The sounds here are raw, primal, buzzing and teaming with the basic elements of life.  Beautifully captured by you Tuon.

This whole piece is lovely, but this last bit - wow!

very nice starting here...love the harsh sound

Very surreal leaving much to the imagination. Great use of effects while keeping an overall atmosphere of anticipation and suspense. Nice work!

Most interesting change here and it sounds like the ghosts have just blown in from the cold wind....

Great work around the 4 elements here Ian and very well enjoyed the 4 journeys throughout each one my good freind. 

here on this track i feel as if I was on a spaceport - with bees::) cool stuff::)

Disquiet Junto Project 0069: The 4 Elements

disquiet0069-4elements


After a quick listen, I decided on the order Fire; Air; Earth; Water, mostly as a gut response.

Each track was processed separately, using vst effects plugins in Audacity only. Each track was processed multiple times and designed to be 75 seconds long on completion. I tried to keep the “character” of each element while making the track sound “musical” without any conventional musical processing other than emphasising the harmonics of the existing sounds. The rhythmic “Earth” track was achieved by doubling and folding the original, compressing it severely, cloning it over and over into a repeating track and then processing the result. Effects used included stretching, time-shifting, harmonizing, delay, echo, reverb, combs, autopan, double-tracking, reverse, phasing, amplifying, pitch altering, convoluting and corkscrewing.

This is an mp3 - I can supply a lossless format if you want to play around with it, just message me.

Picture is my visual representation of the track, same corners treated differently with a crossover area.

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This is a shared-sample project. Its theme is “The Four Elements.” The goal is to create a new piece of music by employing the following four source recordings, each of which is intended to represent one of the elements: earth, water, air, and fire. (Alternately, you can record your own source audio for any or all of the elements.) Your track should be divided into four segments of roughly equal length, one for each element. Any two consecutive segments may overlap, but only briefly, up to three seconds. You can manipulate the source audio in any way you choose, but you cannot add any other source audio. 

Earth: http://www.freesound.org/people/ABouch/sounds/174938/ ; 

Water: http://www.freesound.org/people/aesqe/sounds/39901/ ; 

Air: http://www.freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/144083/ ; 

Fire: http://www.freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/3202/ ;


More on this 69th Disquiet Junto project, which involves creating a single piece of music from samples that represent each of the four elements, at: 

http://disquiet.com/2013/04/25/disquiet0069-4elements/ ;

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

Elementality [disquiet0069-4elements]

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

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