I used “World of Ice and Snow” looping forward & backward as a drone almost throughout. It is also passed through RP-Distort, a rythmic patch in Etch Red and a bitcrusher to produce a noisy heartbeat. Taming this one proved a challenge, as it tended to overwhelm the rest of the track in its loudest passages, but I did not want to destroy the dynamics either.

A passage of “Underground Shelter” is used at various pitches. The same bit is fed through an extreme effect to produce a more discordant sound, and in yet another track, this time effected by 3Plex with a rythmic preset. 

“DSM III” is played straight, but backwards and at different pitches. It is also used, with reverb followed by stereo delay, for the church-bell like peal that rings every four bars in the first section and every two bars in the third.

I had hoped to make a greater contrast between the sections. More time (and/or better inspiration) would no doubt have helped. I think setting myself a clearer goal from the start and perhaps choosing some specific and more radical effects would have been indicated.

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More on this 177th Disquiet Junto project — “Use samples of recent Dark Winter Records releases to produce a sonic image of the label” — at:

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I create Ambient, Electronic, Jazz Fusion, and Blues music - sometimes melding any of those forms together. Instruments, field recordings, a rare voice, writing code, and whatever else might sound cool are used.

Adam Thomas Howard is a musician based in the Northwest of the United States. He is an independent songwriter, sound artist, and the only permanent member of folktronic project The Duke of Norfolk (https://soundcloud.com/thedukeofnorfolk).

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