unlike noise

the praying mantis has just a single ear, located on the underside of its belly.  due of this, the mantid cannot discriminate the direction of sound, nor its frequency.

indiscriminate direction of sound

Drew McDowall "Hypnotic Congress"
from the debut LP "Collapse" on Dais Records
Out September 25, 2015
daisrecords.com

Drew McDowall "Hypnotic Congress"

Pink Meth

Stop Plastic Pollution – Florian Schneider(Kraftwerk co-founder), Dan Lacksman (Telex)

For this weeks project I constructed three loops, two melodic, one rhythmic, adding effects to give each part constant motion. I then used some physical sliders to automate the parts, making them drift in and out of the mix. Some backwards reverb was added at the mixer level to even out the flow of the soundscape.

Note: I had a perhaps more interesting, more rhythmic piece worked out before but my computer crashed and I seem to have lost the samples I made : (

More on this 206th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Compose a track with a trio of through-lines that repeatedly alternate relative prominence”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/12/10/disquiet0206-threeswitches/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

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http://tinyletter.com/disquiet

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Source photo (“Three Light Switches”) by Zoran Kovacevic used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/2YdqLK


Jagged Edges Smoothed - Disquiet0206 - Threeswitches

As soon as I read Marc's email, I knew that my Doepfer sequential switch would be the star of the show this week. I fed three variations of a sound created in Elements into it as follows:

1-Raw Elements
2-Granularized Elements via Clouds
3-Basstravaganza courtesy of Warps having its way with Elements

Using Pressure Points' Touch Gate Out I controlled when the switch moved from one of the three spots. The trick, as I was working without my main rack, was I had no proper mixer to allow a subtle conclusion with all three variations playing at once. I routed things through the PM Mult and used it as a cheater mixer, and left the right side cable of the master outs unplugged until the culmination. 

Note: each time the switch moves, and in particular moving on or off the bass sound, there is a strong click. I like it and think it brings and interesting imperfection into play.

More on this 206th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Compose a track with a trio of through-lines that repeatedly alternate relative prominence”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/12/10/disquiet0206-threeswitches/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Source photo (“Three Light Switches”) by Zoran Kovacevic used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/2YdqLK

unlike noise

Km Narges