Disquiet Junto Project 0256: Music in Place

SussMusik · 2016-11-25T15:16:17.021Z

https://soundcloud.com/suss-musik/misophonia-ii-disquiet0256

The door to the Suss Müsik studio leads to a wooden gate, behind which is a garden where birds of all types assemble. Occasionally we walk the path with a small box of birdseed and let the creatures fight it out. At one point, we counted as many as forty birds fluttering about the property.

In totally unrelated news, Suss Müsik has been reading about the pineal gland. This is the part of the vertebrate brain that splits the two haves of the thalamus joint and produces melatonin, the hormone that modulates circadian and seasonal sleep patterns.

The pineal gland is also known as “the third eye,” a term of metaphysical significance to those who pursue a higher spiritual consciousness. There is a theory that the pineal gland is the gateway through which we are able to communicate with non-human lifeforms. Suss Müsik wonders if the birds have a similar means of instinctual, non-verbal communication. But we digress.

This short piece is based on the same field recording that appears in Disquiet Junto Project 0249. In this instance, we dispensed with the hyperactive marimbas and slide guitars in favor of simply letting the birds have their say. The sound of distant machinery adds some color, as does the gently modulated bellow of a local commuter train. The final piece was treated with generous amounts of reverb and compression.

Suss Müsik echoes the sentiments conveyed by the organizer(s) of the Disquiet Junto. Much appreciation is extended to those who have welcomed and inspired Suss Müsik’s voyage into the audiophiliac astral plane.

abalone · 2016-11-25T16:27:37.556Z

cool sounds, dreamy

project-dirigent · 2016-11-26T02:13:02.452Z

https://soundcloud.com/project-dirigent/en-place-the-desk-disquiet0256

Disquiet Junto Project 0256: Music in Place
Record a short piece of music using the sounds around you.

En Place “The Desk” [disquiet0256]

I sat “in place” at my desk and recorded the sounds of various objects around me: the spring on my desk lamp, some paper clips, a crumpled piece of paper, a rubber band and worked them into this track.

Recorded and played in Samplr. Edited with Audacity. Creative Commons license granted.

Don_Stanley · 2016-11-26T02:36:23.230Z

Again I found this a great exercise for me, pushing me to learn something new. I went to the rehearsal for the pieces in my composition class. Three (or four) of the pieces can be heard. After about 45 minutes I had to leave the room (since it was going to be locked). Then I walked for a couple of minutes and recorded the noisy people sounds heard in the second half of the piece. Then I sat down in the space beside the music room which is in the picture. There I edited and put stuff together for around an hour. I had a meeting after that so it was a bit of a hard deadline. I work more intensely and better under pressure so the time limit was good.

I used a zoom recorder and Abelton and headphones on my laptop. Normally I put sample into sampler, but this time I mostly put them in audio tracks. I think it led to a different result, and I’m glad I did that.

bassling · 2016-11-26T07:57:58.715Z

During the first bells there’s a passing car that’s looped, giving a rising and falling that I feel like a kettle drum. It continues throughout.

bassling · 2016-11-26T08:01:46.206Z

Love how upbeat this sounds. Reminds me of Clifford Gilberto-style sped-up jazz.

bassling · 2016-11-26T08:06:27.148Z

Love the bells. They sound like a music box with the machinations of the trains.

bassling · 2016-11-26T08:15:47.305Z

It’s like my knuckles are turning white listening to this. Intense.

bassling · 2016-11-26T08:28:34.235Z

Feels pretty chill. I like the sound like dog paws scrambling on tiles.

hideyuki · 2016-11-26T08:35:23.439Z

Thanks! i am always dreamy…

DeDe · 2016-11-26T12:22:12.469Z

https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/notre-dames-dark-moment-disquiet0256

I live and work very close to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. My studio and area is quite silent and un-interesting sound wise but boy, when the cathedral’s bells start to ring it is something that resonates in the tiny streets. Particularly on special catholic days where there’s a lot of bell-calling. That particular day earlier this year, can’t tell what was going on but it really sounded as Quasimodo went nuts. And it was a warm afternoon, many people and kids playing around the square by the cathedral and the river. Kids provided some light to that day, but when I frist opened the window and hear those bells going crazy I could imagine people living here on the dark years (middle age) and the sound and intensity was really sinister to me.
I took my lap top and made some recordings with a cheap stereo microphone. This is the first use for those tracks.
Field recording comes and goes mixed with some bells from my collection (real bells but pitch-shifted and compressed like hell) and a couple of synth tracks to make it more musical and more sinister.
This is a messy track really; hope it’s not too loaded.
Happy thanksgiving everybody, and Thank you!
dd

Disquiet Junto Project 0256: Music in Place
Record a short piece of music using the sounds around you.

fjna · 2016-11-27T10:50:51.387Z

Hello,

As you already know, we don’t have a doorbell, but we have the best wake-up call in the world… it never fails to not go off! This morning/night I went up on the roof and recorded the Mosques performing the Azaan.
Later I started playing with the speed, stretch, left/right channels and put it all together. The beginning sounds like I heard it on the roof, but more to the end it sounds like wandering on Place Jemaa El-Fnaa(at least for me)

https://soundcloud.com/user-242143924/indoctrinatie-2disquiet0256

Thank you Marc… I had fun again with this one

Picture is 1 of the 5 Masjid in the direct neighborhood

RandomShuffle · 2016-11-27T12:17:08.238Z

https://soundcloud.com/randomshuffle/lcd-liquidchristmasdream-disquiet-junto-project-0256-music-in-place

