Disquiet Junto Project 0531: Noise Sculpt
The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise.

Step 1: You’ll be listening closely, intently to white noise (or some other noise type: pink, brown, the ocean, wind, etc.) for this project. Select a noise source.

Step 2: Listen closely for an extended period of time to the noise source you selected in Step 1. Try to get lost in it.

Step 3: Listen for music in the noise you selected in Step 1. Listen for some hint of — a mirage of — pattern or melody.

Step 4: Create an original piece of music that builds on the melody or pattern or other mirage of music you heard in Step 3.

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More on this 531st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Noise Sculpt (The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise) — at: https://disquiet.com/0531/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0531: Noise Sculpt

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Disquiet Junto Project 0531: Noise Sculpt
The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise.
More on this 531st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Noise Sculpt (The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise) — at: https://disquiet.com/0531/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Thanks to the following freesounders billkace, alienxxx, leck-crawlball and hewn-marrow!!!

The Sum Of Noise(disquiet0531)

Disquiet Junto Project 0531: Noise Sculpt
The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise.

I listened to an audio recording I made at a beach recently. Unfortunately, it was breezy, so I got bad wind noise occasionally on my phone's mic... But there's nothing more soothing to the soul of the sound than the North Atlantic's waves rolling to shore; an immersive sound in late evening. 

Thought of putting it thru some bitcrushing - heavy aliasing and digital quantisation errors cause little "pins and needles" appear in the sound.

So I took my partially-complete disquiet0353 piece (Warp & Weft / The Assignment: Read loom-woven fabric as a musical composition - disquiet.com/0353/). I used an extreme configuration of SonicPhoto.exe from skytopia.com as the source material here, over the source image from disquiet0353 (see https://imgur.com/a/f24WsDu). A very fine piece of software, well worth investigating. 
PaulStretch then of course accentuated it's vibe.
Put the result thru D16 Decimort, into alot of effect layers across 8 busses, playing alongside a Reaktor Prism patch, and an Arturia SEM track into a nice delay (PSP StompDelay).

Hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening!

Soak (disquiet0531)

a little noise from iVCS3
a little quanta from audiodamage
merged into aum
reverb from Eventide Blackhole

That's it

peace

not our world part I & II(disquiet0531)

I listened to blue noise almost all day. It made a lot of speech come up in my head, something like faraway speech, and some casual humming so i started with those. Played together, the noise seemed to have this character so i continued.

disquiet0531 BlueNoise

Among the themes Don DeLillo explores in his excellent novel White Noise is the miasma of uncertainty: a deep foreboding that eclipses human existence like a noxious cloud. The genius of the novel, which some argue to be DeLillo’s best work, is represented by moments of dry humor and domestic banality that poke through its chemically worrisome haze. Consider this passage by the story’s narrator:

“I opened the refrigerator door, peered into the freezer compartment. A strange crackling sound came off the plastic food wrap, the snug covering for half eaten things, the Ziploc sacks of livers and ribs, all gleaming with sleety crystals. A cold dry sizzle. A sound like some element breaking down, resolving itself into Freon vapors. An eerie static, insistent but near subliminal, that made me think of wintering souls, some form of dormant life approaching the threshold of perception.”

This is the intention Suss Müsik took with this week’s Junto assignment. The goal was to create a “cold dry sizzle … insistent but near subliminal, approaching the threshold of perception.” A disquieting yet enveloping calm. Various forms of white noise were recorded and altered using VCV Rack modules, with an external Chase Bliss Dark Worlds pedal adding extra tones. 

The piece, titled DeLillo, was recorded live to 8-track and mastered quickly. 

It must be mentioned that, as of this writing, the world is undergoing significant trauma. Suss Müsik is reminded of another passage from White Noise that feels oddly appropriate: “War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.” 

May peace be with us all.

More on this 531st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Noise Sculpt (The Assignment: Listen for a mirage of your music within white noise) — at: https://disquiet.com/0531/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0531-noise-sculpt/

not our world part I & II(disquiet0531)

Marc Eisenschink