Synthesizer

Network Noir - Conamara Chaos

this one is my contribution to the 136th weekly disquiet junto project, asking participants to take snippets from three net label releases and using only these, make a new track.

I work in Propellerhead Reason, which makes it very easy to work with audio files. I loaded the three sources, found their base key, re-pitched, changed tempo, and then converted two into REX files to get access to the individual segments.

the long drone-y/guitar sort of sound plays in two forms - the original and a version that's transposed an octave higher. I used EQ to minimize the overlap. also used a gating effect on the lower one.

I played back individual segments using my midi keyboard to build my own rhythm / groove, and then added effects / automation until I felt about right.

the result is a sort of 24th century be-bop.

Mikael

More on this 136th Disquiet Junto project — “Recombinate work from the netlabels Nowaki, Phantom Channel, and Rec72″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/08/07/disquiet0136-thricederivative/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums

This track is made from elements extracted from the track “Nunquam Revolvo” from Jared C. Balogh’s album I Am The Ship // I Am The Shaman, available from the Nowaki netlabel; “And The Rain Embraced Our Closing Words” by from Chris Tenz and Cory Zaradzur’s album Language of Landscape, available from the Phantom Channel netlabel; and “HD Eve” from the Small Radio album Migre 3, available from the Rec72 netlabel.

More on those releases at

http://www.nowaki-music.org/#album197

https://archive.org/details/LanguageOfLandscape-memoriesFadeUnderAShallowAutumnSnowphch014

http://rec72.net/?p=3555

be-bop [disquiet0136-thricederivative]

Watch this recording here: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/nils-frahm/

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because not every track can be a gloomy pissy thing.

made, as always, with Propellerhead Reason, with nektar panorama p6, apogee duet, sennheiser hd650, izotope ozone.

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this is just one of many roads that lead absolutely nowhere.

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januarism

I started on a slow sort of glitchy thing, but before I knew it something else was there. a sort of head-bobbing thing.

I also made a second version of this track (https://soundcloud.com/colab/non-pop) that takes a left turn whenever this goes to the right, and vice versa. 

uses vocals by Shannon Hurley, licensed under CC-BY-NC, available for download here - http://ccmixter.org/files/shannonsongs/49867

I took the photo at the Royal Ontario Museum here in Toronto, in their excellent Chinese culture section.

sometimes things travel in twos. I made a version (https://soundcloud.com/colab/pop) of this track which was more of the things that this one has less of, and vice versa. 

so to speak.

Synthesizer

TGS