Went out to Christmas market in our town
took IPad with Rode i-xy Microphone
recorded in Cubasis2
rerecord via audiobus in Samplr and Fieldscaper
record 5 Tracks in Cubasis2 with this material
automate and mix tracks
mastered in cubase7.5

RichardFair · 2016-11-27T16:38:54.682Z

https://soundcloud.com/richardfair/crop-spraying-disquiet0256
Didn’t have time to get out and record anything specific so used a recording from earlier in the year of a crop sprayer that managed to soak me more than the crops.
I sliced the audio into four clips. Two of the clips we just transposed to get a better rhythm and I slowed down on the clips to get the beat.
The two other samples we put through the Berlin and Tokyo Resonators on Ableton Live. During the recording I played around with the note in each of the resonators and added filter sporadically.

Hypoid · 2016-11-28T03:31:16.760Z

https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/from-38th-down0256
Hello Juntonians,

It got a little crazy with the holiday and I always came up short for the time to do the field recording. So I made it in my dull little urban burg. Trucks, cars, buses and the noisy crows made their appearance. I took a half hour recording and chopped it up for the best bits. In Cubasis I used that for two tracks but offset the events. Then made a nice urban beat in Patterning and recorded a bass line that was too complex and sounded scarily close to Barney Miller. So, I simplified and it sounded better for this piece. Recorded on the fly with Animoog while listening to above. Not too many effects but did partake of a large helping of Lofionic Duplicat using heads 2&3 with high saturation and swell A little chorus on the other field, some verb and stereo on Animoog, and a little final EQ in Silq.

Craig_Wharton · 2016-11-28T04:05:29.196Z

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/cuckoo-the-clock-disquiet-0256

We always visit my parents during the holiday, but rarely stay at their house. This year was an exception. My mother and father have numerous clocks, both electric and mechanical, ranging from a massive hand built grandfather clock to a cuckoo clock that is at least as old as I(60 years). The bird in the cuckoo clock has lost its mind, and is prone to ringing out of the blue, regardless of whether it is the proper time for it. Most of the other clocks ring on the quarter hour on their way to the big jam at the top of the hour. Needless to say, the clocks move in and out of sync with each other during the course of the day. This provides some great accidental musical moments for me, which are especially surreal when I am barely awake at 3am. Here is this incidental music phenomenon in brief, captured with hiss and all–if only for about a minute and a half. Consider it a field recording.

sevenism · 2016-11-28T22:43:29.008Z

https://soundcloud.com/voteforsevenism/siskin-or-green-finch-disquiet0256

had fun with this. i left the sample at the start and i guess showed my working - the plucking sound is a particularly tuneful hook which makes that sound when i take my dressing gown off it
i thought i’d make it sound like a banjo but it’s more xylophone crossed with harp i think. beat is just from incidental sounds in the recording
ambient is from reverb tails of pluck- stretched, and also i fed that into protoplasm for the outro… no other sounds were added!

done in music maker, audacity and audition … oh and live too!

title is coz we were trying to identify birds in the garden from the recorded room and the calls kind of influenced this.

Marc_Arsenault · 2016-11-29T04:32:49.860Z

https://soundcloud.com/wowcool/singing-fire-place-disquiet0256

I’ve been pretty regularly taking field recordings recently, but my whole family managed to get a particularly burly form of the flu, so I’ve been stuck at home for most of the time and I didn’t think I would be doing this one. Then, on Friday morning, I woke up much earlier than everyone else and had to be very quiet in a very quiet house. Then the magic happened. Strange ambient music was coming out of the fireplace. I moved all around it for a bit, trying to work out what the cause was. Maybe the kids’ cat-shaped keyboard had failing batteries. Maybe the radio was on. No idea what was making these amazing sounds. Then it stopped.

Being very optimistic, I popped a stereo mic on my iphone, opened up MetaRecorder and popped it in the fireplace on record. I spent the next half hour being very quiet. Not a whole lot very interesting happened. Eventually a street cleaner moved around the neighborhood. That formed the main sound (with a little cleanup, and a 20db boost). When I listened back to the recording I discovered the familiar rhythm of someone getting a text message on their cell phone. That made for the beat - with a little help from Logic’s Space Designer.

Later that day I learned that Pauline Oliveros had died. When I lived in Troy I’d been at various gatherings that Pauline was at and had visited the old Deep Listening space in Kingston a couple times. But I didn’t really know her at all. Several of my friends did, however, and I read many of their memories over the weekend. I was familiar with some of her work before then, and have explored much more of it since. Deep Listening and environments have been at the heart of much of my recent sound work. She continues to be an influence and will be much missed.

Mike_Dayton · 2016-11-29T12:46:44.225Z

here’s my offering for this week. https://soundcloud.com/mikedayton/black-friday-death-march

Using my Tascam recorder I took a walk through a busy store during Black Friday. A few snippits here and there were looped and sent through heavy reverb and delay effects. The drone was created using Idensity granular synth. At this point I had a lot of sounds going on but it still was a little too boring.so I added a rhythmic feeding one of the loops into yellofier and created a noise fueled beat.

Formant · 2016-11-29T20:20:12.604Z

I was on vacation with the family this week, so I didn’t have time to make anything, but am enjoying listening to everyone else’s tracks!