For this project, I chose to discuss the Bay Area, and all of the great qualities about it. I recorded myself reading three variations of the same paragraph, using a microphone and Ardour.

This track is based on this 98th Disquiet Junto project, in which three original spoken texts are combined into one track, at: http://disquiet.com/2013/11/14/disquiet0098-wovenaudiobio/ 
More details on the Disquiet Junto at http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/ 

This track was created in September 2014, as part of a class Intro to Electronic Music at Santa Clara University, and was not originally submitted to the Disquiet Junto project.


Woven Autobiography (disquiet0098-wovenaudiobio)

I recorded this sound with my phone, using an app called AudioCopy. I chose this sound because almost everyday I walk by the fountain in my font yard, but I never pay close attention to the sounds it makes. I wanted to focus in on the different sounds that the water makes while it falls.

Fountain Drops (musc-9-special-sound)

I created this track using Hydrogen drum kit software. I first created one beat, containing many different types of sounds. Then I made new patterns with that same beat, but cut out certain sounds each time, making it a little different than the original beat. This track relates to minimal techno because the beat slowly changes as the track progresses. The changes in the beat are not too drastic, and the many of the same sounds are repeated throughout.

Kemper Minimal Techno music-9-minimal

I created this track using Ardour. I recorded five different sounds in order to create this track. I recorded myself tapping on a table, hitting clothes hangers together, rubbing a pen on a rigid surface, ripping a piece of paper, and hitting a metal water bottle with a pen. I then tried using these original sounds to create a song. I also reversed, split, and changed the pitch of the sounds as well. This track is composed of different sounds that we here in our everyday lives, which is why it relates to conrete music. Listeners are suggested to focus on the actual sounds themselves, while not thinking of where the sounds actually came from.

Concrete Music musc-9-concrete-music

I created this track using Audacity. I generated different sine waves in order to create different sounds throughout the piece. I made sine waves with different frequencies and amplitudes, and also overlapped multiple sine waves, creating a variety of sounds. I also used Audacity's fade-in and fade-out effects in order to create smooth transitions between the different sounds of sine waves.

Sirens musc-9-sinusoids

I created this track using Ardor and Hydrogen. I recorded my voice saying a simple sentence, then used Ardor to splice the sentence up into many different sounds. Some of the sounds are complete words, while others are just short parts of a single word. I then used these sounds to create different patterns in Hydrogen, while also changing the pitch and using effects such as fade in and fade out, in order to create the song.

Hydrogen Song musc-9-hydrogen

For this track, I used SuperCollider and Ardour in order to create the piece. I recorded a clip of Lupe Fiasco's "The Show Goes On" and used SuperCollider to mix up the clip, changing the pan, the trigger, etc. Then I put the individual recordings into Ardour and created a song out of the different sounds.

The Show Goes On musc-9-plunderphonics

I used SuperCollider to create this track. I used the pluck synth to create many different sounds. I used different patterns and codes to make different sounds with higher pitch, longer duration, more resonance, etc. I also used the codes to create both sounds that a human can perform, as well as sounds that stretch beyond what a human performer can do.

SuperCollider code and SynthDef:

(
SynthDef("plucking", {arg amp = 0.1, freq = 440, decay = 5, coef = 0.1;
var env, snd;
env = EnvGen.kr(Env.linen(0, decay, 0), doneAction: 2);
snd = Pluck.ar(
    	in: WhiteNoise.ar(amp),
    	trig: Impulse.kr(0),
    	maxdelaytime: 0.1,
    	delaytime: freq.reciprocal,
    	decaytime: decay,
    	coef: coef);
	Out.ar(0, [snd, snd]);
}).add;
)


(
{Pbind(
	\instrument,"plucking",
	\degree, Pseq([1,5,5,7, 9, 11, 14, 7, 7, 4, 2, 1, [1,5], 1,8,6,2,1,], 3),
	\dur, 0.125,
	\octave, 4,
	\strum, 0.5,
	\root, 3,
	\decay, Pseq([1, 5, 5, 10], inf),
	\coef, 0.1,
).play;

	7.5.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument,"plucking",
	\dur, 0.125,
	\octave, 4,
	\strum, 0.5,
	\root, 3,
		\decay, Pseq([1, 3, 5, 7, [9, 11, 5, 7], 9, 3, 1,], 1),
	\coef, 0.2,
).play;

