Disquiet Junto Project 0243: Synth Trial

[MuteElation]

several tracks of odd synths - weird sound generator, nebulaphone and small other devices. Plus violin.

https://soundcloud.com/don-poe/organelle-in-chirality-disquiet0243

[sevenism]

archive.org you can. hearthis… no , but i imagine that’s a feature they’ll add - their m.o seems to be to throw as many features in as possible!

[Hypoid]

Thanks, it would be really nice to have a central location to post all works music, vids and pics without making a site.

[BennDeMole]

https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/everything-is-hunted-everyone-is-game

Well, being rushed this weekend I chose a track that would feature on my audition tape without creating a new one… bit of a cheat yet I love this weeks disquiet Junto instructions… maybe tonight I’ll be able to sneak into the studio and make something new. let you know if i do!

I love working with real world sounds and creating instruments out of them, this one was made of all samples, found sounds. One of the features of the film and the original book was the overpopulation of earth, so thought that using lots of voices to make instruments would be appropriate .

[Craig_Wharton]

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/mars-des-replicants

More on-the-road creation. One of these days I will return to the comfort of my little home studio. I monitored this on cheap mobile phone headphones, so I am sure it is full of artifacts.

[plusch]

https://soundcloud.com/plusch/deckard-disquiet0243

Here’s my entry.

I had the idea that this would be music for the movie trailer, done in the modern action movie style, with quick cuts matched to rhythmic music.

I started with the bass line first heard at 0:33, which was made with some Reaktor 6 blocks, Glitchmachines’ Subvert, and a bit of reverb from Valhalla Room. Then came the metallic rhythmic part at 0:13, built from Sonic Charge’s Microtonic, Subvert, and NI’s Supercharger GT. Next was the opening bit, using Twisted Tools S-Layer and more Valhalla Room. (Room was also used on most other tracks of this piece.) Then I used Madrona Labs’ Aalto for the parts at 0:23 and 1:13, with Sonic Charge’s Permut8 added to the latter. Besides that, there were bits added to full-on section from Aalto and Microtonic, and a riser from SynthMaster at 1:04.

Paul

[endurance]

So melancholy and poignant. I can just imagine Deckard surrounded by old (probably fake) photos and empty whisky bottles (probably fake too).

[endurance]

A tour through the administrative offices of the Tyrell Corporation (recently renovated, with working escalators, vidcoms, and lots of bells.
Made using volca FM, the Fourier Touch app, a Roland SH32, and iron bells. I ran this setup through Ditto x4, Eventide Space, Strymon Big Sky, and an Aria Delay. I placed my Zoom H5 several meters away from my speakers for an echo and feedback effect.
https://soundcloud.com/joshua-stefane/administrative-offices-disquiet0243

[Cryptohelix]

https://soundcloud.com/cryptohelix/blade-runner-2-audition-disquiet0243

“I submitted my demo reel on a top of the line all-gold mylar cassette and they still picked that other guy.”

Blade Runner 2 audition is my submission to the Disquiet Junto Project 0243; please add it to the project playlist, thanks.

Blade Runner was free on either Amazon Prime or Netflix for awhile during which time I watched it about four times. For this project it made sense to have it on in the background, while recording but now it has disappeared from both sites. Prime has a semi-silent version of the old Russian sci fi Aelita, free, so I played that in the background instead.

I wanted to stay away from the Vangelis sound, but maintain the synths, and add some dirty layering to sync more with the movies’ world. Then when done with the keyboards it felt like ambient noise tracks would be too much, so left a lot of that out.

This track is four short pieces with different moods in order to have a range of material to match with rough cut scenes in the movie. They are going to call back, right?

[rick_monster]

Great prompt this week!

having a blast sitting trying to listen to all the entries (probably halfway through by now). Hopefully the sequel will be a tremendous dissapointment, so much so that a crazy fan-film remake emerges, with the best of these tunes pilfered for the soundtrack…

on a personal note, really inspired me to push through a growing fear of just playing on a rig with so much time invested in the DIY software, almost started to feel that it can’t ever be finished enough for music-making.

Looking forward to see what fantastical schemes Junto HQ is cooking up for the coming months. With the demise of soundcloud groups, wouldn’t it be cool if Disquiet got some kind of dedicated & open web platform? Let me talk no more of such things! Unless, of course, a sudden burst of enthusiasm leads to the emergence of some warty prototype…

[raytracer]

https://soundcloud.com/very-angry-mobster/disquiet0243-anchors

You’re reading my mind with this Junto. I had started something in the vein of blade runner but it wasn’t working. This Junto gave me the motivation to continue. I rewrote most of the midi parts and took a few cues from the blade runner soundtrack.

Lately I’ve been wanting to play synth lines a little more expressively than a midi keyboard easily allows, hence I’ve been eyeing off the Linnstrument but it’s a bit expensive. For one of the synth patches used in the track above, I linked a midi keyboard mod wheel to both volume and low-pass filter cutoff. Sounds super basic and obvious but it worked well and cured a bit of gear lust.

[raytracer]

Digging the chimes! It reminds me of the original soundtrack.

[standard_grey]

https://soundcloud.com/christopherolson/you-were-made-as-well-as-we-could-make-you-disquiet0243

I’ve enjoyed listening to everyone’s work so far. I’m always impressed by the variety of instruments, approaches and styles!

The spiel:

Whenever I watch Blade Runner, I always enjoy the quieter, interstitial moments- Holden and his thermos and cigarette, Deckard snooping in the hotel room, wrapped in a blanket on his balcony, firing up the Esper machine, lights from a passing Off-World ad ship through the blinds, various elevator rides; as much as I love Vangelis’s score (even the saxophones) I really love the background ambience away from all of the action. And so…

I started by running the original movie through a delay pedal (I have the movie on my iPhone) in search of textures or essences but scrapped that and ended up going through the archives, reassembling some pre-existing material recorded in Filtatron and Animoog, then fleshed everything out with new layers: field recordings, Orbita and Roli Noise through Monotron Delay.

[jks]

yeah! i’m with you about the orignal film’s score, like, i * l i k e * it, but it’s all about the combination of elements, the texture of the whole. I think that applies to nearly every aspect of the movie tbh, like, it’s a strange alchemy, a fusion it doesn’t quite add up but it’s gaps and ommissions are what invite fascination; least they are for me…

[jks]

Here’s my submission for this week’s Junto:

I almost didn’t contribute again this week, but it was too hard resist somethingso resolutely appealing, even if my bodged and botched audio doesn’t really give much of a sense of warranting placement in any given Major Motion Picture.

There’s no synths as such, but recordings of a stairwell, a fridge, rain a week ago, & a nice afternoon were combined and mangled and dragged and delayed in Audacity so as to be not
so incongrous were they placed within the soundtrack of more-or-less ill-advised sequel to a once-box office failure turned endlesly re-edited minor but definite classic.

Obviously i have opinions for days about the wisdom of making a sequel to Blade Runner; DM me if
you need that in your life i guess.

/ / /

RIP to the the poor contractor they managed to kill as one of the sets on this new picture was being dismantled the other day.

[jks]

pleasingly, the SC spam for this track’s incorporating BR references [!!]

[Neurogami]

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

[Neurogami]

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!

[RupertL]

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…

[Mtt_Nx]

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