Disquiet Junto submissions

More on this 220th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Make overtly rhythmic music from short loops of overtly arrhythmic source audio, following instructions from Dennis DeSantis”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0220/

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The photo associated with this project is by Junto member Will Benton (web.willbenton.com), a computer scientist based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Disquiet Junto Project 0220: Rhythmic Arrhythmic

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

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:
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Superposition (disquiet0205 - Superposition)

With only one exception, all of the rhythmic and melodic material in this composition is taken from a field recording of waves and gulls I made while watching the sun rise over Caye Caulker in Belize last December.  I listened for interesting parts of the source material, decided on a compromise tempo so that I could work in measures, and cut the interesting sections into loops of between three and sixteen beats.  I filtered each loop to extract different timbres and added spatial and ambient effects on return buses.  As my arrangement took shape, I cut and rearranged the arrythmic source material in places to enable gradual transitions between breathing, natural rhythms and more mechanical, precise ones.
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More on this 220th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Make overtly rhythmic music from short loops of overtly arrhythmic source audio, following instructions from Dennis DeSantis”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0220/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

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Sunrise, Caye Caulker, 12/21/15 [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

Started making tiny loops out of field recordings, thunderstorm,ducks and flies, footsteps, mic noises AND then later added loops out of my own arrhythmic drumming
also made loops/drones out of organ recording and then built up layers and effects around these starting elements


More on this 220th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Make overtly rhythmic music from short loops of overtly arrhythmic source audio, following instructions from Dennis DeSantis”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0220/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

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RhythmicArhythmia-disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic

the changes in the loop length of the voice are very very subtile...

More on this 220th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Make overtly rhythmic music from short loops of overtly arrhythmic source audio, following instructions from Dennis DeSantis”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0220/

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-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

The photo associated with this project is by Junto member Will Benton (web.willbenton.com), a computer scientist based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Not A Bossa Nova [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

My goal in creating this track was to create a gentle rhythmic battle between four representations of classic pop instruments.  The four samples (a spoken word vocal {lead vocal}, bass, vinyl noise {rhythm section}, and drone {supporting keys/pad}) are all controlled by the "rhythm" section - in this case - the sound of a needle on a vinyl record. 

I applied a side chain gate to everything but the vinyl noise, it being the "master".  Each instruments gate opens and closes at varying degrees, some more severe than others, all controlled by the levels of the vinyl noise and their individual thresholds.  The effect is the most noticeable in the bass when it is only playing very short staccato notes in time with the loudest pops of the vinyl.

Disclaimer:  I do not speak German, nor do I have any idea what is in the spoken word track, as it is in German.

Needle To The Record [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

For Disquiet Junto 220 - "Make overtly rhythmic music from short loops of overtly arrhythmic source audio" - I pieced together vocal fragments from a synthesized voice talking about photographic copyright, and Michelle Bachmann, and then looping them in places to make them more rhythmic. A backing track of a street musician playing part of the Godfather theme gets a similar treatment towards the end.


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More on this 220th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Make overtly rhythmic music from short loops of overtly arrhythmic source audio, following instructions from Dennis DeSantis”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0220/

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

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
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Manipulating A Machine [disquiet0220 - Rhythmicarrhythmic]

Support our music on bandcamp! Out now: 
"Manipulating a Machine" - Late-night headphone music - August 2019:
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https://cryptohelix.bandcamp.com/album/3-song-45?mysrc=sc

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Manipulating A Machine [disquiet0220 - Rhythmicarrhythmic]

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