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Contact Lost

Inspired by the Youtube video of Magnapinna (Big fin squid) filmed in the Gulf of Mexico.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To2_Gq14UVs

Created using
4ms Spherical Wavetable Navigator  Oscillator
MakeNoise Wogglebug
MakeNoise Mimeophone
ALM Pamela's New Workout
DivKid 0chd

Image taken from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  "Windows on the deep 2021" project https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex2107/media-resources/bigfin-squid.html

Magnapinna

flowers smile in the clear pool

(Original sound material provided by Marcus Fischer)

Disquiet Junto Project 0600: Reaching Out
The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer.

Step 1: The musician Marcus Fischer, long a friend of and participant in the Disquiet Junto, has graciously put together a set of shared samples that will be the source audio for this project. Part of the beauty of a shared sample project is that there will be an underlying quality — a tonality, a texture, a commonality — to all the disparate works that are produced from the foundational material. Listening to the variations as they surface will be its own special source of pleasure. You can access the files here:

https://www.dropbox.com/t/TGexgpq93GPLGFxE 30

Step 2: You can rework the audio from Step 1 in any way that you see fit. You can use all of it, or just one tiny piece, or whatever subset you find strikes your ear. The one stipulation is your finished piece should begin and end with an unadulterated segment of one of the provided tracks for at least two seconds. Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

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I've had this idea for a long time: turning slowly evolving drones and textures into percussion and pusles and compose around that.

When I listened to the source material, I knew what I wanted to do.

**The process**
I placed all sounds on separate DAW tracks and listened to them. 
I used sends to create 3 different "submixes" that I liked. I recorded these 3 sounds and worked with them, disregarding the other material. 

Then, I processed these 3 voices with Eurorack envelopes and VCAs, coming up with a trigger sequence, envelope timing, levels and EQ that I liked. I spent around an hour on it.

I grouped together all 3 voices and added some space with tape delay and a bit of reverb. Then, I added a fourth sound layer of the metallic stereo percussion, which already had a great reverberation to it, so I put it outside of the group to add a second layer of depth to the overall space of the piece.

I recorded 10 minutes of the resulting material to the DAW (mono).

Then I closed my eyes and recorded volume automation with a MIDI fader controller for the four tracks to introduce the sounds and fade them away, giving the composition its final shape.

Reaching Out [disquiet0600]

The 600th Disquiet Junto challenge.
This week a shared sample pool challenge. The track is based on 7 wonderful samples provided by Marcus Fischer.

I started off the process with the intention of using only the Elektron Octatrack but quickly ran out of memory trying to load all of the long samples into Flex machines. The parts I did create as still present in the track, particularly a sliced and randomised section you can hear primarily near the end.
Restarting the process in Bitwig I decided to create a few of the tonal drones by playing the percussive sample (which also introduces the track and ends it in dry form) through a tuned comb filter and into a Convolution device with one of the 45 second long tonal samples loaded as the Impulse Response. As a result the transients in the sample strike the impulse response and excite the chord elements. Another of the tonal samples is loaded in a Sampler in granular mode, stretch set arbitrarily slower and 3 voices playing back spaced out sections of the sample. The length of the track (I know, I'm sorry) was set purely by waiting until one long held note on the sampler had fully played through the stretched sample.
From there one of the other samples was cut up and pitched down an octave to produce the slightly glitchy bass line. Other parts from the remaining samples added where I felt they worked in the arrangement.
All parts are created using only the samples.
One additional sample added in the background - a field recording of kids playing.

A big thank you to Marc for the inspiration to take part, as always, a big congratulations on reaching 600 weekly challenges and of course to Marcus Fischer for the wonderful starting point.

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

This project’s cover image is a detail of a photo by Marcus Fischer.

disquiet0600 - reaching out

Original Version : 


https://soundcloud.com/drax-official-ldn/sets/the-leveret

Drax - The Fervent Widow (Senglar Dol Rmx)

Voice Sample :
https://soundcloud.com/notlayzi/summer-17-mastv3

SenSen - Herejía

Slowed Piano Loop for Piano Day 2024

This is just two field recordings layered on top of each other. A few fades on one of them, otherwise absolutely no effects or processing. I'm curious if it's at all obvious what's going on! One recording was made in Vanuatu, September 2015, the other in New Zealand, a month later. But it might be most interesting to not know anything more than that.

More on this 443rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0443: In Two Landscapes — The Assignment: Take two different field recordings and combine them to make one track, as in a mash-up — at:

https://disquiet.com/0443/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0443-in-two-landscapes/

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

[disquiet0443] Two Landscapes

Jet Jaguar - Unplugged [disquiet0443] (Free download)

Releasing tunes under this name since 1996.

8 albums & 12 EPs as Jet Jaguar, as well as releases with Takamu, Tonkyn Pearson (fka Montano), Malty Media, Datsun Stereo, Patio and The Dub Connection.

I also try and pull together stuff from New Zealand you might like if you say you like ambient music. https://ambientnz.com

You can find a lot of free music that's not on here via my Bandcamp or website.

Jet Jaguar - Unplugged [disquiet0443] (Free download)

Jet Jaguar (NZ)

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