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Disquiet Junto Project 0177: Netlabel Portrait

I always enjoy these remixes - get to do stuff I don't usually do... I tried a bunch of stuff: Paul Stretched and Hourglassed the samples, played, folded and reversed the life out of them...but ended up with the three samples loaded into Borderlands on my iPad. I recorded the outcome into Ableton - added a little pingpong delay on one track and some mastering to the whole thing and voila...

Disquiet Junto Project 0177: Netlabel Portrait
Use samples of recent Dark Winter Records releases to produce a sonic image of the label.

Every couple of months the Disquiet Junto hosts a netlabel remix. All of the source audio for a netlabel remix is available for free, non-commercial download and creative reuse thanks to a Creative Commons license. This series of “netlabel remixes” is intended to promote that sort of thoughtful, collaborative sharing.

The netlabel Dark Winter has already released three albums this year. We’re going to use a snippet of one track from each of those records, and in combining them produce a kind of sonic snapshot of the label.

Step 1: Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the following segments of the following songs:

Use the first 30 seconds from “Part 1″ off Scott Lawlor’s World of Ice and Snow:

http://www.darkwinter.com/dw095.html

Use the first 30 seconds from “Underground Shelter” off Nadador Nocturno’s Harsh Winters in the Distance:

http://www.darkwinter.com/dw096.html

Use the first 30 seconds from “DSM III – The Cristalline Entity” off Ovdk vs Seetyca’s Allegorik Symptom Before the Cataclysm:

http://darkwinter.com/dw097.html

Step 2: Upload your track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 3: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, May 21, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, May 25, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between one minute and four minutes.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0177-netlabelportrait” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: Set your track as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution), per the license of the source audio.

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

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

http://disquiet.com/2015/05/21/disquiet0177-netlabelportrait/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/
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“disquiet0177-netlabelportrait” on the border of black ice

**Production Notes**

All sounds you hear derive from three tracks of the Dark Winter net label (see below). Nothing else was added. 

Netlabel remixes at Disquiet Junto are always fun, and this was no exception. I started extracting a loop from the track “DSM III – The Cristalline Entity”. After that I reversed the intros of the other tracks, tried to extract some low notes and get the bass right (no easy task). 

After that, it was just laying out the pieces. I used Ableton Live’s Corpus, the lovely Crossfade Loop Effect from Expert Sleepers and a ton of EQs. 

Yeah, I know, I know, it’s a strange one (again - but I kinda like it that way). 

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**Disquiet Junto Project 0177: Netlabel Portrait**

Use samples of recent Dark Winter Records releases to produce a sonic image of the label.

Every couple of months the Disquiet Junto hosts a netlabel remix. All of the source audio for a netlabel remix is available for free, non-commercial download and creative reuse thanks to a Creative Commons license. This series of “netlabel remixes” is intended to promote that sort of thoughtful, collaborative sharing.

The netlabel Dark Winter has already released three albums this year. We’re going to use a snippet of one track from each of those records, and in combining them produce a kind of sonic snapshot of the label.

Step 1: Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the following segments of the following songs:

Use the first 30 seconds from “Part 1″ off Scott Lawlor’s World of Ice and Snow:

http://www.darkwinter.com/dw095.html

Use the first 30 seconds from “Underground Shelter” off Nadador Nocturno’s Harsh Winters in the Distance:

http://www.darkwinter.com/dw096.html

Use the first 30 seconds from “DSM III – The Cristalline Entity” off Ovdk vs Seetyca’s Allegorik Symptom Before the Cataclysm:

http://www.darkwinter.com/dw096.html

Step 2: Upload your track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 3: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, May 21, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, May 25, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between one minute and four minutes.

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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:

http://disquiet.com/2015/05/21/disquiet0177-netlabelportrait/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

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Junction 97 [disquiet0177-netlabelportrait]

Mind on many things; took on this Junto as a wind down, and a quick turnaround. Became sufficiently meditative I can't recall the steps: Some messing about in Audacity to break down the original 3x 30sec into various balanced level blends and blocks - then racked up as AudioMulch feeds through multi-FX structures and out onto the control surface.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0177: Netlabel Portrait
Use samples of recent Dark Winter Records releases to produce a sonic image of the label.

Every couple of months the Disquiet Junto hosts a netlabel remix. All of the source audio for a netlabel remix is available for free, non-commercial download and creative reuse thanks to a Creative Commons license. This series of “netlabel remixes” is intended to promote that sort of thoughtful, collaborative sharing.

The netlabel Dark Winter has already released three albums this year. We’re going to use a snippet of one track from each of those records, and in combining them produce a kind of sonic snapshot of the label.

Step 1: Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the following segments of the following songs:

Use the first 30 seconds from “Part 1? off Scott Lawlor’s World of Ice and Snow:

http://www.darkwinter.com/dw095.html

Use the first 30 seconds from “Underground Shelter” off Nadador Nocturno’s Harsh Winters in the Distance:

http://www.darkwinter.com/dw096.html

Use the first 30 seconds from “DSM III – The Cristalline Entity” off Ovdk vs Seetyca’s Allegorik Symptom Before the Cataclysm:

http://darkwinter.com/dw097.html

Step 2: Upload your track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 3: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, May 21, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, May 25, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between one minute and four minutes.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0177-netlabelportrait” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: Set your track as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution), per the license of the source audio.

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

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

http://disquiet.com/2015/05/21/disquiet0177-netlabelportrait/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Winter's Turn [Disquiet Junto Project 0177: Netlabel Portrait]

I started with a loop of the Scott Lawlor snippet and used a step sequencing EQ filter to softly enforce a tempo. Then I modulated a duplicate of the Lawlor loop to create a melody. And I used granular synthesis of the Nadador Nocturno snippet to create an interesting setting in which to place the melody.

Thanks to Gavin Blackhurst for the sweet boat photo

More information on the project can be found here: http://disquiet.com/2015/05/21/disquiet0177-netlabelportrait/

A Mourning Song [Disquiet0177 - Netlabel Portrait]

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:

http://disquiet.com/2015/05/21/disquiet0177-netlabelportrait/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

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Winterdark [disquiet0177-netlabelportrait]

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