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Disquiet Junto Project 0137: Old-Time Electronica

Experimental Tapemusic Piece, influenced by the works of the early Stockhausen, Ligetis Articulations and Burtts Sounddesign.

Performed on EMS Synthi A, Eurorack Modular and AKG Spring Reverb, recorded at European Live Electronic Center, Lüneburg and Componit Studio, Hamburg

BurrtLigHausen -disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica-

Thursday morning jam, a little 70's German influence. Chord loops were recorded into an old Roland DEP5 digital delay/reverb using various analog synths. The loops were recorded into Logic Pro. A processed Roland CR78 for the rhythm bed along with some "found" percussion from the kitchen. A Yamaha VL1 was used for the distorted drone in the back ground and a Yamaha CS70M for the meandering melody line and for the chords in the final section. Fuzz "guitar" sound at the end is an Oxford Synth Company OSCar through a fuzz box.

APOB - Cluster Fudge [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

The Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin. This is a song in the style of "old-time electronica."

I approached the challenge of what "old-time electronica" might be and took an avenue thinking that perhaps it is a sub-genre where artists clothe a old rag-time style song in modern electronica. I decided to select the quintessential ragtime song, Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin and see what I could do to give it an electronica sound. What results is an up-beat and melodic track. I am not sure if it is dance-able but I think it turned out quite well.

I created this track using Bitwig Studio 1.0.13, mostly with the polysynth soft-synth and sampled drums. The midi version of the Maple Leaf Rag used in this track was created by Warren Trachtman.

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Maple Leaf [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

For this assignment I focused on creating something in the style of the pioneers at GRM in France and to a certain extent the Radiophonic Workshop (which will always be dear to my heart when I think of pioneers of Electronic music).

I began using granular synthesis to create a selection of textures and "raw" electronic sounds. I then used a selection of techniques including the reversing of sounds and tape emulation to fill the audio and attempt an "authentic" sound even though my medium is digital rather than analog sounds. Finally I panned the seperate sections hard left and hard right to emulate early stereo mixes.

As vintage electronic sounds is a particular love of mine I may submit several pieces for this assignment. I would like to attempt something in the style of Bruce Haack or maybe the more cinematic 70s electronic sounds. Stay tuned!! : )

Forelight

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GeRM Style - Electronique Musique [disquiet0137 - Oldtimeelectronica]

Old-time electronica....

I thought about this for a while...

Well I like ambient/drones so I went there (again)

Old-time made me think of "old music" but voice isn't allowed. 

Decided to use pipe organ.

Samples of pipe organ (playing a Bb Major Triad with various registrations)

Resonated it in different manners.

Added some panning.

Let the instrument speak. (Seems kinda crispy though)
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Disquiet Junto Project 0137: Old-Time Electronica
The Assignment: Produce an original piece of music that fits the genre “old-time electronica.”

All Disquiet Junto projects employ constraint as a means to stimulate creativity and productivity. Sometimes this means limiting oneself to specific source material, other times to a conceptual approach, and there’s always the additional constraint of time: the deadline is approximately four days, depending on your time zone.

For this Disquiet Junto project, the constraint is a matter of terminology. This week we’re exploring how the concept of “genre” can itself serve as a restraint, and we’ll accomplish this by pushing back at genre conventions.

The project instructions are straightforward: Record an original piece of music that you feel belongs within the genre of “old-time electronica.”

Restrictions: You can use any source material, any instrumentation, except the human voice.

Deadline: Monday, August 11, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

CrispyHorizons - “disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica″

An instant analog feel jam aimed at classic Warp IDM.  deployed pro-53 ,808, various step sequencing,  obvious breakbeats and plenty saturation to get similar to selected ambientworks on old tapes. ableton is just great this is an improvisation on session view , excerpt 4 mins from couple of hours of a jam. 
I'm not sure the right of the swedish rhapsody irdial (public domain?)but it helped something like old cold war feel, here it is. i remember flying lotus and stereolab used it https://archive.org/details/ird059

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Tcp D1 1 [disquiet0137 - Oldtimeelectronica]

Really vague about what electronica means but it suggests "pop" to me rather than experimental. "Old-time" brought to mind the Wendy Carlos "Switched on Bach." Disco music also came to mind. 

I used a Kaosillator with 2 patches that sounded retro to me, created 2 tracks and then aligned them in Logic and wrapped it up using a Channel EQ preset called Boombox, a word which for me conjures days of yore.


Rather goofy, was not sure if I should post it, but it is mercifully short.

