#33

Wondered why my track hadn’t appeared in the playlist- realized I had the wrong Disquiet number in the tag and title - It’s actually wrong in the second half of the email, Marc…Not that it matters now…

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#34

It’s a (sadly) non-trivial undertaking.

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#35

Which is to say, discussion happening on the Slack.

#36

Hey all!
https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/sine-missionedisquiet0289
Sine Missione(disquiet0289) https://soundcloud.com/user-651760074/sine-missionedisquiet0289
The area of Upper Revhellt is fiercely protected by very mobile columns of troops, each with 306 horseman complimenting regular troops. The Four Horns of Drevhellt, sounded before battle, are reputedly from the four mythological beasts that represent the sky, sea, land and fire. When the ancients defeated the four beasts Acryre, Wrattej, Edrogh, Brundh,and settled in what is now Revhellt, the horns became symbolic of their victory and with that victory they inherited a mastering of the four elements to protect themselves and their land from any outside forces. While the horns are likely nothing more than ornately decorated examples of some of the larger mammals in this region, the almost magical power of their sound is quite palpable, even to an outsider like myself. I am quite certain an invading force who upon arrival, finds themselves surrounded and hearing the Four Horns of Drevhellt from each of the cardinal directions, will pity their foolishness and curse the Revhellt soil on their boots, for it will become their final resting place, because here, there is no quarter.

All sounds here were created in the shop, recorded with the pad and Zoom mic and then sent to Cubasis for tweaks and cuts and general nastiness. If you caught any hidden references or want sound details, let me know in the comments! Thanks for listening :slight_smile:
My videos - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_iQ5JFusPt9EIwKIZ5rew

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#37

https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/in-the-caves-disquiet0289

My instrument combines two samples: berimbau played by Nana Vasconcelos, and water drums played by the Baka Forest People of southeast Cameroon. Berimbau may well be the oldest instrument in history, aside from the human body itself. For all we know, drumming on the water is older than humanity itself. The background is a sample of overtone singing and banjo by Tim Eriksen, slowed way down. I made two ambient pads by freezing the reverb on the Tim Eriksen sample at different points.

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#38

The challenge was “Imagine an instrument that has been lost in the sands of time.”
I imagine my upright bass. When I bought it in the late 80’s the previous owner was an old retired bassist , he didn’t played the instrument form at least 10 years.
When he took it for some dusty storage place it was dirty and had three strings, hairy old gut strings. I asked him about the 4th and he said “oh it broke sometime in the sixties, never replaced it”
The other 3 strings were the original for the bass builder, around 1900…
SO that instrument really came from a different time.
I don’t have the gut strings any more but yesterday I bought a Bass Ukulele, and played acoustically it remind me that dumb, low thud the old gut strings had.
This is the first recording with that Uke Bass taken with two microphones, a ribbon and an Neumann condenser,at home today Sunday 16th July 2017.

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#39

Your contributions are always wonderful. Thank you for sharing these works.

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#40

Didn’t even know there was such a thing as a bass ukulele. Great stuff.

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#41

That is a pretty massive undertaking! The Junto Slack sounds insightful but I already neglect so many things and I’m not sure my level of participation would be measurable :frowning:

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#42

The goal is simplicity.

#43

modern californians think 50yrs ago is ancient
it’s not…

music made aquí :slight_smile:

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#44

fantastic! :slight_smile:

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#45

fifty-two years ago my grandfather gave me his violin to play around with, he bought a new one cause the one i got had a crack in the belly.
so i started to work on it but not like it should be, at the age of six i wanted to be a guitar player,that was the way i misstreated the instrument. so five decades later with this assignment i remembered the violin in the basement. i still can´t play it but maybe you´ll enjoy my scratching.
used a bit of reverb and phasing.

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#46

庚寅年 (450 BC), Huning province
She was alone. Self imposed exile. Her time spent in music. To connect with an imagined future. Less painful to consort with envisioned ghosts. Her childhood instruments contorted with destroyed nature and slaughtered food.

Annals of Musicology (Primitive/Ancient History) 1956 (rejected manuscript)
“…I posit that over the decades she’d somehow modified a sheng polyphonically and with further sensitivity to sound vibrations allowing the strings of some sort of bass harp /guqin to create dronelike (faburden) harmonics
… The tablature took years to decode written in probably an esoteric, that is to say, unique style of her invention but given the sheer volume of annotated vellum and glancing similarity to chronistic qin tablature I think I’ve arrived at an adequate solution.”

clouudsound.audio/xprockx/rediscovered_audio_refix, 2019
bit different but hear me out…found grandads old stuff and there was like this journal paper on how he found these remains of this woman /ewww/ in china and some cool old instrument well like all broken up thousands of years old… and he’d managed to renotate her songs…wish id known him but dads all like ‘he took the cowards way out’ and that’s it .jeez. so anyway I played it all slow like desolate and despondent -fuqd up uke and melodica!!. Gonna make this story into a comic stay toond bitches xxx!

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#47

I imagined an instrument that had been lost in the sands of time, something so old that only its most durable elements might persist. I imagined unearthing scattered pieces of said instrument, all stones and rocks, as well as the sands of time that had covered and infiltrated it.

https://soundcloud.com/otolythe/artifact-disquiet0289

This piece is composed of field recordings from (1) a visit to Oslo sculptor Sissel Berntsen [www.sisselberntsen.no/], who showed and played some of her incredible stone instruments and sound devices, and (2) the black lava sands of Seltanger, Iceland. The only processing I did on this piece was a little volume adjustment; I deliberately wanted the authentic sounds of the stones and sands, in all and only the variety that might have been available to long-ago imagined ears.

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#48

The caves were discovered by a team of archeologists from the University of Toronto in 1982. While on an expedition in northern Ontario they found some small painting on a rock wall depicting a cave with people singing in the opening. Following a series of glyphs they quickly found themselves standing in the mouth of a large cave, with smaller cracks and cavities disappearing into the depths.

Standing just inside the threshold they noticed a strange sound as the wind blew through the interior. Almost tonal. Based on the paintings and this sound, they set out to see if this cave had any special acoustic properties.

Gently singing into the opening created a feedback effect, which slowly excited the resonance of the main opening and all of the offshoots deeper within. Finding just the right pitches, the researchers vocalized into the cave until it become so acoustically excited it responded with a loud squelch of reverberation and feedback.

None of the local residents had any knowledge about this place, how it was discovered or made, and what it was used for. Research continues to try and determine if this is natural or created by the people who lived here thousands of years ago.

I didn’t include anything about the process for this one, as I kind of like the mystery :slight_smile: If anybody’s interested after listening to it, I’m happy to share.

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#49

This is wonderfully all over the place.

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#50

Here’s what I unearthed: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/semimetallic-turtles-disquiet0289

Long ago, on a planet in a distant galaxy, musicians created their work by carefully crafting meals for a native species of semimetallic turtle-like creatures. As they ate, the creatures emitted different sounds for different types and volumes of food.

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#51

A beautiful collection of confusion resolving to a singularity.

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#52

Kudos for the inclusion of the picture of my pet tardigrade.

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