Disquiet Junto Project 0220: Rhythmic Arrhythmic

For the rhythms I used a collection of 6 loops randomly chosen from my collection of found sounds and noise samples. Some samples were cut into smaller chunks, repeated and layered until something rhythmic appeared. I used a very short chunk from one of my earlier tracks, chopped it up, resampled and time stretched to create the backing "chords". I used a recording of a crowd in a sampler, repeated across the keyboard with various loop lengths. These were "played" to create a glitchy vocal texture. Little melodic bits and a descending bass added for flavour. 


Disquiet Junto Project 0220: Rhythmic Arrhythmic

The Assignment: Make overtly rhythmic music from short loops of overtly arrhythmic source audio, following instructions from Dennis DeSantis.

Dennis DeSantis adapted this week’s project from the chapter “Implied Rhythm in Short Loops” from his excellent book Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers. The project explores how rhythm emerges from almost any audio material if short fragments of it are repeated incessantly enough.

Step 1: Find or make an audio recording of the arrhythmic material of your choice and gradually reduce its loop length until rhythmic patterns begin to emerge.

Tip: This usually works well with loops that are no longer than about two seconds.

Step 2: Use the inherent rhythm in these short loops as the basis for a piece of new music in which the “discovered” rhythm is clearly audible.

APOB - Shrink Spin Chop [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

With only one exception, all of the rhythmic and melodic material in this composition is taken from a field recording of waves and gulls I made while watching the sun rise over Caye Caulker in Belize last December.  I listened for interesting parts of the source material, decided on a compromise tempo so that I could work in measures, and cut the interesting sections into loops of between three and sixteen beats.  I filtered each loop to extract different timbres and added spatial and ambient effects on return buses.  As my arrangement took shape, I cut and rearranged the arrythmic source material in places to enable gradual transitions between breathing, natural rhythms and more mechanical, precise ones.
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Sunrise, Caye Caulker, 12/21/15 [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

Started making tiny loops out of field recordings, thunderstorm,ducks and flies, footsteps, mic noises AND then later added loops out of my own arrhythmic drumming
also made loops/drones out of organ recording and then built up layers and effects around these starting elements


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RhythmicArhythmia-disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic

Disquiet Junto Project 0220: Rhythmic Arrhythmic
The Assignment: Make overtly rhythmic music from short loops of overtly arrhythmic source audio, following instructions from Dennis DeSantis.

I attended a lecture about Louis and Bebe Barron and came up with this. 

I used about 15 seconds of the opening theme from the movie Forbidden Planet which was scored by the Barrons (the soundtrack is entirely electronic; one of the first of its kind). I played it in Samplr using the ‘Slicer’ mode while adding trigger points and reducing the envelope decay which gradually created a beat. Did this for 2 tracks. Added a third track made from Robby the Robot’s voice which has a rhythm of its own created by the delay.

Assembled and edited in Audacity. 

Creative Commons license granted.

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My Forbidden Planet [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2016/03/disquiet-junto-0220-rhythmic-arrhythmic.html for track discussion and video.

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Co-Operation [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

I selected a field recording from inside Central Station, Sydney. As I looped a section I added samples cut from that loop and added EQ & FX. All sounds from the original segment of field recording. I created one instrument using the same loop in Izotopes Iris 2.

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Photo remixed from original by:
Hpeterswald

In The Station [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

Source audio recorded on mobile phones. 
Tracked & mixed in Live. 
Normalized with SoundForge7.
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Autopia [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

Created using mostly field recordings made around the town on the evening this Junto project was announced.



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170316 [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

This piece is a spiritual heir to the previous Disquiet assignment. In making that piece, I spent a lot of time trying unsuccessfully to eliminate background noise and also exploring overlapping (but not synchronized) rhythms.

In this piece, I embraced background noise and used it to create a tonal context for my field recordings of rhythms.

In isolating and looping small snippets of sound, subtle changes in the overtones became apparent, and this became as much a character of each loop as the rhythm.  Maybe the next step is to figure out the pitches of the background noise and use them to generate a harmonic system.

Most of the loops are from a short "field" recording session around the house. You'll hear various appliances and one of my cats eating breakfast.  I pulled in one sound from a previous field recording session for the Cities and Memory project (https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/cities-and-memory-the-sound-of-a-city-gone-stir-crazy): the sound of a boisterous teenage girl telling her friends, dismissively, about a boy who had wronged her.

I had a plan to generate pitches using the ratios of loop lengths, but I think capitalizing on the pitches inherent in the background sounds worked great.  Most of the sounds are as-is; the "organ" sound comes from throwing a loop into Ableton's Simpler. 

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Arrite (disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic)

Recorded the sound of a cassette player playing without a tape in it. Snatched portions of the result and programmed them up in Hydrogen. Altering pitches and gain was the only tweaking of the recordings.

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The photo associated with this project is by Junto member Will Benton (web.willbenton.com), a computer scientist based in Madison, Wisconsin.

kass.ette.less [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

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

Explorations and experiments,  in sound, image, and animations . influenced by  interests from Organic Gardening to Neuroscience, Basic Electronics  and Mechanical Invention, Re-purposing Transforming and Recycling of Domestic Devices, Permaculture, Ecology,  Ambient and Noise music. Animated Sound and Image- Experimental,Animated and Visual Music Short films,installations and live audio visual performances with custom built interfaces such as the disco-microwave,midi-vacuum cleaner, and prepared ironing board.see more at 
www.paulfletcherartwork.com
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We're here, we're queer, and we're gonna fuck you with sound.

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I am a human animal & through my creative practices seek to connect to the flow of life to let my innate intuition guide me before my logical mind controls me. To undo or at least side-step some of my cultural conditioning so the spirits of the place I am in can express through me. This  forest I am in, the rock I sit on beside this stream, the footpath below my feet, this vast planet we all live upon. The natural world so often unconsidered, ignored, I aim to give it some voice.

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