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For Disquiet Junto Project 0065: Piano Overlay

Here is the start point and length of the assigned segment of Jared Brickman's hour-long composition.

Start Point: 18 minutes 30 seconds

Length: 3 minutes 27 seconds

The track was created in Ableton Live.
I added FX's to the original track plus a reversed clip of the original, a bass pulse and guitar feedback.

More on this 65th Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2013/03/28/disquiet0065-pianoverlay/

More on the source composition by Jared Brickman at:

One_hello_world – Every-day-were-dying-and-outer

The browser-based tool that segmented the Brickman track for this project was coded by Disquiet Junto member Ken Mistove, more from whom at:

kenzak.com/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto



18:30 [disquiet0065-pianooverlay]

This is a special project. Very nice Marc.
I turned off the lights and lit a candle to listen to Jeffrey's track. It was a pleasure getting lost in his sound.

This track was recorded in Ableton Live and mastered with iZotope's Ozone 5.
I used a bass guitar and ran it through Komplete's Guitar Rig 5. The patch is called Christal-MC and it provided the sweeping echo chorus pad sound off of the bass notes.

Thank you for listening.

This track is a posthumous collaboration with Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed away on March 30, 2013. It was recorded live in April 2013 atop a June 2012 Melton live recording.

More on this 66th Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2013/04/04/disquiet0066-nonofi/

More of Melton/Nofi’s music at:

www.nofi.org/

Read Melton’s obituary here:

www.legacy.com/obituaries/fortwa…amp;pid=163988588

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto





much too young to... [disquiet0066_nonofi]

At Random.org I rolled a 4 and a 3 = Book #7
Then I rolled 2 x 1 x 6 = Phrase line 12

Which gave me this phrase:

Sea-rovers her had from Epirus brought
Long since, and to Alcinoüs she had fall'n
By public gift, for that he ruled, supreme,
Phæacia, and as oft as he harangued
The multitude, was rev'renced as a God.


I really like the words within the phrase A God - Supreme.
So I took each word and panned hard left and right.
I then double tracked the words and panned them in the opposite directions but this time with effects from Guitar Rig.
Then looped them to create the rhythmic soundtrack.
The main phrase was center panned with a light touch of echo.
The track was assembled in Ableton Live 8

These were the instructions for this project:

Step 1: Roll a die twice (or two dice once) and add the results. This number will tell you which of the first dozen books of The Odyssey by Homer you will be working from.

Step 2: Roll a die three times (or three dice once) and multiply the results (i.e., if you get a 3, a 5, and a 6, then 3 x 5 x 6 = 90). This will tell you which line of the book from Homer's Odyssey you will be working with.
Which gives me this phrase:

Sea-rovers her had from Epirus brought
Long since, and to Alcinoüs she had fall'n
By public gift, for that he ruled, supreme,
Phæacia, and as oft as he harangued

Step 3: Locate that line in the version of The Odyssey at this URL:

archive.org/stream/theodysseyof…4269gut/24269-0.txt

Step 4: Select the phrase that begins at your assigned line and ends with the next full stop (that is, with the next period) in the text.

Step 5: Record the selected text as audio using an automated text-to-speech tool. You can alter this text in any way you choose, but make certain that it remains inteligble.

Step 6: Record a new piece of background music for the spoken text. The sole source material for this background music should be the audio that resulted from step 5. You can transform the source audio in any way you choose. You can add up to three full seconds at the beginning and end of the spoken audio to allow for the music to build up and to fade out.

Step 7: This is the final step. Combine the audio from steps 5 and step 6 into one track, adjusting the relative volume levels as necessary.

Length: Your finished work will be the length of or a few seconds longer than the track that resulted from step 5 above.

More on this 67th Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2013/04/11/disquie…67-odysseymachine/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto

This project was inspired by the National Poetry Month event at SoundCloud, more details on which here:

soundcloud.com/groups/national-poetry-month-collaborations

The source text for this project is William Cowper’s translation of The Odyssey of Homer, available here:

archive.org/stream/theodysseyof…4269gut/24269-0.txt



National Poetry Month: NolanVerde (disquiet0067-odysseymachine)

This track was created in Ableton Live 8. Most of the sounds were shaped using Impulse.

