really enjoy that rhythm and its entrance

"Those rails; they have the memory of all the trains that have travelled along them." Love it.

Those rails; they have the memory of all the trains that have travelled along them.  Put your ear to the rail, and if you’re quiet enough you’ll hear them too.

This track was created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0254 entitled Fog and Steam.  The brief was to make music from two provided samples; a fog horn and a train whistle. 

We started by stretching the two samples to 99 hours long and took some minute-long clips and looped them to make eight tracks.  Next we chopped-up the real-time source samples to make some new one-shots which were used in a soundfont to make three rhythmical (generative) sequenced tracks (120bpm) to add movement. We further chopped and screwed some of one-shots to make a couple of screeches and and a final horn blast.
Next, we added some harmony and tension, with a ghost-drop-of-melody at 80.5 BPM to add a 'poly rhythm' feel.

More on this 254th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Fog and Steam: Make music from two provided samples” — at: http://disquiet.com/0254/
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Source samples:
Fog horn sample by Schaarsen: http://www.freesound.org/people/schaarsen/sounds/69663/
Train whistle sample by Ecodios: http://www.freesound.org/people/ecodios/sounds/119963/

Pangaean Permafaction - Phantom Rails (disquiet0254)

Cast in sediments of the last great flood, Pangaean Permafaction stands as a collective of experimental sound artists who may never physically meet.  

Current projects are traversing four points of the globe, between participants in Australia and England:


*A Patch Of Nettles* — a solo sound project from small town New South Wales, Australia, keeping busy adapting field recordings to acousmatic arrangements, constructing electronic instruments and collaborating with strangers. Nettles is regular contributor to the avant garde Disquiet Junto project and is published on Bandcamp and Soundcloud. 


*Pytchblend* —  an English sound artist whose work studies the half-awake moments before the onset of sleep using  AMSR and frisson-inducing spectral manipulation into audio dreamlets. Pytchblend is a regular on RTÉ’s Nova in Ireland, Berlin Community Radio and is published on Bandcamp and Soundcloud and youtube.

*TheNumbersInTheDream* — an English multi-instrumental itinerant sorcerer, wearing a hat of eternal paradox.  At times, he is not real. Other times he creates warmly received echoing melodies shrouded by inscrutable ghost voices. Nick can be found on the Fag Ash Records net label, Soundcloud , youtube and spinning sound on Mixcloud where he inexorably winds new genres in song.

*KeithysDunimselfaMischief* —  an Australian sound artist who poses the question, "does the silence create the sound or does the sound create the silence?"  He finds that the answer is unreservedly, “yes it does”.  He has received regular Australian airplay on RN's Sound Quality , and Bay FM in northern NSW. He enjoys sleeping and is published on Soundcloud. 

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