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fuck i loved the intro to this but then i couldnt cope with the rest of it, too stressful, frenetic, caffeine jag. but still even like strettched 500% there's loads going on doesnt sound artificial (to my amateur ears)

Sqpshr - Exjag Nives (Jagxesevinism Stretch)

never liked the beats on this so smoothed them out. slowed it down and mixed in the start for a more satisfying fade out. i always wished boc did longer tracks

(05) boc - xyz (amb)

4/4 removed  with centerpan vocal cut / smoothed / then super smooothed [11 secs]

random wiki page inspired the super smoothing 

user48736353001 - 1 P - String [instr] (Crianlarich railway station v2)

https://hearthis.at/sevenism/ac-modded-n-plodded-ambientonline-osd-29/

Submission for Ambient Online One Sample Dare 29
http://www.ambientonline.org/forum/showthread.php?3376-ONE-SAMPLE-DARE-29

All sounds originate from this sample: https://soundcloud.com/davedorgan/pasted-audio-1-normalized

I challenged myself not to alter the sound too much but also to sound like ambient music. i wanted to accentuate the low hum and use the gradual high pitched noise as rising strings.. so it builds and builds.

track 1: in audacity, i took the first ~45 seconds (before it started screeching) boosted the bass then paulstretched x5. 
track 2: cloned track 1 pitched up over 100% then had the whole sample fading in and out three times
track 3: cloned track 1 pitched up ~150% and faded in over the course of the track
this was all mixed down and some gentle hiss reduction applied
track 4: the above mix cloned run through cecilia5 loopermod for some frequency modulation and faded in through the course of the track.

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AC {modded n plodded} (AmbientOnline OSD 29)

My heart dropped when I saw this image. I find the conduct of the States in international affairs disgraceful. But then looking at the layered flags I reflected on more positive aspects: on the beautiful people I've known and the inspiring culture.

I used my mountain dulcimer which is a genuine North American instrument (although with fitting irony my instrument is made in Pakistan which I found gently subversive). I played based on american primitivism and eastern influences (listen to https://soundcloud.com/deanmcphee/glass-hills for a better example of this approach) and then layered the sound with lots of ambient echo.

Underneath it all is the first note of Hendrix's star spangled banner which I stretched 10,000% and pitched down to fit into the track. 
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Created for the EXTROSPECTION Group, June 2015.

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Layers {mountain dulcimer echo} [Extrospection June 2015]

I represented each of the six dolls as an instrument -  the bass doll, then opening up we hear my voice, then mountain dulcimer, then kalimba, 12 string guitar and glockenspiel. Then I reversed it as the doll is put back together and we just hear the bass to close.

The bass starts off with more fx then I remove more and more fx from the instruments as it opens up.

I tried to restage the image with my instruments!

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Disquiet Junto Project 0180: Matryoshka Music
Use the Russian nesting dolls as a model for a musical composition.

Step 1: Consider the Russian nesting doll called the matryoshka, in which hollowed-out wooden figurines are designed to be stored inside each other, excepting the smallest doll, which is solid.

Step 2: Compose a short piece of music that somehow takes as its basis the doll’s structure. (For a further constraint, imagine a matryoshka consisting of 6 dolls.)

Step 3: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 4: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the early evening, California time, on Thursday, June 11, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, June 15, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work is up to you, but between two minutes and four minutes is probably best in this context.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and 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.

More on this 180th Disquiet Junto project — “Use the Russian nesting dolls as a model for a musical composition” — at:

disquiet.com/2015/06/11/disquie…0-matryoshkamusic/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

disquiet.com/forums/

Matryoska (disquiet0180-matryoshkamusic)

Wanted to accentuate the ambient and play around with real time filtering. then playing around with glitch1.3 random settings and cloned,underlaid that so it didnt take over. that kinda missed the point of what i was doing as it created more rhythm but the beats still less prominent

µ-Ziq - Hi-Q (MaskFilterglitchFilter mix)

my guitar dreams in  fragments
my guitar remembers half forgotten notes
my guitar does not know how he sounds when he's sound asleep
my guitar does not control his dreams

I love my fender semi-acoustic guitar; we've been through a lot. I haven't used him recently, the battery for his pick up always runs out and i can't find the charger. I did have a spare battery, but then i thought i'd record close-mic'd to give that vague faraway dreamlike sound. I played just after i'd woken up, with sleep in my eyes, without thinking, just half playing an old song;  letting the sound come from the instrument. There was some gentle fx too and i reduced the hiss a little bit afterwards

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Disquiet Junto Project 0181: Instrumental Dream
Imagine your favorite instrument is dreaming while it sleeps — what does it sound like?

