minimale / technonebuneli

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn

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I wanted to be as true to the genre and to the assignment as possible. I went with out a beat for that reason, it was stipulated that we add no other element and I wanted to use this as a challenge. I think it worked pretty well. 
To be true to the genre set my beat to be at 125 bmp, and made great use of repetition, which is something I enjoy anyhow. 
I set out by opening the track in audacity and set it to play in reverse. I chose only three sections and safed each section separatly as ogg vorbis files. I then loaded these up in to the Audiofile Processor in LMMS and added reverb to all the sections. The first part I set to play at a much lower speed and set that as the base beat. The next part I added flanger to. I slowly increased the volume and did the same to the last section till I reached 100% volume. Then I cut the second part and ended the piece abruptly. 
I set out to create something that had enough of the original in to make it hint at Haydn without giving it all away. 

http://subversiveintentions.wordpress.com

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:


http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/


The source Haydn audio is from:


http://goo.gl/7MMHRA


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:


http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Haydn Seek (disquiet0082-minimalhaydn)

The goal of this project was to make a 'minimal techno' track using samples from Franz Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major. Note that I do not believe I achieved this, although the results are interesting.

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at: http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from: http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

prolonged exposure [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

I was trying to extricate the basic components of the minimal genre, namely kick, snare, soundscapes and then work the silences around it. It came out denser/thicker than I initially intended. Thank you

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:


http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/


The source Haydn audio is from:


http://goo.gl/7MMHRA


More details on the Disquiet Junto at:


http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Haydn Tomato - [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]


Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn

disquiet0082-minimalhaydn

I deem this a failure. It’s becoming depressing that I don’t have any idea how to create “techno”. This certainly isn’t, and it probably isn’t minimal either. I spent ages hand-crafting a “beat”, and all I got was a lousy pulse.

The rest is me throwing bits of sound around and being careless with effects plugins.

Not that I don’t like it, but I wish I could work out how to use Ableton just once and create something with a beat. Back to the DAW…


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This week’s project is another in a series of explorations of the concept of genre as a constraint. (The “downtempo” exercise went well several weeks ago, project 79, and this is another in that mode.) The genre this time is “minimal techno.” The source material is from another genre entirely: “classical,” specifically chamber music in the form of a string quartet. The goal of this project is to derive elements from the source material in the service of a track that would fit in the prescribed genre.

More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/ ;

The source Haydn audio is from:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA ;

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info



Haydn Agenda [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

As per the junto instructions, I downloaded the Haydn track from where I would find my samples. I chose 4 samples, which was maybe a bit extravagant, but what do I know about minimal techno? I used Live's 'impulse' to create the actual beats using small snippets of the chosen samples. The rest were pitch shifted, stretched, filtered and compressed to varying degrees.  It runs at 125 bpm.
--this one was really fun for me, having never made techno before.
---Spawn of Slithus is an old b-movie that remains a legend in my past though I have never seen it and don't know if there was an original Slithus.

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More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/07/25/disquiet0082-minimalhaydn/

The source Haydn audio is from:

http://goo.gl/7MMHRA

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Spawn Of Slithus [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

Venterer

recorded directly to ipod then futzed around with a little

Exorcist

Rough & Ready for saxophone quartet (2009)

Jeff Poynter, soprano sax
Ashton Nesbeth, alto sax
Alex Richards, tenor sax
Brad Justason, baritone sax

Recorded in the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, University of Victoria, BC, March 25, 2011

Rough & Ready

Kardeş Türküler Feat. Neşet Ertaş - Yanıyorum (Fattish's Fireball Rework)

From the upcoming double album "Bes" out on Nawa Recordings 29 April 2016.  

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The Dwarfs of East Agouza is a trio from Cairo, Egypt, featuring Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect) and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B.).

Born during 2012 when the three were living in the same apartment building in Cairo’s Agouza district, the trio’s instrumental improvisation-based explorations are propelled by Louca’s North African percussion loops and shimmering keys, Shalabi’s West African tinged free jazz guitar and grounded by Bishop’s driving Krautrock-style acoustic bass.

Following many a late night jam session, the band recorded hours of material during a three-day studio run in April 2014. After compiling and mixing the album in Montreal’s Break Glass studio in July 2015, the refined result will be released as a double-album titled Bes via Nawa Recordings (NAWA005) on 2xLP, 2xCD and DL on 29 April 2016.

Named after the Ancient Egyptian dwarf deity who was worshiped as the defender of all things good and enemy of all that is bad, Bes captures the trio on a hypnotic yet unpredictable journey. From the the lilt of four-minute ethiopian tinged Resinance to the 30-minute free-form epic Museum of Stranglers, the album skirts the outer limits of a psychedelic soundtrack to a North African road trip.

Bes by The Dwarfs of East Agouza will be available on CD, black & limited edition coloured 12” vinyl LP and download, including Mastered for iTunes and lossless high-definition 24-bit/96kHz audio files.

The album artwork features a reproduction of an ancient Egyptian carving of the dwarf god Bes, painted by Egyptian artist Raafat Al-Kordy, designed by Iraqi-Palestinian graphic designer and illustrator Sara Sukhun.


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The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Clean Shahin أقزام شرق العجوزة - نضافة شاهين

For the 240th Junto, the assignment was:
Disquiet Junto Project 0240: Emerging from a Drone
The Assignment: Compose a piece of music in which a drone slowly, imperceptibly, gives way to something rhythmic and/or melodic.

I've been thinking alot about drones lately and am working on a new set inspired by the 50 cycle hum (I'm in iceland currently) and I decided to repurpose some of the material i've been working with.  

I considered what a drone is, as per the instructions... and interpreted what that might mean sonically... that, at least in the digital world, it's a series of minute samples which, when dissected and put under a microscope, are just a series of clicks. So, breaking somewhat from the assignment, my piece does not shift imperceptibly as such, but is rather a presentation of various drones and 'clicks' that make up music. it also contains some samples of natural drones, specifically, a recording of a waterfall in iceland (both granulated and not), plus a minute section of the recording of a small piece of severed glacier rubbing against another piece in the water. 
I also considered the ubiquitous 50 cycle hum and included a loop of me flicking on a light switch.
Some of these sounds will be heard in a performance to be presented and uploaded soon. 

Butterside [disquiet0240]

Promial is sourced entirely from the introductory notes of a Sailor's Hornpipe.  It is intended to envelope the sailor's tradition in the vast expanse common to both the sea and the drone of the bagpipe.  It was commissioned by the Community Radio Education Society's (CRES) Media Arts Committee in Vancouver Canada in 2011.  

Released in 2013 on Audio Art Volume 7, 8, 9 
http://www.mac-cfro.org/

Promial

I am a composer, sound designer and media artist. I like creating environments through sound, and exploring the sonic qualities of found sounds, field recordings and 'machine languages' of everyday things. I get inspired by constraints.
I have performed internationally as 1/2 of the duo Coin Gutter, and received international awards for the my installations and performances as part of Manufacturing Entertainment.
I work with performance artists, dancers, theatre companies, film/video artists, animators etc, creating experimental sound design for their work.

Spawn Of Slithus [disquiet0082-minimalhaydn]

Emma Hendrix