More on this 101st Disquiet Junto project (Make a phase composition based on the sounds of three switches) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/12/05/disquiet0101-analogbinary/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

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http://goo.gl/vn82Dv

Disquiet Junto Project 0101: Analog Binary

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Decided to keep this weeks Junto simple, so I recorded three instances of switching on / off 
First sound to be heard is my ceiling fan
2nd. is my electric kettle 
3rd. is the on off switch on my electric piano 
Duplicated each sound onto two different tracks panned each hard L & R timestreched one side of each "stereo" image slightly to create a phase shift kinda beat...then I thought of Mandela and wanted to create an uprising towards the end, so I duplicated everything a couple of times and displaced the new tracks a little more with long fades....to let the whole thing end with just two beats - it all falls back to the beginning... coming and going on your own.


Disquiet Junto Project 0101: Analog Binary

Record the audio of three objects in your home or workplace that have on/off switches. Capture the unique sound of them being turned on and off. For each of the switches, record several seconds of this on/off action so you can create loops of a steady pace. Then create an original piece of music that employs phase shifts — that is, in which the tiny distinctions between loops create noticeable patterning as time progresses. You can use some light processing, but the sense of "switch-ness" of the source audio should never be lost.

Deadline: Monday, December 9, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track’s length should be between two and five minutes.

Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.

Title/Tag: Include the term “disquiet0101-analogbinary” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: Please consider employing a license that allows for attributed, commerce-free remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:

More on this 101st Disquiet Junto project (Make a phase composition based on the sounds of three switches) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/12/05/disquiet0101-analogbinary/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Associated image found via:

http://goo.gl/vn82Dv

“disquiet0101-analogbinary” Mandela

Disquiet Junto Project 0101: Analog Binary.

I recorded 3 switches (Light/Coffee Machine/HiFi) then I sampled them and I applied some reverbs, delays, resonators, while playing with the samples. It was quite fun ...

More on this 101st Disquiet Junto project (Make a phase composition based on the sounds of three switches) at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/12/05/disquiet0101-analogbinary/
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

LINEAR BELLS - Disquiet0101-Analogbinary - HiFi Furry

The three sounds are ones I had recorded a few years ago at a bakery I was making bread at. One is a Vitamix blender, the other is a 30qt mixer, and the last one I can't remember. 
I only added a little effect to the vitamix: Bode Frequency Shift. 
The others I left raw. In the spirit of this assignment, I used fade in fade out, through out the piece.

More at: http://subversiveintentions.wordpress.com

More on this 101st Disquiet Junto project (Make a phase composition based on the sounds of three switches) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/12/05/disquiet0101-analogbinary/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Associated image found via:

http://goo.gl/vn82Dv

Life/Death Machine (disquiet0101-analogbinary)

I left work early as I have a ton of personal time to take before the end of the year and then I recorded my light switches with a Zoom H2 recorder. After importing the recordings I built a small dub send/return network to apply lightly. The deep droning sounds are created through micro loops one of the more interesting switches in my new apartment is the one that controls the garbage disposal after introducing the garbage disposal loop I began micro looping it to create a granular sounding pad and then towards the end layered several of them all in different spans of time off the original loop.

Hope you enjoy.

disquiet0101-analogbinary

Recorded three sounds as directed: A microwave, a kitchen sink (not strictly a "switch" but it does go on and off), and a small battery-powered hand drill.

In Ableton Live, loaded the sounds and made a few permutations of each, both in length and pitch.  They are brought into and out of the piece throughout. 
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Disquiet Junto Project 0101: Analog Binary

Record the audio of three objects in your home or workplace that have on/off switches. Capture the unique sound of them being turned on and off. For each of the switches, record several seconds of this on/off action so you can create loops of a steady pace. Then create an original piece of music that employs phase shifts — that is, in which the tiny distinctions between loops create noticeable patterning as time progresses. You can use some light processing, but the sense of "switch-ness" of the source audio should never be lost.

Deadline: Monday, December 9, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track’s length should be between two and five minutes.

More on this 101st Disquiet Junto project (Make a phase composition based on the sounds of three switches) at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/12/05/disquiet0101-analogbinary/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

For Whom The Boole Tolls [disquiet0101-analogbinary]

I don't have a decent mic sitting around my apartment (and even if I did it's too noisy), so I took advantage of my studio access at my school this semester.

