Flying Drum & Bass on a plane to Madrid

Track based on "Sight-read the whiteboard notation from a children’s music class”. I took the starting lower C note to be a bass drone, upon which the upper notes are added as a ringing melody. The intermediate voices become a blurry trill that fades to the background.

The track was done in Ableton Live Lite, using MIDI instruments with additional reverbs and filtering, and resampled to an audio file. 

This is a submission for the Disquiet Junto Project. More on this 196th Disquiet Junto project (“Sight-read the whiteboard notation from a children’s music class”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/10/01/disquiet0196-wholelottawhole/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Smokey Drone (disquiet0196-wholelottawhole)

We Are The Music Makers (29 Nov 2015)

Somewhere Over The Rainbow (29 Nov 2015)

Hiney Ma Tov (29 Nov 2015)

Granulator Slices

I started by making a reversed copy of the DWAVE clip, which was then stretched to the whole length of the track.

Then I used Ableton Live's "Drums to MIDI", "Melody to MIDI", and "Harmony to MIDI" functions on the reversed stretched DWAVE clip to create the underlying theme that extends through the track, as well as on the other clips, to create the remaining rhythms and patterns.

The different parts were treated with sparing use of light reverb and occasional ping-pong delay, then mixed and finished.

The image, "Tiny spaces of Heaven" by defkreationz, is used under a Creative Commons licence, and was taken from https://flic.kr/p/6iSjPu


More on this 213th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Combine three field recordings from artist Charles Lindsay to explore and express notions of perceived techno-organic intelligence”) at:

disquiet.com/2016/01/28/disquie…complexsignatures/

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disquiet.com/junto/

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Untitled (disquiet0213-complexsignatures)

This track is a study on the juxtaposition of irregular rhythmic patterns created by using five small sound objects as percussive elements. Three of the sound objects have been taken from fragments of field recordings done in the London Underground, the other two correspond to pre-existing recordings of the vibrations of a knife on a ceramic plate.

I chose the sound objects based on their percussive interest, and built an Ableton Live's Drum Rack instrument with them in order to create the three basic MIDI clips of different lengths on which the track is built.

After the initial capture of the MIDI performance, I added some effects: reverb, delay, panning, ping pong delays, and some compression. The effects are switched off at the beginning of the track, and they build up progressively until the final section, in which the effect channels are mutually fed back to the point of self oscillation.


More on this 215th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Make a short track with just pin-prick audio”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0215

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http://disquiet.com/junto/

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The image associated with this project is by Philippa Willitts, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/4L37Fm

On tiny sounds and irregular rhythm patterns (disquiet0215-tinyrhythms)

This composition is based on the track "On tiny sounds and irregular rhythm patterns", which can be found at:

https://soundcloud.com/finitud/disquiet0215-tinyrhythms

To the original track, two thin layers were added, as follows:

* The first layer was created by applying strong reverb on the original track, extracting the wet component, and reversing it.
* Some light effect return tracks were created, and the second layer was improvised on a MIDI keyboard to the existing layers.
* The tracks were mixed, some effects added (reverb, delay, ping pong delay, some light amount of compression), and the MIDI layer was fine edited to produce the final rendering.

The track was composed using Ableton Live 9.5 Suite edition, aided by a Launch Control XL and an Akai LPK25 MIDI keyboard.

More on this 216th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Add a thin foundational bed to beats of pin-prick audio”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0216

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

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The image associated with this project is by Evelyn Flint, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/rKoG1i


Thin layering (disquiet0216-tinylayers)

My project for the Creative Field Recording and Soundscape Composition course at Morley College (London, UK).

Creative Field Recording Project

Soft Crush Ia 20160216

The sound of birds was downloaded from a CC0 (Public Domain) recording at freesound.org, and cut into several clips which were then glued together by using cross fades, processed using some light reverb, and bounced to cassette tape and back. The resulting file was further edited to remove some undesirable clicks, and looped to the desired length. The synth lines were recorded using an LPK25 controller and some of Ableton Live's synths.

More on this 221st weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Compose something — quiet, peaceful, refreshing — you’d want to wake up to”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0221/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

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The photo associated with this project is by Alf Eaton, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/8NUM/


An adventure begins (disquiet0221-morningmusic)

Best heard on headphones or proper speakers.

Transbian Love

Over the sound of a found cassette tape I sequentially recorded improvised performances on my Minibrute analog synth for each of the notes of the G minor chord. The tracks were then lightly edited, and some reverb and ping pong delay were used to add a stereo effect from the mono recordings, as well as some texture. Since each note of the chord was processed live as it was recorded, only minor edits were necessary during the mixing process.

More on this 227th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Record a piece of music in which what changes is the treatment of the notes that comprise a single chord”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0227

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

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Image associated with this project adopted from a photo by Dan Barbus, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/4mcFS8

Study on a G minor chord (disquiet0227)

My project for the Intermediate Field Recording class at Morley College.

Intermediate Field Recording Project

Video version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpdc5gA9V6k

This track started with the contents remaining on a looper pedal after a jamming session with a friend a few days ago. I added several recordings of shortwave noise, morse code transmissions, number stations, interval signals, and created some distorted "morse code transmissions" myself on Ableton Live. 

Each recording was processed as needed, and then laid out in session view, from which they were recorded with the help of a Launch Control XL control surface. After recording this session, visuals were created using VIZZable, and the video was put together using iMovie.

On number stations and looper pedals

A piece based on loops taken from various sources, bounced to tape and back to Ableton Live, then processed with several reverbs and vocoders.

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