#9

I’ve updated the title. Thought it was moot because I tagged it correctly; but again it wasn’t showing up in the search results.

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#10

https://soundcloud.com/glsmyth/green-and-black-disquiet0288

The idea of Disquiet Junto Project 0288: Interspecies Duet was to use samples of two different animals and have them make music together, with a bonus for adding myself.

I decided to use existing samples I have made over the years, one a recording of frogs in a pond near my house and the other crows deciding to be loud very early in the morning.

In this piece the two animals use their periodic calls to contest one another. I am represented as a collection of percussion instruments, attempting to negotiate the conflict, but in the end one wins over the other.

Green And Black is scored for Cymbals, Wood Blocks, Tubular Bells, Xylophone, Vibraphone and Harp, along with the electronics.

Score: http://bit.ly/2sV3BBV
Electronics: http://bit.ly/2uyssxx

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#11

Weird. I wonder why it wasn’t showing in the results. Anyhow, thanks very much.

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#12

Seagull(s) fly alongside a singing whale. Multi-layer with original sources (below) and stretched samples as well as bass/treble eq’ed gated versions.

Sources: http://freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/343133/ http://freesound.org/people/hazure/sounds/23707/

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#14

Morning,

“Symphony for the gecko, frog, lizard and breakfast(crickets)”

Used reversed delay, echo and a little panning, that’s it.

https://soundcloud.com/user-242143924/simfoni-untuk-tokay-katak-cicak-dan-sarapandisquiet0288

Have a good day,

Frank

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#15

Kind of scary, like I want to walk quicker without looking.

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#17

now how can something this cute be scary…

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#18

This is rather eerily effective. Nice work.

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#19

Good evening, for my next trick
https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/differentias-altitudinisdisquiet0288
Differentias Altitudinis(disquiet0288) https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/differentias-altitudinisdisquiet0288
Started this weeks piece at http://freesound.org/ with no real ideas in mind, but found some Australian bellbird sounds from franknflute http://freesound.org/people/franeknflute/sounds/95432/ that really grabbed my attention. These calls needed a contrasting or even opposite partner and whales came to mind. I have thought of incorporating whale sounds into a piece before but they seemed out of place for my usual work. Found a nice clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0hsxcju3Pg to finish the duet. The original plan was a lighthearted dance/pop style with call and response, but…a quick sketch was a little too goofy for my tastes. So of course I went dark :wink: The juxtaposition of these two, in size, location and sound had a melancholy, sad feel. But when I found the opening sound, an urgent, almost warning edge was exposed. The samples were chopped in Audioshare and sent to Cubasis for arrangement and manipulation. The three tracks for each all have eq but the bellbirds are a bit overpowering at the top, so more massaging was needed. The birds in particular, can have an almost mechanical sound, so editing expanded the range. Scattered about are bit crush, overdrive and talk box for warmth, with delay and reverb helping to add distance. Roomworks from Cubasis and Eos for iOS from Audio Damage both helped with the feel, but the controls for Eos are as simple or complex as you want, and what a sound! Cheers to all and thanks for listening :smiley:

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#20

https://soundcloud.com/noimspartacus/batfleshmothjam-disquiet0288
My duet was inspired by watching the bats swooping and weaving across my back garden.
so I logged on to Freesound and downloaded Kaonaya’s recording of a moth buzzing against a lamp
freesound.org/people/kaonaya/sou…_flying-moth-1.wav
and two recordings by Mauren of bats.
freesound.org/people/mauhen/soun…-east-finchley.wav
freesound.org/people/mauhen/soun…ampstead-ponds.wav

I fed the samples through Flesh, Space Designer and Moebius Lab (on the iPad) and this is the result. It’s not so much a duet it’s more a interspecies squishing and mashing

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#21

wow this is pretty incredible, so multilayered and haunting and beautiful. Thanks for introducing me to nsynth too!

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#22

Fantastic, the insect chorus is a super effective background

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#23

https://soundcloud.com/justinwabs/a-deer-and-a-lemur-walk-into-a-bar-disquiet0288 Sampled a lemur and deer because thats what the random animal genertor i used gave me.

deer was very rhythmic and chordy already, ran a second instance through voloco, a amazing iphone vocoder app, then lemur ended up being a pretty close to being in key already.
wanted to make something messy and big, i think i accomplished that .

Also my first Disquiet, found it through composer quest excited to do this regularly!!

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#24

Thanks very much! Have fun with nsynth…

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#25

Here’s my duet - entirely made from a single short recording of a goldfinch singing in my garden while the bees hum along (since they don’t know the words). Recording was simply processed in a few ways and layered to make some drones.

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#27

https://soundcloud.com/moduspony/strange-duet-disquiet0288

I chose animals with a predator-prey relationship. Bison and wolf. The buffalo lays down that sick bison jam while lead singer wolf sings pretty much the only line he knows. I used a lot of effects (flange, chorus, grain delay, vocoder, wah) but mostly on return tracks or doubled tracks because I wanted to retain some natural animal sounds. There’s also an ambient track made of bisons rummaging/feeding. I used a resonator on that to give the whole thing kind of a subtle creepy effect. I wanted it to culminate in a feeding frenzy but couldn’t find good audio of wolves taking down a bison so I used that frenetic kennel recording you hear towards the end. All audio is from freesound.org Too many to name, but that is an awesome website. Thanks to those field recorders that uploaded.

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#28

it does sound kind of oppressive and stupefying now that you mention it. nice use of effects

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#29

Hi,

This is my submission. I’ve used a pig sample from freesound.org and a bird recording I’ve previously taken. These are the only two sound sources I’ve used.

https://soundcloud.com/andrulian/pig-and-birds-disquiet0288

The song was arranged in Sensomusic Usine Hollyhock III and I’ve used several of the in-built samplers and external VST effects to mangle the sounds and use them rhythmically.

Pig sound: Groove Matrix; Homing Pad with Subvert and Cryogen (Glitchmachines); uDrone with Hornet Spaces and Outer Space (AudioThing)

Bird sound: padKontrol with Incipit (Inear Display) and Teufelsberg Reverb (Balance Mastering)

Mastered in MuLab 7 using Overtone, Propane, MSW (Soundspot) & Neutron (iZotope).

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#30

https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/slowed-down-thrushes-vs-sped-up-whales-disquiet0288

Species one: wood thrushes. They’re slowed to one tenth speed (so their pitch is lowered by the corresponding amount.) I sampled them from The Singing Life Of Birds by Donald Kroodsma (donaldkroodsma.com/?page_id=69), one of my favorite albums of any kind by anyone.

Species two: blue whales. I found some recordings of their songs on Wikipedia, and sped them up by various amounts to align with my track’s tempo.

I loaded up my samples into Ableton session view and had them play back in a random sequence using Follow Actions. I let it run for fifteen minutes - you’re hearing a lightly edited version of the first three.

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#31

Vast numbers and each with sharp gnawing little teeth,and oh, all very capable pathogen carriers as well…sleep tight :wink:

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