Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape
The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing.

There is just one step to this project: Halloween is nearly here, so make some haunted sounds for people to play for trick-or-treaters.

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, October 30, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, October 26, 2023.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape

26.10.2023

armonica trumpet
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generative sound

trick or  (disquiet0617)

Samuel Beckett’s Ill Seen Ill Said describes the final, solitary days of an elderly woman. Written as a play, the work reads more like a stream-of-consciousness narrative with disassociated visuals symbolizing human frailty. 

Like much of Beckett’s work, not a whole lot happens in terms of action. The main character spends her time watching the evening sky, relating to the stoic loneliness of stones, and recalling fragments of a long life passed.

The opinion here is that truly haunting material succeeds in moments of anticipation. When viewing a horror movie, for example, we’re more anxious of what could happen rather than what eventually does. The following passage from Ill Seen Ill Said describes such a moment:

"All dark in the cabin while she whitens afar. Silence but for the imaginary murmur of flakes beating on the roof. And every now and then a real creak. Her company. Here without having to close the eye sees her afar. Motionless in the snow under the snow. The buttonhook trembles from its nail as if a night like any other. Facing the black curtain the chair exudes its solitude."

For this Junto piece, Suss Müsik used handmade sonic devices to manipulate sounds recorded from room ambience. Taking select attributes to their maximum created surprising effects. The result is a quiet yet creepy atmosphere in which nothing “haunting” actually takes place, allowing the imagination to conjure impending scenes of great disturbance.

The piece is entitled Ill Heard and was recorded live to 8-track.

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Ill Heard [Disquiet0617]

release date:27/10/2023   
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What's Going On (disquiet0617)

Hi, lately I’ve been working a lot (for a professional assignment) on orchestral soundscapes, so my previous Soundcloud shares were done using sample libraries, a friend’s cello performance and my own upright basses (using my bow)

This one, recorded yesterday and edited and finished today (Friday the 27th Oct 2023 is just me and my multitracked bowed bass , to achieve a noisy, creepy tone I didn’t use any rosin on the bow, so i could get some nasty tones bowing very hard and all around the strings. It was fun, just improvising one track on top of the previous and playing around some cathedral convolution reverbs, a Lexicon Hall at 18 seconds and one instance of the great Valhalla Supermassive (always useful for this stuff, with the right settings it transforms a noisy harmonic into a gorgeous sustained pad )

This one’s dedicated to William Burroughs and is called Rotten Ectoplasm.
Happy Halloween to everybody.

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Rotten Ectoplasm (disquiet0617)

This is part of Disquiet Junto Project #0617: Haunt Scape. See more at https://llllllll.co/t/64620.

Don't Go In There [disquiet0617]

Done for #disquiet0617

This was fun. It's mostly analog piano chords -my files say
"Dm over F, Em over G and Bm" stretched in Audacity, along with some cello notes turned metallic from stretching, and a few clinks and clanks and stuff. An old music box. My daughter offering some spooky vocals.

Thanks for listening y'all!

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Disquiet0617 Haunt Scape

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

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Poltergeist Party (disquiet0617)

I performed a live modular synth set at the Rocky Mountain Synth Meet Halloween concert in Boulder, Colorado on October 22, 2023. This is a recording of that performance.

It's a slow ballad, sung by a ghost as I imagine it. It's more sad and haunting, less spooky sound effects. I improvised the ghost melody on a touch controller. The heavy breathing sounds are LFO-modulated pink and white noise, and a distortion effect on the ghost voice makes her sound more angry and creepy at times. I kept everything simple since I needed my live performance case to be portable and quick to setup and teardown.

Haunted

Haunted - Disquiet0617

In Switzerland, Halloween is not the best studied or understood tradition, so please excuse my submission, if it does not meet expectations. I based the whole thing on a sample folder I found on my drive, downloaded in the late 90s and never used before. Many sounds were too gory for my feeble nerves so I stuck with cats, birds and the like. I then made some scary noises with my guitar and looped them. Now, kids, is that an appropriate soundtrack for a scary short story about collecting sweets?

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Disquiet0617 - Sounds Of Horror

A dark ambient track inspired by Halloween, created with Csound. A collage of my musical past, processed in various ways to create a soundscape that is both unsettling and otherworldly. The familiar is twisted and distorted, creating a sense of unease. The result is a track that is both experimental and atmospheric.

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What the hell is this...  - disquiet0617

Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape
The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing.

In the haunting shadows of a disquiet Halloween, I craved a genuine fright, so I summoned an 8-track version of Bitwig with a cruel code from the sinister pages of "ComputerMusic" magazine (August 2023). Since that blood-curdling Superbooth 23 affair, the eerie Cthulhu call of this DAW has haunted my dreams, yet the terrifying thought of the time needed for mastering IT always kept me at bay. Now, having dared to dance with this phantom... it's eerily … but okay. Alas, this 8-track version, drained by nocturnal vampires, has had many of its limbs horrifically amputated. Thus, even armed with my trusty modular hatchet, it's hard to gauge if braving this ghostly realm is worth it. Be that as it may, a few nocturnal samples, mummified synths, and a disemboweled Lyra8 impro might not raise the dead from the graves, but together they gave me some creeps. (A little bit.)


Track cover made with Dall-e 3.


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The Synths Have Eyes [disquiet0617]

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Wand Of Orcus (disquiet0617)

his was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0617 discussion thread:

This week's prompt coincided nicely with a playful Halloween inspired piece I've been working on the past couple days. It's actually something I started a year ago that I never had a chance to complete till now. It's more of a mildly spooky ditty than a haunt scape. 

Used Ableton Live Bouncy Notes and Patter for sequencing. Created a melody track using the Theremin Whistle preset in the Wavetable synth. Additional sound effect tracks were added. Effects plugins included Valhalla Vintage Verb, Aberrant DSP Sketch Cassette and Digitalis. Here's a link to a video version on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m87Dstnf0Q
 
More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/
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Full Moon Meander [disquiet0617]

Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape

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Voice sample: The Bat (1959)
Image source: oldbookillustrations.com

Ghosts (disquiet0617)

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Binding Trilogy (disquiet0617)

Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape
The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing.

There is just one step to this project: Halloween is nearly here, so make some haunted sounds for people to play for trick-or-treaters.

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My track notes for this submission can be found here:https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0617-haunt-scape/64620/23

[Disquiet_Junto_0617] The weather will be rather strange

A single-take 'performance' on the iVCS3 with 'spooky' in mind ...

More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull#/media/File:3d_CT_scan_animation.gif

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more halF unusuaL

halF haunteD [disquiet0617]

sound art for disquiet0617

sounds taken from a old pram found in the street. 
played with fingers and animal bones.
recorded with a contact mic.
no effects.

haunted pram (disquiet0617)

Haint Misbehaving Disquiet0617

[disquiet0617] Oz

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.