Gorgeous. At moments, with the interaction of the voice and the other sounds, it reminds me favorably of Zoolook era Jarre. Nice work.

I love what you've done with the voice. Very soothing indeed

I used this in my 251 assignment. Err hope that's ok ...

love the interplay of textures and atmosphere! excellent job!

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Disquiet Junto Project 0250: Soothing Sounds for Junto

I'm a big fan of the EMS Synthi and was surprised to see the ipad app for the iVCS3. This thing is lovely - Was not expecting how many sounds and how richly "analog" this app sounds and behaves. Recorded over the weekend, adding a moment here and there, until about ten minutes were put together. 

All sounds generated from within the iVCS3, played through a midi controller to a digital 8-track. Processed with Moog mf104 delay near the ending half.

Ten Minutes with the iVCS3

This week's Junto was to create some soothing sounds for a newborn baby.  I started out at the piano, and soon came across this little motif that I liked. It had a sort of lullaby feel to it, but I didn't want it to be too rigid in timing. So I flooded it with reverb and lots of slow echoes, and tried to play without getting entrenched in any particular 'bar' structure. I found that by adding a few sequences from the modular synth it would give me something more firmly in time to shift across.   I also added one of my pad sounds from the JP-8080 for a little variety.   

Improvised live, in a single take.

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TenTinyFingersTenTinyToes (Disquiet0250)

release date: 13 - 10 - 2016
More on this 250th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Soothing Sounds for Junto: Make some peaceful music for an infant child” — at:

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Welcome ( Disquiet 0250)

"Compose a piece of music intended for a newborn child, something peaceful as they first experience the world outside the womb."

I remember when our first daughter was born, she would sleep better on car rides when we played music with a touch of prominent bass.  Nothing too loud, of course.  

This piece tries to replicate that "perfect" soothing baby sound that our daughter liked while in the car.  In addition to two kinds of basses, there's a variety of field recordings mixed in the background, along with a section of the track "Tactile Music" by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish, from our 2008 album Ornate Culmination.

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Soothing Baby Sounds (disquiet0250)

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Disquiet Junto Project 0250: Soothing Sounds for Junto
Make some peaceful music for an infant child.

This project finds me re-editing and mixing tracks I composed and recorded last year for a film that needed some “clear”, “transparent” and “crystalline” music according to director.
So I went for a sample instrument called Glass Works from Soniccouture that I ended up using quite a lot, samples from “translucent” glass instruments such as Chamber Bowls, Cristal Baschet and Glass Harmonica. 
https://soundcloud.com/soniccouture

I kept the same template yesterday night and build this Welcome! sound to Karin and Bruce’s sweetheart, wishing them all a lot of happiness.

Basic tracks are:
-Cristal Baschet (arpeggio)
-Bowls (w/mallets) 
-Glass Harmonica
-Bowed bowls pad

So the basic track is full midi.

Then I added my beloved Accordina (start @ 0:34) and (bassist me) a pizzicato upright bass section (6 overdubs of the same basic bass part to make it sound like a bass orchestra).
I thought this was a bad idea, (removing the aerial mood and giving some rhythmic root) but today it seems good.
Still, at 3AM I added some “Vangelis” noises and cutoff falls ‘cause something in the sound reminds me the Love Theme from Blade Runner, so I tried to imitate those unique “ffffsshhhh” sound Vangelis masters.
I also thought this was a bad idea and now, the morning after I can confirm. It’s actually number 37 in my list “50 worst ideas of 2016”
But can’s get to the studio to remove it now, so here it goes, lets support some bad ideas from time to time, shall we?

A magic moment is at 01:05 when the glass harmonica takes the lead playing the melody the Accordina just played (and accordina starts improvising) , both timbre sound so alike that it’s amazing, such disparate instruments.


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Welcome Little One - disquiet0250

My Music Videos - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_iQ5JFusPt9EIwKIZ5rew
Since I usually have some sort of music playing when I go to sleep(much of it from the Junto), I made this a little longer and more peaceful than my usual bits. Starting with Waldorf Nave I made a slowly evolving pad for the body of the piece. Then I added a nice female speaking track with a hp filter and a bit of verb to give a sense of muted distance. It still needed a little more body so I got a simple patch in Animoog for some quiet bass. The final track is a field recording of high plains wind that is mixed low with some widened sound field. Only added a little presence to the master channel in Cubasis.  As always, used Ocenaudio for wav slicing and conversion. Thanks! @disquiet

Season of our Disquiet

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All source sound in this small (and experimental) piece is from "leftover" eurorack modules - conforming to the few kinds, that this weeks challenge from the Disquiet Junto, #381, allows. 

The sequence/sound has then been imported into ableton and MANGLED like crazy - and a few drums then added...

More on this 381st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Shared System / The Assignment: make music using a free software synth assembled by Scanner — at:

https://disquiet.com/0381/ 

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disquiet0381 - short con/fused

Disquiet tempted me, and lured me away from the blessed hilltops of analogue signal flow, down into the unholy valley of virtual modular instrumentation. This exercise in wretched debauchery began with almost an hour of confusion and frustration, untilled I finally discovered how these cursed devices operate.

Joking aside. I do like what some digital modular can do, but good gravy is it unintuitive. I am planning on finding a way to add some virtual tools to my tangible rack someday, but this won't be it. I found the setup strange and restrictive.

Oh well. I can't say I didn't try.

Heathen Offering [disquiet0381]

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0383-interstellar-ambience/22125/9?u=eptc

The Orbiting Space Station's Daily Routine (Disquiet0383)

I figure it might be kind of noisy in a typical spacecraft apartment--noise abatement = weight and cost. The apartment depicted here is in the cheap part of the spacecraft--buried deep in a warren of vents, pipes and driveshafts. But it's cozy and the price is right!

The ambience here comes from:

--5 separate noise generators, each run through a low-pass filter featuring a different cutoff frequency and modulated at a different rate by a LFO. The high-frequency filters used fast modulation (up to 10 hz) while the lower ones were low (down to 0.001 hz!). 
-a 'struck bar' generator (randomly chosen preset)
-a 'shaker' generator (randomly chosen preset)
-background sounds; I ran the microphone through a 10-second delay and reverb

except for the background sound (which is always on), everything is triggered at random for random lengths, with a bit of randomness in stereo panning, reverb and volume. The background sound is pretty random too; I stuck the laptop in the basement and went about doing housework and so on. My only interventions: at one point I played a Nixon speech on my phone, and then played "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by the Portsmouth Sinfonia (a wink to "2001" ). 

I ran the main bit for 30 minutes but in principle it could run any arbitrary length (in the main loop in the code change "30::minute" to "1::week" or "1000::weeks" as you wish).

It gets quite loud at points and very soft at others. I didn't do any post-processing; I don't know how Ableton would deal with a file this length.

If I had world and time I'd probably think of some correlation structure for the noises (human behavior tends to be positively autocorrelated at short horizons, I suppose) and add some 60 cycle hum.  

here's the code:

https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0383.ck

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Disquiet0383 Interstellar Ambience

sorry ive been gone so long, new ep coming very soon.

forgetting you

DREAMWORLD EP. Samples from final fantasy, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Demon Blue

dream

gold

victory!

Dark, Electronic, Ambient, Experimental, Retro, Post and Drone.
HypoidSound@YouTube

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

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