Great sounds combined to a wonderful texture

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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel

From the Something Concrete EP: https://kruhft.bandcamp.com/album/something-concrete-ep

cticity spent

was thinking about space dilating as i imagined speeding through time.

i got some cello samples and put them thru the protoplasm tsm synth, lots of oscillation, then had dimension expander and crystal reverb automated so they'd get bigger throughout. 
pulled into audacity and sliding time stretch applied so gradually speeds up
audition - duplicated track, stereo widened, then crossfaded with previous track to gradually get wider. mastered

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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel
Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

Step 1: Recorded music is, generally speaking, a fixed object. It’s a document. It proceeds linearly, over time. It is, in the terminology of fine art, “time-based.” That said, music has the power to change one’s perception of time. Slowing and speeding tempo alone can alter a listener’s understanding of what is happening. Backward masking, sublimated hints of themes yet to come, the sound of a tape in fast forward mode — those are just a few ways that a composer can suggest that time is not moving linearly. Now, consider for a moment the tools available to give an impression of time doing things other than proceeding in a steady forward motion.

Step 2: Record a short piece of music that takes time travel as its theme, using ideas that resulted from the consideration in Step 1.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: If you hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0264″ (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 3: In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co please consider posting your track:

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Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, January 23, 2017. This project was posted in the morning, California time, on Thursday, January 19, 2017.

Length: The length is up to you, but two to three minutes sounds about right.

Title/Tag: When posting your track, please include “disquiet0264″ in the title of the track, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

Upload: When participating in this project, post one finished track with the project tag, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

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temporal pulse (disquiet0264)

This is a tough one to describe.  I knew I couldn't do time travel with just an instrumental.  There had to be a voice involved.  Some kind of narrative.

The voice sample (not me) is altered.  Pitch-shifted up on the left and lowered on the right, but the duration was preserved on both to avoid phasing.  A bit of reverb.  The two samples were panned.  You should really listen to this piece with headphones.

Was the voice recording cut up and re-ordered or is it a continuous rant?

The subject matter does the time traveling in my mind:  Beach Boys, David Lynch movie, minute steaks with sunnyside up eggs, Edgar Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Vyvanse, swinging bachelor pad, dress pants and dress shoes, shaved head, Mannix, Ironside, The White Album, Revolution #9, Long Long Long, Revolution #1, sleep, swagger, "the same feeling that night I drank", "the shield of armor" (which is Ephesians 6:10-18), AA talk, "and then Laura told me to Sit In That Feeling."

Book-ending it with talk about "a David Lynch movie" and "Laura told me to sit in that feeling" was intentional.  Or was it?

Was I trying to make the voice sound like a cheap version of The Man From Another Place, or did it just turn out that way?

Now you're thinking about the Twin Peaks reboot.  This isn't about the Twin Peaks reboot.  Or is it?

Music added includes bits of "We Meet Again" by Ambient Matyk (to be released soon), "Feather Ridge", "Kad", and "Shunting" by me, and some extra sounds.

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Sit In That Feeling (disquiet0264)

One Percent Disjunction [disquiet0264]

I thought I’d approach this by exploring the inside of a stretch, rather than just absorbing the overall drone effect. Not sure if it worked, but it was fun.

I took a 3 second sample from a piece I was working on. I used Audacity’s Sliding Time Scale effect on it. This stretches the sample unevenly, pulling only from one end, as it were. When the result was just over three minutes long, I reversed it. 

I duplicated the track and then pitched it down by 1% - that is by 0.01 of a tone. This helps create the phasing and movement you hear in the track. I also mixed these together and laid the mix as another track, but out of phase by 0.01 of a second.

A reverb version of the mixed tracks was also laid (in phase).

The ending was made by stretching the original sample out 12x using Audacity’s simplified version of Paulstretch.

