This track was made based off the vocals of a song I wrote during November of 2020, which was a pretty stressful pandemic/election/unrest month. The song had the refrain "keep that hope in your heart/shine that hope through your heart", but I felt on the edge of panic the whole time. 
I took some of the breaths and made a panicky rhythm of sorts out of them, and the vocals and put them through a grain processor to turn them into an unsettling slow-motion chorus of cicadas trying really hard to hope but having a hard time of it.
And then there's a drone, because why not a drone.

disquiet0496 - maybe it won't be ok

The Disquiet prompt required a live-recorded performance. This is my first time at live-recording... anything, so keeping it simple. Also I don't have much time this weekend and I need to go to bed, so also keeping. it simple. Set up Ableton with a few channels that I could start loops on, and looped single notes or small numbers of pings of water-filled glasses into gigantic reverbs to help them become ambient chord pads of a sort.

disquiet0497 - Glazed

This is a response to Disquiet Junto Project 0499 — Out of a Landscape.

The base recording is https://freesound.org/people/daveincamas/sounds/45481/

For the "extra sound" it's itself resonating. I sent it through the Rings eurorack module using various notes and settings, manually providing modulations with the knobs, then I spliced the different takes together to form chords and drones; I even played a little melody on the rain sounds through rings. 

Apologies to anyone tired of the "rings sound".

disquiet0499 unseelie ring

Listen for structure in noise, and make that into a track

Fan Duet disquiet0531

The assignment: create a drone track where the only sound is your voice.

I was leaving for a cousin's wedding the next day and my flight was early-early, so I recorded one take of audio, two tracks through different effect chains. Out at the wedding hotel, I did a little snipping out parts that didn't seem to fit, gluing the rest, and mixing. But this is mostly true to the single take I made.

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The chord currently playing on the organ playing as slow as possible.

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