More on this 68th Disquiet Junto project, the intent of which is to draw attention to the benefits of a Creative Commons license allowing for derivative works, at:

disquiet.com/2013/04/18/disquiet0068-deriv/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto

This track is composed from material extracted from three pre-existing tracks (“The Find Beauty, Even in the Mundane,” “Immaterial Girl,” “Libertarian Entertainment Automaton”) by C. Reider, all of which were released on the album The Conjuncts on the deriv.cc netlabel, and were themselves derived from the following: “Garden City” and “Ventilation” from Tulse Hill by Hannah Marshall; “LichenWall” from Gardening by Steve Moyes; “Eighteen Events” from Not One Nor by Daniel Barbiero; “Awkward Customer” from [m2012/30-09] by Restive; “cues two three” and “cue six” from Cue Sheet by Sighup; “Sending Dreams to She Downstream” from Pocket Suite by He Can Jog; “The Palsgraf Scale” from Weights and Measures by Gurdonark; “Bonus Track” from Pale by Leo Bettinelli and Pol Nieva; “Haunted Grace” from Haunted Grace on SoundCloud by Jess Lemont a.k.a. Be A Waterwolf; “Ochiita” from Gently Annoying by Xesús Valle; and “Once More With Intellect” from [m2012/30-09] by Restive.



NDRock [disquiet0068-deriv]

This track was assembled in Ableton Live 8.
Utilizing warp markers and Ableton effects.

More on this 69th Disquiet Junto project, which involves creating a single piece of music from samples that represent each of the four elements, at:

disquiet.com/2013/04/25/disquiet0069-4elements/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto

All the source audio is from Freesound.org. The earth sample is by ABouch, the water by aesqe, the wind by Bosk1, and the fire by suonho:

Earth: www.freesound.org/people/ABouch/sounds/174938/

Water: www.freesound.org/people/aesqe/sounds/39901/

Wind: www.freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/144083/

Fire: www.freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/3202/



sixtynine [disquiet0069-4elements]

This track was assembled in Ableton Live 8.
First note key of G in the synth patch Bass Fat Tube
Second note key of F in the synth patch Cold Ambience.
Each was assigned an appropriate beat.
The third beat is an inappropriate sample beat by John Bonham from studio outtakes from the "In Through The Out Door" sessions. (I just had to do it!)

Thank you for listening.

More on this 70th Disquiet Junto project, which involves creating a single piece of music from two tones and three beats, at:

disquiet.com/2013/05/02/disquiet0070-2tones3beats/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto



[disquiet0070-2tones3beats]

Disquiet Junto Project 0071: Wind Music

This week’s project is straightforward. It is an exercise in scoring for video. The video is one minute and four seconds long. It is the trailer to a film now in development. The title of the film is Sense the Wind and the director is Christine Knowlton. The subject of the film is blind sailors. The fact that film is about people for whom hearing is especially important made it very attractive. The director is excited to hear, and see, what we come up with. As her @SenseTheWind Twitter feed states of the film: “Blind sailors race across open water, learning not to fear what they cannot see — on boats or on land.”

The source video is here. It has all the audio, but no music:

vimeo.com/65429113

Rules: The only restriction is that you should not employ any copyright-protected audio (i.e., source material), because the intent is for the director to select one of the tracks, potentially, to serve as the backing music for the trailer. And yes, you may certainly employ audio from the trailer as source material for your music.

I give the director permission to use my music in the trailer for the film Sense the Wind for promotional purposes.

More on this 71st Disquiet Junto project, which involves creating a backing score for the trailer to the film Sense the Wind, about competitive blind sailing, directed by Christine Knowlton, at:

disquiet.com/2013/05/09/disquiet0071-windmusic/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto

More on the film at

www.sensethewind.com/

[disquiet0071-windmusic]

Recorded two files using my MacBookPro and AbletonLive.
1. Knocking on the front door which drives my dog Sydney nuts. 
2. Flushing the toilet.
Ran the two files into multiple channels using AbletonLive.

More on this 72nd Disquiet Junto project, which involves making a domestic score from sounds recorded in your own home, at:

disquiet.com/2013/05/16/disquie…072-domesticscore/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto

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