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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/

For this gently remixed take on Marcus Fischer's sample set I stayed almost completely within the limits of the SP-404 mkii with a little extra arrangement in Bitwig at the end.

Sixthcents [disquiet0600]

(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]

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.
More info on Disquiet Junto: disquiet.com/0600

This is the 600th Disquiet Junto. 600 weeks of fresh music! Congratulations to Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet and all the Disquiet Junto community for this important achievement!
This week I had the pleasure of re-working a collection of Marcus Fischer's wav files from which I selected nacre_voit and no_input_matrix_mixer files.
I decided to keep focusing on the higher part of the spectrum, just as I did on my previous disquiet 0599. I used synths and norns clone to interact and/or mangle the two selected .wav files.
It was difficult to keep things interesting and having control of everything while keeping an eye on the timing of such process.
For this recording I set up Morphagene to play nacre_voit.wav as a reel. The output was sent to a mult and then split to a mixer and to QPAS and Mimeophon for effects, then into the mixer with a non effected output.  
Arp 2600 clone and 0-Coast produces an high pitched voice that is similar to Marcus Fischer's nacre_voit.
Fates is running Gemini script with no_input_matrix_mixer.
The latter two are then effected with Hologram Microcosm Granules, Haze, 3rd preset. On previous takes I also tried Graintopia and Twine.
It's been the longest process I've ever had with any Disquiet Junto since my (recent) first submission (0590). For this last assignment I collected 13 different takes, it's a process that could have resulted in even more if I didn't restrain myself to call it finished. 
Lesson to be learnt is to keep patch simples: for this one I had complex patches running as I was trying to better understand all the capabilities of my newly arrived NANO Caixa 104 case, but the process of keeping everything under control and improvising without overdubs has been demanding. I think this one has suffered of a strange kind of horror vacui. 

Synth Voice.
Both synths are controlled via MIDI through Arturia Keystep.
• 0 Coast. 
Maths Voltage circuit: Stepped out and Arp's S&H out patched in. The outputs modulates MLTPLY and OVRTN params.
DYNAMIC out to ARP Filter VCO1 input
LIN FM controlled by ARP Triangle LFO
•ARP
VCO 2  Square normalled to Filter.
VCO 2 Sine patched to Filter Control VCO 2 in
VCO 1 Square + Filter Output are sent to Ring Mod channels 2 and 1 respectively.
Filter is set to self-oscillate.

•Modular Synth
Morphagene out -> (Morphagene) mult -> Caixa 104 Mixer 1L 1R
(Morphagene) mult -> QPAS in -> QPAS LP out-> Mimeophon in -> Mimeophon out -> Caixa 104 Mixer 2L 2R
Morphagene CV out -> Mimeophon µ in
Morphagene EOSG out -> Mimeophon Hold in

Caixa LFO 1 Square -> mult -> QPAS radiate L in, QPAS Q in, Mimeophon Clock in
Caixa LFO1 Triangle -> Morphagene SOS in

Caixa LFO 2 Square -> mult -> QPAS !¡!¡ L in, Wogglebug Clock in, Caixa Precision Adder X in
Caixa LFO 2 Triangle -> Caixa Precision Adder Y in 

Caixa Precision Adder -> Sum out -> Morphagene Gene Size in, Moprhagene Slide in

Wogglebug Stepped out -> QPAS Freq 1
Wogglebug Smooth -> Caixa S&H in
Wogglebug Woggle -> Morphagene Varispeed
Wogglebug Woggle Audio out -> Wogglebug speed in
Wogglebug INT Clock out -> Caixa S&H Trig in

Caixa S&H out -> QPAS Freq 2 In

Mimeohpon Delay Gate Out -> QPAS ¡!¡! R in

Generation (Son Of 0599)(disquiet0600)

All credits for the fantastic samples used in this piece of music go to @marcus_fischer

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Inspired by the final lines from the poem Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

"The Clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."



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