More on this 259th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Signals Lost: Summon up a horror story in sound” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0259/

The text that inspired this is from the book Lost Signals, from by Perpetual Publishing out of San Antonio, Texas. More details on the book at:

perpetualpublishing.com/product/lost-signals/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0259-lost-signals/5726

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Disquiet Junto Project 0259: Signals Lost

Music to make your skin crawl

Two layers of raw material were processed one with idensity granular synth and  once with BitWiz.  I took these results and cut out a few "notes" to create the slightest hint of a generative melody.  Layered everything together with large swashes of reverb until things glued together.  
Bear in mind much of the track's energy is in the low end headphones are recommended. 
 
This week’s project is a celebration of the new album by Dave Seidel, who also goes by Mysterybear. Titled ~60 Hz, it just came out on the great Irritable Hedgehog record label. Seidel has extracted five parts of one track from his album and made them available for reworking by the Disquiet Junto. The album is based on combining sine waves, and in keeping with that approach we will in this project combine parts of his album. 

Contacting Aliens Might Be A Bad Idea{Disquiet0114-60hz}

They encounter

A cathedral of ice

At the end of the world

I took a walk through the woods by my house recording my snowy footsteps.  Looped and mashed those with yellofier and sector.  Built up the rest of the track with guitar and a handful of apps.  

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:

https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on Naviar at:

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:

http://niterote.com/

Image associated with this Junto project is by William Warby, via a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/8HqHv9

Hollow earth theory [Disquiet0117-Naviar Junto]

Flawless face of Rouge,
Serene, silent Elegance
Gracing her, named War.

In planning for a Mars themed I thought learning a bit about Mars might not be a bad idea.  While listening to a science podcast I couldn't help but draw parallels with the tales of spirit science. 

Fire up the Merkaba (Naviar Haiku016-Flawless face of Rouge

Monsters of midnight 
In no way compete with the
Demons of daylight.



Ever Feel Like You're Being Followed ? [NaiviarHaiku028-Monsters of Midnight]

http://www.ambientonline.org/ one sample dare, the original sample can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/ambientsketchbook/journey-to-the-centre-of-the-garage/s-Lvfoe

started with a patch in Mitosynth using tiny fragments of the recording.  Samplr and idensity were also used.  


How to build your own prison

**Production Notes**

Well, if it‘s horror, then it’s pretty subtle. 

Whenever I go on a vacation, I take a shortwave radio with me and make some recordings. All the sounds you hear were made over 4 years in various countries.
 I arranged some bits and pieces so that they correlated with this Junto‘ assignment. 

The middle part is my favorite. The female voice somehow reminded me of GLaDOS; and like in the text provided, her voice came and went until it faded in noise. 

Added some minor treatments (short reverb, EQ, fuzz). 

The cake is a lie. 

* * * 

** Disquiet Junto Project 0259: Signals Lost**

Summon up a horror story in sound.

Step 1: There is a cool recent short fiction collection of horror stories, all with sound as their subject. The book is titled Lost Signals, and it contains 24 pieces of fiction, one of them, “The Night Wire” by H.F. Arnold, dating as far back as 1926.

Step 2: We’re going to take a short segment of one of the stories and try to represent it in sound. The story is “Transmission” by T.E. Grau. It’s about a mysterious radio station. You can either use the following segment, or read the book and find a different section of roughly similar length:
“Max was pondering the important issue of how petrogylphs differed from hieroglyphs when the radio halted its roll at the very far end of the electronic dial. After a brief silence, the weak signal transmitted indistinct sounds, like whispers, intermingled with an odd chanting that faded in and out like a spectral dirge. Intrigued by this strange combination, and hoping for a broadcast of a lonely Indian powwow, Max turned up the volume, but the higher it went, the softer the voice and chant became, going silent. There was no apparent signal, but the radio scan was still stopped, locked in on something.”

Step 3: Render the text in Step 2 (or that you choose yourself from the book Lost Signals). However, do not read the text. Just let the text inform the sounds.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Per the instructions below, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0259″ (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 3: In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co please consider posting your track.

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0259-lost-signals/5726

Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This project was posted in the early evening, California time, on Thursday, December 15, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, December 19, 2016.

