Short ambient pieces inspired by non-ecumene spaces

The Mouth

Barren Grounds

Aravichy

Varosha

Salt Creek

Subterrain

Valley Of Mills

Treeless Lands

A feedback based drone created by placing a ring modulator and spring reverb in a loop with the Instruo Lubadh.

Ringmod Feedback Drone

Comparator Beat

Disquiet Junto Project 0349: Got Glitch?
The Assignment: Help define “glitch” by glitching something, and explaining what you did.

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In my opinion what separates glitch from other sorts of noise used in music is that it's created by accidental or forced errors of computation.

There's a wonderful "Stutter Mode" built into Sandrine Sims' Reflex Liveloop sampler. It's based on an older sampler she built where she accidentally shorted an address pin, and the mode essentially scrambles the binary addressing system of the module. She describes the behavior in the original manual: 

"A binary number produced by the knobs is laid onto the sampler's pointer in memory. This will cause some locations to repeat, depending on what the binary weight is, large or small loops will occur."

I used this as the basis for glitching this song. The original sounds are composed on a sampler and polysynth. I set the Liveloop to record into a long buffer, around 1 minute, and feedback on itself so errors are layering atop errors. After letting the errors build upon each other for several cycles I started recording the performance. Each channel of the module is set to stutter differently, creating two opposing but related rhythms, and each is fed into a different filter and then mixed back in with its own dry signal. In order to blend the channels together I ran them through a Mid-Side encoder.

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More on this 349th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Got Glitch? / The Assignment: Help define “glitch” by glitching something, and explaining what you did) at:

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Major thanks to Sevenisn, Mark Lentczner, and other folks in the Junto Slack for pitching in on this project’s development.

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dregs onWArds

dregs onWArds [disquiet0349]

Example of a physical modeling patch built around the Mungo d0 delay.

Original sound source is filtered noise mixed with a voltage offset. Mixed into Mutable Frames with the outputs of d0, the output of Frames is sent to the inputs of d0 and out for further processing. Frames is sequencing the amount of feedback from d0 let through, and the time of d0 channel A, and the filter cutoff on the noise source.

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