Disquiet Junto Project 0257: Remember Noisevember

[RichardFair]

https://soundcloud.com/richardfair/2-way-conversation-disquiet0257
I’ve based the whole piece on a recording of a 2-way conversation over a radio. All the sounds are from the recording but with all sorts of filters and effects added to them. I just kept going until I was happy with what I had created.
The effects include; Drive Low, Moving 3-5-6, Slow Motion Drive and Transmission - all done in Ableton Live. Finally I chopped it up and reversed it in Audacity.

[lio]

https://soundcloud.com/lionel-benancie/dd97b-disquiet-junto-project-0257-remember-noisevember

Composition musicale basée sur des interventions ou présences émergentes.
Attaque parasite, tension électrique, effet de masse.

Musical composition based on interventions or emerging presences.
Parasitic attack, electric voltage, earth effect.

[ClaudeLeBelge]

Lines is eating too much bandwith for my slow (satellite) connexion, so not only does it take hours when I come here, but also every soundcloud song appears as a grey, blank space. I’ll have to wait until Mark puts out the new playlist to be able to listen to the community’s output. Of course it’s a limitation, but in the eyes of this junto every limitation should be upturned in a creative way. I often resisted the temptation of “going to hear what the others do with that” when composing my own contribution (writer’s block). Now I don’t have to resist anymore, which is good for creating.
Anybody wants to tell me something, better to message me on soundcloud, or comment my music over there.
Wishing everyone a good day Claude

[petemaskreplica]

https://soundcloud.com/petemaskreplica/all-surface-disquiet0257

Been a while since I had time to do one of these! This recording is composed of surface noise - to be precise, the run-ins and run-outs on my copy of “Court and Spark”, looped and alternating forwards and reversed. The track length is entirely arbitrary.

[jks]

i made this when i * really * should’ve just uploaded the roller-shutter door at the self-storage place:

https://soundcloud.com/jmmy-kpple/similar-properties-required-disquiet0257

[bassling]

In the video above you can see me read aloud Stuart Hall’s essay Encoding, decoding as it came to mind when I saw the diagram for the Junto this week.

Then in Ableton Live I created a simple loop of MIDI to drive the VST synth Massive, which was then encoded with my reading.

To keep it interesting I added something I prepared earlier in the year, a groove with bass guitar and drums. The latter was treated with Izotope’s Trash 2 effect, which was a recent purchase and gives great textures.

See my blog for more. Cheers

[ntrier]

Thought I’d experiment with noise + structure + voice. I made a feedback loop using my Alesis Bitrman (anybody remember those things?) and recorded about 2:40 of noise as I tweaked the knobs.

Then I jotted down a quick set of lyrics that included “cucumber cuneiform,” which is a phrase that came to me after a Nyquil-induced doze. I really emphasized the rhythm of the words and at times the melody may come through, so maybe that will give a sense of structure. The words ended up being something about aphasia and the isolation of not being understood (on different levels).

I improvised a bit with the melody and came up with something I like, and then slapped a Vocoder on it that drew on the noise track, so the noise would be shaped into intelligible words…in theory!

In practice it’s not perfect, but since this is an experiment with noise, some unintelligible moments are ok. At least I learned more about Ableton’s vocoder.

Lyrics:
Sandpaper sandwiches
Cucumber cuneiform
Indeed I isolate

All wrapped in wariness
My quirky scariness
when some words come out wrong

Some mystic headlines say
strange news from yesterday times
ten New York tenor tore

Terrible tetravores
View voters as vegetables
And only automatic

When words get in the way
Mangled meanings tangle seemingly
simple tasks smash like broken glass

When words get in the way
meanings mysteriously dematerialize
and I’m left nothing new

Warily waking, I
disease dozens daily, I
lie lightly living lies

a bashful bashing, a
soporific solo, a
subliminal sashay

When words get in the way
Mangled meanings tangle seemingly
simple tasks smash like broken glass

When words get in the way
meanings mysteriously dematerialize
and I’m left nothing new

[Neurogami]

Our Last November

https://soundcloud.com/neurogami/our-last-november-disquiet0257

This is an ambient piece, made in Renoise and exploiting the Renoise maYbe trigger. (http://tutorials.renoise.com/wiki/Effect_Commands)

You can download the xrns file from http://neurogami.com/downloads/disquiet_0257_neurogami_noisevember.xrns

It’s meant to play continuously in the background. What’s here is just an excerpt.