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Heckuva Pile  [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

This is a remix of the Edison Concert Band's recording of "Nearer, my God, to Thee" (1902). The original recording was downloaded from archive.org. I did "electronic processing" on this old-time hymn to create something impossible at the time it was created: a time-stretched version with a drone created from part of the recording as well, and a phasing effect created by slightly different stretch lengths. My hope is that this version helps people hear this hymn in a new way. (Apologies that I went over the time-limit guidelines a little.)

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Nearer, my God, to Thee (remix) [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

Disquiet Junto Project 0137: Old-Time Electronica

Pineal Pionears [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

For me, this means going back to composers like Louis and Bebe Barron and their 1956 magnetic tape soundtrack to “Forbidden Planet” (check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNKhju6Pryg ), as well as Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos and all those records from the Princeton University computer music workshops that I got my hands and ears on in the 60s.

Steps taken:

In the spirit of minimalism, I worked only with 2 sine waves and a click track, both generated by Audacity. These were modified using plugins and pitch shifting, with shorter more heavily modified sections used to create a gradually changing soundscape.

(See the whole Forbidden Planet poster here: http://cdn-images.9cloud.us/476/piccit_the_forbidden_planet_poster_1296502960.jpg


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The Assignment: Produce an original piece of music that fits the genre “old-time electronica.”

All Disquiet Junto projects employ constraint as a means to stimulate creativity and productivity. Sometimes this means limiting oneself to specific source material, other times to a conceptual approach, and there’s always the additional constraint of time: the deadline is approximately four days, depending on your time zone.

For this Disquiet Junto project, the constraint is a matter of terminology. This week we’re exploring how the concept of “genre” can itself serve as a restraint, and we’ll accomplish this by pushing back at genre conventions.

The project instructions are straightforward: Record an original piece of music that you feel belongs within the genre of “old-time electronica.”

Restrictions: You can use any source material, any instrumentation, except the human voice.

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Pineal Pionears [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

As a solo parent this weekend, my plans to hook up gear and produce handmade electronica haven't eventuated. So I returned to an earlier idea to work with a MIDI file and honour my introduction to electronic music as a child listening to Wendy Carlos' Switched On Bach.

This piece uses Lokomotiv, Absynth and the Minimojo Reaktor VST synths and was edited for brevity.

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Switched on Joy of Man's Desiring [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

My interpretation of "old time electronica" was to take a song associated with the dawn of pop music and treat it as the raw material for an electronic track. My choice is "Daisy Bell", a public domain song written in 1892 by Harry Dacre, and used in the first computer speech synthesis at Bell Labs in 1961; Arthur C. Clarke saw this demonstration and incorporated it into the screenplay and novelization of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The first section of the track is the original chorus melody and chord progression played on soft synths in Ableton, with a light percussion track made from samples from Beats & Breaks. For the second run-thru of the chorus melody  the chord progression is replaced with a version made using the Coltrane Changes; John Coltrane pioneered chord substitutions in his performances that used a major third movement to give an odd, airy quality to the harmony. For "Daisy Bell", which is in C major, the original chord progression follows the melody closely, as is the custom for most popular music. In its place I used the Dm7-G7-C progression. 

The jazzy timbre of those chords reminded me of Squarepusher's record Hard Normal Daddy, which used chords and melody combinations usually associated with jazz in conjunction with breakbeats. This track gradually adds more percussion elements, all chopped up from samples from Beats & Breaks.   

Once the new chord progression is introduced, the softsynth playing the melody has a random MIDI note generator, C major scale effect, and Bass-Beat Decoder added to it, with MIDI notes being triggered at the same rhythm as the original melody. The random notes were played & recorded to a separate track, and that MIDI information was placed in the initial softsynth track, with the MIDI effects removed. 


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Daisy Hell [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

What speaks old time electronica more than vintage drum patches and an old jazz kit with brushes?  :) 
Due to my recent trip to France, I was unable to participate in the last few projects and thought there was no way to make anything happen for this one as well. Having returned just yesterday, and sill groggy from jet lag, I found a recording I had worked on previously and thought I might make a go of it.
I altered this piece quite a bit, from the original recording I had made some months ago, but overall I feel it represents the spirit of the exercise. 
The theme of the piece is to present something old and new, together and synchronous while avoiding familiar forms of transition.
Best Regards,
S

Jer 29:13 

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Cha0sb0y - Sine - Disquiet0137OldTimeElectronica

Old time electronica conjured up memories of old 80's dance records and their stock sounds, 808s 909s 303s and FM synth patches. Oh and arpeggiated synth lines, reverbed snares and stuttering vocal samples. Happy days.
I didn't want to create a piece of faux dance music as I haven't a funky bone in my body, back then I would mosh to industrial music rather than shake my booty so it explains why the drum track is rather rigid and metronomic. Most of the synths lines are from a tb-3, the exceptions are a couple of lines played on a plug in emulations of vintage gear. 


