If you ever read one of my descriptions, you know the drill: I conducted a jam session in which I used a vast amount of sounds, settings and samples, and recorded the stereo in Audacity, which I used in post-production to extract the best parts from that jam session in order to create this track. As always, I only used basic audio editing techniques like simple crossfades. Only a touch of soft limiting was applied, no elaborate approaches like mastering were used whatsoever. Thus, the result is raw and highly dynamic in nature, so put on your favourite headphones and turn up that volume knob, because the Loudness War is for losers!

This particular jam session was quite extensive, so that I decided to create three tracks from it, so this is the first one. In this particular part of the jam session, I was heavily relying on the Eurorack modules Radio Music and Turing Machine, both designed by the amazing Tom Whitwell. As always, Radio Music provided most of the samples, while the Turing Machine provided most of triggering and modulation of several modules; just to name a few: the aforementioned Radio Music, Basimilus Iteritas Alter, Mordax DATA, Doepfer A-147, Make Noise LxD and the still superb Mutable Instruments Clouds. Especially the interaction between the BIA, the A-147, the LxD and the Turing Machine created that distinct "broken" abstract rhythm that drives this whole soundscape. Additionally, I employed several guitar pedals to add flavour to the synth sounds; most prominently the Boss ML-2 Metal Core, that really makes the Arturia MicroBrute sound almost like an electric guitar.

During post-production when listening through the recording and picking the best parts to create this track, a civil defense sirene test took place in my region and the siren nearby my flat was very audible. Funnily enough, it was quite in tune with the track and in my opinion really matched the oveall sound structure. As I mentioned previously, working with a modular synth system often brings something extraordinary into being by means of those happy little accidents. This time, not only my gear surprisesd me, but also this siren test. 

Unfortunately, I couldn't record this siren sound at that time on the fly, so I decided to use a sample from one of the numerous free sample online sources to recreate that surreal feeling I had during the jam session. So I placed the sample roughly at the same position as it occured during the post-production.

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I hope you enjoy!

Roger (First Transmission) [Jam session sections: RAW2021 - 3]

Game Inside The Game

Buy me a bud🌱

Ich Mache Mein Kino

Amang The Heather (Free download)

City Lights

More on this 494th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Insect Menagerie (The Assignment: Record a 20-second clip of the sounds of an insect that you yourself have invented) — at: https://disquiet.com/0494/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

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The image associated with this project is by dr_relling, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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chant files

halF insecT [disquiet0494]

Star Tale - Lyrics by Ren Faye

Echo voices... forest spirits...

I can't describe the feeling,
That you are here again...
We looked upon our kingdom, and what was our to reign
You always stood beside me,
As mighty as the bear...
And now, you have returned
To breathe the winter air...

I know, 
You bring the seasons
And I the freezing rain
I've seen so many visions but they are all the same

I know, 
You are the valley,
You guide me where I go
and I seek my shelter,
From battles in the snow

I know, 
In my heart...
That you, are beside...
I know,
In this heart,
That I can lead my tribe

I know,
I bring the journey,
Your wisdom teaches me
When we, come to gather
Under branches of our tree

I know, 
In my heart,
That you, stand beside
I know,
In this heart
That I will lead my tribe

I know you bring the glory,
The crystal dazzles me
I know, I see your spirit
and magic follows me

I see, 
In my heart
A castle made of frost,
I know, you will lead me
When it seems all is lost...

Echo voices... forest spirits...

End.

Star Tale - GMaks ft. Ren Faye

Sous Entendu

Klagovisa

From the album “Short Stories”, released 22.01.21

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Let's Grow Old Together (album version)

Trenchcoat

Музыка, которая штырит
Trippy Ambient Music for real researchers

Game Inside The Game

Mystique Wind