wow, fascinating, your process brought a haunting bed/glue to the originals. Lovely work.

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The Calling [Reintegration Loop]

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Disquiet Junto Project 0506: Wipe Out. The Assignment: Take something whole and erase half of it.

As I'm on vacation at the moment I looked for some easy way to do this. I decided for https://soundcloud.com/winterer/along-the-river-of-lethe as source material and put it into a 120bpm grid (I think originally it was something odd around 90). I cut it into slices, deleted every second bar and put the result together. 

No big thing, but I like how the wiping adds to the imo mysterious convolutedness of the track. And strangely I don't miss anything...

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Halfway Along The River Of Lethe [disquiet0506]

I decided to pull out one of my old favorite techniques for this one: using Paulstretch with unconscionably long windows (5 seconds, 10 seconds, 40 seconds...). This takes a sample and moves it from a musical gesture to a long harmonic drone. 

I started out with the ukelele track, and stretched it 2.5x with a 5 second window. I stretched the accordina 2.1x with a 10 second window to get the primary melodic and chordal motion. Both developed a melody within the drone as the stretch was done.

I then stretched the piano 1.1x but with a 30 second window, then copied it, reversed it, and duplicated this again to bring it up to approximately the length of the other two tracks.

At this point, I started layering things up in Audacity and adjusting relative levels. I decided I wanted to leave a little of the original samples audible as they were originally, so I brought in the electric guitar chords and the rhythmic bass. I realigned the chords to appropriate places against the piano/uke/accordina lines, then carefully edited the bass to duplicate one bar of the rhythm so I could repeat it to almost the end of the track.

I then took the hang sample and pitched it up 3 octaves, resulting in a funky phasing tone in the mid-register. I applied a little Valhalla Freq Echo to that to give it a little more motion, and last, I brought in the low electric bass, carefully lining it up against the hang, and duplicating notes as required to get it to the correct length.

Final mixdown was adjusting relative levels of the tracks and tweaking EQ lightly.

This was done 100% in Audacity, using the Paulstretch, fade in, fade out, and pitch shift tools, with Valhalla Freq Echo for a tiny bit of sweetening.

Partially Erased [disquiet0507]

More on this 507th weekly Disquiet Junto project — In DD’s Key of C (The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key) — at: https://disquiet.com/0507/

Tracks made with samples created generously by Daniel Díaz.

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In DD's Key of C - disquiet0507

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A Dystopian Ballad In DDs Key Of C  [Disquiet0507]

Loaded 2 of Daniel's samples the Hang drum and the bass guitar into Ableton's drum rack and used the Max4Live Turing Machine to trigger them randomly. Using 'slice to new midi track' I cut up the piano sample to another instance of Drum rack and also used Turing Machine to trigger that, slowly adjusting the amount of randomness so that certain loops would repeat as I was rendering it out to audio. Finally, adding a high pad sound from Arturia SQ80V
More on this 507th weekly Disquiet Junto project — In DD’s Key of C (The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key) — at: https://disquiet.com/0507/

Tracks made with samples created generously by Daniel Díaz.

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D As In C

Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key.

Daniel in C - disquiet0507

Tracks made with samples created generously by Daniel Díaz.

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c'de {Disquiet 0507}

More on this 508th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Germane Shepard (The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key) — at: https://disquiet.com/0508/

Many thanks to Robert Precht for having proposed this project.

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Entropy In 3,2,1 (disquiet0508)

Long version can be found here https://soundcloud.com/user-130801280/l-system
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L - System (Short Mix) (disquiet0509)

Modular, ambient, abstract, and some beats too

Partially Erased [disquiet0507]

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