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The Assignment: Produce an original piece of music that fits the genre “old-time electronica.”

All Disquiet Junto projects employ constraint as a means to stimulate creativity and productivity. Sometimes this means limiting oneself to specific source material, other times to a conceptual approach, and there’s always the additional constraint of time: the deadline is approximately four days, depending on your time zone.

For this Disquiet Junto project, the constraint is a matter of terminology. This week we’re exploring how the concept of “genre” can itself serve as a restraint, and we’ll accomplish this by pushing back at genre conventions.

The project instructions are straightforward: Record an original piece of music that you feel belongs within the genre of “old-time electronica.”

Restrictions: You can use any source material, any instrumentation, except the human voice.

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False Memory(disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica)

Interpretation of "old time electronica" as the squeaks and squawks of mysterious numbers stations, such as the Lincolnshire Poacher shortwave broadcast.  All sounds in the recording are sampled from the Lincolnshire Poacher numbers station.

Lincolnshire Pulser (Disquietjunto0137 - Old Time Electronica)

We decided to aim for something the Radiophonic Workshop might cook up for the title sequence of an early '70s children's television series. With that in mind, we considered electronically treated acoustic sounds fair game. The drum is a slowed down recording of Karin hitting a record crate.

Bruce: Moog Sub 37, Piano
Karin: Pittsburgh Modular System 10, Samplr, virtual tape cutting and pasting

Recorded in mono at The Library.

Gate sounds from Tomlija on Freesound.org.
http://www.freesound.org/people/Tomlija/sounds/109710/

Photo from Darkroom Daze.
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Beyond the Gate (opening titles) [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

Decided to record a couple of Theremin layers, applying a few filters and effects to each. Added some vintage percussiveness from a TR-808 soundpack, and a couple of extra keys from an old lounge piano library. 

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Thereminging [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

Made with INTUA BeatMaker 2 on my IPad as i don't have acess to acomputer at the moment. started with some banjo to. getsome"ole time" feel. Chose an early sounding drum machine sampled.thought accordian would be oldtime for chords. Then found a bitofan old track of mine to sample for some background. More on this 137th Disquiet Junto project — “Produce an original piece of music that fits the genre ‘old-time electronica’″ — at:  http://disquiet.com/2014/08/14/disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica/  More on the Disquiet Junto at:  http://disquiet.com/junto  Join the Disquiet Junto at:  http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/  Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:  http://disquiet.com/forums/

HangDig [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

String ensemble, brassy lead, chimes, and found sound percs.
(NuSofting StringDreams, Fabfilter Twin, Chromaphone, SoundDust modular chaos engine #1 going through an array of SonicCharge Permut8 and Volcano filter, and a few Live effects)

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CoaT Remembering Old Time (disquiet0137-Oldtimeelectronica)

*Update: was finally able to replace this with the version that fades in and out/doesn't have the terrible compression (just less-terrible compression) on it. So, hopefully this switch post-11:00 is more understandable! I suppose if you heard the more-bad one, you heard it.
(Description is on its way. Had trouble downloading/firefox kept crashing)Really quick, since I was able to log back in...I think Electronica might have actually started more with Weather Report...so the acoustic drums/played electronic bass should check out, then. Not that it's a strict definition in the first place, so this is probably a mixture of what I might have heard early 90s (including the more mainstream pop artists emulating & then eventually weather report. Also, it is sloppy because I started this project too late. Couldn't do much editing/mixing. So, instruments and process, then:
Drums (multiple drum sets)
Cymbals, bongos, etc...
Bass ("basses" - doubled my fretless an octave up just via copy/paste/plugin for pitch, and also just realized I forgot to mention the other harmonics part panned left)
Tried playing a small melody at the bottom with 'Rhodes' sound and various delays, then up with just the keyboard strings.  Tried going to some more jazz-oriented voicings in fadeout to pay additional tribute to Weather Report. Most of the material with bass/"rhodes" is weighted quite a bit on the Jaco side/contribution to WR. The "electronica" designation (how about proto-electronica)for WR = something to consider...although it loses some if not most of its appeal considering it started before WR. Never mind. Added some samples of guitar through some delays/backwards effects. 
Submitted on time, at least! 

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disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica (some acoustic instruments...since it's old-time)

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.