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SONG 67 - DisquietJunto0682 - Unring a Bell

This week's #disquietjunto prompt was to create some music "in which you try to unring a bell."

In practice, I recorded the sound of a gong from our school’s band room (it’s like a bell but BIGGER). Then I tried to create the little snippets of sound that would fly around as the bell rang and which our hard-working theoretical performer would eventually have to reassemble.

Disassembling the bell’s tone into fragments was fun and challenging. I loaded the bell into Anemond’s Factoid to break it up into pieces based on frequency ranges, which got me lots of little snippets (including the drone tones you hear now and then). I also loaded it into Synplant, which generated tons of weird synthetic bells that led me down various rabbit holes of sound design and thoroughly distracted me from this project. I also put the bell sample into Ableton’s Simpler, sliced it into snippets based on transients, and then used the Arpeggiator plug-in to play the snippets randomly.

Isolating and organizing all these fragments and new samples into a track was pretty challenging! Eventually, I outlined the structure of the track, which helped me find my way.

1) Bell tone
2) Bits and pieces dance around the stereo field and an attempt is made to reassemble them
3) The bell is rung again, but this time it sounds slightly different
4) Part of the tone breaks off into a drone while a few snippets flit around
Once again, the bell is reassembled, with a big reverse sound leading into…
5) A big, new bell sound (created by layering pitch-shifted iterations of the original sample)

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You Wouldn't Unring A Bell (disquiet0682)

My piece is made with reversed bell sounds. Every time I tried to unring the bell it just rang normally, so I thought the only way to unring a bell is to reverse its sounds. 

While trying to unring a bell, I thought of the Lady Macbeth quote "What's done cannot be undone". As she is haunted by past events, I placed many echoes on my track to well, echo her emotions, as I'm sure it's something everyone can relate to. 

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what's done cannot be undone [disquiet0682]

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers
Henrik Meierkord : cello and fx

Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Fire, walk with me v2

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halF reverberanT [disquiet0683]

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SONG 68 - DisquietJunto0683 - Space Shot

Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot
The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant.

Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot
The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant.

This weeks prompt immediately gave me the idea of combining an inherently natural reverb sound with a guaranteed unnatural, reverb-free sound. 

The natural reverberated sound comes from two layers of a field recording of a church in Vienna, recorded in October, which provides ambient noises. The naturally guaranteed reverb-free sound consists of several layers of yesterday's WebSDR recordings, which provided rhythmic and melodic components.

The reverb-free sounds here start with a lot of synthetic reverb and end as they are in reality. The church was stripped of reverb from the beginning with two layers of RX10 de-reverb, which is gradually reduced until the natural reverb of the church dominates. Mono/stereo and panning followed these ideas. So at the end of the track there is a naturally reverberant church and the WebSDR noise, which comes naturally without reverb.

I particularly liked this contrast because reverb indicates spaces; a church is more than a space, as a sacred space it has its own spatiality, so to speak, in Karl Popper's World 3, which contains ideas as much as art. The WebSDR signals seem spaceless, and yet they fill the expanding sphere of their propagation – and the signals itself may transport meaning and ideas from a World-3-Level.

Yes, perhaps a little bit over the top, but that's what I liked. 

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ReSpaced [disquiet0683]

An electronic sequence created in Pure Data with additional gradual panning and reverb.

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Panned and Spaced Out (disquiet0683)

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