for Disquiet Junto Project 0494: Insect Menagerie

This insect communicates using a special mouth apparatus, what we hear here is the mating call. 
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sounds recreated using Aalto.
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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: disquiet.com/0494/

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

www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…4-insect-menagerie/

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

Voca tuba [disquiet0494]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0497: Benjamin’s Glass
The Assignment: Pay tribute to Benjamin Franklin and his armonica

The Junto assignment is to record a live performance on the glass harp, and to employ live processing in the performance. There should be no post-production. 

Process:

I rubbed some wine glasses with water in it, using both hands, the sound went through a chain of EQ, Delay, multiband compressor, reverb and limiter. 

I produced a lot more of recordings, also trying to use my contact microphone, which however kept the glasses from properly resonating, and the result sounded more like a tortured rubber balloon. While indeed quite interesting sounds, it was very annoying to listen to, so I spare you that.

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More on this 497th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Benjamin’s Glass (The Assignment: Pay tribute to Benjamin Franklin and his armonica) — at: https://disquiet.com/0497/

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fearful little ones [disquiet0497]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0498: Sonic Entomologist
The Assignment: Create a new hybrid insect from the sound of two different insects.
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The mad scientist combined https://soundcloud.com/richiewitch/future-crickets-disquiet-494 and https://soundcloud.com/seramind/insect-2-disquiet0494 and the progeny now likes to sit next to natural wells and imitates water sounds to attract prey.

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More on this 498th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sonic Entomologist (The Assignment: Create a new hybrid insect from the sound of two different insects) — at: https://disquiet.com/0498/

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

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0498-sonic-entomologist/

Sedens fontem aquae [disquiet0498]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0499: Out of the Landscape
The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which a sound emerges from a field recording.
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The process was described in several surprisingly (and suspiciously) detailed steps and I really tried to adhere to them. 
Therefore I first marked the sections in my DAW to outline what is supposed to happen when. 
Then I looked for a field recording on my hard drive, containing about 100 GB of my own field recordings :/ however, finding one that was 5 minutes long drastically reduced the amount of recordings I could pick from. I listened to several and had some ideas, but realized that the field recording needed to be somewhat continuous, otherwise it wouldn't make sense in the end. Most of my longer field recordings (mostly construction site machine noise)are not the same in the beginning and the end, more like a long collection of builders doing different noisy stuff) therefore "we hear the unadorned original field recording for the first time" could not be met. 
One recording was left: birds making noise in my backyard in the morning. Since my backyard is in a big city there is also hum and other noise. 
Ok, the next step was to insert something that wasn't noticable right away. Difficult with birds, making bird-like synth sounds is also not very pleasant on the ear. Any other noise could have been in my backyard, but I do not live on Mars, so... I tried different things and wanted to give up. 
But I had another idea: took a piece of the original bird recording and used it for resynthesis, so I can have the bird in my synth to manipulate. I recorded several takes of the manipulation and tried to adhere to the timeline of events, but I had to cut out some time in the middle because the recording still wouldn't fit for 5 minutes. 
Anyway, having a piece of the original birdsong+hum resynthesized, I could also focus the sound on the hum, and got a nice droning. Sounds like I added something else, but it was all contained. Now I have a bird with a terrible space disease. I like it. 

tl;dr: according to assignment. 5 minutes! almost. I liked the drone.
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Major thanks to the work on Golden Gate Bridge music by Mahlen Morris (@StochasticTelegraph) and Nate Mercereau in inspiring this project’s approach.

More on this 499th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Out of the Landscape (The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which a sound emerges from a field recording) — at: https://disquiet.com/0499/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0499-out-of-a-landscape/

chirp blorp chirp [disquiet0499]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0516: Outside In (Co/Exist 1 of 3)
The Assignment: Record a minute or two of nature.

Outside In (Co/Exist 1 of 3) [disquiet0516]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0523: Chill Communication
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

Process notes: recorded some ice cubes rattling in a glass and used only stretched snippets from that sounds to make this slow walking piece.
Pretty mellow and chill I think, unlike the very first junto project, where I made much more noise.
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More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0523/

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disquiet0523

for Disquiet Junto Project 0550: Abrupt Probability
The Assignment: Make music based on a chance graphic score.

The process: 
found this random pile of objects, looked at them and tried to express what I see using synths and sample arrangements.
Partly it is the material, the angle or the imagined sound of those objects falling.

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More on this 550th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Abrupt Probability (The Assignment: Make music based on a chance graphic score) — at: https://disquiet.com/0550/

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

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/musikfestival_bern
https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

just as it is [disquiet0550]

Disquiet Junto Project 0556: Gabber Ambient
The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre.

Step 1: Consider what makes gabber gabber and what makes ambient ambient. Where is there crossover?

Step 2: Make a track that could be construed as “gabba ambient.”

Step 3: You’re probably going to want to delete it. Try not to. Save and upload.

