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Disquiet Junto Project 0232: No Input

Well I did not have 2 mixers but I have noticed how my headphones feedback when I lay them on the mic going throughout my stomp box interface so I went with that. I noticed that those fx on the box made different sounds and I noticed an fx when I messed around with the eq on the mixer(cool) so I did that and switched presets fx on the stomp box. I recorded all that. Pitched them down cause that high sound gives me a headache after awhile. I converted one track to midi and feed through a modular bass drum sound. I could not listen to much of this but I could see how a bit might be cleansing.
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And How Do You Feel About That? (disquiet0232)

This week's Disquiet Junto involves creating a track using the 'zero-input mixer' method - which means that no overt sound sources are allowed - the noises are created using feedback loops form the mixer and any effects that are applied to the loops. 

I have done some ZIM work  before (https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/zero-input-mixer), so know just how important it is to be careful with levels! You have to really be ready with the kill switch / faders when feedback ramps up! It is usually advised to add a hard limiter to the end of the chain to prevent massive volume spikes. 

I did mine in my modular - using an A-138-m matrix mixer - this allows me to route four inputs into four outputs in various levels. It also allows me to send the signals either right-way up or inverted, which can help tame the feedback a little by letting me add in the inverted signal to the chain. I ran the loops through a few filters, a BBD delay module, and a Springray reverb unit (on large tank). The output went via a filter to the mixer, and had a large reverb added courtesy of the Strymon BigSky.  I then recorded as I played around with the various mixer knobs, filter cut-offs , tone controls on the springray, and delay length on the BBD.   The resonance controls on the filters was was turned down to avoid putting the filters in self-oscillation, which would have been contrary to the idea of a ZIM I feel!

A related idea is to use no patch cables between modules- just to play with the self-oscillations that can be created in individual modules:  -  and also a similar concept of using no patch cables: https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/self-oscilation 

Zero Input Mixer - (Disquiet0232)

https://hearthis.at/sevenism/crimson-sky-disquiet0232/ (full piece)

i do a lot of this. gave myself some extra constraints.. didnt use a noise gate or any limiting so if it went mental i'd have to deal with it on the fly. i wanted to get it so there was a complicated rhythm, bass, and mid/hi melody. recorded first go, came out ok.

all done in podfarm.. synth mods, wah, delays, reverb etc .. 20 modules across two fx chains

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Disquiet Junto Project 0232: No Input
The Assignment: Record a piece of music exploring the concept of “no-input mixing.”

This week’s project explores the concept of no-input mixing. For background, including a tutorial, this Synthtopia article, summarizing more detailed coverage by the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M, might prove useful:

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/10/27/no-input-mixing-tutorial/

Step 1: Read up, if it’s not already familiar, on the concept of “no-input mixing,” which involves creating feedback by taking the output of a mixer and plugging it into the input of the same mixer, thus exposing and building on inherent (i.e., noisy) sonic properties of the device.

Step 2: Experiment with no-input mixing.

Step 3: Record a short piece of no-input mixing music.

Step 4: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This project was posted in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, June 9, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, June 13, 2016.

Length: Length is up to you, though between two and three minutes seems about right.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this project, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please in the title to your track include the term “disquiet0232.” Also use “disquiet0232” as a tag for your track.

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https://hearthis.at/sevenism/crimson-sky-disquiet0232/

more of the same

Crimson Sky (disquiet0232)

a textured noise experiment in no-input mixing. an afternoon in the laboratory, high-voltage lines sizzling, mysterious pipes and beakers bubbling. subsonic rumbles. no audio signals were used.

this is my first-ever venture into no-input recording, per this week's disquiet junto project theme. i was originally planning on doing something with my mackie mixer and strymon effects pedals, a multitracked pitched ambient drone sketch, but...i didn't have enough 1/4" cables. so i figured i could try it with a mixer eurorack module: mutable instruments shades.

i normally mostly use shades to control the amount of modulation sent to clouds. but on its own, once self-patched, shades puts out a surprising amount of extremely low-frequency noise when adjusting knobs, as i saw with a spectrum/eq utility in ableton live. i had an idea: why not excite that activity with a modulator such as tides? i already had the parasite alternative firmware running on tides, so it was just a matter of sending one output of random control voltage into shades, and from there into my audio interface.

the result was seven minutes of hilarious, delightful knob-wiggling, which i then edited down to under three minutes. this track is a sample of the wildly varying textures, drones, static pops, pitched buzz, and burbling gloops obtained with this tiny self-patched rig. just two modules, but so much fun!

recorded for disquiet junto 0232, "no input," and weekly beats 2016 #23.

http://disquiet.com/2016/06/09/disquiet0232/
http://weeklybeats.com

electric waterworks (disquiet0232)

Disquiet Junto Project 0232: No Input
The Assignment: Record a piece of music exploring the concept of “no-input mixing.”

