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(This project is for Sterling.)

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Disquiet Junto Project 0260: Tone Fade

Inspired by Wust I decided to create my own instrument. I used a metal fan cage and recorded through a delay to get a longer decay. I pitched down 12 and 24 unwarped so the timing offset and copied the tracks into different places in the stereo field. I lowered one down 48 and kept it in the center. Seasons Greetings and Happy New Year!
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(This project is for Sterling.)

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Fanny's Song (disquiet0260)

'pax melior est quam iustissimum bellum'
Track created for the Disquiet Junto Project. http://www.disquiet.com
0260 = Tone Fade. An exercise in when a sound ends.

iZotope Iris personal patch.
Eb6 chord.
Mixed in Logic Pro 9.

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Associated image : Petrus Major.

Reindeer Song [disquiet0260]

Variations On a Note [disquiet0260]
Disquiet Junto Project 0260: Tone Fade
An exercise in when a sound ends.

On my piano I played a C natural 2 octaves below middle C while muting the strings with my thumb. I moved my thumb slightly between each note which brought out different harmonics. Took this track and layered it 4 times shifting the pitch up a 5th, octave and third creating a major chord. 

Amplitude modulated each of the 4 tracks with a slow sine wave (10 second cycle, 75% depth) and at 4 different phases (0, 90, 120 and 180) creating a slow cross fading between the 4 tracks. Added a bit of pitch stretched root note and some additional reversed piano sounds (opposite of fade out) for atmosphere.

Recorded with a Zoom H5. Edited with Audacity. 
Photo by Searobin

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(This project is for Sterling.)

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Variations On A Note [disquiet0260]

One note on my Microbrute, fed through Ableton and with modulation, distortion, convulution reverb and delay applied.

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Untitled [Disquiet0260]

I'm in the back room of the house, but there is still leakage from the holiday bustle in the rest of the house. And if you listen carefully, a very much in-tune airplane!

I choose to play a McNally Strumstick, which I've had for years. My mother gave this to me when I was in college... and she happens to be visiting, so circle!

— —
More on this 260th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Tone Fade: An exercise in when a sound ends — at:
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16 Strums for 2016 (Disquiet 0260)

The source material for this piece is the sub oscillator of an Intellijel Dixie II+ triggered by a Mutable Instruments Peaks, then routed through Rings, Streams, and Clouds.  Modulated by Tides, with the length of the decay determined by a Make Noise Maths and routed to the outside world through a Synthrotek MST hard-panned stereo output module.

Decaydence [Disquiet 0260]

Well, here it is: your sound for the season. I have this little bell and I just gave the hammer a big push with my finger. I recorded the sound in Garageband on my iPad and it appeared to have some nice beats.

More on this 260th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Tone Fade: An exercise in when a sound ends — at:

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(This project is for Sterling.)

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Soundcloud

Christmass Bell - disquiet0260

'alius et idem'
Track based on, and inspired by :
- One Tone to Rule them All (disquiet0260) by Detritus Tabu.
https://soundcloud.com/detritus-tabu3/one-tone-to-rule-them-all-disquiet0260
- Reindeer Song [disquiet0260] by Petrus Major.
https://soundcloud.com/petrus-major/reindeer-song-disquiet0260

Associated image : Petrus Major.

2 Tones Around The World (Detritus Tabu - Petrus Major) [collaborative]

This track was created for the Disquiet Junto #260.

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Thankfully I got the assignment before leaving for vacation, so I grabbed my Zoom H4n recorder before leaving.

The house where I'm staying has an old out of tune player piano in the basement. I set my recorder in front of the paper roll (pictured). Not the best recording, but good enough for this project. 

I did edit the track a little, since the ring-off of the piano was longer than the recorder could capture. No other processing, though. 

I do love the out-of tune sound and the harshness of the old piano strings.

Long Reverberation [disquiet0260]

Variations of three pizzicato notes (Cello), convolution reverb added to give space.

