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https://hissandaroar.com/v3/sound-design-challenge-03/

CONTACT MIC Sound Design Challenge 03

Improvised piece using the Make Noise 0-coast , Triple Expresso expression pedal interface, micro cassette recorder, reverb and delay pedals, Alimba resonator, and Sniff-EM electromagnetic pickup. Recorded live in one take.

Encounter with The Krell

Created for the Hiss and a Roar Sound Design Challenge #4
https://hissandaroar.com/v3/sound-design-challenge-04/

THE STORY

I took the challenge as being "In what interesting ways can I process these samples + vocal samples, going a little beyond just  vocoding or convolution? Speech must still be intelligible.

Years ago, a friend that is part of an online radio (The Global Voice) asked me for short sentences introducing their radio in different languages, which I managed to get from volunteers from the Freesound.org website.

The Global Voice are still using those samples. I thought it would be a great idea to create some twisted versions that they could use to update their set.

My submission is a 'proof-of-concept": testing various voice processing chains. The results are split into sets, a short beep marks the start of each set. Below the technical details.


TECHNICAL DETAILS

Set 1 - Each sample contains female and male voices. First sample is unprocessed. This set uses convolution with a portion of challenge sample #9 as impulse response (IR). Some avriety of effects can be obtained, including a reverse reverb effect. In some cases the IR was a manipulated sample (e.g. pitch sweeps)

Set 2 - First sample is unprocessed. Exploring vocoding using a pitched sample (piano) and a noisy sample (train). The first processed samples are just straight vocoding examples, in the next 2 the vocoder modulator (voice) has a FM effect applied before going through the vocoder. In the next 2 samples the FM effect is applied to the carrier sound instead.

Set 3 - Using a plugin that allows mixing/combining 2 signals in different ways. The challenge samples used were white noise and the train sound. The same voice is processed twice with the same settings against each of these samples. With the settings used can sound like a short-wave radio struggling to tune in to a signal. 

Set 4 - The previous samples gave me an idea: this way of combining 2 signals was producing a very noisy output. What would happen if this signal was then put through audio cleaning algorithms?
As with the previous set, voices are processed with the same settings in pairs. The first 2 examples in this set use the same settings as the last voices of the previous set. Then a more extreme setting is used, making the speech barely intelligible.
Next 4 samples: cleaning with Izotope RX. Next 6 samples: cleaning with Waves Clarity cleaning (at 50%, 75% and 100%). - very unique distorted sound!

Set 5 - Inspired by the previous set. Blended the last vocal transformed sound with the original vocal. Next samples these transformed vocals through a guitar pedal for brutal distortion.

Set 6 - First, straight vocoding. Then the vocoded signal is processed through 2 versions of Convolution.

Set 7 - All sounds are voice samples ring-modulated with challenge sample #4 or processed versions of sample #4.

Set 8 - In this set, LFOs are used to blend between 4 different challenge files being used as IRs.

H&R SDC#4 - Submission File

HISSandaROAR Sound Design Challenge 04

https://hissandaroar.com/v3/sound-design-challenge-04/

Sound Design Challenge 04

Phase Two

AR[F10] (disquiet0665)

Disquiet Junto Project 0665: Clicks + Cuts Music Factory
The Assignment: Record a track in honor of the late Achim Szepanski.

Background: Achim Szepanski (1957-2024), founder of the Mille Plateaux record label, among numerous other accomplishments, died this week. This project is in his honor. You needn’t know much if anything to begin this project; just follow the instructions. As always, discussion of the topic at hand in the project’s llllllll.co message thread is encouraged.

Step 1: Listen back to the first Clicks + Cuts compilation album (originally released in 2020). It is streaming on YouTube 22 (the first hour or so of that playlist).

Step 2: Consider the common elements in various tracks: the glitch effects, the sense of space, the attention to tiny details, the industrial minimalism, the emphasis on sampling, the tempo, the groove. What else do you hear?

Step 3: Record a track in the spirit of that first Clicks + Cuts album.

More on the 665th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Clicks + Cuts Music Factory — The Assignment: Record a track in honor of the late Achim Szepanski — at Disquiet Junto Project 0665: Clicks + Cuts Music Factory – Disquiet 1

The image associated with this project was created by Lubomir Panak in 2011. Originally posted on Flickr 1, it is used thanks to a CC BY-NC 2.0 license. This is a detail of the original image, and it has been tilted at an angle, with the project information superimposed.

chua (disquiet 0665)

Tusagi — Motvind

film sound designer, composer, field recordist, modular synthesisor, photographer, dreamer..

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