Mighty sound! Reminds me of how the Art of Noise operated with vocal sounds.

I decided to pull out one of my old favorite techniques for this one: using Paulstretch with unconscionably long windows (5 seconds, 10 seconds, 40 seconds...). This takes a sample and moves it from a musical gesture to a long harmonic drone. 

I started out with the ukelele track, and stretched it 2.5x with a 5 second window. I stretched the accordina 2.1x with a 10 second window to get the primary melodic and chordal motion. Both developed a melody within the drone as the stretch was done.

I then stretched the piano 1.1x but with a 30 second window, then copied it, reversed it, and duplicated this again to bring it up to approximately the length of the other two tracks.

At this point, I started layering things up in Audacity and adjusting relative levels. I decided I wanted to leave a little of the original samples audible as they were originally, so I brought in the electric guitar chords and the rhythmic bass. I realigned the chords to appropriate places against the piano/uke/accordina lines, then carefully edited the bass to duplicate one bar of the rhythm so I could repeat it to almost the end of the track.

I then took the hang sample and pitched it up 3 octaves, resulting in a funky phasing tone in the mid-register. I applied a little Valhalla Freq Echo to that to give it a little more motion, and last, I brought in the low electric bass, carefully lining it up against the hang, and duplicating notes as required to get it to the correct length.

Final mixdown was adjusting relative levels of the tracks and tweaking EQ lightly.

This was done 100% in Audacity, using the Paulstretch, fade in, fade out, and pitch shift tools, with Valhalla Freq Echo for a tiny bit of sweetening.

Partially Erased [disquiet0507]

The brilliant Daniel Diaz (https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz) recorded some sounds for us to use in this week's Junto - I made a two-part track using the sounds,  and added some field recordings of my local area and some extra piano. 

More on this 507th weekly Disquiet Junto project — In DD’s Key of C (The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key) — at: https://disquiet.com/0507/

Tracks made with samples created generously by Daniel Díaz.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0507-in-dds-key-of-c/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by Thorsten Sideb0ard, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/bvKCrv

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Not Entirely In C (disquiet0507)

20211203 What Can Only Be Heard Without Listening [disquiet0518]

This was composed entirely with samples from two field recordings focused on the distinction between nature and civilization:
 https://soundcloud.com/bellyfullofstars/planetraincoyotecricketchime-disquiet0516-outsidein-coexist-1-of-3
 https://soundcloud.com/mikey_a/melbourne-lane-disquiet0517

Auxy 6.6 project: https://app.auxy.co/projects/RW1vawDyoUN91_N4UpeNpQ==

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More on this 518th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Inside Out (Co/Exist 3 of 3) (The Assignment: Combine sounds of nature and civilization) — at: https://disquiet.com/0518/

This is the third and final stage of a three-part project sequence. You needn’t have participated in either of the two preceding stages to do this one. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0518-out-and-in-co-exist-3-of-3/

20211203 What Can Only Be Heard Without Listening [disquiet0518]

MAGNETIC TAPE

montebello

Shoproomputer [part 1]

Whisteling, background made with my newest DIY-noisebox into tapedelay into Korg KP3 into handy into Ableton into your ears....

WhistelBlowers Dub (Noisebox KP3 Tapeloop)

2022-06-20

NLS - 2022 - 06 - 20- Broken Sound

Just another spooky soundscape for your haunted house this Halloween!

Ghoul You Know It's True

same

Sun Plexus - Soundtrack for Laurent Berger's experimental movie shot in 16mm "D'Esch van de Lech" - 2003, Strasbourg, France. 
Released in 2006 on "Etat des yeux" compilation of experimental soundtracks, CD included in the magazine Exploding, Revue d'analyse de l'expérimentation cinématographique, Number 10. 

Sun Plexus - "D'Esch van de Lech" Soundtrack (ichnite_archives 5 : 2003)

Resounding through all the notes
In the earth's colorful dream
There sounds a faint long-drawn note
For the one who listens in secret.
  -- Friedrich Schlegel

Image: 19.682036,-98.846494

20211203 What Can Only Be Heard Without Listening [disquiet0518]

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