Disquiet Junto Project 0561: Samplelicker
The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software.

Step 1: There’s a new piece of freely available software called Samplebrain. It was designed by Aphex Twin and developed by Dave Griffiths of Then Try This. Download Samplebrain and read up at:

https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain

Step 2: Create a piece of music using Samplebrain. For source audio, only use sounds tagged “bird” or “rain” or “night” from freesound.org. Use as many as you like. Be sure to credit the source material when posting your finished track.

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More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) — at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0561: Samplelicker

Seapromenade, Morning

Doppler

Sketch For Bottles And Jars

naviarhaiku452 – night walk

night walk
sudden shower-
the smell of rain

Paul Engel is a poet living in Chicagoland. His poems have recently appeared in: Hummingbird, Hedgerow, Failed Haiku, ubu, Poetry Pea and tsuri-dōrō. His mini-chapbook Talking to Bugs was recently published by The Origami Project in 2022.  You can find more of his poems posted on twitter @LaughingMonki.

The smell of rain (naviarhaiku452)

i used samplebrain, searching for 'rain beat' on freesound, found this:
https://freesound.org/people/tictac9/sounds/530585/
and used it as a 'target sound'(since it was tagged 'rain' it fit the disquiet project's instructions), and used other sounds tagged 'rain', 'night', and 'bird'(which were more like sound-design/field-recordings:
"237729__flathill__rain-and-thunder-4"
"339326__inspectorj__bird-whistling-a"
"352514__inspectorj__ambience-night-wildlife-a"
"531947__straget__the-rain-falls-against-the-parasol") for the 'brain contents' of samplebrain..

More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project – Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) – at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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RainyLoFiSampleBrain

RainyLoFiSampleBrain[ disquiet0561 ]

This is an experiment with Aphex Twin's new software Samplebrain. 

I used the following samples from freesound.org:
march warbler DeNoise 1149AM 210702_0300.wav by klankbeeld
Exotic Creature Song, 01.wav by InspectorJ
04845 andean flute short melody.wav by Robinhood76


More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project – Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) – at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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Flute Loop [Disquiet 0561]

Using Samplebrain I loaded seven clips of bird sounds from my own recordings with a short percussion track as the 'target'.

More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) — at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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Birdbrain Bash (disquiet0561)

"Create a piece of music using Samplebrain. For source audio, only use sounds tagged “bird” or “rain” or “night” from freesound.org. Use as many as you like. Be sure to credit the source material when posting your finished track."

Thanks, FreeSound creators, for these shared source materials: 
https://freesound.org/people/Leoctiurs/sounds/428181/
https://freesound.org/people/Mr.JJ/sounds/474357/
https://freesound.org/people/danlucaz/sounds/517736/
https://freesound.org/people/Nicolas4677/sounds/446649/
https://freesound.org/people/Mjeno/sounds/399278/

Image generated at Craiyon.com using the prompt, “MIDI instruments made of human bones.”
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More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) — at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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Cryptohelix

BRN disquiet0561

freesound gave the most peaceful sounds:

1. 237729__flathill__rain-and-thunder-4
2. 608154__geri92__open-window-and-birds-singing-in-the-morning
3. Corona spring city 5am NL 200314_0119

then came samplebrain....
that's evil
thanks aphex

samplebraindisquiet0561marceisenschinknordstream

deep mess(disquiet0561)

Wow another fantastic collab with Nic! Joining us this time around is Boson Spin!

Boson Spin: ambience, orchestrial sounds, concept - https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin

Nic: guitar, bass, main vocals, concept - @nic_nic_nic

Uziel: background vocals, electronic and industrial elements, production

Regardless of the cries of priests and sages
I strove to give my bleeding soul her wages; 
   And each embrace or memory of one 
Is worth to me the treasures of the ages, 
Is worth to me the treasures of the ages. 

Each shadow of a kiss or fond embrace
Down in the depth of solitude I trace; 
   And in the corners of my darkest den
The fallen gods of pleasure find a place. 
The fallen gods of pleasure find a place. 

And though knee-deep I find myself in hell, 
And though the flames around my cheeks should swell, 
   I shall not loose my grip on Allah's throne, 
I shall not fall alone, I know full well. 
I shall not fall alone, I know full well


________

thanks for listening!

Fallen Gods Of Pleasure (collab with Boson Spin and Nic)

The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software.

https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain

Samplebrain was fed recordings from https://freesound.org:

https://freesound.org/people/squashy555/sounds/244329/
https://freesound.org/people/BurghRecords/sounds/463903/
https://freesound.org/people/quetzalcontla/sounds/336602/
https://freesound.org/people/bitlab_coop/sounds/486872/
https://freesound.org/people/ra_gun/sounds/79272/
https://freesound.org/people/chefroe/sounds/327779/

More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) — at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0561-samplelicker/

Off To Where The Ducks Go (disquiet0561)

Samplebrain loaded with with following samples and a field recording of garden bird song used as the target audio.

https://freesound.org/people/VEXST/sounds/35590/

https://freesound.org/people/1san/sounds/366688/

https://freesound.org/people/newlocknew/sounds/580446/

https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/210423/

https://freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/23086/

https://freesound.org/people/Incarnadine/sounds/17864/

https://freesound.org/people/basedMedia/sounds/548096/

More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) — at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Birdbrain (disquiet0561)

Hope you guys are all good! Somehow went into drone music and I like it somehow...lets see where the journey goes 🤟 Production Note: Cherry Audio Juno through effect chain in Ableton

Into Drone

This is a study of a method of generating chords from a single sine wave. Each note of a random melody gets divided into 8 new tones, comprising the first 8 undertones of that note. Plus a bunch of other modulation and stuff to make it sound good (at least to my ears). This is a recording of one "performance" of the patch, and is not edited or post-processed in any way. Made in VCVRack; not my first patch, but my first decent patch starting from scratch.

Annotated video (of a different performance): https://youtu.be/pDN_Zy8sg4w

You can get this patch at https://patchstorage.com/stations-of-the-tide/ if you want to try it yourself, or make it into something else. Click the Run button on Clockd to get it started.

The title comes from Michael Swanwick's novel of the same name.

There's a sample from an earlier version of this patch at https://soundcloud.com/mysterybear/2023-01-01-vcv-rack-study

Stations of the Tide

My friends and I pondered the importance of water, for humans and our planet. It has resulted in a series of trilogies, which we plan to present to you during the winter.
"The Water Planet Project" This is part 1.
For the best experience, see the visualization of our story, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/user/wcifarout.

First song - Snowdrop by Peter & Seagull
Second song - Meanders by Dan-DT
Third song - Drip by Drip by Seagull, David, Ed & Peter

All narrations, lyrics & vocals by Peter
Contributing vocalist. Clara Sorace

Here you will find the fantastic musicians I share this adventure with.
From France - Dan-DT: https://soundcloud.com/dan-t-3
From Canada - Ed Cunningham: https://soundcloud.com/westtracksmusic
From USA - David Dunham: https://soundcloud.com/david-dunhamuser589535203
From England - Peter: https://soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
From England_ Thommo @thommo_tunes

As Soundcloud for some reason does not allow more than 4000 characters, you will find the lyrics to the songs on my YouTube channel.
We wish you a pleasant musical and visual journey. ;)

The Water Planet Project - Part 1 - Watch it on youtube

This was gonna be apart of my upcoming ep but i decided to just release it

I'm Worried/Don't You Worry Mp3.

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Electronic music, field recordings and weird electroacoustic sounds.

Off To Where The Ducks Go (disquiet0561)

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