This piece was written in response to Tim Prebble's "Synaesthesia" challenge.  http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/synaesthesia-001
The photo itself was mapped onto the harmonic structure a low C# overtone series.  This was then played back with various different sound sources, allowing the fluctuations of the picture to shape the pitch movement.

Makara

This piece is built from a very short sample of Hmong singing.  All the material is generated from the same sample except for a very low bass note (F#), which is introduced a couple of times. This low note seemed to me the fundamental to the harmonic structure of the original melody.  The structure of the piece is a kind of "theme and variations", but via signal processing rather than melodic transformation.


Kuroshio 黒潮

All sound derived from the source audio by Michael Raphael.  Extreme RX4 noise reduction and Metasynth.

More on this 178th Disquiet Junto project — “Emphasize the bells in an urban field recording” — at:
disquiet.com/2015/05/28/disquie…78-sepulchrabells/


Marienkirche (disquiet0178-sepulchrabells)

Piece for music box.   Punched holes in the card, and slowly rolled through the music box.

Some processing added after.

Tintinnabulation

Shomyo 声明

Flyology

All audio from the second half of this antique cylinder recording:

http://www.archive.org/details/colnyp-15132 

Processed and spectrally reconstructed using ZNoise, SPEAR, Max/MSP, etc...

No other sources used.

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

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

Temps perdu - [disquiet0006-cylinder]

This piece is based on a short excerpt of pygmy song.  All the sounds are made from glass.

Vetrati

This is a piece based on the chord changes of the Japanese Sho.

Teutsuri  手移り

A suikinkutsu is a Japanese musical instrument that consists of a large underground ceramic pot, into which water slowly drips.   The sound is usually very quiet, and of course quite random.   This is based on a recording of one of these instruments.

Daniel Powell

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