Almost 10 and a half years ago I made a short videoclip of a whistling windmill on the beach of the beautiful island of Schiermonnikoog. And then there was the Disquiet Junto 0632 with the assignment: do something wit wind shear in a fieldrecording. In the recording was a man speaking in the background and his speech had a nice melody to it. That gave me the idea to put the recording into music. The peaks of the wind trigger four percussion instruments, the whistling tones are randomly alternated and I derived a melody from  the recording by sample & hold to emphasize the rhythm (13 bars of 3/8)

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Shear Wind (disquiet0632)

Disquiet0632 - Shear Wind

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Capsule Crunch (disquiet0632)

[disquiet0632] Swsh

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Disquiet0632sheer

Two Arturia KORG MS-20 V, and an Arturia ARP2600 V3, processing two recordings made in the airstream of a circulation fan. The wind noise both contributes to the output sound, but also is used to trigger envelopes and, in the case of the MS-20s, follow the envelope of the recordings. The ARP2600 is responsible for the Morse code-like sounds.
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shear (disquiet0632)

Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind
The Assignment: Make the most of the disturbance within a field recording.

I made a windy recording down by the Redondo marina.  It was a quiet day for once.  It's usually kind of noisy with human activity.  Good day for a windy field recording with just a hint of birds and sea lions.  

I converted the field recording to midi notes.  Ableton has a few options when you convert audio to midi, "harmony, melody, drums."  I chose harmony first and didn't get very many midi notes from the conversion, then chose melody and got a lot more.  I used both and even made one more sparse one.  Chime sounds seemed like a natural choice.  I put the same midi effect on all midi tracks making all the notes part of the same 5 note chord.

With the wind recording itself I faded in some resonator and phaser, and faded them out again towards the end.

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blame it on the wind (Disquiet0632)

started with an on field recording that according to my notes had a lot of wind noise in it - rearranged and layered in ableton live to maximal shear and exported to wav. loaded up in my eurorack system, buffered in beads for granular effects, and independently triggered snippets through a vcf, all controlled by marbles

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disquiet0632 - wind shear, granules

This track emphasises the originally unwanted sounds captured in a field-recording...
Following the inspiration of the Disquiet Junto Project 0632 the unloved artefacts of the field-recording created for my track https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/the-loneliest-pelican were enhanced with appropriate effects.
To add musical content two layers created with PaulXStretch and instruments playing notes extracted from the recording were added.

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Pelican Noisebed  (Disquiet0632)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0632: Shear Wind

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0632 discussion thread:

Used audio from a video taken a few months ago at a local beach using my iPhone. The surf was fairly large and the wind was moderately strong. I recorded the audio into Morphagene and changed playback speed/direction by manually manipulating the Vari-Speed control. Also used a LFO from Pamela’s Pro Workout to modulate the Morph level. A semi-generative ambient melody created by the SDKC Helical module was mixed in. Reverb effects by Strymon BigSky and Phonolyth Cascade were added in Ableton Live. Was a little crunched on time in creating this, so I’m somewhat happy with the outcome. Perhaps I’ll flush it out some more in the near future.     

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Shoreline Field Notes With Wind [disquiet0632]

Sinny: field recording, synth programming, clapping, cabasa, duck and cuckoo calls, coughing

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Climate Clappers (disquiet0632)

Somewhere on the California Central Coast

M. Ackerman's second page, mostly for Disquiet Junto pieces projects.

Electronic music, field recordings and weird electroacoustic sounds.

During the early 1990s I studied Mathematics and Computer Science. The world wide web was still largely text-based and mostly empty. Today things are obviously different, though I still thoroughly enjoy art, design, cinema and music in all its forms. I have traveled all over the world for nearly two decades, visiting just over 140 countries. Japan is my favorite. All of this I attempt to incorporate into my music and art.

There was a time when I was involved in Science! But that was a mistake. My Passion is music. I play the pipe-organ and synthesizer, I play the organ in a few bands and I like Apple computers. I discovered SuperCollider and VCV Rack: great ways of making sounds. Enjoy them on SoundCloud!

RabMusicLab produces instrumental music of various genres from classical to electronic without shying away from excursions into pop or experimental music. The tracks are published for the pleasure, entertainment and inspiration of every listener.

RabMusicLab loves to participate in the Disquiet Junto Projects of https://soundcloud.com/disquiet to fuel his creativity . All tracks that have "disquiet" in the title were created as response to these projects. Further informations can be found in the respective track-information,

All images used are photographs by RabMusicLab, unless otherwise indicated in the track-informations.

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