I wanted to keep things simple by strictly using the original source material without any synthesis or fancy resynthesis. So I put the original recording in reaper and then sent various filtered versions of it through various effects. I want to create something like a bass drum from the track, but I didn't want to 'cheat' by doing pitch modulation / using a self resonating filter on it. That said, I ended up using a self resonating filter for the bassline like thing, and I used paulstretch to extract some tonal content. The best intentions.. I manually adjusted the clip so that it stayed roughly synchronised for the bulk of the track, but then mixed in the original recording at the end so that there was some syncopation.

I find it a bit heavy on the drudgery of the march, and if I were doing it again I think I would try to escape that drudgery by transitioning to more of a drone, but I'm not about to start from scratch now :)

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More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/ 24

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shifty pipe [disquiet0581-helsinkidownspout]

Creating eclectic music and enjoying the journey. 
I participate in Weekly Beats (as miraclemiles) and the Disquiet Junto. 
This account has my solo and Creatures Once band music.

M. Ackerman (formerly modus pony) is an instrumental composer and multi-instrumentalist. He likes toast with peanut butter and a little honey.

RabMusicLab produces instrumental music of various genres from classical to electronic without shying away from excursions into pop or experimental music. The tracks are published for the pleasure, entertainment and inspiration of every listener.

RabMusicLab loves to participate in the Disquiet Junto Projects of https://soundcloud.com/disquiet to fuel his creativity . All tracks that have "disquiet" in the title were created as response to these projects. Further informations can be found in the respective track-information,

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