Disquiet Junto Project 0260: Tone Fade
An exercise in when a sound ends.

Step 1: More than many Junto projects, this is essentially an exercise, one that is as much about listening as it is about playing. It’s also a live performance.

Step 2: Choose an instrument that can have a fairly long fade.

Step 3: The plan is to record yourself playing the instrument selected in Step 2 for around three to four minutes straight, and certainly longer if you choose. Set up your equipment to allow for this.

Step 4: Choose a note or a chord to play on the instrument. You’ll only be playing that one note or chord for the duration of the piece.

Step 5: The plan is to play that note or chord, and to then wait until you’re certain you can no longer hear it, and to then at that instant strike the note or chord again. You’ll do this over and over — waiting until it is silent, but not letting the silence linger. Do this for as long as you like. Three or four minutes seems about right. Kudos in advance to the sonic yogis who aim for half an hour or longer.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Per the instructions below, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0260″ (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 3: In this discussion thread at llllllll.co please consider posting your track.

Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This project was posted in the morning, California time, on Thursday, December 22, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, December 26, 2016.

Length: The length is up to you, but three to four minutes sounds about right.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0260” in the title of the track, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

Upload: When participating in this project, post one finished track with the project tag, 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.

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).

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(This project is for Sterling.)

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PIZZ - disquiet0260

My Music Videos - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_iQ5JFusPt9EIwKIZ5rew
Year End Fade(disquiet0260)
This prompt left me wishing the family piano was still around, so instead I grabbed amp, guitar, pedal and made some noise with proper sustain. I used the iPad mic in music memos placed about 1 foot from the Crate amp, stomped the chorus and played a E minor until tone was almost gone to amp buzz. The crackling isn’t hot signal, just a little cabinet noise. And just for fun I added a little piece of door ajar reminder at the end as it had the perfect tone fade and appeared to me minutes after reading this weeks email…serendipity?! Happy Holidays till the new year!  
More on this 260th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Tone Fade: An exercise in when a sound ends — at:
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Season of our Disquiet

Year End Fade(disquiet0260)

Took my PRS
Record this one chord for 4 minutes in cubasis with ipad
Use the pickup switch in fade several times
Copy the this to another track
Pan both left/right
Use different rev & delay on tracks
ready

PaulReedFade(disquiet0260)

This week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to play one note/chord with a long fade and play it over and over again for a long time (~4 minutes).  I failed miserably but ended up with an interesting "one-note" piece!

I thought playing my baritone horn in a basement stairwell would provide a nice but of reverb and "fade." (Turns out this was not the case).  I put my Zoom H4 on the basement landing, my laptop on the 2nd floor landing, and I stood on the 3rd floor landing with by baritone horn.  I played one note (but in different octaves).  F2 twice, F3 twice, F4 once, and F2 once.  Turns out running up and down 3 flights of stairs winded me a bit, so once I started trying to record long tones, my diaphragm wouldn't cooperate and interrupted my notes by spasming and apparently trying to get me to inhale.  I told it we all need to suffer for our art.  So there are some interruptions in the tones, but I think that adds a little variety.

Then I put it all into Ableton Live to edit it. The "fade" from the reverb was negligible, but I left in the dead space because I think it gives a sense of phrasing (and kind of Cageian, no?)  I took my  recordings from two locales (basement-level, 2nd-floor landing), and altered them so they both play at half-speed and an octave lower.  I panned them left and right, and then brought two more copies from those locales but didn't alter the speed or pitch of those.  But I *did* edit them so they started at the same time as the low notes.

But, having everything start at the same time is actually kind of boring.  So I moved the clips so that the notes *ended* at the same time.  That was much more interesting and added a sort of antiphonal/call & response feel.  There was one part where I didn't move them: at about 3:00, some really interesting overtones showed up in the note (I guess that's the stairwell's resonant note or something?)  I left that part "solo" to let it shine.  

