Name: Edinburgh, an Insider's Guide - Audio Europe: Britain by Rick Steves Audio Europe
Duration: 46 min 45 s
Description: Rick talks with Anne Doig and Ken Hanley, two Edinburgh-based guides who cover the ins and outs of Edinburgh for the traveler, and explain how to best enjoy the city's fabled summer festivals. Related travel information at www.ricksteves.com.

Rick talks with Anne Doig and Ken Hanley, two Edinburgh-based guides who cover the ins and outs of Edinburgh for the traveler, and explain how to best enjoy the city's fabled summer festivals. Related travel information at www.ricksteves.com.

Edinburgh, an Insider's Guide - Audio Europe: Britain

Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0523: Chill Communication
@disquiet

The Project: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

These ice samples were recorded by whirling ice cubes in a growler back in 2017. I looped a section and processed that through a Make Noise Strega, recording the piece mostly as one improvised take where I 'played' the filter to create layers of feedback in the delay. There is one overdub where I improvised repitching the same ice loop in Samplr and also processed that through the Strega, creating different tones of delay feedback. There's a bit of judicious volume envelope editing added in post to calm the feedback swells a bit. It all reminded me of a slow motion version of the wild ricochet sounds made by dropping ice down a bored ice core well.

Many congrats and thanks to Marc ( @disquiet ) and Happy 10th Anniversary to the Junto!!

More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0523/

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-0523-chill-communication/

Ice Drops - [disquiet0523 - chillcommunication ]

This week, we’re joined by Senior Properties Historian Dr Steven Brindle to answer all of your questions about the Victorian period. Discover what the Victorians liked to eat and drink, their attitudes to child labour, how they expressed themselves through clothing, art and architecture, and Queen Victoria’s lifestyle at Osborne.

To discover more about Osborne or to plan a visit, go to www.english-heritage.org.uk/osborne

Episode 158 - Ask the experts: Everything you want to know about the Victorians

A song inspired partly by a shell that I once found, partly by a poem of the same title as the song, and partly by the title of my Mum's PhD: 'The Solubility of Sparingly Soluble Salts'.

Dissolution (live demo)

An evolving sine wave sequence.

More on this 555th weekly Disquiet Junto project – A Simple Timer (The Assignment: Simplify by a factor of 5) – at: https://disquiet.com/0555/

Thanks to Anatol Locker for having proposed this project.

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-0555-a-simple-timer/

Image by Stefan506, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Signetics_NE555N.JPG
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

State Express (disquiet0555)

NonDisquiet For Peaches (disquiet0569) by Daniel Burke.
Was reading a piece in a magazine at the end of a long trip up the Oregon River in 1997 about gratitude. The punchline was “the key to contentment is an attitude of gratitude”. Still working that 25 years later but grateful to have come across it, as it was needed and I have found it works. I continue to try to recognize and acknowledge as much as possible. This piece is dedicated to my wonderful wife Laurie who was delivered to my doorstep (literally) by some guardian angels (almost literally) just in the nick of time. Its a great story I won’t bore you with but suffice to say she is the best thing that has happened for me this lifetime and I express that as often as I can.
I started out thinking to make a piece as gentle and kind as she is, with a nod to the magical & beautiful music of the 1988 album Plux Quba by Nuno Canavarro, which we both love. Music that inspired Oval, Microstoria the rest of the A-Music crew in Germany.
https://nunocanavarro.bandcamp.com/album/plux-quba
The piece quickly moved towards the Eno/Budd/Frippery I am increasingly falling into... Started with the Roland Jupiter-6 lovely marimba like patch and developed a theme which was played around with and replicated/altered with another track of digital piano. Added in an Arturia Analog IV Synclavier patch for a few slight synth/stringish swells, finally added 2 guitar overdubs and a few very distant field recordings made in Mexico and Spain.

More on this 569th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Think Thank (The Assignment: Make music inspired by something or someone you’re thankful for) — at: https://disquiet.com/0569/

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-0569-think-thank/

Nondisquiet For Peaches (disquiet0569)

You make my bubble glow

For my first participation to the Disquiet Junto Project, I chose the theme of the lullaby because it' s a genre that I am passionate about and that I have already worked on in the past.
The melody I used as a guideline comes from a very old Welsh lullaby called Peis Dinogat (Dinogad's Smock). It appears in a 13th century manuscript but was probably composed some century earlier. The lyrics, which I have deliberately left out in order to turn it into an instrumental piece, tell of a father's exploits on the hunt, perhaps in the mode of lament. Among the list of animals, there is mention of a place, Derwennydd Falls, whose precise location is open to speculation.
To fit the lullaby genre, I have kept the melody in all its beauty and simplicity by repeating it from beginning to end. The use of panning is also there to suggest the pendulum movement.
Enjoy your listening!

Derwennydd Falls (disquiet0571)

Used samples

Title: S06-07 Air nozzle spraying this way and that.wav
Author: craigsmith
Link: freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/676008/

Title: R08-12-Kids Playing Outside.wav
Author: craigsmith
Link: freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480696/

Title: Gas wird angezündet
Author: mwirth
Link: freesound.org/people/mwirth/sounds/137174/

Title: Short_sound_8.wav
Author: AlienXXX
Link: freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/sounds/249978/

Day 425

I recorded a track, then played it through a Bluetooth receiver at the limit of its transmission range. I also recorded the EMF around the receiver, while playing the same track at distance. 

The three tracks were merged, using vocoders, and AudioThing's Motor to help add some musicality to the broken Bluetooth track.
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More on this 623rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Kinda Bluetooth (The Assignment: Experiment with the sonic qualities of a failing signal), at: https://disquiet.com/0623/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0623-kinda-bluetooth/

mia (disquiet0623)

'By God, I think the devil shits Dutchmen'

- Sir W. Batten as quoted by Samuel Pepys in his diary, responding to the news of the destruction of the Royal Navy fleet at anchor, Chatham on the Medway during the 2nd Anglo- Dutch War, 1667.

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