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Linguaticum

More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project — IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) — at:

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Before Jumping From A Balcony (disquiet0476)

The first thing that stuck out to me from this image was the traffic, so I got some traffic samples. The balconies made me think of replicating the moment of hearing other people in the distance/through walls/in an obfuscated way so I downloaded samples of people talking. All the samples are from freesound.

The image has a haunting, distant quality to it, something I wanted to capture with a synth. I played around with the Applied Acoustics Systems Ultra Analog Session plugin in Ableton and I quite liked the synthy sound of it. The bit at the end is the same synth but pitched down. 

All the samples have a low-pass filter applied, the vocal samples have multiple echos, delays and instances of Multiband Dynamics to create a distant, removed feeling to it. I chopped up some bits from the traffic samples and spread them through the song. 

And that's it. Enjoy!
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More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project — IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) — at:

disquiet.com/0476/

The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

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Ghost Town (disquiet 0476)

Low Hanging Doom   (Disquiet 0476)

What's behind the smog? Hopefully something nice.

More on this 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project – IAH Forecast (The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it.) – at:

https://disquiet.com/0476/

The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

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https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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behind the smog

behind the smog [disquiet0476]

This Disquiet Junto project was to make a song that would have a specific image as an album cover.  I set the image as my desktop and got my analog polysynth set up and just messed around until I found a chord progression that felt right.  Then I worked fairly hard for 3 days to make it feel like a full song.  
This is actually the first song I've finished with my new DAW (bitwig) so I learned quite a bit during the process.  Using the modulators to bring effects in and out at random is a lot of fun.  You might hear it on the drums or it might be kind of buried in the mix.  I also played with the time stretch algorithms to create glitchy stuttering for the drums in the break.

disquiet0476 IAH Forecast

Submission for the 476th weekly Disquiet Junto project – IAH Forecast. 
The Assignment: Here’s your next single’s cover. Now record it. (I went with a "What Kraftwerk might have sounded like if they were a cheesy 60's garage band produced by Joe Meek" vibe.)

More info on this project at:

https://disquiet.com/0476/

The image that is the source of this project is by Robert Boyd (www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com) and has been used with his permission.

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https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Disquiet0476 A1a

Long time, no time. This piece is a response to the weekly Disquiet Junto Challenge. This time, the assignment was:

Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.

Inspired by a recent musical tool (the XLNAudio XO), using my mouse and a map of drum samples, I randomly traveled different samples by moving my mouse over the map with my eyes closed. The sampled output of that "journey" ends when the mouse exited the map and no sounds were left. Using the first and only recording of that exploration, i added some spectral noise and a few strings and chords trying to convey the strange emotion that I encountered, listening to the samples.

More on this 477th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Flying Blind (The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.) – at:

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disquiet0477 - travelling dark and binary waves

Performed with the Roli block without looking at the keywaves.

More on this 477th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Flying Blind (The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.) – at:

https://disquiet.com/0477/

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Image associated with this project is by Rachel Fox, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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Flying Blind (disquiet0477)

Disquiet Junto Project 0477: Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.

I was doing something else on my iPad, sitting outside in the sun this afternoon, when the nearby bells belled. I suddenly remembered a sentence I read just yesterday, that natural idiophones where the best base for granular synthesis. I managed to record the already fading bells with the iPad and loaded copies of the samples into the Samplr App. It's three tracks with the original sample (I mixed the unchanged version to the beginning of the track), two of them very normal, one very high und unrecognisable as such. This settings and the recording in AudioShare I did by looking, then I flew blind, which is not impossible as Samplr gives you some defined area to touch (and you need to look to stop the machine or tracks with two fingers). But as the iPad surface does not give any haptic feedback, there were a lot of things going wrong anyway. This track uses around 5 minutes that sounded pretty good to me, but maybe it's just because I like church bells. Trivia: In this case it's the St. Maximilian church in Munich, Germany, and the bells have vintage names like Otto, Ludwig, Maximilian and Salve and they bell every saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. (and no, I didn't knew that until I checked Wikipedia for this description).

Track cover based on "Manto and Tiresias" by Henry Singleton (1766-1839) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Singleton_(1766-1839)_-_Manto_and_Tiresias_-_N01028_-_National_Gallery.jpg

More on this 477th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Flying Blind (The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.) — at:
https://disquiet.com/0477/

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https://disquiet.com/junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
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behind the smog [disquiet0476]

David Gibbs