I haven't submitted a track to the Junto in around a year - feels good to be back!

I recorded a tape loop using the Am chord and "wafted" the smells of the loop in and out of the track - trying to keep to the theme of one fragrance. Recorded on a 4 track through a mini korg delay to give that futuristic touch.

More on this 150th Disquiet Junto project — “Record a subtle personal mobile score” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/11/13/disquiet0150-sonicperfume/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Photo associated with this project by Ben Crowder and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/B5gLF

Track photo by https://www.flickr.com/photos/jason-samfield/

AuralAura (disquiet0150-sonicperfume)

I dug up an old mangled tape and brought it back to life, recorded onto 4 track, and used lots of pitch shift, tonnes of reverb and plenty of distortion.

More on this 151st Disquiet Junto project — “Score a segment of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead using the movie’s audio as source material” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/11/20/disquiet0151-relivingdead/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image from the George Romero film Night of the Living Dead.

Bugs [disquiet0151-relivingdead]

Made a tape loop using old magnetic cassette and a guitar... I've also been listening to a lot of Van Halen recently and appreciating Sammy Hagar a bit more...but he's no DLR.

More on this 153rd Disquiet Junto project — “Record a short sound intended to be set on repeat” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/12/04/disquiet0153-groovelock/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Stuart R Brown:

http://flic.kr/p/mFQC3

VH [disquiet0153-groovelock]

Another tape loop experiment from the Dead: Unearthed release.

Dead: Unearthed Tape Loop Experiment Part 2

As part of my new tape release on Lugubrious Audio of Dead: Unearthed, I have given away pieces of the magnetic 4 track tape used in the recording process. I have invited people to make their own tape loops from these sections of tape. It can be a bit hit and miss so hopefully your section will have lots of sounds on it!

Here is one example I made from a random section of tape. After making the tape loop, I played it on the Tascam portastudio414, then on a cassette walkman and then on the Tascam porta02.  You will hear different effects and speeds of playback.

If you do make your own tape loops please post them on soundcloud with the tag #deadunearthedtapeloop.

Peter Hamlin's Album

Dead: Unearthed Tape Loop Experiment

https://lugubriousaudio.bandcamp.com/album/dead-unearthed
Available now on digital and cassette.

Sonic gravedigger The Holocene breaks the clay and wrenches forth fourteen cadavers from beyond. A possessed analogue midnight radio show/a haunted 3am BBC2 science documentary hosted by Satan and friends. Insidious lo-fi creep tunes, VHS sample alchemy and 45RPM grooves (played at 33RPM). 
Dead:Unearthed is horror flick soundtrack with a difference.

Dead: Unearthed Album Sampler

So my good friend Paul Baker remixed one of my tracks... I then get that feeling that perhaps the remix is a little better than the original!?  Like the Armand van Helden remix of Spin Spin Sugar or that DJ Hype remix of Ready or Not? This might have happened again...

The Blood Friends (Holoscenic 2 Remix)

I hate shopping so much - Shopping malls are my own personal hell.  So I was quite please to mangle up and destroy those field recordings!  As well as the great quote from the novel Au Bonheur des Dames as inspiration, I recalled the film Dawn of the Dead and its allegory of mindless freaks being drawn to the massive retail space... not quite remembering why they went there in the first place.

I made a tape loop and mixed on a Tascam Portastudio using the following tracks:
http://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/phantom-store-disquiet0038
http://soundcloud.com/steveburnett/beforeclosing-disquiet0037 (I loved the sound of the mic in the shirt pocket so ran with this one!)
http://soundcloud.com/cnco/changing-floors-disquiet0037-1.

The tape loop snapped after I made it so when I put it back together it sounded even more mechanical...(The machines were against me!)

I then chopped up some of the sounds found on the following tracks below on an MPC500.  Distorted some using a DIgitech Distortion factory and Digiloop.  I especially loved the sound of the forklift reversing which I bashed out a simple beat.  This was built around and mimicked  a natural rhythm found in the track Post by Lem Herlihy.

http://soundcloud.com/lem-herlihy/post-disquiet0037
http://soundcloud.com/michel-banabila/akihabara-denki-gai
http://soundcloud.com/ken-mistove/target-simi-valley-ca-09-14-12
http://soundcloud.com/zedkah/penguins-sweets-fish-trousers

This Disquiet Junto project was done in association with the exhibit As Real as It Gets, organized by Rob Walker at the gallery Apex Art in Manhattan (November 15 - December 22, 2012):
 

http://apexart.org/exhibitions/walker.php/
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More on this 43rd Disquiet Junto project at:
 

http://disquiet.com/2012/10/25/disquiet0043-dazzledmachine/
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More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
 

Disquiet Junto; 


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Soldestroyer - [disquiet0043-dazzledmachine]

Screw you guys.  I made the Terminator theme tune with pocket operators.