This was the first time I’ve tried “no input” mixing. I was really surprised at the variety and complexity of sounds that came out. Very cool. 

Equipment: Mackie 1202 (I used 2 channels of feedback) and a voltage controlled delay (Ray WIlson design) modulated with a Wogglebug (mostly random step). Edited in Audacity. 

Creative Commons license granted. 

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No Input Mixer [disquiet0232]

I was very happy when I saw this challenge as this is something I have tired once in the past with not much success and have wanted to try again, this gave me the motivation to try it again, the tutorial helped a lot this time round to get (in my opinion) better results.

Equipment used and also see track image
Folio Notepad mixer - Mixer 1
Foster MN-15 Mixer - Mixer 2 (My partner brought this for me in charity shop)
Boss OverDrive OD-3 pedal (into passive DI box)
Ableton Live for recording and Compression and EQ

I started play around to at first and enjoyed finding new sounds, and was amazed at the variety you could get wth the smallest movement of the control (almost to much it was hard to make chooses). For the first attempts of recording I just hit record and recorded the whole lot, but I wasn't happy with the results of one long continues track. Then the idea came to me to find "sweet spots" and record these with silence in-between. So I set the constants of only changing 5 controls, recording 5 sections which in total should last about 3 minutes. Which is what I did and then added some EQ and compression afterwards (framing of the sound).

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NoInputMixer - disquiet0232

Two channels of audio mixer feedback are the sound sources. Channel 1 has a Serge Phaser inserted between send and return; Channel 2 has a Serge Resonant EQ inserted between send and return. Both Channels are controlled by their own VCAs within their feedback loops, the level of which affects both the pitch and volume of the feedback. Channels 1 and 2 are then fed into a crossfader before the final output.

Each VCA, and the X-fader have their own LFO (either a Serge Dual Transient Generator, or  Dual Universal Slope Generator). 

A slowly clocked Serge TKB provides the animation:

Row A: Phase Shift position for Channel 1
Row B: Channel 1 LFO rate
Row C: Channel 2 LFO rate
Row D: Crossfade LFO rate

All four row outputs go through slew generators (more Serge DTGs and DUSGs)to provide gradual shifting animations as the TKB advances from stage to stage.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0232: No Input
The Assignment: Record a piece of music exploring the concept of “no-input mixing.”

This week’s project explores the concept of no-input mixing. For background, including a tutorial, this Synthtopia article, summarizing more detailed coverage by the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M, might prove useful:

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/10/27/no-input-mixing-tutorial/

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disquiet0232 XRMX

I followed the tutorial at http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/10/27/no-input-mixing-tutorial/ to create a feedback loop between two Mackie mixers (models 1402-VLZ and 1202). While adjusting EQ and levels on the two mixers, I recorded a few takes. Then for a different approach, I added Sonic Charge's Permut8 effect to a blank track in Reaper and turned the input, feedback, output, and mix levels to their maximum to produce feedback. I assigned several knobs on my Korg nanoKONTROL2 to various Permut8 parameters, then recorded while tweaking those knobs. Finally, I sliced the takes, arranging the most interesting parts together. The mixer feedback section runs for the first 58 seconds; the rest is the Permut8 feedback.

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Circuit (disquiet0232)

I wasn't sure I could do this project, for I didn't have a mixer to sacrifice for the cause.  However,  I dove into my basement and unearthed my semi-defunct Hafler model 110 stereo pre-amp, which could be considered a mixer for stereo components.  I was able to coax one heck of a feedback loop out of the 110.   For better or worse, what is presented here is the 110 by itself with some knob twiddling and no processing.  It is either terrifying or crap, or maybe it is terrifying crap.  This was a project I didn't expect to complete, so I am at least pleased that I was able to post this.

Model 110 {Disquiet 0232}

A while since I've Junto-ed, this one caught my eye/hard to go past the fun stuff...

Octave rectifier distortion in tandem with a tremolo effect delivers unstable gain levels at the core of a looooong looooop including a couple of filters, delay & overdriven germanium clipping - tapped at 2x points in the loop for a stereo mix.

No controls touched for the duration; at the end, a couple of pots wound 'up to 11' actually kills the oscillations in a sickly fade out.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0232: No Input
The Assignment: Record a piece of music exploring the concept of “no-input mixing.”

This week’s project explores the concept of no-input mixing. For background, including a tutorial, this Synthtopia article, summarizing more detailed coverage by the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M, might prove useful:

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/10/27/no-input-mixing-tutorial/

Step 1: Read up, if it’s not already familiar, on the concept of “no-input mixing,” which involves creating feedback by taking the output of a mixer and plugging it into the input of the same mixer, thus exposing and building on inherent (i.e., noisy) sonic properties of the device.

