for sure this seems to anticipate the current fentanyl situation... your beautiful piano composition (which reminds me a little of radiohead, pyramid song) gets crushed under the weight of the voices from the sky. i thought devils came from below, not above!! great work

II absolutely love this track! It has such an unexpected evolution - the rather harmless start, the feedback noises after that, and all the evolutions that follow until the percussions at the end give just another dimension. In my humble opinion: a masterpiece.

Fantastic track. It makes me a little sad, though

I love the piano part, and the gradual disintegration of the voice. Interestingly, some of the harmonies are reminiscent of RadioHead's Pyramid Song.

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The cover image (enlarged, type added) is from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull#/media/File:3d_CT_scan_animation.gif

That image is credited to Arielinson and used thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

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Disquiet0617 - The Uninvited

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Hippodrome3 (disquiet0618)

disquiet0618 - Zhiu Zhiu Zhiu

Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede
The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

I love reading very old news articles and noticing the ways life is still the same and the ways is very different. I wanted to find something from 100 years before I was born in The San Francisco Chronicle. My actual birthday (August 20th) was missing pages in the archive where I looked (newspapers.com) so I went with August 27th, 1884. I enjoyed the style of writing and storytelling about a dog that was addicted to opium. It carries echos of the present day anxiety about fentanyl but in other ways has no moral or backstory - just a snapshot of life.

To create this sonically, I used the "Matthew" voice from TTSmp3.com and played a bit with inserting commands for spacing or emphasis on particular words (always a challenge with text to speech). It worked OK though I think this piece might have been good with someone just reading it.

After creating an initial draft of the piece where I faded out the voice to let the music take over, I thought it would be more fun to disappear him into something that sounds more musical. So I auto-tuned the voice to try to keep it to F# and G. Then I exported the voice file and uploaded it into Holly+, Holly Herndon's AI tool for converting any audio file into her voice. This created something staticky and singsongy. I crossfaded this with the original voice and then chopped up some bits that worked rhythmically for the end.

Just because, I included a little sound design early on using a "Victorian street" simulation by Timbre on Freesound.org. I then processed it and played it backwards, as is *required* of any *real* sound art...

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English translation of reading:

"The hot-tempered criminal genius Egon Olsen is the leader of the gang, and it is usually he who is behind very imaginative plans, where the remedies can be a Tuborg, 100 balloons, an old cheese, zero-summits and a pipe cleaner. The films are largely built according to the same formula: Egon gets out of prison, after which he presents his new plan, which will make the gang millionaires. The gang's opponents are the police, the top of society, financial criminals and Bøffen. Egon is often in prison and shares a cell with a lawyer or other high-ranking citizen who "knows good news" and can provide Egon with the information the gang leader needs in his brilliant plans, where everything is timed and orchestrated.

Most movies end with Egon being caught by the police and put behind bars. Sometimes because the police can't get to the real mastermind and take what they can find. As detective assistant Jensen puts it: "The only thing the police can do when the really big criminals come by is to offer them protection" (quote from the last exploits of the Olsen Gang). When the police come, Benny and Kjeld always manage to escape, usually through the back door, which the police in the Olsen Gang never thought of covering."*

*https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olsen-banden

Artwork uses a photograph from Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Olsen_Banden.jpg

Olsen Gang Chakras (disquiet0618)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0618 discussion thread:

Having lived and worked most of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area, I selected a descriptive New York Times article from March 1, 1970, about the colorful salt evaporation ponds located in South San Francisco Bay "Coast Salt Flats: New Ecological Battlefield". The article examines the battle between industry, developers, and conservationists. 50+ years after the article was published, some of the wetlands have been restored, but the conflict still continues.

I recorded from Chrome's Read Aloud text-to-speech reader to a Tascam DR-100MKIII. I then processed the audio four times using Calsynth Monsoon (Clouds clone) with different settings, and placed them on four tracks in Ableton Live. From there, I added reverb/delay effects, as well as a track with sliced samples of the original unprocessed audio using Ableton's Simpler. Created additional tracks using Slate+Ash Choreographs, Sugar Bytes Aparillo, Jogging House Sonic Beds Vol. 1, PaulXStretch, and AudioThing Noises.

Although I no longer live in Northern California, it was cool to create a piece that links to an area that’s part of my history. This turned out to have more of a darker vibe than I would have liked, but in the end, I enjoyed putting this together and am good with the result. 
 
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Even On Clear Days [disquiet0618]

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End Of An Era -Disquiet0618

This track started from a newspaper article (published in November 1973 in my home country). I processed it through a text-to-speech software and use it as a base to improvise melodies and rhythms. I then extracted elements that I liked and arranged them into the final piece.

The goal was to make the voice less audible as the track progresses. To achieve this, I used different set of effects on each sections of the track.

Original article : https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1973/11/03/entre-la-peur-et-l-espoir_2546275_1819218.html

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Between Fear and Hope (disquiet0618)

Sinny: shaker, tambourine, cowbell, samboga blocks, rattle, hamper, iKaossilator and SpaceCraft apps, synth and xylophone programming

InspectorJ: rooster sample

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Pumpkin Poaching (disquiet0618)

hello everyone,

i took one of my favourite lines from wallace stevens

"sad men made angels of the sun"

and converted it to morse code midi, which i then used to trigger the different parts of a sampled drum kit.

kick = steady beat

sad = hihats
men = snare
made = floor tom
angels = rack toms
of = ride cymbal
the = agogo
sun = finger cymbals

the drums slowly fade into a return track (shifter at -12st >> reverb >> distortion)

the cymbals slowly fade into another return track (arturia efx fragments) which then slowly bleeds back into the first return track

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[disquiet0619] beat the sun

3:07 with @bratzzie

beats all pitch shifted so ppl don't steal them
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paranoia w/bra1z (clips) (winny)

I'm a composer, song-writer and audio storyteller in San Francisco. My latest release is the concept album/audio artwork Marsification, created in collaboration with Zara Zimbardo. 

Previously, I created the podcast A Therapist Walks Into a Bar and the experimental radio show Shadowtime on BFF.fm as well as the EP We Find Our Demons' and mini album I Told You How Important You Would Be (with Pale Bird). 

My compositions and sound design have been featured in several podcasts and on BBC Radio 4.

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