#14

Happy Friday you lot!
Hopefully video to come…https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/fouron-the-floor-disquiet0273
https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/fouron-the-floor-disquiet0273
I thought I had the perfect alarm song in my head, but your results may vary. A quick hunt for bell sounds and Jakob Haq came through, his Haq Attaq episodes are my guide for making iOS work as a portable studio. Jakob released some bell presets for Thor that are just amazing. So with Thor running a sequencer with tweaked bells I went in search of white noise like sounds. Started with wind, but ended with ocean, something I couldn’t be further from. Knowing this needed a pick me up progression I finished off with a quick Figure piece with a shuffling 90 bpm beat. Oh, and added my clock recording as a set the mood fade in. Maybe it will be the next big Ohrwurm :slight_smile:
Jakob Haq-www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFPiLpzd4cKOsBS9CIu3xg

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#15

Biep-biep, biep-biep,

I am one of the lucky people that don’t need an alarm-clock. Most of the days, I wake up around 4am, I love it when all is still quiet.

https://soundcloud.com/user-242143924/wakey-wakeydisquiet0273

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#16

https://radiohummingbird.wordpress.com

this is ¶radio hummingbird’s contribution to this week’s disquiet junto with the serial number 0273. in short, the requirement for this contribution was to record music for a slow-waking alarm clock.

this piece has been created by using a silk worm cocoon, a lotus seed pod, a bunch of locust tree seed pods, a wine glass, various paper strips and a brass gong which have all been recorded through a looping pedal. furthermore it has been mixed with a fieldrecording created one morning in my neighbourhood in urban cambodia and some simple sounds extracted from my travel modular. nothing else. the only post-processing applied was LANDR for mastering the recording.

this piece does, in a somewhat extended way, represent my personal alarm clock setup which is curiously not provided by a waking device but by my neighbourhood instead. these are the sounds to which i wake up naturally and gradually from about 5am every day. sometimes it takes me about one hour to get out of a state of dosing but no matter how long it takes me to really wake up, i enjoy every minute of subconscious listening.

happy waking up.

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#17

Hi everybody, here’s my track :slight_smile:
‘ad astra per aspera’.

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#18

https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/dj-0273-alarm-clockfinal

Researched the history of the alarm clock
https://clockhistory.com/alarmClockHistory/

Created drum track in Reaper

Added three different alarm sounds that were downloaded from Freesound
http://freesound.org/

http://freesound.org/people/sirplus/packs/1558/

Mixed

Uploaded to Soundcloud

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#19

Nice sound …

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#20

Video is up…stop by if you can :slight_smile: Thanks!

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#21

:slight_smile:nice work, cool sounds

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#22

Thanks to you (and thanks to NASA too…) :wink:

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#23

https://soundcloud.com/randomshuffle/wakeupdrone-at-kraftwerk

Under the influence from first 12 hours “the long now” - festival, I found the time for working on the Disquiet Junto Project 0273: Alarm Clocked!!
A small sound in my ears from the long night with great artists, took my IPad with CUBASIS, loaded 4 instances “DRONEO” and do the recording, after I added one little SAMPLR Guitar Track to wake up…have fun!!

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#24

https://soundcloud.com/tapeloops/jet-lag

four days ago i flew from vancouver bc to taipei taiwan
it was a 15 hour flight
modern time travel
living in the future
the body snoozes. the body adjusts. staying a wake.
this track is made from two sound snippets i recorded with handheld cassette recorder since being here. one is a chinese marching band i heard practicing outside the national concert hall and the other is a random sample from a live pa set by colour domes.

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#25

Hi,
Here’s my contribution:

I sampled my everyday alarm clock (from my phone) into the Op-1, and then I started experimenting.
It’s not recognizable but I also sampled my son crying (sometimes it’s my alarm clock…) and I made a glitch percussion with it.
I worked on the loops using Blocs Wave (iOS) and I added other sounds, then I recorded all back into the TE machine and I finished the track.
The track it’s a little too long, excuse me.