Step 2: Experiment with no-input mixing.

Step 3: Record a short piece of no-input mixing music.

Step 4: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

More on this 232nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Record a piece of music exploring the concept of ‘no-input mixing.'” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0232/

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Cheap Gear [Disquiet Junto Project 0232: No Input]

Nice one this week... a few years ago I stumbled upon the technique and art of no-input music. Set out to explore this new world and finished a few etudes using different mixers I could get my hands on. 
Recently a friend of mine bought two mixers at the local church auction and sold one of them to me, and I immediately knew what had to happen - no-input - with my other two mixers feeding each other (image is my desk while the battle played out) No effects in the chain or added later 
What you hear is a live performance recorded into Ableton
Disquiet Junto Project 0232: No Input
The Assignment: Record a piece of music exploring the concept of “no-input mixing.”

This week’s project explores the concept of no-input mixing. For background, including a tutorial, this Synthtopia article, summarizing more detailed coverage by the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M, might prove useful:

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/10/27/no-input-mixing-tutorial/

Step 1: Read up, if it’s not already familiar, on the concept of “no-input mixing,” which involves creating feedback by taking the output of a mixer and plugging it into the input of the same mixer, thus exposing and building on inherent (i.e., noisy) sonic properties of the device.

Step 2: Experiment with no-input mixing.

Step 3: Record a short piece of no-input mixing music.

Step 4: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This project was posted in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, June 9, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, June 13, 2016.

Length: Length is up to you, though between two and three minutes seems about right.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this project, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please in the title to your track include the term “disquiet0232.” Also use “disquiet0232” as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

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“disquiet0232.”no input threesome

Setup my trusty old EURORACK UB802 with cheap guitar cables from CRTL ROOM OUT L to 1, CRTL ROOM OUR R to 2 & FX SEND TO LINE IN 3/4 L & then spent hours on the floor recording squalls, buzzes and pulses to Audacity. Lord knows what Soundcloud's compression's gonna do to this; could well improve it for all i know. 

Named for hot drinks and kneeling.

{ i'm always thankful to Marc for these prompts & projects but i was especially glad to be nudged into doing something i'd been meaning to tinker with for  a  g  e  s . Thanks Marc! }

ｈｅａｌｔｈｙ Ｍｅｎｉｓｃｕｓ [disquiet0232]

I've worked with no-input audio before, but my wife and I are studying/teaching in Rome this summer and I didn't bring any audio equipment other than a laptop and earbuds. I used the built-in mic and speakers on my laptop to simulate the feedback of no-input techniques. The roman street outside of our apartment is very loud, to the point of making it almost impossible to get anything done, so I decided to set my computer in the open bathroom window and let the feedback screech into the street on max volume. I wrote a patch in Puredata to manipulate the sound and "mixed" the audio as best I could with earbuds in Audacity. This track is dedicated to the LGBTQA family.

disquiet0232 - Harsh is how we mourn

Kwik version is most tracks were done with a Realistic Electronic Reverb (really a short delay passing as reverb) set up to feedback.  It has two sets of mono outputs and inputs.  One each for mic can be connected for fdbk., and another set for line level.  The line level out can send out the resulting din of patching the mic out into the mic in, which is what I did--simple, easy peasy no-input fun.  

The RER line output was played through a venerable gray Realistic mini amp and recorded open air to several separate tracks.  

Another set up was a FM radio based feedback loop via a Monotron out into a mini FM transmitter, a Walkman set to FM (to go back into the Monotron), and an old boombox set to FM for playback of that din.  So the mixer buss/multiplex here exists in the ether.  Only one track of that set up recorded.  All of the tracks were mixed in a none too new version of GarageBand.

General philosophy of my doing Juntos is to do something I don't much of in a way I don't or never do.  Not quite so this time.  I've made much use of the Walkman/Monotron/FM transmission loop in recent times.  And I used to use the RER all the damn time, just not lately.  So this was a revisiting/recontextualization of oft used means.

A past, somewhat more pop like music-ish use of the RER can be heard hereabouts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLKqiS7auMI

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Muskrat Offset - Disquiet0232

Live room recording (hence audible children noises) on my mobile via Hi-q mp3 recorder. Rig included  Eurorack MX 602A mixer, Alesis NanoVerb & DOD TR3G^2 "Double Grunge" pedal played out thru my dinky Kustom 10w practice amp.

Performed with my pal Justin in mind https://soundcloud.com/information

Thanks for listening!

-ZKM

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NoInTake2 [disquiet0232]

Created using a Tascam MK202 4-track with output effects plugged back into track 1's input. Audio out through headphones into a 40Watt Amp, recorded on my iphone.

This is the first time I've participated in Disquiet Junto.



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Disquiet0232 - NonTape

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.