The track image was made by applying similar principles to Marc’s email image, using paint.net



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Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel

Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

Step 1: Recorded music is, generally speaking, a fixed object. It’s a document. It proceeds linearly, over time. It is, in the terminology of fine art, “time-based.” That said, music has the power to change one’s perception of time. Slowing and speeding tempo alone can alter a listener’s understanding of what is happening. Backward masking, sublimated hints of themes yet to come, the sound of a tape in fast forward mode — those are just a few ways that a composer can suggest that time is not moving linearly. Now, consider for a moment the tools available to give an impression of time doing things other than proceeding in a steady forward motion.

Step 2: Record a short piece of music that takes time travel as its theme, using ideas that resulted from the consideration in Step 1.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: If you hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0264″ (no spaces) in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 3: In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co please consider posting your track:

http://llllllll.co/t/music-for-time-travelers-disquiet-junto-project-0264/6157/

More on this 264th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Time Travel: Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time”:

http://disquiet.com/0264/


Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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One Percent Disjunction [disquiet0264]

God: You can never change the future. The past, yes, but not the future.

Lucifer: How do you change the past?

God: Why, the past is always changing—nobody remembers anything. But the future can no more be turned away than the light flowing off the moon.

This bit of dialogue is from Arthur Miller’s underrated play The Creation of the World and Other Business. It comes at a crucial point in the narrative where Lucifer admits to God that he compelled Eve & Adam to partake of the forbidden fruit, an act that ultimately banished God’s children from the Garden of Eden.

Time travel is not impossible; we are always revisiting past events in our efforts to understand the present, and our attempts to predict the future often arise from moments of stagnate contemplation. Anyone who has experienced the feeling of traveling by air or rail understands the dichotomy between moving and not moving, not unlike how a great piece of music rewards the listener’s investment by making time stand still.

For this short piece, Suss Müsik literally went back in time—ten years, to be exact. The source material is an eight-bar guitar phrase played with a Danelectro 12SDC 12-string in 2007. The sample was chopped through a Korg ToneWorks 411X processor and recorded live from a Vox AD30VT. The binaural motion cycles for about two minutes or so before the reverse reverb winds it down, coming almost to a halt. The momentary respite allows for a calming pause before the cymbals announce their arrival.

The piece is entitled Trammel, a word to describe something that restricts or impedes one’s freedom of action.

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Trammel [Disquiet0264]

date release  20 / 01 / 2017

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Time out   (disquiet0264)

Part of:
Disquiet Junto Project 0333: Half Evil
Where numerology casts a shadow on musicology.
This week’s project is the 333rd consecutive Junto project. That’s half of 666. Ponder the dark side.
Record a piece of music that could be described as “half evil.”: Lucky Numbers

This is a different version of a 2016 track I composed after the US election, never found the nerve to finish it although I did mix and posted a lighter version last year. This one’s the original creepy one.

I recorded several bowed upright basses performing (in unison) variations on the same riff.
There’s a robotic groove loop created with voices heavily treated and over compressed.
Some radio voices can be heard in the background along with synth pads providing more texture.

This is my 303 track on Sound Cloud, there’s something about 3 this week.

Photo by John Noonan.


Dedicated to Glenn Branca


More on this 333rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Disquiet Junto Project 0333: 
Half Evil / Where numerology casts a shadow on musicology) at: https://disquiet.com/0333/
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Continuing my project to teach myself the greatest hits of the classical canon through remixing their MIDI versions. Read more about this track: http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2018/remixing-saties-gymnopedie-no-1-with-ableton-live/

Gymnopédie No 1 Remix

In loving memory of Phil Ogison Aegidiussen. 

I will miss you my friend. We will all miss you. 

I never had a chance to tell you all the things I needed to tell you. 

And now, Aegidussen, you too can chariot through the Sól and Máni. 

We will all leave the story for your legacy to tell now. 

We will all move through your heartbeats now, where we know you will take us with you. 

Wherever you decide to go.. 


www.reverbnation.com/philogison 

http://ogison.bandcamp.com 

www.numberonemusic.com/philogison 

soundcloud.com/philogison 

soundcloud.com/user-55670093 

https://catherinetammaro.com 

soundcloud.com/jeffhoward23

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E Tude II

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.

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