Day Traveler (disquiet0506) is a reverse time stretch of an unreleased track called Traveler.  Day Traveler is half the length at 1:04 and was created using Sony ExpressFX Time Stretch in an old version of Sound Forge.

The original source sounds are the "strings" from the iOS app Musyc using one of the many "sets" I've built, or whatever they're called, for randomized note generation.  All this is run through my Empress Echoplex and Empress Reverb boxes, likely the "yellow tape" and "green ghost" settings of some value.

The picture is from a webcam in late August 2021 on Derybasivska Street, Odessa, Ukraine.  I enjoy travelling by webcam.

More on this 506th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Wipe Out (The Assignment: Take something whole and erase half of it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0506/

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Day Traveler (disquiet0506)

Sinny: drum kit, scraper, tambourine, maraca, vibraslap, conch shell, plate weight, zipper, voices, synth programming

Reinterpretations of old songs are fun, and this song was no exception. I frequently go back to remix my material for improvements, and the song “Where Did it Go?” was on my shortlist. Well before this prompt was even announced, I had the idea of replacing some of the lead instruments with something new to heavily revamp the song.

Essentially, I took all the main parts of “Where Did it Go?” that defined the track and promptly deleted them. This included the arpeggiated organ, lead synths, and all of the programmed drums. I then took all of the background elements and pushed them to the front of the mix, effectively turning the song inside out.

Previously scrapped elements, including some voice effects, were revived, sometimes even replacing my “final takes” used on the original. Many existing tracks were altered to further distinguish them from the original tracks.

Fragments of other compositions are also present. One of those, “Hiccup Highway”, was re-released for Project 0504. The outro of a previously released song, “The Floor is Yours”, was made more prominent in this mix, providing some of the synth blips near the middle of the song.

An arpeggiated synth was the only new software instrument recorded for this remake. All of the other new instruments were percussion instruments recorded live, which included a tambourine, maraca, and vibraslap. I even played one of my plate weights as a brake drum.

The original can be found here for comparison.
https://soundcloud.com/sinnyseven/where-did-it-go

The 506th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Wipe Out (The Assignment: Take something whole and erase half of it) — at: disquiet.com/0506/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

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Where Did it Go? - Emergency Mix (disquiet0506)

More on this 507th weekly Disquiet Junto project — In DD’s Key of C (The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key) — at: https://disquiet.com/0507/

Tracks made with samples created generously by Daniel Díaz.

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

The image associated with this project is by Thorsten Sideb0ard, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/bvKCrv

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In DD's Key of C - disquiet0507

Disquiet Junto challenge 516 - Outside In (Co/Exist 1 of 3)
Record a minute or two of nature.

I recorded in the Amsterdam Westerpark. A small part of the park is a tiny tiny wetland nature reserve for birds (no access in the breeding season, etc). I attached two small microphones to stalks of reed, seeking to capture the 'insider's perspective' of gusts of wind, something we (outsiders) experience as waves of 'white noise'.

For more info on the Disquiet Junto challenge, see:\
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Reed - An Insider's Perspective (Disquiet 0516)

Audio field recording captured by Leslie Rollins (337is).
 
Obscure & Relevant 2021, (CC BY-NC 3.0 US): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/

Living rurally has its perks except for when one is listening for sounds of civilization ... need something of the "natural world?" No problem! I'm swimming in it. Need some industrial sounds? A little more challenging ... especially when I travel to an even more remote destination in the hills of Pennsylvania to be with family. I wasn't sure what I was going to be able to capture for sounds of civilization as Amish buggies count as traffic noise, but they don't really have a predictable rush hour to make recording them easy. So I was surprised and delighted when I saw this family working their corn field on the side of the road just out of town. I stood less than 10 feet away from their machines as they drove by and looked at me like I was a bit of a fish out of water. I waved at them and they waved back. Mission accomplished!

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Case IH 9120 Axial - Flow Combine [disquiet0517]

Disquiet Junto Project 0517: Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3)

The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization.

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan (@morgulbee) Bland and Mark (@mzero) Lentczner for having proposed the project.

There is one step for this project: Record a minute or two of civilization: automobile traffic, jack hammers, conversations among people, refrigerator hums, electric toothbrushes, however it is that you might define civilization.

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Track notes:

This is a short binaural recording I made this morning in Pityarilla, the traditional Kaurna name for a section of the parklands to the south of the Adelaide CBD. I'd originally intended to make a recording in the city centre as everyone scrambles to do their xmas shopping, but as I passed through the parklands, I thought an intersection of lots of different sounds (natural and anthropogenic) - with a fair bit of acoustic transparency - might be the way to go. I think it adequately documents a beautiful late-Spring Saturday morning in Adelaide. 

A bit about the location itself: A narrow creek runs through through the park and a few years ago the banks were widened, filled with large rocks and reeds, and also revegetated with native plants. It's a huge improvement on the sad little creek that once wound its way past trash, decaying willows and other unwelcome non-native vegetation. Since this Adelaide Spring has been one of the wettest in over a decade, the creek is still full of water in late November, just on the cusp of Summer heat. It's also got frogs now! Spotted Grass Frogs (Limnodynastes tasmaniensi) - with big thanks to Jeremy Hegge for correctly identifying the species here. You can hear them throughout this recording.

The recording was made from a circular footbridge with benches on either side. I positioned the Zoom VR-03 on the bench facing the creek in an easterly direction. The Marshmallow Playground is adjacent to the creek and along with the aforementioned frogs, you will hear a children's birthday party, whilst a bicycle and people pass over the bridge. Birds feature on the near-periphery, and the thrum of morning traffic can be heard further afield.

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