Step 1: Focus on your favorite instrument.

Step 2: Imagine that your instrument sleeps.

Step 3: Imagine that your instrument dreams.

Step 4: What does it sound in your instrument’s dreams?

Step 5: Record what it sounds like.

Step 6: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

More on this 181st Disquiet Junto project (“Imagine your favorite instrument is dreaming while it sleeps — what does it sound like?”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/06/18/disquiet0181-instrumentaldream/

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/


while my guitar gently sleeps (disquiet0181-instrumentaldream)

My track for ambient online one sample dare 30. the original sample here: https://soundcloud.com/lighthugger/pipes-ao-osd-30

i wanted this to sound like a summer storm brooding, a muggy humid feel, and it being a long ago memory.

In audacity i took the whole sample paulstretched it to ~8 minutes and really smoothed out (cos there's loads of elements in the sample that i wanted to create gradual shifts and depth) then increased the volume of the low end rumble. then time stretched it down by half so the tonal shifts are more pronounced (and cos i'm running out of time on my sc account!)

then i recorded it to cassette on my teac tape deck and then recorded this back onto pc with a sony ex505 walkman to give a bit of hiss and warmth (and for that long ago memory feel).

Summer Storm (memory)

remix of this https://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/track/transmitting-from-space

opened up a bunch of bandcamp pages had them playing simultaneously using the unexpected delay as echo.. smoothed out a bit and then sharpened at the end..

MyklH - Transmitting From Space (Slo Echo Flare)

so, weird synchronicity again; this track https://soundcloud.com/sevenism/summer-storm-memory i did the other day fits the bill perfectly it was about a childhood memory of a summer storm. rather than just add that though i used the same method so it's kind of like a part 2

i remembered when i was a kid a bunch of at a birthday party in our garden were jumping on my poor dad.. at the time it was so much fun but i'm guessing it wasnt for him!

i associate the harmonica with dad, its the first instrument i think i fell in love with and dad was gonna give me his harmonica a few yrs back but it's lost somewhere, but he got me a new one which can hear on here.. so that represents dad.. then i slowed it down and blurred it righht out for the passage of time feel

then the other sounds are a guitar with loads of reverse delay; that's us bothering him, again blurred a bit.

then like summer storm i recorded to tape and then back onto pc via walkman, i like the warp at the start and the wow n flutter but not enough hiss!

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Disquiet Junto Project 0185: Memory Music
Summon up a memory, and then summarize it in sound.

This week’s Junto is project proposed by Robert Thomas, a longtime participant. Having proposed the project, he’ll also listen to and comment on various posted tracks as the project unfolds.

A bit about him: Robert Thomas creates procedural music and sound systems. In 2010 he worked on Inception the App (5 million downloads), while at RjDj. He has worked with Hans Zimmer, Imogen Heap, Junkie XL, Air, Carl Craig, Jimmy Edgar, and Bookashade. His current projects are systems for VR, AR, health, meditation, and AI/robotics.

These are the steps for this week’s project:

Step 1: Remember a key moment in your life. It could be anything at any age.

Step 2: Conjure the sound of that moment in your mind, how you remember it, how you have come to remember it.

Step 3: Recreate that sound and feeling through sound design and music.

More on this 185th Disquiet Junto project (“Summon up a memory, and then summarize it in sound”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/07/16/disquiet0185-memorymusic/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

This project was proposed by Robert Thomas, more from whom at:

http://dizzybanjo.com/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

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summer : impermanence (disquiet0185-memorymusic)

for me complexity is a conceptual endeavour, it's more about the process than the outcome. at the moment, i see complexity as an integration of disparate elements: subjective-objective, creative-analytical, individual-communal, present-past etc. i'm aware that every piece of music i do follows on from another, they are related to each other in some (small?) way. working intuitively allows this to come out i think, but in addition i always combine conscious conceptual elements from previous efforts - my hope is that my soundcloud timeline provides a natural progression track to track. 

i've been working a lot with samples on my last few tracks, so i didn't add anything else. i just went through and isolated small sounds i liked then stretched them and blended in over the course of track (like in sleeping church) but here i was more interested in getting a balance between texture and frequency. i've been working with dronefx on my mixcloud pieces so i used that to generate some note progressions and changed the pitch of the low end sounds. i wanted to make an ambient piece that gradually develops with more texture (again like in all my recent pieces) and i used the concepts of the last two disquiet projects to complement this: i recorded the piece to tape as in summer:impermanence (& fortuitously coz it was the same decrepit old tape a little snippet of that track comes through right at the start!) then i faded between the tape version into the 'clean' version as the track progresses (like in last weeks project).

i wanted the finished piece to sound completely different to the source but still retain something of the spirit of it. i tested this by fading in and out my favourite section of the original  right at the end and i think it works pretty well.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0188: Complex Complex
Take a provided track and make it more complex.