Length: The length is up to you, but three to four minutes sounds about right.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0259” in the title of the track, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

More on this 259th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Signals Lost: Summon up a horror story in sound” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0259/

The text that inspired this is from the book Lost Signals, from by Perpetual Publishing out of San Antonio, Texas. More details on the book at:

perpetualpublishing.com/product/lost-signals/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0259-lost-signals/5726

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Portal

Portal [disquiet0259]

The rhythm is a Basic techno beat played 3x, once at regular speed, then at 2x speed, then 3x speed. 4x speed was a little bit much, don't you think?

The drone in the background is some marimba melody I found on youtube, pitched down and reversed. Under that is the same one stretched for the entire length of the song, then the pitch was raised so you could hear it rumbling below everything. 

Tons of low pass filtering, echo, and cutting out bars here and there. iZotope's vinyl plug-in was also used .

This piece was made in Audacity.

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More on this 259th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Signals Lost: Summon up a horror story in sound” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0259/

The text that inspired this is from the book Lost Signals, from by Perpetual Publishing out of San Antonio, Texas. More details on the book at:

perpetualpublishing.com/product/lost-signals/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0259-lost-signals/5726

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Signs Of Life [disquiet0259]

My entry for the 259th Disquiet Junto project. I took the text of the story pretty literally and started by recreating a version of what I thought the character was hearing. It's a Phonogene / Clouds warped, sound on sound loop from a thrift store tape of "African Music." I added a track of FM synthesis from DPO & STO in circular FM. The two tracks were then further beat up and smeared through a guitar delay pedal and Phonogene in broken tape mode.

You can catch little bits n
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More on this 259th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Signals Lost: Summon up a horror story in sound” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0259/

The text that inspired this is from the book Lost Signals, from by Perpetual Publishing out of San Antonio, Texas. More details on the book at:

perpetualpublishing.com/product/lost-signals/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0259-lost-signals/5726

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image from https://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkasaurus/8055920347

[disquiet0259 ] Lost Signal

https://soundcloud.com/kuromiya-hideyuki/ziggy-disquiet0259
https://soundcloud.com/user-242143924/verloren-signalendisquiet0259
https://soundcloud.com/lordofoverstock/signs-of-life-disquiet0259
Mashed up these tracks and added a vocal and beat. Mucho Gracias to these guys for making their tracks available.
More on this 259th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Signals Lost: Summon up a horror story in sound” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0259/

The text that inspired this is from the book Lost Signals, from by Perpetual Publishing out of San Antonio, Texas. More details on the book at:

perpetualpublishing.com/product/lost-signals/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0259-lost-signals/5726

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Oni Song (disquiet0259)Samples Junto See Description

Step 1: There is a cool recent short fiction collection of horror stories, all with sound as their subject. The book is titled Lost Signals, and it contains 24 pieces of fiction, one of them, “The Night Wire” by H.F. Arnold, dating as far back as 1926.

Step 2: We’re going to take a short segment of one of the stories and try to represent it in sound. The story is “Transmission” by T.E. Grau. It’s about a mysterious radio station. You can either use the following segment, or read the book and find a different section of roughly similar length:

“Max was pondering the important issue of how petrogylphs differed from hieroglyphs when the radio halted its roll at the very far end of the electronic dial. After a brief silence, the weak signal transmitted indistinct sounds, like whispers, intermingled with an odd chanting that faded in and out like a spectral dirge. Intrigued by this strange combination, and hoping for a broadcast of a lonely Indian powwow, Max turned up the volume, but the higher it went, the softer the voice and chant became, going silent. There was no apparent signal, but the radio scan was still stopped, locked in on something”

Step 3: Render the text in Step 2 (or that you choose yourself from the book Lost Signals). However, do not read the text. Just let the text inform the sounds.

More on this 259th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Signals Lost: Summon up a horror story in sound” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0259/2

The text that inspired this is from the book Lost Signals, from by Perpetual Publishing out of San Antonio, Texas. More details on the book at:

perpetualpublishing.com/product/lost-signals/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/1

There Was A Little Toolshed {Disquiet0259-LostSignals}

Music is not only a hobby, but a place of refuge.  
There are mostly ios creations but I'll play some guitar and what not here and there.  Sound is a giant sand box.  On going battle with hoarding got me an odd collection of instruments which I should learn how to record better.  I would be interested in more collaborations so inbox me if interested.  Good thing it wasn't the Apocalypse theres too much cool music I still have to hear :)  


Check out these folks while your listening:
http://soundcloud.com/apapdop
http://soundcloud.com/doucetephemere
http://soundcloud.com/vanmorrison
http://soundcloud.com/michaelw-2



There Was A Little Toolshed {Disquiet0259-LostSignals}

Mike J Dayton