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halF halF [disquiet0536]

Sinny: pot with wooden spoon, knives, thunder tube, rainstick, electronic drums (DTX 500 & Wavedrum), microwave
Aesqe: Cooking sample
T-man95: background storm sample

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Cooking Up A Storm (disquiet0536)

Enhanced electronic sequence, sounds created in Pure Data.

This project was proposed by Rob Walker.

More on this 537th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Penitent Honk (The Assignment: Do sound design for “a missing gesture” of vehicular life) – at: https://disquiet.com/0537/

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Sorry (disquiet0537)

Once when I was trying to drive through a traffic node in Toulouse intersecting 6 or 7 different streets, I stopped in the middle, confused as to which lane/road I should enter.  The driver opposite watched me in frustration as I was blocking his progress forward. Then cacophony of horns erupted as I jammed the intersection.  After a brief chorus, the driver opposite started to give me the slow clap.  I guess it was quite a performance.  Nonetheless, in this piece - Fanfare for the common van- I have tried to capture a fanfare of horns and squealing brakes in traffic edging along at a slow pace. Soft woodwinds and horns from SA.  It's a little longer than necessary, but I guess traffic is  like that.  Composition in C major.

Fanfare For The Common Van(disquiet0537)

Disquiet Junto Project 0537: Penitent Honk
The Assignment: Do sound design for “a missing gesture” of vehicular life.

I bought this little pink plastic horn (current picture) at a flea market a few years ago, thinking it might one day be of musical value. And I should be right. For three days now I have tried to create an apologetic sound with the horn, and out of 10387546 samples I have chosen this one as the most convincing. It is slowed down to 0.25%, and for purely scientific reasons and consideration of future noisologist, I have added the original sound at the end. The reverb and the background noise is the ambient noise of my home office/studio, and I think the Mac decided to start it's backup on this very recording. Anyway, I find the sound of the horn sufficiently remorseful and repentant.

Photography: Krakenkraft

This project was proposed by Rob Walker. https://robwalker.substack.com/p/point-of-view-3?s=r

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Penitent Honk [disquiet0537]

This recording follows the inspiration of the Disquiet Junto Project 0537 (see below): How could a apologetic car horn sound like ?
The track presents a quiet side street, its atmosphere augmented by different musical elements. Some cars apologize for driving by and disrupting the calm by sounding their apologetic melody, and in the end this horn melody leads a life of its own.

I thank blaukreuz for providing the wonderful field-recording
https://freesound.org/people/blaukreuz/sounds/521000/
which inspired much of this track.

This project was proposed by Rob Walker.

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Apologetic Conveyance (Disquiet0537)

By a strange bit of synchronicity (always sounds better than ‘coincidence’), I was already working on something inspired by this same concept. 

Very simple, just a short burst of sound culled from a work in progress, subjected to many passes through Audacity’s “Sliding Stretch” and further enhanced by modified sections of drone sourced from the stretched results. Some unexpected rhythmic pulses appear as well, adding to the fun.


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The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill.

Step 1: Your goal with this piece is to guide someone from a place of intense stress to something more sedate. Keep that in mind.

Step 2: A lot of meditation-oriented music takes the end point as the start. Consider that it can be jarring to listen to calm music when you are anything but calm.

Step 3: Compose a piece of music that starts in a state of accelerated tension, allows the listener to align their own tension with that of the music, and then slowly proceeds to calm down, until the music is sustainably peaceful.

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Chill by degrees [disquiet0538]

My breath and our cat, Lulu's, purring. The original recordings are subjected to distortions, gatings, and convolution and blackhole reverbs. They are also filtered with frequenies and resonances modulated by envelope followers on the breath/purr. The original breath is allowed into the mix here and there.
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with gated breath (disquiet0539)

This track is about the air we breathe, the breath which signifies life.

It was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0539:
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Air - Breath - Life (Disquiet0539)

Composed and produced by Francesco Vitti
Registered in the studios of EKOS records (Italy)

Life

LIFE

“Deep in my dream the great bird whispered queerly
Of the black cone amid the polar waste…” 
H.P. Lovecraft, The Fungi from Yuggoth

Created using multiple instances of Fluss, the new granular audio mangler app from Hainbach and Bram Bos for the ipad

On Arcturus I Listened To The Ice Sing

Ambient electronica, Berlin School, Chillout & Kosmische Space Musik from Munich, Germany. ► Soundcloud is my musical diary - expect lightfooted drafts, soundchecks, playthings & misfits here. ► Go Bandcamp for finished pieces & more serious musical works.

Penitent Honk [disquiet0537]

Krakenkraft & Etherkraken

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