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#26

https://soundcloud.com/rudzupuke/daybreak-disquiet0273
I slowly increased volume and arpeggiator rate and underlaid it with a recording of birds, until the anoying alarm starts and hopefully wakes you up.

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#27

Hey All, Jason Ray was the mascot for the Tar Heels. He was struck by a car and became an organ donor who gave many others the gift of life. The two men behind the mascot in this picture were two of the many able to live on by his unfortunate death and his giving spirit. I saw this story on Sportscenter and it really touched me. The alarm sounds
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Used the alarm sounds by transposing both down and stretching them way out and adding reverb. I like how the bell sounds became like church bells.Then I added a beat and bass line. The second part you hear the alarms on a loop with a delay fx and crossfading.

GO TAR HEELS!!! Hugh

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#28

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/disquiet-0273

I have a sleep disorder and, for better or worse, don’t require an alarm clock to wake up at the appointed time. We have an old Seth Thomas clock purchased by my grandmother in 1932 that rings on the quarter hour, and I sleep so poorly that some nights it seems I hear almost every ring. So, when the clock rings 5 times I know it is 5am, and time to begin my day. My wife bought an alarm clock that chimes progressively over a period of time–long intervals between chimes at first, and then shorter intervals as the time for which the clock is set draws nearer. The first part of this piece is my idea for an improvement on the concept behind that clock(I do not like that clock at all), culminating with the way I usually awaken, courtesy of our 85 year old Seth Thomas clock.

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#29

Hey Junto, Recorded a live jam and took loops from it (second part), Midi converted those loops and put into various synths.

https://soundcloud.com/les-squeegee/mornings-greetings-disquiet0273

Later, Les

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#30

Hi, all – here’s mine: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/no-way-to-say-no-disquiet0273

Had technical problems, ran out of time, stayed up too late, put this together using four instances of Aalto. (Tomorrow’s alarm will be most unwelcome.)

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#31

Hi guys,
Here’s my idea of an alarm clock sound:

https://soundcloud.com/liminal_music/disquiet0273_alarm-clocked

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#32

https://soundcloud.com/an2netto/slowakindisquiet0273

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#34

https://soundcloud.com/yawha/le-plus-claire-de-soleil-disquiet0273-2

I usually wake up in the morning to talk-show radio. On some weekends, when I think of it, I dial the radio alarm clock to RTE Lyric FM - a radio station here in Ireland that mostly features classical music - but also hosts some great jazz, and some significant avante garde stuff (Bernard Clarke’s Nova show in particular - www.rte.ie/lyricfm/nova/ - check him on soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/bernard-clarke).

It’s my weekend treat, to wake to classical music. I reserve that pleasure for the weekends.

So for this Junto, I simply took the best of both - Debussy’s Claire de Lune, and an interview on Newstalk radio with Brian O’Driscoll, the celebrated Irish rugby player, recently retired - a fine talent and character…

The gradual ~3 min intro is actually two different public domain midi clips of Claire de Lune I downloaded from internet - one playing a Concert Harp in Air Structure, the other playing the Air MiniGrand piano at a faster tempo. I used the maxforlive device Random_Midi_Supression to randomly select notes from the midi stream to play back, and on an Upright Bass patch I selected the lowest note of the midi stream with HiLoMidiFilter maxforlive device, transposing it to a sensible upright bass octave using the Midi Octave Fold maxforlive device.

Once the 3 min period was up, I simply played the Claire de Lune midi in full into that Harp sampler, and left the bass play the occasional root/lowest note for some low-end substance.

Used a few reverbs and delays here (Amazing Noises Outer Spaces, Audiority GrainSpace, Replika XT, Bloom), automated the mix levels - and some eq and stereo widening from Ozone 7. EQ and two of Ableton’s Erosion devices got me lo-fi with the radio sound…

I had worked on some classical parts, and maybe I ought to have stuck with that, but between time, and in homage to the gems Lyric FM has thrown up for me over the years, I instead chose to use midi from the public web.

Hope you enjoy.

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