The various noises and sounds change over time as the Renoise song plays.

Renoise comes with a good number of samples and pre-made instruments. As it happens, thy have folder conveniently named “noise.” Those samples/instruments provided most of the sounds in the track.

The Y fx in Renoise lets you assign a probability that a note, or one of a set of notes, will be played. Most of the more striking noises in this piece are set to a low probability (10 to 30 percent).

LFO fx are also used to create sine wave signals that control assorted tonal controls, such as resonance, cutoff filtering, and the like. The cycle of these waves is set slow enough that even if you hear the same sample triggered it will most likely have a different sound, and possibly a different pitch.

The piece is best experience via Renoise. You can get the free Renoise demo at https://www.renoise.com/download

For playing songs I think the biggest demo hassle might be nag screens.

[mzero]

Been a while since I’ve done a Disquiet…
https://soundcloud.com/mtnviewmark-bits/hall-noise-disquiet0257

Listening with headphones recommended.

I decided to focus on the “noise” part: All sounds are taken from about 5 minutes of recordings I made in the hallway one morning while the family was starting their day.

Processing and composition done in Ableton Live.

[rbxbx]

oh my goodness, this is just fantastic. Well done.

[rbxbx]

Some art junq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEcJNRv4Xkw

A little bit of noise remembrance for the 257th Disquiet Junto. A simple noisy percussive patch on the Make Noise 0-Coast running into a dub filter noise generator thingy Nord Modular patch, running into an RE-201 Space Echo. Burning a Meyer’s Orange Clove candle and some sage.

[joemcmahon]

I love how a bunch of us went for the funny as well.

[plusch]

https://soundcloud.com/plusch/winter-transition-disquiet0257

Here’s what I came up with. All sounds come from custom patches in u-he’s Bazille, with additional reverb from Valhalla Room, and a touch of EQ from ReaEQ. I wasn’t sure if the project required using noise, but there’s some in there in the form of the high hat sound.

Paul

[Marc_Arsenault]

nickname: Rebel - noise installation December 3, 2016

After closing up my bookshop on Saturday night I got together with long-time collaborator Mike Keegan and we started piling up equipment in the store.

We wanted to stay pretty close to the basic idea of just recording the noise. We wanted a signal to start with and we wanted to put many obstacles between it and the final sounds recorded. Thinking about it a day later we should have done it as a chain instead of making everything happen more-or-less at once.

The plan for the setup constantly changed until we hit record. Many ideas were rejected before we even started.

We start out with the JVC RX-305 tuner/receiver shown here. I have two of these and they both have a curious issue with the radio tuner. With a station tuned in or not they make a ton of unwanted noise on both AM and FM. Doesn’t seem to be anything to do with grounding but it seems like it should. They tones are slightly different and various ways of poking around at it affect the sound. We went most of the time without an antenna and then added one about three quarters in.

Phase one: Record the output of the radio on one side of a cassette. We used this very dodgy voice activated model that also passes through sound from the mic whenever the motor is running. Occasionally it will play a little tune for you. No idea what causes that.

Setup:

1. JVC plays tuner noise through two cheap boombox woofers placed near the ground. These are used in the store to keep things comfortable musical with little higher tones to allow comfortable conversation

2. Recently acquired FREE! on the curb receiver and speaker are connected using the cheapest thinnest wire at hand. Only one output works, so we use one speaker until we blow it and then switch to the other one. We also blow out the tiny speaker shown. It smelled really bad. Initial sound source was an iphone that was taking a call from another one leaned agains the speakers from stereo 1. volume an EQ are altered occasionally throughout the recording. When we started really abusing it we discovered that it was designed to clip the sound when you pushed it too hard. Knowing that the equipment was basically doomed to the electronics recycling pile we started abusing it more. If it were easier to get to we would have started poking holes in the cones and attaching things to them. Maybe next time.

