Work in Progress

This track is part of the Disquiet Junto project – Line Out (The Assignment: Share a track, get feedback, and give feedback) – at: https://disquiet.com/0505/

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Disquiet Junto | Line Out - disquiet0505

More on this 506th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Wipe Out (The Assignment: Take something whole and erase half of it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0506/

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Catnip Dream(disquiet0506)

a reworking of https://soundcloud.com/forelight/klr-orbit. Half the voices deleted leaving noise tones and effected bass.

More on this 506th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Wipe Out (The Assignment: Take something whole and erase half of it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0506/

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Klr [stripped] - disquiet0506

More on this 506th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Wipe Out (The Assignment: Take something whole and erase half of it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0506/

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The Calling [Reintegration Loop]

Disquiet Junto | Wipe Out - disquiet0506

Sinny: drum kit, scraper, tambourine, maraca, vibraslap, conch shell, plate weight, zipper, voices, synth programming

Reinterpretations of old songs are fun, and this song was no exception. I frequently go back to remix my material for improvements, and the song “Where Did it Go?” was on my shortlist. Well before this prompt was even announced, I had the idea of replacing some of the lead instruments with something new to heavily revamp the song.

Essentially, I took all the main parts of “Where Did it Go?” that defined the track and promptly deleted them. This included the arpeggiated organ, lead synths, and all of the programmed drums. I then took all of the background elements and pushed them to the front of the mix, effectively turning the song inside out.

Previously scrapped elements, including some voice effects, were revived, sometimes even replacing my “final takes” used on the original. Many existing tracks were altered to further distinguish them from the original tracks.

Fragments of other compositions are also present. One of those, “Hiccup Highway”, was re-released for Project 0504. The outro of a previously released song, “The Floor is Yours”, was made more prominent in this mix, providing some of the synth blips near the middle of the song.

An arpeggiated synth was the only new software instrument recorded for this remake. All of the other new instruments were percussion instruments recorded live, which included a tambourine, maraca, and vibraslap. I even played one of my plate weights as a brake drum.

The original can be found here for comparison.
https://soundcloud.com/sinnyseven/where-did-it-go

The 506th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Wipe Out (The Assignment: Take something whole and erase half of it) — at: disquiet.com/0506/
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Where Did it Go? - Emergency Mix (disquiet0506)

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]

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.

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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:

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halF odD [disquiet0507]

i deeply enjoyed playing with Daniel Díaz' sample pack; i figured to zoom in, splice brutally but neatly in order to transform them but keep them recognisible  - there's occasion distortion and a little compression but fundamentally this is made up of a number of layers of the sounds looped and granulated and looped an granulated.

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/

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Cs [disquiet0507]

Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key.

Daniel in C - disquiet0507

Tracks made with samples created generously by Daniel Díaz.

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/ 1

Tracks made with samples created generously by Daniel Díaz.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

c'de {Disquiet 0507}

More on this 508th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Germane Shepard (The Assignment: Make music with 10 acoustic instrument samples all in a shared key) — at: https://disquiet.com/0508/

Many thanks to Robert Precht for having proposed this project.

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Entropy In 3,2,1 (disquiet0508)

All here, in reality, are works in progress and are therefore apt to change at any time. All those except XIII Sisters and RAW which, as many of you may have done, I literally gave away in return for their placement in a library. Something I won't be doing again any time soon. If you have a use for something you hear here please just ask.

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ChatGTP said of AI Music...
'Creative AI tools can be seen as sophisticated plagiarism software, as they do not produce genuinely original content but rather emulate and modify existing works by artists subtly enough to circumvent copyright laws'

Sometimes it takes a dispassionate, independent view to actually see the truth of it ...

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There are links to XiiixxiQ below. Your mileage may vary as to whether it decides to work on your system or not. It only runs on a Mac because I really don't have time to do all the necessary work to make it compatible with anything other than my 2015 MacBook Pro :-(. It is still being developed (for my own use) and improved, and I may yet get round to doing another release if I can find the time to tidy it all up.

Disquiet Junto | Wipe Out - disquiet0506

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