This project was proposed by Guy Birkin and Jay Bodley (aka Sun Hammer). It extends the thinking that went into their album Complexification, released by the record label Entr’acte. (http://entracte.co.uk/projects/guy-birkin–sun-hammer-e187/)

These are the steps for this project:

Step 1: Pick one of the two tracks at the following URL: https://goo.gl/tN4Oit.

Step 2: Modify that one track in any way, using as much or little of it as you like, to make a new piece that sounds “more complex” than the original. You may add other sounds. (Note: You are free to use any definition or measure of “complexity.” You should be sure to describe your process and how it “increases” the complexity of the original track.)

Background: The album Complexification by Guy Birkin and Sun Hammer “explores musical complexity through a collaborative process based on a set of rules.” Those rules involved the two musicians swapping successive copies of a track in order to make it progressively more “complex.” For their purposes, they defined “complexity” as follows: “In this project, complexity is understood in terms of the quantity and variety of musical elements or patterns. The result is two parallel threads of music, each representing a progression of increasing complexity.”

More on this 188th Disquiet Junto project (“Take a provided track and make it more complex”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/08/06/disquiet0188-complexcomplex/

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/


hidden complex (summer mix) (disquiet0188)

i was taking pictures of the moon thinking of this project how with the cloud going over the reduced luminescence made it paradoxically clearer for the camera, and i wanted to get that sense of the clouded instruments coming into focus while at the same time blurring

we went to a wedding yesterday and i wanted to sample the church organ drone but he was a bit too jazzy (and also i mightve got told off) so i settled for one of the instruments on live 8 then it goes into cello (http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/explore/make_music/cello) as i was humming in the steam room at the gym and the resonant frequency sounds a bit celloesque, so then my voice blends in. after that is 12 string guitar and then piano then my girlfriends voice (i'm not gonna pretend theres a narrative for those)

i cheated with blending them in, i just used the a 4 sec time resolution on paulstretch to blur them together then repeated that blurred in more.   

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Disquiet Junto Project 0191: Held Chord
One chord to rule them all — on several instruments.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Choose a chord you can play on several instruments. You can choose any chord you’d like.

Step 2: Make recordings of yourself playing that just chord on several instruments.

Step 3: Edit those individual recordings into one long continuous track, in which the chord slowly (and smoothly as possible) changes from one instrument to the next. The complete length of the finished track should be about one minute.

Step 4: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

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

Deadline: This assignment was made in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, August 27, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, August 31, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be approximately one minute.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, 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.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0191-heldchord” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

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).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information, and link to (and identify) the two SoundCloud pages for the source audio you selected:

More on this 191st Disquiet Junto project (“One chord to rule them all — on several instruments”) at:

disquiet.com/2015/08/27/disquiet0191-heldchord/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

clouded moon (disquiet0191)

my entry for ambientonline.org one sample dare 32. This was made only using this sample: https://soundcloud.com/aural_solace/ambient-online-one-sample-dare-32-in-need-of-oil

what a great sample, i really enjoyed this! it took me back to the mid 90s when i started making beats using samples on music maker.. i could hear a sleazy sax in the creak and drums hits.. i dug out my old copy of music maker and i was suprised it worked but it made it so easy to cut up that sample . thats what you hear in the first 30 seconds the unadulterated drum hits and creak (with a bit of reverb on the creak, oh and the sample run thru cecilia5 beatmaker to give a bit extra in the background) 

then i had a bit of static coming thru like a radio which was made just by paulstretching 1000% in audacity

the main part of the track i wanted to get a slow pulsing sound with that sax in there and kind of jazzy and i'm really happy how it turned out (apart from the high pitched whistle which i was sure i isolated at 3.9 khz but i just couldnt get rid of it). i used the cecilia5 resonators module and fiddled with it in real time while i recorded in audacity (with the sample looping) adding reverb, then chorus, then harmonizer then flange throughout so it gets more ambient.

i took this recording and cloned it with more reverb in cecilia then had that as a separate track in audacity with a slight delay to add a bit more to that free jazz feel. 

it was all sequenced in audacity and i added the static to fade out.

discussion and other tracks here: http://www.ambientonline.org/forum/showthread.php?3625-One-Sample-Dare-32

Caffeine Jag

loved this track https://soundcloud.com/adamintilia/burning-into-time-2010 wanted to hear it blurred at first and gradually getting more intricate and detailed

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