A little drone piece using the 4ms Spectral Multiband Resonator and some other sources - exploring stasis and mixing things quieter

Humidity

Recorded, mixed & mastered 02-03 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes

First day - 
- Typed one paragraph from the Black Panther newspaper of 4 Nov 1972 into Google Translate. I went with 51 years ago, instead of 50.
- Sent the German output into a text-to-speech engine, PlayHT
- Paulstretch in Audacity & exported
- Dragged into Live and duplicated two more times
- Set warp markers to produce variations & panned two tracks L & R
- L & R tracks each treated to two instances of Arturia Tape Melo-Fi to get some crud distortion
- Center track treated to some widening in Live

Second day - 
- Recorded a china cymbal. This was run into Ableton Live’s Spectral Resonator and other effects.
- Recorded a short series of walking bass notes using a Turser JTB-402. This was run through a modified Buffer Shuffler, iZotope’s Neutron and other effects.
- I duplicated this track and converted the second copy to MIDI for use in sidechaining.
- I froze/flattened the cymbal, speech and bass audio tracks
- I altered some of the things I did the day before with the speech tracks.
- Recorded a nylon-string guitar that was missing the low E and the D string. I retuned the second highest string, recorded something related to the bass track and enhanced this with Live’s grain delay.
- I split the bass audio track into two for hi/lo processing with some simple shelving EQ.

Artwork generated via Adobe Express Generative AI.

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Black Panther, Vol. 9, No. 3, November 4, 1972

A Matter Of Life Or Death, vote “no” on proposition 17, 4th paragraph, translated into German.

Historically, America has justified its use of the death penalty, both domestically and on a world-wide level with the so-called “deterrent” theory. This twisted logic has resulted in the slaughter of millions throughout the world and the development of more and more ingenious methods of killing human beings.

Historisch gesehen hat Amerika seine Anwendung der Todesstrafe sowohl im Inland als auch auf weltweiter Ebene mit der sogenannten „Abschreckungs“-Theorie gerechtfertigt. Diese verdrehte Logik hat zur Abschlachtung von Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt und zur Entwicklung immer raffinierterer Methoden zur Tötung von Menschen geführt.

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This original version of "Begrabe Das Lied" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede. The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Two-Finger Modal Box."

Begrabe Das Lied (disquiet0618)

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