	2.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument,"plucking",
	\degree, Pseq([2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,5,3,6,9,7, 1,2,3,4,5,], 2),
	\dur, 0.125,
	\octave, 4,
	\strum, 0.5,
	\root, 3,
	\decay, Pseq([1, 5, 5, 10], 40),
	\coef, 0.1,
).play;

	5.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument,"plucking",
	\dur, 0.125,
	\octave, 5,
	\strum, 0.5,
	\root, 10,
		\decay, Pseq([1, 34, 5, 6, [9, 12, 5, 7], 8, 3, 7,], 1),
	\coef, 0.2,
).play;

	2.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument, "plucking",
	\scale, Scale.locrian,
	\degree, Pwhite(0, 10),
	\amp, Pwhite(0.2, 0.4),
	\decay, Pwhite(3, 15),
	\coef, Pwhite(0.01, 0.1),
	\dur, Prand([0.5, 0.2, 0.4, 0.30, 0.15, 0.17], 50)
).play;

	15.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument,"plucking",
	\dur, 0.125,
	\octave, 5,
	\strum, 0.5,
	\root, 15,
		\decay, Pseq([1, 34, 5, 6, [9, 12, 5, 7], 8, 3, 7,], 1),
	\coef, 0.2,
).play;

	2.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument, "plucking",
	\scale, Scale.locrian,
    \degree, Pseq([
   	 [1, 2, 3, 10],
   	 [3, 5, 7, 10],
   	 [-3, 2, 4, 10]
    ], inf),
    \strum, 0.1,
	\amp, Pwhite(0.1, 0.3),
	\decay, 2,
	\coef, Pseq([0.2, 0.3], inf),
	\dur, Prand([0.5, 0.5, 1], 30)
).play;

	20.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument,"plucking",
	\dur, 0.125,
	\octave, 4,
	\strum, 0.5,
	\root, 3,
		\decay, Pseq([1, 3, 5, 7, [9, 11, 5, 7], 9, 3, 1,], 1),
	\coef, 0.2,
).play;

	2.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument,"plucking",
	\degree, Pseq([-8,-7,-6,-8,-6,-7,-6,-5,-4,-5,-6,-3,-2,-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,], 3),
	\dur, 0.125,
	\octave, 4,
	\strum, 0.5,
	\root, 3,
	\decay, Pseq([1, 5, 5, 10], 20),
	\coef, 0.1,
).play;

	7.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument,"plucking",
	\degree, Pseq([-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-6,-7,-8,-9,-10,-5,-6,-7,-8,-4,-7,-8,-9,-10,-12,-15,-20,-22,]),
	\dur, 0.125,
	\octave, 4,
	\strum, 0.5,
	\root, 3,
	\decay, Pseq([1, 5, 5, 10], 20),
	\coef, 0.1,
).play;

	4.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument,"plucking",
	\dur, 0.125,
	\octave, 2,
	\strum, 0.5,
	\root, 3,
		\decay, Pseq([1, 3, 5, 7, [9, 11, 5, 7], 9, 3, 1,], 1),
	\coef, 0.2,
).play;

	2.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument, "plucking",
	\scale, Scale.locrian,
    \degree, Pseq([
   	 [-12, -16, -19, -10],
   	 [-12, -20, -17, -12],
   	 [-12, -15, -13, -14]
    ], inf),
    \strum, 0.1,
	\amp, Pwhite(0.1, 0.3),
	\decay, 2,
	\coef, Pseq([0.2, 0.3], inf),
	\dur, Prand([0.5, 0.5, 1], 20)
).play;

	14.wait;

Pbind(
	\instrument,"plucking",
	\dur, 0.125,
	\octave, 2,
	\strum, 0.5,
	\root, 3,
		\decay, Pseq([1, 3, 5, 7, [9, 11, 5, 7], 9, 3, 1,], 1),
	\coef, 0.2,
).play;
}.fork;
)

s.record;

Plucking Away musc-9-pluck

I used Ardour to create this track. I first recorded my voice using one of the studio microphones, then in Ardour, I added a reverb plugin in order to make my voice more interesting. After, I recorded various minimal techno songs from YouTube, so I could provide the listeners with examples of what I was referring to while I was talking. I also used fade in and fade out features to make sure the different sounds were coming in smoothly.

Kemper Ray Musc9