Terminator Theme

The parts of Nils Frahm's work I love the most are the portions of ambient noise in between the beautiful sparse notes.  I wanted to make the most of the decaying sounds and the creaks and cracks of the piano.  I made a few tape loops and used a delay pedal to loop certain parts and overlapped them.  Recorded on 4 track cassette and stuck together in audacity.

More on this 55th Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2013/01/17/disquiet0055-twoscrews/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto

More on the Frahm project at:

reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Jar of Screws [disquiet0055-twoscrews]

Music from the Museum of London - Docklands exhibition

Family Challenge Quest (MoL - D)

A departure from my normal style, I was mucking about on the Moog app on my iPad in bed and made this. I'll get cracking on my next album project over the next few weeks.  

I woke up this morning and wondered whatever happened to Chris Holmes from W.A.S.P. Not sure if he is alive or dead....

Chris Holmes

First track from a new album I'm making all about super volcanoes and meteor impact craters.
Made using a guitar, tape loops, 4 track, pedals and a Korg Space Delay

Yellowstone Caldera

Finnish mythology has stories that may originate with the formation of Kaali. 
Louhi, the evil wizard, steals the Sun and fire from people, causing total darkness. 
Ukko, the god of the sky, orders a new Sun to be made from a spark. The virgin of the air starts to make a new Sun, but the spark drops from the sky and hits the ground. This spark goes to an "Aluen" or "Kalevan" lake and causes its water to rise. 
Finnish heroes see the ball of fire falling somewhere "behind the Neva river" (the direction of Estonia from Karelia). 
The heroes head that direction to seek fire, and they finally gather flames from a forest fire.

Kaali

So here's me talking about me making music... found it quite uncomfortable to be honest... recorded very shoddily using the usual equipment I use to make music.  But it quickly became apparent why I don't record vocals.


More on this 60th Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2013/02/21/disquiet0060-audiobio

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Groups – Disquiet-junto

More details on the SoundCloud "audiobiography" project at:

blog.soundcloud.com/2013/02/06/audiobiography/

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Audiobiography: The Holocene [disquiet0060-audiobio]

Track submitted to the Waxen Wings Strings Compilation: http://www.waxenwings.com/ Be sure to look out for the whole compilation soon.
All sounds created using guitars: Acoustic and electric.  Sent through various effects pedals and recorded and looped up on cassette.
Based on the theory of Dendrochronology, where climates of the past can be analysed using tree rings. (So the tape loops represent different types of climate / mood etc)

Download available on waxen wings or theholocene.bandcamp.com

This may be my last recording for a while...

Download 

Dendrochronology

Warp

This week's assignment is right up my street!  I draw lots of inspiration for my music from natural sciences, palaeontology, natural disasters and I couldn't let this one go!

I was emailed the portion of map that was actually the one used as the example on the Disquiet page. (http://disquiet.com/2013/05/23/disquiet0073-faultynotation/) I was hoping for something a little more minimal but nevermind! 

I recorded a different guitar loop on cassette for each colour of rock in my segment - around 12 different types of rock. I then set about arranging the sounds as I read from left to right.  For each syncline / anticline I either slowed or sped up the tape to reflect the peaks and troughs in the rock.  For each fault / approximate fault line I dropped a bass note.
I tried to keep the sound as clean as possible to represent the clinical approach needed to cartography whilst at the same time trying to sound rough, gritty and earthy... possibly waiting for the next earthquake!!!

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More on this 73rd Disquiet Junto project, which involves reading a map of the San Andreas Fault as if it were a graphic notation score, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/05/23/disquiet0073-faultynotation/

This project was conducted as part of a course of study led by Geoff Manaugh (BLDG BLOG). More on his research at:

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/san-andreas-architecture-for-fault.html

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Cartography One [disquiet0073-faultynotation]

I make lo-fi noise using poorly made tape loops, second hand effects pedals and sampler, dodgy old four track and a rusty guitar.

I have moved all my old music onto my bandcamp page for download.
http://theholocene.bandcamp.com/



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