added the train recording to 2 audio tracks in Ableton and 2 midi tracks converting the train to a Bass and Arp2600 Drums. added warp modes and reverbs, Corpus, echo, resonators, and various delays for this train wreck.

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend
The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.
Step 1: Listen to this short recording, under a minute, of a passing train, recorded by Todd (Toaster) Elliott:
Step 2: Record a piece of music using the field recording as the rhythm track

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

TrainWreck disquiet0635

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend
The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.

This is a remix of a track by @horsthelmood based on a recording of a czech railway staff member serving food and drinks in a train. Thanks for providing the original track for remixing.

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train. Thank you for that.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

Train Mantra - HorsthelMood vs. Bot (disquiet0635)

I based my contribution on the short version of the recording. As I found the bell sound too fast, I slowed it down to half speed. I then played several layers of guitar over it, using Norns RPLS as effect.

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/ 

Disquiet0635 - Karbidinsel

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

The image associated with this track is a photograph by Todd (Toaster) Elliott, who also provided the field recordings of the train.

Choo - Choo Bass (disquiet0635)

The source material for this week's Disquiet Junto's prompt reminded me of a non-existent movie: A couple in a car stops at a railroad crossing in the middle of nowhere. The camera slowly zooms out of the vehicle through the window pane. You can only see her talking and get an idea of what she’s saying only by looking at his reactions. 

I tried to write a soundtrack for that moment (which would be too long for a regular movie). The gear: S&A Spectres, Teletone Ondine, Felt Instruments Nisko, and an old Gleetchlab 3.0 experiment from 14 years ago.

0324 Disquiet Junto 635 What she said when they stopped the car

What She Said When They Stopped The Car [disquiet0635]

sound art for disquiet0635

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

shining tunnel (disquiet0635)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 23 Jun 2019, 02/03 Mar 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Instruments -
Ableton Live 12 beta, Operator and other native devices, iOS/iAbyssal, field recordings of train provided by Todd “toaster” Elliot.

Process notes -
From the original audio recording of a train by Todd Elliot - 
- I derived the melodic elements and drum bits with Live’s audio-to-midi features. 
- I further split, duplicated, stretched & gated the original shorter audio train recording - heard here as rhythmic bursts. 
- Looped a section of the original audio to form a very loose rhythm. 

I also added another rhythmic element using a segment of an iPhone recording I made on 23 Jun 2019 using the app iAbyssal.

Artwork: From the LIRR, NY, USA, 27 Jan 2011, by Jim Lemanowicz

©2019, 2024 Jim Lemanowicz - music distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED
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This original version of “There’s More Under The Sheets” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend. The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train.

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More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project at https://disquiet.com/0635/

This track was originally released under the artist name "Bubble Memory."

There’s More Under The Sheets (disquiet0635)

Step 1: Listen to this short recording, under a minute, of a passing train, recorded by Todd (@Toaster) Elliott:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1/ 25

And, if you’d like, to this longer one, which is a little over 10 minutes:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1020 13

Both are available to download.

Step 2: Record a piece of music using the field recording as the rhythm track.

Blue coal train - disquiet0635

Some silences are conclusions.
This track captures the final moment before everything changes.
Not a climax, not a fall—just closure with grace.
The silence here is a form.

The Sound That Didn’t Happen

Made in response to:

dreadful the stream
without so much as a name!
early-summer rains

Naviar haiku challenge 590, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Although everything was generated and controlled in Voltage Modular I tried something a little different, rather than recording audio I routed and recorded sequenced Midi data that was passed to external instruments, Speldosa and Slammer for the drums, both from Klevgrand.

There are also a couple of field recordings:

Some burbling water from freesound processed inside Voltage:
Water Babbling2.m4a by dasoundguy -- https://freesound.org/s/478450/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
and some binaural rain from this sound pack sold in aid of WWF Denmark: www.luftrum.com/free-field-recordings: 

Disquiet0635 - Karbidinsel

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