[naviarhaiku557] write, erase, rewrite

Inspired by a haiku, thank you Naviar Records for the opportunity!

Cascader

Cascader [ naviarhaiku558 ]

The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive. More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/ 

This week’s project was proposed by novelist Robin Sloan (Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Sourdough, Moonbound) in response to a post I made on social media about the annoying sound of an HDD drive I accidentally purchased. I had mistakenly thought it was an SSD drive. We previously did a project inspired by Sloan’s work almost exactly 7 years ago, at the end of August 2017 (more details at disquiet.com/0296).  

Step 1: Either record the sound of an HDD drive or use a field recording available online, such as this one from Freesound:  https://freesound.org/people/eardeer/sounds/401271 

Step 2: Consider how that drive sound, even when quiet, could be irritating if heard while one is listening to music.  

Step 3: Per Sloan’s proposal, “record music to harmonize with, or play against, the whirr.” (It’s up to you if you want to include the sound of the drive along with your music.)

More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/

Image: Don MacKeen 2024

computer drone [disquiet0663]

(with apologies to mark fell)

sample of failing hdd, looping, going into a slew limiter and a comparator to derive some semblance of rhythmic patterns, these used to trigger percussion, chord pads and high pitch bursts

freesound ref for sample: Old crashed hard drive by tix99 -- https://freesound.org/s/626912/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/

The image associated with this project is licensed thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. It was taken by Evan Amos — whom Popular Science has reportedly referred to as “gaming’s most famous photographer” — as a part of Vanamo Media.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laptop-hard-drive-exposed.jpg

disquiet0663 - cyclic redundancy

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Feature-reel here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAB6YcrNYpE/

hear the hum of the drive
the quiet spin of bits
everything i‘ve ever known
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feel the spin of the drum
the riot king of lips
everything i‘ve ever seen
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This week's assignment: 
- Step 1: take the sound of an HDD drive.
- Consider how that drive sound, even when quiet.
-  Step 3: Per Sloan’s proposal, “record music to harmonize with, or play against, the whirr.”

Gladly used this soundfile:
https://freesound.org/people/EverydaySounds/sounds/378913/?attribution=1
Failing Hard Drive by EverydaySounds -- https://freesound.org/s/378913/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Enjoy!

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More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/

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caché (disquiet0663)

postpwned

Enter the danger zone! ... See the accompanying visuals and download the patch at https://youtu.be/wNy9nG9AaQU ... Create your own version of a volatile bytebeat atmos in VCV Rack! 😁

More on the 671st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In the Air Tonight — The Assignment: Make an atmosphere of your own — at https://disquiet.com/0671/

visuals & patch

halF volatilE [disquiet0671]

Submission to naviarhaiku#574 https://naviarlab.tumblr.com
Haiku by Kobayashi Issa http://haikuguy.com/issa/search.php
Picture by Yosuke Ota https://unsplash.com/photos/a-tree-with-white-flowers-in-front-of-a-building-ToWVmFh38kA

. . .
On New Year's Day
everywhere, a corrupt world's
blossoms
. . .

computer drone [disquiet0663]

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