Wonky Wednesday (Side A)

You are uneasily waiting for an unknown appointment in a tranquil yet strange room.

A Suspenseful Waiting Room on an Alien Shore

Disquiet Junto 0372

braille (disquiet0372)

vcvrack   release date:02_ 05_2019     
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Interstellar Ship (disquiet0383)

Space Age Bachelor Pad music? Hehe. I guess spacy ambience is kinda part of my sound (if one influenced by old sci fi movies, the radiophonic workshop and their ilk), so it kinda fell firmly in my ball park. i have various pieces on my hard-drive that could have qualified for this weeks assignment but i prefer to create something fresh from my own perspective. When i was picturing the spacecraft of the future i kinda see it more like how its depicted in Dune than in Star Wars, passing through another dimension, a more abstract space, a folding of space and time I went through a lot of processes in this assignment - the initial sections involved using the new Audiobulb Ambient 4 and creating some evolving soundscapes, then i took that into ableton, blending those parts with FX and various new layers, lots of filtering, blah. Generative layers where developed in keeping with the brief, using chance procedure to generate the melodic drone and audio events. Finally i used Rokvid (a M4L visual software available on the ableton website) to create audio-reactive visuals from an old documentary. Theres a few technical glitches where it freezes for a few seconds, but i'm kinda new to this and very much still learning 

The video is available here: https://youtu.be/8zlrPjF1vlc

More on this 383rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Interstellar Ambience / The Assignment: Record the sound of an apartment in a large interstellar ship — at: https://disquiet.com/0383/ 1 More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 3 Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-... There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion. Image associated with this project adapted (cropped, colors changed, text added, cut’n’paste) thanks to a Creative Commons license from a photo credited to Pedro Moura Pinheiro: https://flic.kr/p/4MpgvY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

The Holtzman Effect -  disquiet0383

I worked in a microtonal tuning called 33ed4 https://en.xen.wiki/w/33ed4

There are several loops, constisting of only one note at a dedicated pitch.

The loop lengths are prime numbers to generate new melodies and chords over time.

More on this 383rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Interstellar Ambience / The Assignment: Record the sound of an apartment in a large interstellar ship — at:

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Prime Time [disquiet0383]

For this intersteller ambience, I used a Gechologic Loopsynth. It's patch picks a random position within first 100,000 digits of π and starts generating chord progressions from there. I set it in the morning window with it's internal microphones and IR sensors activated, next to my phone which was playing an ASMR video of vegetable chewing. I ran it through the Tunnels patch on Norns into my iPad for recording.


Disquiet Junto Project 0383: Interstellar Ambience
The Assignment: Record the sound of an apartment on a large interstellar ship.

Step 1: The goal is to record an artificial rendering of background ambient sound. The inspiration is, if you’re familiar with them, those YouTube videos in which people have stitched together loops of ambience extracted from movies like Blade Runner , anime like Ghost in a Shell , and TV shows like Star Trek . The issue to consider is that many (though not all) of those YouTube future-ambience videos consist of short tight loops that repeat for hours, which isn’t how actual ambient sound generally proceeds. There are elements to a given place’s soundscape that ebb and flow, shift and morph, as time proceeds, and many of the YouTube sci-fi film-ambience videos lack that quality.

Step 2: Create and record the sound of a future interior space, specifically an apartment on a large interstellar ship. Make the recording fairly long, half an hour if possible. Imagine it will be played on loop for a longer period of time. (The word “apartment” is being used instead of “compartment” to make it clear this is a personal space.)

Bonus Option: You needn’t create your work as a fixed recording. If you have the means to code a generative system, that is certainly an option.

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Intersteller Ambience #disquiet0383

In his classic book The Design of Future Things, Donald A. Norman described how engineers once programmed what they called “comfort noise” into telephones.  

In the old days, the phone’s clicks and buzzes were necessary to process long-distance calls. As technology improved and circuitry became quieter, people were concerned that they no longer had implicit auditory clues to signify progress. (“I don’t hear anything, it must not be working.”) Hence the introduction of fake sounds designed solely for the purpose of giving phone customers the impression that something was actually happening.

Sound is important for providing informative feedback, and we live in a noisy world. Still, the lack of sound can also be a distraction. We hear the slight buzz of a refrigerator, the gentle hum of an air conditioning system, the purr of an automobile engine. While much effort has gone into developing quieter devices for our environments, there is something unnerving about the abyss of absolute silence. It might be mere “comfort noise” to an engineer, but naturalistic sounds tell us that the products we use are working efficiently.

For this piece, Suss Müsik examined both the utilitarian and utopian characteristics of ambient sound. A living environment was imagined in which the polyphony of auditory spaces was something that could be “tuned” according to mood, texture or biometric response. The pulsating waves of synthetic fields create a privatized envelope of mechanically reproduced life systems. 

The piece is titled Sensorium. The end abruptly cuts off in order to join at the beginning as a perfect loop. The image is an audio speaker from a hotel lobby in Washington DC, whence a lot of non-comfort noise seems to originate.

More on this 383rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Interstellar Ambience / The Assignment: Record the sound of an apartment in a large interstellar ship — at:

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Sensorium [Disquiet0383]

It's Not You, Culture

Roland TR606
x0xb0x
Digitech Studio Quad
A&H Zed10
Tascam DR07mkII

190715/0236

120bpm — do things still work?

Testing out a few things in advance of a gig on October 25th…
x0xb0x, Roland CR8000, Roland TR606, Doepfer Dark Energy II, Digitech StudioQuad, Yamaha FX500 mixed via A&H Zed10 mixer.

Recorded straight to stereo… no post-processing

191007/16

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