Simply recorded the sound of a switch on a headphone amp, a keyboard, and the wifi switch on my laptop. I looped a specific region of each sound, and chose to cut out every third repeat for each track. 

Because emergence or something.

There's also a delayed version of each track that I mix in and out to fill up empty space.

More on this 101st Disquiet Junto project (Make a phase composition based on the sounds of three switches) at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/12/05/disquiet0101-analogbinary/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Associated image found via:

http://goo.gl/vn82Dv

Wasting Studio Access [disquiet0101-analogbinary]

I decided to take my favorite moment from the piece (the cadence that starts at around 1:11) and make something new from it. I experimented in Pure Data with plenty of filtering and panning and feedbacking and controlled randomness and ambient droning on each of the ten tracks. After a lot of tweaking, this is what I came up with.

Inconclusion [disquiet0013-wildup]

Disquiet Junto Project 0021: 4 Seasons

Deadline: Monday, May 28, at 11:59pm wherever you are.  

For this project you will employ four distinct samples. Each sample will individually represent one of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter. You will either construct your own field recordings to represent these seasons, or you will use the following provided samples:  

Spring: Birdsong  
http://www.freesound.org/people/HerbertBoland/sounds/28312/  

Summer: Thunder  
http://www.freesound.org/people/Erdie/sounds/23222/  

Autumn: Walking in dry leaves  
http://www.freesound.org/people/HerbertBoland/sounds/33207/  

Winter: Walking in the snow  
http://www.freesound.org/people/Spandau/sounds/30833/  

Process:
I decided to use the provided field recordings as my source, and I started by importing everything into a Reaper session and playing around. I tried to make little beats out of the source material, and eventually I noticed this one bit of a recording of a bird that sounded perfect for a dub-style delay and I couldn't get the thought of doing a beat-oriented project out of my head.

For four sets of thirty-two bars, I focused on a different field recording for the main beat. The first is the Fall sound of walking on leaves, then Winter (walking on snow/ice), then Spring (bird sounds), and finally Summer (thunder). It sounded really dry, so I also played back the original tracks in the background with a lot of reverb and compression to give a little bit of droning atmosphere. Anyway, it was all done in Reaper, which is a surprisingly capable DAW. I'd love to hear what more talented ears could do with it.

Season's Greetings [disquiet0021-4seasons]

I took the recording and split it into 77 separate slices in audacity, and re-used some Pure Data patches from my older submission for Disquiet0013 to process each slice in order. My idea was to make a version of the original that was abstract in the sense that the melodic and rhythmic elements of the piece were lost, but the harmonic content remained. It turns out that that's pretty difficult to do with Bach, whose chord changes happen so quickly that I really got some unwanted dissonance here. I really enjoy elements of it, though. Maybe it was even worth staying up until 4:00AM the night before a school-day to finish... maybe...

This track is a transformation, in honor of painter Clyfford Still, of a sample of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, II. Andante, culled from this recording:
 

http://archive.org/details/J.S.BachBrandenburgConcertoNo2
; 

More on the Clyfford Still Museum at clyffordstillmuseum.org.
 

More on this 36th Disquiet Junto project at:
 

http://disquiet.com/2012/09/06/disquiet0036-cstillconcerto/
; 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
 

Disquiet Junto; 




Slice9 Does Not Exist [disquiet0036-cstillconcerto]

Having missed quite a few of the Disquiet Junto projects, I was happy to see that the first assignment was being revisited this week. The ice project seemed like a very fun thing to do.

I recorded the sound of one ice cube rattling in a pint glass. Initially I was most interested in exploring the tonal aspect of the sound. I spent a few hours setting up a patch in Pure Data to play back part of the recording at different pitches (a major scale in equal temperament across four octaves).  The different pitches are randomly played back, faded in and out with slight modulations.

I took this result and used it as a basis for a track. It provides the ambience, and some other, more percussive and warped sounds are used for rhythm and some kind of scary dark ambience. 

I usually don't have much of a story in mind when I make music, but the sounds made me imagine an icy cavern where kids are playing, oblivious to a terrifying monster lurking in the shadows...

More on this 53rd Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/01/03/disquiet0053-ice2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Wasting Studio Access [disquiet0101-analogbinary]

Brian Fay