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Why not metal?! Fresh and fun submission. All musical styles are welcome in my world.

Well done. You captured the feel so, so perfectly. I can imagine the documentary covering this sub genre in ten year's time.

Other software I miss: FontMonger; the first Deus Ex that ran in Apple System 9; Spectre VR (early, crude 3D console game on Mac Pluses); Marathon; some non-WYSIWYG html editors I can't recall. I don't miss all the MIDI music software I struggled with and paid for over the years.

Could almost be a Bauhaus song(especially vocals)...I mean that in a good way!

Disquiet Junto submissions

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ambient(ish), jittery glitched sounds of wood, water, and glass, on a bed of audio produced by putting the project's image through photosounder

Tidings of Transfiguration

[disquiet0557] Tidings of Transfiguration

[disquiet0559] Hello - Bye

More on this 560th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Sonic Disambiguation (The Assignment: Help the Wikimedia Foundation develop a sonic logo) – at: https://disquiet.com/0560/

Thanks to Mahmoud Hashemi, of Listen to Wikipedia, for suggesting the Disquiet Junto take this project on.

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0560-sonic-disambiguation/

WikiMedia Sound Logo (disquiet0560)

Wiki Tikki Tavi (disquiet0560)

[disquiet0560] Wiki

Proposed sonic signature for Wikimedia properties.
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More on this 560th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Sonic Disambiguation (The Assignment: Help the Wikimedia Foundation develop a sonic logo) – at: https://disquiet.com/0560/

Thanks to Mahmoud Hashemi, of Listen to Wikipedia, for suggesting the Disquiet Junto take this project on.

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0560-sonic-disambiguation/

soniki (disquiet0560)

Disquiet Junto Project 0561: Samplelicker
The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software.

Step 1: There’s a new piece of freely available software called Samplebrain. It was designed by Aphex Twin and developed by Dave Griffiths of Then Try This. Download Samplebrain and read up at:

https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain 11

Step 2: Create a piece of music using Samplebrain. For source audio, only use sounds tagged “bird” or “rain” or “night” from freesound.org 4. Use as many as you like. Be sure to credit the source material when posting your finished track.

Track notes: 

I decided to use only two samples for this samplebrain composition: "Rain.wav" from idomusics as my 'brain' sound and the delightfully named "French men in the deep night.wav" from satoration as my target. 

Having been listening to a lot of Rolf Julius' small music lately, I'm impressed with the variances in pitch and dynamic to these textures and how interesting they might sound broadcast at very low volumes or with the stereo field separated out. I'm looking forward to experimenting more with the app!

Disquiet Junto

[Disquiet_Junto_0561] Glitched men in the deep night

This track makes use of Aphex Twin's new software Samplebrain.

https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain

Audio samples used (from Freesound):
Coyotes running during the night in the woods felix.blume
Goose passes.wav straget
Heavy rain lebaston100
City terrace night 2 Sotiris_Laskaris
Bird whistling, robin, single, 13.wav InspectorJ
Birds in Spring (Scotland) BurghRecords

More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) — at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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

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strain [disquiet0561]

Samplebrain loaded with with following samples and a field recording of garden bird song used as the target audio.

https://freesound.org/people/VEXST/sounds/35590/

https://freesound.org/people/1san/sounds/366688/

https://freesound.org/people/newlocknew/sounds/580446/

https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/210423/

https://freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/23086/

https://freesound.org/people/Incarnadine/sounds/17864/

https://freesound.org/people/basedMedia/sounds/548096/

More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) — at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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Birdbrain (disquiet0561)

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

I used a track on which I was already working on and added automatic tools to randomly add or substract up to two octaves to all tracks. The probability was chosen so that the octave jumps should go unnoticed.

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Track cover based on image from Dall-E2 prompting "Sudden jumps, not too hefty, edward hopper". This tool is so much fun!

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More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

Krakenkraft-Disquiet

Sudden Jumps, Not Too Hefty [disquiet0564]

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:
http://disquiet.com/junto/

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Superposition (disquiet0205 - Superposition)

For Disquiet Junto Project 0239: Code Requiem -- "Compose a short composition in memoriam for a piece of recently deceased software."

This week's theme was inspiring and I latched onto the tortured history of Altsys/Aldus/Macromedia/Adobe Freehand. I remember using it long ago and then seeing it eclipsed by Photoshop + Illustrator, and Adobe maybe not supporting it any more. A more detailed history is here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_FreeHand -- note the passion of the community response as each company tries to shutter the software.

I don't always ruminate on projects like this and instead may free-associate until an idea forms quickly in my mind, and run with that. Later I saw the software should have had a "recent" death; I thought Freehand died out many years before it did... so maybe it is recent enough. 

I resorted to "false metal" because I don't really play in that style, but have thought more and more recently about metal getting out of its Satanic/death/LOTR escapism and applying itself to political issues, topical concerns, etc. I can't hit the hair metal high notes, and death metal cookie-monster voice sounds really fake to me. The resulting vocal affectation is sort of between Rudimentary Peni and Judas Priest via a sad karaoke night. Also it would give me an opportunity to use Garageband's recent "Smart Drummer" for better composition, instead of basic loops. So I am happy with the occasional fills and tom rolls.

Artificial voice sample in last third of song is a snippet from a freehand help forum.
Lyrics:
"From history’s crypt, there lies Aldus Freehand
The promiscuous mingling of pixel and vector
Sold to Adobe at the dawn of time
Forever exiled to preserve the two empires

Aldus! Freehand! Vengeance will be yours!
Aldus! Freehand! pixels in one layer, vectors in another!

Kickstarter campaign for a reboot/
Or over time, move to open-source/
Fanciers and hobbyists perhaps unite/
To recreate the sensibility and ease-of-use/

ALDUS  FREEHAND -- We mourn. Your. Loss"

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More on this 239th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a short composition in memoriam for a piece of recently deceased software” — at:  http://disquiet.com/0239/

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Cryptohelix

Requiem for Aldus Freehand-[disquiet0239]

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

"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."

Requiem for Aldus Freehand-[disquiet0239]

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