#58

I’d heard about a possible sequel to Blade Runner some years ago. I don’t recall when, but it caught my attention because Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies. At the time there were few details, and anything anyone said would be meaningless anyway, given how things tend to work out. One thought stayed with me: I did not want this to be more of the same.

Much as I loved the original I really do not want more of it. I don’t want any sequel to be some version of “the missing two hours from the director’s extended remix release.”

About a week ago I came across an article that posted a letter sent by James Cameron to HR Giger.

Cameron directed the sequel to the film Alien. You can read the letter here: http://www.hrgiger.com/james_cameron.htm

Cameron was in much the same position as Denis Villeneuve is in now. A chance to extend a story-line placed in a well-defined, and fairly iconic, universe. What to do? More of the same? Or try a new path?

I expect many fans of Blade Runner want a continuation of that film noir, damp & shadowy, claustrophobic Ur-cyberpunk realm.

Not me. The sequel is supposed to place some decades on from the original. Things change. Climate, for one. Where the first was dark and wet I now want a film that’s hot, dry, spread out. Harsh lights, arid climate. In place of the often languid synths of Vangelis I’d want something more tribal, harder, noisier.

Hence my Los Angeles Desert Overture

https://soundcloud.com/neurogami/los-angeles-desert-overture-disquiet0243

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#59

Cheat or not (I’m more interested in hearing interesting music than worrying if a piece was created in a specific range of dates) I’m surprised 8Ls doesn’t have code in place to automagically create the Bandcamp embedded player. Would be a nice touch.

Anyways, nice track!

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#60

Thank you - yes I don’t know why it won’t embed, I tried all the various options…clearly I must be doing something wrong…

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#61

Hello All

Hope everyone is doing well!

Really loved the idea behind this weeks project. Here is my mess of a submission -
https://soundcloud.com/mattnix/breathless-in-the-church-of-the-diesel-engine-disquiet0243

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#62

https://soundcloud.com/kurt-human/a-cool-dry-place-to-store-my-heart_disquiet0243

Here I imagined that ‘Blade Runner 2’ was done as a ‘Prequel’ where all the rules of the original film had been thrown out. In this prequel, there is a scene where Eldon Tyrell’s niece experiences teenage heartbreak for the first time. This memory goes on to inform Rachel’s behaviour toward Deckard (she has memories implanted in her at manufacture). This is the soundtrack to that scene - a song I wrote for my girlfriend during a long seperation. (Used with her kind permission)

I used instances of Absynth for the synth parts and an 808 kick drum. Effects courtesy of some tweaked Guitar Rig stacks. Simple really.

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#63

https://soundcloud.com/davedorgan/a-new-blade-runner-disquiet0243

  • Not much time to work on this. Much more that I would like to do.
  • I listened to the soundtrack from the original Blade Runner to reacquaint myself with it. The soundtrack included most of the non-music background sounds, so I decided to open this up that way.
  • The opening is a field recording from my backyard.
  • For the beeping sounds I took a recording of our microwave and put it in Izotope Iris 2.
  • The synth parts were all done with Synthmaster. I played the parts, but quantization was definitely used;)

After I posted this I made video for it:

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#64

I don’t think it’s you. I think this site just doesn’t have built-in handling for bandcamp links.

#65

Blade Runner 2 - Chase Scene

https://soundcloud.com/otolythe/blade-runner-2-disquiet0243

A soundtrack for the chase scene in the new Blade Runner, which will no doubt be most scenes. Start it off right. I used a field recording of the IRT (6 into Astor Place) as the base; added in some Shortwave Numbers Stations in Czech and Russian, and tourists in Times Square (the “Pedestrian Flow Zone”). The rest is loops in GarageBand.

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#67

I patched this piece together from samples that I had previously made experimenting with different audio software. Some of the samples are from years ago and I can’t remember the exact processes I used, but pitch shifting and delay play an obvious role.

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#68

Nice work! And it’s only cheating if you feel guilty :wink: Now I need to find my way back to “Excursions” and do some listening!

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#69

Evoking a lonely person attempting to follow the big world, echoing its movements in order to fit in, yet making an individual utterance.

My friend pytchblend put me onto Disquiet Junto and the disquiet0243 project, so in memory of Bladerunner and all things Vangelis, I cracked out the big guns! Hardware synths only here, track was played live in one take - left hand playing Ableton Push 2 out to a big multi - two Mutable Instruments Shruthi’s, Vermona Lancet (resonance on aftertouch), and two Sonic Core Scope Modular IV patches, right hand playing the lead line on Arturia Microbrute. Shade of delay and reverb in Ableton.

Hope you enjoy.

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#71

Thanks Raytracer. I wanted to avoid the Vangelis sound, but that is also the “sound” of the first movie. In the scenario where I would be sending in unsolicited demo tapes, there would be some attempts to say both “These new sounds will really make your new movie pop” combined with “This is like the old sounds, so it is a safe bet. Please write me a check now, thanks.”

There are no stills leaked from the new movie yet, just concept art, but nothing really worked for the SC image selection, so I used a pic of one of the puppet master’s little guys. Hopefully one of these resurfaces as a central character in BR II.

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#72

Here’s my submission: disquiet0243 Wish I’d had more time this week to flesh it out further. Every sound was made with Monark (a virtual analog synth in Reaktor) and arranged in Ableton Live.

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#73

Hope I’m not too late. I still have a half hour to go…

Man or machine, who is the replicant… Done entirely on iPad using Auxy, iDS-10, Filtatron and Cubasis. Part soundtrack, part homage to a suitably contemporary film.

It’s too late to write more but hopefully you’ll enjoy it.

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#74

Lovely. I like this a lot, and yes, super-apt that the tonal composition of the film is as important as the deliberate ‘music’.

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#75

had no clue at first how to get into this project,played a while with some sounds but was´t happy with them. ended up again on Darksynth,my all time favorite weapon against boring soundscapes.
further there are a crappy drum rack i filled with some bits and beeps,pong deluxe for a bit randomness,again a mellotron track,
an arp combisound, both from the classic keys.
as effects i´v just had a reverb.

https://soundcloud.com/wust/do-sheeps-still-dream-of-androids-disquiet0243

https://hearthis.at/wust/do-sheeps-still-dream-of-androids

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#76

Probably hard to believe for most of you but I’ve never seen this film so it will be interesting to experience it indirectly thru your recordings. I still wanted to contribute to the junto but ran out of time.

In preparation over the weekend I watched an excerpt of the opening scene, read a few overviews of the film plot (and book it’s based on), and checked one of Ridley Scott’s interviews.

The most intriguing idea found during my quick research was the concept and implementation of Voight-Kampff testing.

Seems nobody else chose that aspect of the story so I might still work on a piece anchored around VK at some point. Really interesting stuff…

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#77

thats a fine explanation why this movie has got this long-terme impression and
influence for so many people.

#78

Yeah, there’s much about the score I admire and, in many case, love, but it’s really at its best in the context of the film.

#79

you know then there’s the fact that apparently the theatrical release had narration (which has been removed in subsequent edits)

it would’ve been interesting to create an alternate take on the spoken parts while maintaining the rest of the music and sound fx from an original scene

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