#13

sooo sick vox cuts!
cinematic sound.

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#14

quartz? clock? …oh you use key
https://youtu.be/cfZ0-uRR6tw

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#15

@disquiet: language question, what exactly do you mean by “ambient beds”?

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#16

Hi. An ambient bed would be the underlying, backgroundy tonal foundation of a track. Here, though, we as very little to it.

#17

i used the sound of the fishtank humming in the lounge
the sound of the cutlery draw in the kitchen
the sound of birds in the garden

protoplasm, ambience 0.1, ddly, podfarm were used to make the hum more musical. had automation on the fades so the birds, cutlery, hum were going in and out at different times. the fading in and out was pretty random so luckily there’s points where each sound is alone.

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#18

Thanks for the exaplanation!

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#19

Hello Juntonians,
https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/syclabsdisquiet0283
Syclabs(disquiet0283) https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/syclabsdisquiet0283
Had no idea what to do with this weeks prompt, but started field recordings at work in an attempt to find some interesting room sounds. Of course I didn’t have a patch cord for my Zoom :-/ and with no easy way to transfer recordings to the pad, I ended up using the built in mic. I made a continuous 25 minute recording into Audioshare while i went about my business, hoping to get some hidden gem somewhere. In the end 4 rooms where used; 2 labs, 1VFD fan room and a lobby/stairwell. The stairwell intro leads into the 1st verse which is a section in the lobby. The chorus is a repeating section from lab 1. As the noise progresses, little samples are added to the repeating verse and chorus. The bridge uses the VFD fan room as its foundation but again with little samples taken from the other rooms sprinkled about. I just about wrote this off last night, it was just too dry and dull. But then the stairwell footsteps gave me rhythmic inspiration, so I built on that with a deep kick from Patterning and found some tension! And while mixing track volumes and panning this morning, the gem appeared…a random stair climber was hidden in the recording. Since my recording was unattended at times, and this was an under breath comment, I only found it after tweaking track volumes. Now there was drama and tension :wink: This whole mess was edited in Cubasis using only kick and track compression and a very, very light reverb on the finished track for cohesion.
My Videos- www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_iQ5JFusPt9EIwKIZ5rew

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#20

Totally. It’s funny you asked about “beds” because there’s a project coming up later this summer (well, summer in my hemisphere) about “pads.” They’re sort of related, beds and pads.

#21

Wow, what’s gong on here? There’s a bit to decipher.

Gives me feels for the string section though, they sound great but apparently aren’t getting it right.

#22

Ridin’ the Rails: Caltrain, 4th and King
Disquiet Junto Project 0283: Rooms Within Rooms
Make an instrumental song built from the sounds of different rooms.

Two of the “rooms” are recordings inside of different Caltrain cars, one a noisier old style car packed full of people and one new, quieter car. The recordings were made on my way to and from the Caltrain station at 4th and King in San Francisco where I recorded the wonderful sounds of the Clipper Card machines echoing throughout the ambient space.

The form is ABAB-C-ABAB-C-AB-C.

Recorded with a Zoom H5. Edited in Audacity.

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#23

Gjoa:

The three room tones I used are: A: hotel elevator; B: ferry (enclosed); and C: Gjoa room in the Fram Museum. (The Gjoa is the ship Amundsen used to discover the NW Passage in the Arctic; it was outside in San Francisco for a long time, but it’s inside now in Oslo.) In each case I was trying to capture a specific sound or sounds within the space, but failed each time, leaving room tone only. The ominous rumbling I used for the bridge is not the ferry, but the space around the Gjoa, which proved to have significant presence of its own. It’s interesting to me that the end result sounds like the experimental noise piece it is, but I did follow the pop song structure exactly :wink:

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#24

Sounds of the AI becoming sentient against a backdrop of frantic and unsuccessful programming reversal :wink:

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#25

Nice! And now I know the other names for the red-breasted cockatoo :slight_smile:

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#26

recorded three ‘room tones’
looped small portions
heavily inspired by ryoji ikeda

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#27

Haha! Its like Blade runner:stuck_out_tongue:

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#28

sweet and exciting footsteps. calm sound …VFD fan room

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#29

Yeah, I think the fan sound would be excellent for a binaural experience.

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#30

Red-breasted cockatoo! Never even heard it before.

Galah captures more of their clowning character.

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#31

https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/sound-puzzle-disquiet0283

Recorded the sounds/ambiance of three different rooms

Cut/copied/pasted in Reaper to create two verses ,two chorus’s , and a bridge from this material

Mixed tracks

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#32

All the rooms I go to are pretty quiet for the summer, so I recorded the quiet soundscapes of my apartment, my (empty) classroom, and my car (hey, I spend a significant amount of time there…)

I was in a bit of a crunch, so I used Ableton’s “convert” function to tell Ableton to figure out the harmony, melody, and drum rhythms of each recording. It was horribly inaccurate, but that was enough to give me raw material for the sound beds/recreations of each room.

From there I processed the room recordings slightly and moved them around. Most of them got a gate and then a delay. I moved the recording of the car to the end, because that was the busiest and seemed the most dramatic.

This was an interesting exercise in structure. I found myself using effects and mixing techniques and a little bit of instrumental arranging to create similarities between sections and make this whole thing feel like a piece.

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