Beautiful! Was the pad the part that was slowed down?

naviarhaiku406 – first winter rain

first winter rain –
a nameless mountain
quaintly

Ryōkan Taigu was a Japanese poet and calligrapher who lived during the Edo period. A Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit, he spent most of his time writing poetry, calligraphy, and communing with nature. His poetry is often very simple and inspired by nature.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 20th October 2021

haiku by Ryōkan Taigu https://artofwonder.org/2014/11/14/forgetting-the-moon-the-poetry-of-ryokan/

picture by Paul Earle https://unsplash.com/@paulearlephotography

First Winter Rain [naviarhaiku406]

Disquiet Junto Project 0610: Speed Limit Pt 2
The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed.

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For this remix, I worked with a handful of tracks from the 0609 collection that I gravitated towards, chopping + processing them in Paulstretch, Twisted Wave, and Ableton Live to halve their speeds.

'Blink' by https://soundcloud.com/analoc became a melodic anchor that the rest of the remix was built around. It was interesting to listen to the results of slowing + pitching the original tracks down. Sometimes I would sample the original speed version, and others I would first slow down before stumbling onto something that clicked well with the composition. 

bassline + clicky percussion sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/analoc – https://soundcloud.com/analoc/0923-disquiet-junto-609-blink

heavy, textured bass drum hit sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/winterer – https://soundcloud.com/winterer/catnip-in-60bpm-disquiet0609

huge clap drum sound sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041 —https://soundcloud.com/oh-well-360226041/shadow-clocks-disquiet0609

soaring synth solo sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/xhg — https://soundcloud.com/xhg/disquiet0609-acrostic-speed-limit?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0609

chord washes + drum loops sampled from:
https://soundcloud.com/doodledigital – https://soundcloud.com/doodledigital/already-the-morning-disquiet0609

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More on this 610th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 2 (The Assignment: Combine two or more pre-existing 60 BPM tracks into something new — at half the speed), at: disquiet.com/0610/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…0-speed-limit-pt-2/

Creatures Blinking in the Morning Shadows • [Disquiet 0610]

240127 - Mixed Company Mash-Up

Used the source audio + electric bass (base and harmonics), drums+programming+synth pad+bells

Friday March 1st during the morning in Paris.

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

the unbearable loss of a train passing - disquiet0635

erweiterte Anordnung

“Take the sound of the stone aging.” At first I thought about this in the geological sense. Then I came to the conclusion that aging basically just means living. So what are stones up to when they live their secret lives when nobody is watching? What’s their sound? I imagined it being something cheeky and a little funky, kind of slow but danceable.

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

Disquiet0643 - Cheeky Stones Funk

Tongue Drum, OP1 Field, Chase Bliss MOOD MKII, SOMA COSMOS

More on the 645th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Trap — The Assignment: Record something, slow it down, and then record over it — at https://disquiet.com/0645/

Slow Down (disquiet0645)

Recorded, mixed and mastered on 12 May 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. This was also Day 1381 of the 100 Day Project.

Process notes - 

After recording and assembling a track based on Oblique Strategies for a future Magpie Pirates community collab compilation, I started in VCV Rack with a number of Stochastic Telegraph devices - Embellish, Ruminate, Memory, Drifter - and a pair of Bifaco Even VCOs, Atelier Palette, the wonderful Seriously Slow LFO by Frozen Wasteland, the SurgeXT delay and Bifaco’s Spring Reverb and then Biset’s Tree as a sequencer, along with VCAs, AD EGs, a clock, attenuverters, a limiter, scope, I/O and Nysthi’s Master Recorder2. 

I made three passes - 

- A 2:11 first pass, intended as raw material for the slow track
- A 0:02 mistake
- A final 3:49 pass, intended to not be slowed down.

I decided pretty quickly that I would use the mistake as a loop and that I would pitch things down 2-4 octaves. Too much high end for me.

I transferred these to three tracks in Live 12, repeating the 2 second one as the loop for dead center and panning the others left and right. I pitched down, drew fades in, ran it through Ozone 9 and that was it, really. 

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

Artwork: Generated in Adobe Express on 12 May 2024

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This original version of “East On The Homemaker” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0645: Speed Trap. The Assignment: Record something, slow it down, and then record over it.

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

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

More on the 645th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Trap — The Assignment: Record something, slow it down, and then record over it — at https://disquiet.com/0645/ 

Be sure to also check the VCV Rack online library (https://library.vcvrack.com/) for the Stochastic Telegraph brand by Mahlen Morris and many many other great developers.

Easy On The Homemaker (disquiet0645)

recorded a basic dub techno inspired patch and slowed it down to half speed, then recorded some glitchy percussiony things over it

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More on the 645th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Trap — The Assignment: Record something, slow it down, and then record over it — at https://disquiet.com/0645/

disquiet0645 - radial velocity

Experience the healing power of 174 Hz, an ambient solfeggio frequency known for its ability to provide an environment of physical and emotional safety, reducing pain and fostering a sense of security.

Celestial Resonance 174hz - The Healing Power

Pawel Strzelecki: J.S. Bach: "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland", BWV 659 (1748).

Improvisations, experiments, as they appear.

Slow Down (disquiet0645)

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