A dialogue between an organ and a synth for Disquiet Junto #0490: Compose a piece of music structured like dialog. There is some playing with different scales involved. I first recorded drums, bass and strings in Reaper through MIDI (quantized etc) and then I played the organ and the synth semi-live.
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Dialogue(disquiet0490)

commissioned & premiered by Loadbang

Trumpet: Andy Kozar
Trombone: William Lang
Bass Clarinet: Adrián Sandí 
Baritone Voice: Jeffrey  Gavett 
Date: October 1, 2021
Venue: Opera America (NYC)
Event: loadbang Presents: Premieres Vol. 17
Audio and Video by Stuart Breczinski

video: https://youtu.be/cfU1rI2Ge9w

ghosts & monsters (2021) | loadbang ensemble

29Sep23

My naviarhaiku508 submission;
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/09/27/naviarhaiku508-deep-dark-summer-night/
:D

Deep, dark summer night [naviarhaiku508]

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Disquiet0631 Toney Dancer

Another contribution to the inspiring Naviar Haiku Project

Ore Train Passing (naviarhaiku527)

Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind
The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

Something with frogs :-)

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Not Easy Being Green (disquiet0632)

I took a walk through the pedestrian area of Munich, namely Sendlinger Strasse. It was windy, and as the app used my noise-cancelling headset as its microphone, there are plenty of noises and dropouts in the recording... something you'd normally delete immediately. 

I wanted to make something tonal from this noisefest. 

The file underwent a treatment with Reaktors Molekular and Valhalla reverb. The accompanying chords and melodies come from S&A Landforms and Spectres, Spitfire BBC Orchestra, and the ever lovely Reaktor Snowflake ensemble. Nothing’s on grid, I tried to arrange the parts as they seemed to fit. It still feels a bit lopsided sound- and arrangement-wise, but that’s the Disquiet Junto: You only have a finite number of days to work on it (and that’s a good thing).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind
The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

Step 1: Consider how when making a field recording, there can be disturbances in it, such as a passing car or plane, or a noise you didn’t notice until you listened back, or a malfunction in the recording equipment. A common such problem is wind shear.

Step 2: Make a recording that has wind shear in it, perhaps by standing in the wind, or recording from a moving vehicle, or through some other technique. Or locate a pre-existing field recording with wind shear, perhaps on freesound.org 1.

Step 3: Make a piece of music employing the recording you made in Step 2, and make the wind shear a focus of the piece. That is, pay attention to, rather than avoid, this sound that you would likely in other circumstances identify as a shortcoming.

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Additional Details:

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Noise Canceling [disquiet0632]

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Capsule Crunch (disquiet0632)

Two Arturia KORG MS-20 V, and an Arturia ARP2600 V3, processing two recordings made in the airstream of a circulation fan. The wind noise both contributes to the output sound, but also is used to trigger envelopes and, in the case of the MS-20s, follow the envelope of the recordings. The ARP2600 is responsible for the Morse code-like sounds.
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shear (disquiet0632)

Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind
The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

I made a windy recording down by the Redondo marina.  It was a quiet day for once.  It's usually kind of noisy with human activity.  Good day for a windy field recording with just a hint of birds and sea lions.  

I converted the field recording to midi notes.  Ableton has a few options when you convert audio to midi, "harmony, melody, drums."  I chose harmony first and didn't get very many midi notes from the conversion, then chose melody and got a lot more.  I used both and even made one more sparse one.  Chime sounds seemed like a natural choice.  I put the same midi effect on all midi tracks making all the notes part of the same 5 note chord.

With the wind recording itself I faded in some resonator and phaser, and faded them out again towards the end.

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blame it on the wind (Disquiet0632)

This track emphasises the originally unwanted sounds captured in a field-recording...
Following the inspiration of the Disquiet Junto Project 0632 the unloved artefacts of the field-recording created for my track https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/the-loneliest-pelican were enhanced with appropriate effects.
To add musical content two layers created with PaulXStretch and instruments playing notes extracted from the recording were added.

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Pelican Noisebed  (Disquiet0632)

There was a time when I was involved in Science! But that was a mistake. My Passion is music. I play the pipe-organ and synthesizer, I play the organ in a few bands and I like Apple computers. I discovered SuperCollider and VCV Rack: great ways of making sounds. Enjoy them on SoundCloud!

Dialogue(disquiet0490)

Henk Lasschuit

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