electrum

There's a 100% reverb setting on this - a shadow of the music you can't quite hear. See the (slightly disturbing) accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/pdBdZPYer60

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visuals (YouTube)

halF shadoW [disquiet0622]

The instruction was "Think about how a shadow might be expressed in sound.". Here in my recording I feature the reverb channel from a recently recorded guitar piece. In order to make it sound like a shadow I used an envelope follower that would modulate the sends of the signal feeding into the reverb. This has as an effect that the original sound appears to reflect into the reverb. I also pitched the resulting signal down by an octave so it sounds more dark.

(know the) Shadow

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Know the Shadows

Disquiet Junto | Know the Shadows - disquiet0622

For this, I extended my ideas around Disquiet Juntos 0605, 0606, 0609 & 0530, centered around  “minimally viable music.” I worked various techniques to shadow my foundation audio - including duplicating and delaying - as well as decaying, stretching and minimizing strategies using gates, crushers & audio warping.

Recorded, mixed & mastered 14 Feb 1988, 30 Nov / 01 Dec 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes - 

For the foundation audio here, I used a recording I made of a cheap acoustic guitar to cassette tape on 14 Feb 1988 and transferred to another tape on 30 Aug 1995. I transferred to digital in Nov 2019.

Tools used - Ableton Live 11 Suite, Ableton Live native devices and a handful of Max for Live devices, along with iZotope Ozone 9 and K-Devices Shaper.

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This original version of "Little Iodine Crack" was submitted as part of **Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow.** The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Lumber Mart."

Little Iodine Crack (disquiet0622)

sound art for disquiet0622.

a stereo shadow.

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frozen shadows (disquiet0622)

Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow
The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

I started playing around in the DAW and somehow ended up with old step samples. The simplest idea of musical shadows are certainly delay and reverb, and initially I built a (virtual) modular thing behind the steps that changes the shape of the steps but still lets us think of the original, just as shadows only hint at what cast them.

The second idea was the drums, and what could be the shadow of a drum kit? I used a looping noise sample (coming in very late, and not too loud) and carved out a kind of kick drum with negative noise using filters, so the absence of sound is the shadow here. I'll tell you why it has to be like this at some point far, far away … 

The third idea was to use two different types of motifs in one scale: An FM synthesizer using only the black keys of a blues scale (the real thing), and a classic basic saw synthesizer using only white keys (the shadow). 

Em ... and in general: first comes the real and then you hear the shadows, and in the end there are only shadows, because the word also stands for a kind of vague memory that continues to have an effect even after the real has disappeared. And remember, samples are shadows of real sounds …

The result is undoubtedly overly intellectual and musically not a gem. But it wouldn't be experimental music if the experiment couldn't - as here - go badly wrong. That's why I kept it under 3 minutes ...

Image: Dall-E

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3 Shadows [disquiet0622]

This track uses the latest - https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-dark-naviarhaiku518 - Naviar Haiku submission as a starting point for some bluetooth mangling ... All sounds you hear are derived from a recording of the remote headphone connection breaking up whilst playing the haiku original. You can see the 'recording setup' in the middle of the accompanying image.

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more halF unusuaL

halF bluetootH [disquiet0623]

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The photo of the painting, by Joseph Siffrein Duplessis, of Benjamin Franklin is in the public domain. The photo of Fernando Pessoa in the public domain.

Fresh Pair

Disquiet Junto | Fresh Pair - disquiet0624

Hi, I imagined a ball bouncing on that concrete room (photo).
The room is huge.
the ball is hollow and metallic.


Used:
Hang (treated with a bouncing delay fx)
Synthesized field recording
Filtered and treated field recording.

Recorded on December 22nd 2023  during the morning.

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Ball Bouncing in This Empty Room (disquiet0625)

Soundscape / Paysage sonore
Date of the recording: 16-7-2018
Ecuries des Trois Pignons - Seine et Marne - France
https://goo.gl/maps/N8VvRU6ALup
Bees in a vine
Abeilles dans une vigne
Recorder: Tascam DR-100MKII + built-in mics Uni.

Abeille2 (Bee2)

Gerard Paresys