Variations On a Note [disquiet0260]
Disquiet Junto Project 0260: Tone Fade
An exercise in when a sound ends.

On my piano I played a C natural 2 octaves below middle C while muting the strings with my thumb. I moved my thumb slightly between each note which brought out different harmonics. Took this track and layered it 4 times shifting the pitch up a 5th, octave and third creating a major chord. 

Amplitude modulated each of the 4 tracks with a slow sine wave (10 second cycle, 75% depth) and at 4 different phases (0, 90, 120 and 180) creating a slow cross fading between the 4 tracks. Added a bit of pitch stretched root note and some additional reversed piano sounds (opposite of fade out) for atmosphere.

Recorded with a Zoom H5. Edited with Audacity. 
Photo by Searobin

More on this 260th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Tone Fade: An exercise in when a sound ends — at:http://disquiet.com/0260/

(This project is for Sterling.)

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

Variations On A Note [disquiet0260]

Composer and producer who puts together noise and pretty sounds. Hear my releases on Bandcamp: https://natetrier.bandcamp.com/

Self-taught composer/producer. I mainly write music and design sound for theater. This is my musical side project...

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Softs, synths & modules.
Tendency towards abstract expressionism :)
'On ne devrait jamais quitter Montauban' (Fernand Naudin).
Merci pour votre écoute / Thank's for listening.

Plasticien et assembleur sonore. Enregistrement nomade et utilisation de synthèse numérique. Support sonore pour installation, film expérimental, et albums thématiques(soundscape / soundtrack).

Plastician and sound assembler. Nomadic recording and use of digital synthesis. Sound support for installation, experimental film, and thematic albums (soundscape / soundtrack).

Variations On A Note [disquiet0260]

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