Process: Step 3 cracked me up^^ Instead I really liked the outcome...
It turned out as some kind of dark noise, but the beat is at 200bpm and I used a cliche riser sample.
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More on this 556th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gabber Ambient (The Assignment: Field-test a hybrid genre) — at: https://disquiet.com/0556/

Thanks to Sevenism for having proposed this project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0556-gabber-ambient/

Image by BranMoviC, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BranMoviC_Hakken.gif#mw-jump-to-license

research [disquiet0556]

Disquiet Junto Project 0560: Sonic Disambiguation
The Assignment: Help the Wikimedia Foundation develop a sonic logo.

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More on this 560th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sonic Disambiguation (The Assignment: Help the Wikimedia Foundation develop a sonic logo) — at: https://disquiet.com/0560/

Thanks to Mahmoud Hashemi, of Listen to Wikipedia, for suggesting the Disquiet Junto take this project on.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0560-sonic-disambiguation/

Sound of all knowledge [disquiet0560]

Disquiet Junto Project 0581: Helsinki Downspout

The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track.

Step 1: This is a shared sample project, one in which all the participants will utilize the same provided recording, about a minute and a half long, as the rhythmic element for their own music. Access the track, originally recorded by Scott Fletcher and used with his permission, here:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout

Process: just straightforward jammed with bass and guitar to the rain drops. 
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More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/

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chill at the tap [disquiet0581]

for Disquiet Junto 0001: 
Instructions: “Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.”

Disquiet0001-ice

for Disquiet Junto Project 0274: Broken Sound
The Assignment: Record a piece of music in the genre called “broken sound.”
The process: the genre called again for using Aalto, which I use to generate broken noises for my pleasure anyway. How to separate the genre from "noise" was the most important question. noise often lacks rhythm and melody though. This is what we have here. ok, "melody" in a broad sense of the word. but overall there are some pitch changes. We can break a sound on different levels: squarizing the waveform, failures in stereo channel, wrong reverb, strange partials, bands that cancel another.
So then, the track is live recorded while fiddling with Aalto, salted with a little bit of squeezing effect.

More on this 274th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Broken Sound: Record a piece of music in the genre called ‘broken sound’” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0274/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/the-genre-of-broken-sound-disquiet-junto-project-0274/

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

Image associated with this project is by Marc Weidenbaum:

http://instagram.com/p/BDvyl6zLIiB/

stay on track [disquiet0274]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0326: Wave Turntable
In collaboration with composer Danny Clay, make music for his exhibit with artist Jon Fischer using only sine waves and turntable surface noise.

Assignment: Compose a short piece of music using only sine waves and the surface sounds of vinyl played on a turntable. 

Process: I had a look at the work of the artists mentioned above. I saw the point and wondered how can I make sine waves that are played by unusually surfaced records? Some time ago, I got an old turntable on the flea market because I wanted to somehow listen to tiny records that I found on my mom's attic. They were from a speaking toy parrot, that had a little toy record player inside. This however, was lost. With a diameter of about 5cm only, the mini records were of course not suited for a regular record player. anyway I tried to play them and recorded the noises, which were very scary. At the end, the records were just skipping and these parts I took out of the recordings (to leave out the scary parrot voices) and glued 4 of them together to a 1 minute wav file. This I used instead of an impulse response for processing in convolution reverb. I fed short sine waves of different frequency into the convolution reverb and let the reverb bounce about as it pleased. I EQd it so that the record noise is still audible as well. 


More on this 326th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Wave Turntable: In collaboration with composer Danny Clay, make music for his exhibit with artist Jon Fischer using only sine waves and turntable surface noise) at:

https://disquiet.com/0326/

More on Clay and Fischer at:

http://dclaymusic.com
http://feather2pixels.com

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0326-wave-turntable/

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

The image associated with this project is by artist Jon Fischer from his exhibit with Danny Clay.

scratching and spinning [disquiet0326]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0460: Creative Destruction
The Assignment: Show how you got to a tortured sound.

The process: started with a simple repeating organ melody using DSK B3x plugin. faded in my favorite granular effect machine Argotlunar and played with granularization parameters to destroy the sound. Next in the effects chain is a distortion plugin followed by a convolution reverb using a techno loop instead of an impulse response and faded both of them slowly in. voila, you end up at a metal concert with a jet crossing after you got sucked down an ocean vortex. 

or something.

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More on this 460th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Creative Destruction (The Assignment: Show how you got to a tortured sound), at:

https://disquiet.com/0460/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Ocean Vortex [disquiet0460]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0471: Phase Transition
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

Step 1: Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.

Process: First I was amazed that the first Disquiet Junto project should be already 9 years ago! :O feels like, maybe 3 years.

I still got the recordings of the very first ice cube in a glass project in a folder, however I decided to record new samples, employing stereo microphones and a contact microphone. For the glass I used a large pharmacy flask. This leads to different source recordings but also I decided to use the ice-glass recordings only, created an interesting rhythmic loop and decorated it with stretched and otherwise manipulated sample snippets from the recordings. enjoy & happy new year!

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More on this 471st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phase Transition / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0471/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0471-phase-transition/

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

Jog on new ice [disquiet0471]

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