3. The cassette recorder has it’s output connected to two powered speakers placed on the floor. A staticky walkie talkie is leaned agains the built in mic. Originally the walkie talkies were to be used instead of the iphones.

Everything seems to work.
Switch everything off and hit record. Start them up again one by one.
Apogee MetaRecorder running on an ipad with a stereo mic placed on a footstool was used to document the piece.

Phase two:

Three separate performances with minor changes in placement and setup are made and recorded as their own file.

We discovered very quickly that we had left a lot of opportunity for feedback. Over time we learned how to trigger and manipulate it by moving and adjusting equipment and by moving around the room. A little wind can go a long way. This activity introduced much more incidental sound than we had originally wanted. There is also much more digital clipping than we would have liked. We tried.

Phase three:

Cassette player is moved to dodgy receiver and speaker as the sole sound source. This was our favorite. It sounded like something that would lead into a rock song. We record this.

The edit:

By chance three of the recordings had times that were very nearly the same. One was shorter. Instead of doing something sensible like picking a nice short section of one recording or making a smooth edit using the best bits I just sandwiched them all together. Subconsciously I think this was partly because the material came out interesting enough that we might use it on the EP we’ve been recording since the start of summer and this is the last session for. The name of our band is nickname: Rebel. We started out as a party band in Troy, New York in the late 90s. We last played in the greater bay area with Pete Von Petrin/Fognozzle in Sacramento about five years ago.

The fire at Ghost Ship in Oakland was a bit in our thoughts that night. I don’t think either of us knew anyone who was there who didn’t make it out but we know a few people that do. Much love.

[alvordld]

https://soundcloud.com/alvordloop/woven-signals-disquiet0257

I’ve been working with a patch I like on the mod synth so I recorded four 3-4 minute improvs. I brought these into Pro Tools and cutout snippets of noise which were then subjected to various manipulations and juxtapositions until this new noise track emerged. An enjoyable process.

[pfig]

Mostly off a single field recording (a separate track for a very quiet noise generator), made with Live (because sometimes it feels good).

https://soundcloud.com/everythingdies/the-bird-disquiet0257

[otolythe]

Noise of a Tacoma Tug:

https://soundcloud.com/otolythe/noise-of-a-tacoma-tug-disquiet0257

A tug pulling out of the harbor, going to work. It hit something; bounced off, more like. I got it, layered it, and gave each layer its own effect. Literally, noise

[ikjoyce]

As I wasn’t able to do last week’s I thought I could kill two birds with one stone. So, I created a patch on the modular that sampled the ambient sound of the studio and processed it - which then became part of the ambient sound via the speakers, so got sampled and processed in turn… a nice noisy feedback loop, that is self controlled by an envelope follower to prevent runaway feedback squeals. This also generated two signals (the mic input and the envelope) that were used to generate quantised notes for two voices, the sound of which also became part of the ambient noise and hence the melodies are self-generating - as they get louder the pitch goes up, but then the volume goes down, so the pitch follows.

[DaveDorgan]

Grains

I choose to use granular synthesis to turn fairly normal sounds into something more like noise. I put five short clips into iDensity on an iPad, and then mangle the sounds. The five new sounds were recorded together with me manually changing the pitch of one of them. The result was put into Logic Pro, where I applied EQ to the whole thing. On a Bus, I put a HP filter, ValhallaRoom reverb and Logics Delay Designer. Essentially, the low end sound was not let into the Bus. EQ and mild compression with TD Kotelnikov were put on the Mix Bus - for the sake of time.

[Mtt_Nx]

Hello All

Hope everyone is well!

Here is my attempt to fulfil Marc’s brief.
https://soundcloud.com/mattnix/untitled-disquiet0257

I took 3 mins of static record using a cheap usb sdr
ran it through some comb filters (slowing moving using Max 4 live lfos)
then notch eq’d out frequencies in C & G scales
added some reverb
printed to tape, recorded it back in
half speed
then added a recording of radio biafra (I’m being very ignorant of any political messages here, but we should all a wear that the UN’s $1bn crises appeal)….