic Waves synth; Event Horizon synth; "Heavy" drum kit.

More on this 205th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Interpret boxed-up music-education materials as a graphic-notation score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/12/03/disquiet0205-superposition/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/

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Superposition (disquiet0205 - Superposition)

Support our music on bandcamp! Out now: 
"Manipulating a Machine" - Late-night headphone music - August 2019:
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"Future Funerals", just released Nov. 2018 - 5 songs:
https://cryptohelix.bandcamp.com/album/future-funerals?mysrc=sc

3 more songs on a single, from 2015:
https://cryptohelix.bandcamp.com/album/3-song-45?mysrc=sc

"Traveling back/in time/from our best/future imaginations."

Beacon - Toaster - Remix (Disquiet0204 - Underbeat)

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