The title comes from what I have to say 1,000 times to people whenever I bring out my euphonium.

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More on this 260th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Tone Fade: An exercise in when a sound ends — at:

http://disquiet.com/0260/

(This project is for Sterling.)

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It's Not A Toobah (Overtone Euphonium) (disquiet0260)

PROCESS
Thank you so much, Marc (@disquiet) for thinking of Sterling in this project. As I told Marc in an email exchange where he told me of the dedication in this week's prompt, my thinking about how the sound waves we produce may somehow go on forever began with the Junto's week dedicated to the death of Jefferey Melton (@Nofi).

Nick Drake's 'Northern Sky' open tuning resolves to a Dsus4 chord (with the suspended G as the center note and F# up high)
D-A-D-G-D-F#

I was gifted knowledge of Drake while working at Rolling Stone as an intern in 1992, and ever since, 'Northern Sky' is the song I turn to when skies darken. Felt right to invoke it here by striking its open chord for a few minutes. (Note: Soundcloud's auto-compression revealed my perceived silences to be not so silent. Hi ho.)

Sterling passed in our home on 22 December 2016 ~6:20 EST. I trust he's suspended somewhere now between space & time in painless parallel peace. Fwiw, we had David Bowie on random shuffle and 'Absolute Beginners' came on as the process began. Perfect is a strange word in this context, but life works in curious ways sometimes to deliver solace.

All the love.

:^D

RELEVANT EXTERNAL LINKS:
My reflections on Sterling:
https://medium.com/westyreflector/sterling-at-the-gates-dcff944b76df

Alan Watts on how the universe is made of vibrations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhHfKqLR6NI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmkwqn0mSQs

My prior piece "Riding Waves" to honor the passing of Nofi:
https://soundcloud.com/thereflectors/riding-waves

RIG
Guitar:
Jolie (2000 Gibson ES-335 DOT reissue, modded 100% with custom http://peekamoose.com electronics)

Pedal Board:
EQ Devices The Warden optical compressor -> Lotus Pedals SnowJob Underdrive -> tc electronic Flashback delay -> Diamond Tremolo -> EQ Devices Grand Orbiter -> EQ Devices Afterneath -> Strymon blueSky Reverb

Recording:
Line6 POD-XT (Blackface Lux emulator) -> MOTU 828mk2 firewire interface -> AcidPro 7.0 -> Harrison Consoles Mixbus (Mastering)

META
More on this 260th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Tone Fade: An exercise in when a sound ends — at:
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(This project is for Sterling.)

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
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sterling fades [disquiet0260-tonefade]

Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0260: Tone Fade 
@disquiet

The project: "An exercise in when a sound ends."

A long-fading sound, the same notes played, each time held until you’re certain you can no longer hear it. Then repeat (with feeling). Record a live performance.

I spent an hour or two on sound design. What I came up with was a bit convoluted... but worked: Yamaha CS2x Wurlitzer > Catlalinbread Callisto > Line6 POD (set on a basic delay) > Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run > Lexicon MPX 100. 

My goal was to create a sound where bits and pieces of other notes and overtones stuck out at different times, one that would "drift off" the decay to highlight the silences in between, and a sound that was dynamically sensitive to the performance. A couple of key elements to achieving this was bringing in the natural(ish) resonance of the Lexicon chamber reverb, and lengthening the decay on the Wurli sound so that holding the chord a tiny bit longer bloomed the lower register.

Listening to each chord fall into silence was a good exercise in mindfulness. I had to tamp down my instinct to find a tempo a time or two.

There are a couple of faults in the recording - an over or two crackled in the Lexicon, and I tripped over a note towards the end - but, hey: live recording!

Please enjoy.

More on this 260th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Tone Fade: An exercise in when a sound ends — at:

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In The Wurling Halls [ disquiet0260 - tonefade ]

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.