#31

Dreamy. The loops drift in and out like an attempt to sleep off alcohol on a busy beach.

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#32

https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/gramophone-records-from-ceylon-disquiet0305

I chose my three records on the basis of their cool titles: “Chi Chi Chi Mage Kendare,” “Doi Doi Doi Doiya Putha” and “Don Don Don Dontha.” As instructed, I found a short sample from each one. But rather than just loop and layer them and hope for the best, I went ahead and warped them out so their tempos aligned. I did keep some of the random spirit of the project - the loops aren’t all in the same time signature, so they go in and out of phase satisfyingly. I put on some beats of my own, plus a sample of “The Lesson Part III” by The Roots.

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#33

https://soundcloud.com/glsmyth/serendipity-disquiet0305

This was definitely one of the tougher ones.

I used a random generator to select three tunes (45, 69 and 138), select the number of seconds into each one (60, 36, and 52) and number of seconds to select for each one (6, 2 and 5).

I looped each in a separate track and faded each track in and out. I listened for something interesting as the tracks collided then tried writing to point to those parts.

Finally, I filled in with variations of the parts I had written to.

This piece includes Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Alto and Tenor Saxophones, and Bassoon.

Cheers -

george

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#34

I was really going to do it right until I heard the intro to “Suralo Sapa De” and I threw everything out the window but making the loops. I cheated and used three phrases from the very beginning of that track because they were too beautiful to leave behind. Took the birdsong from Surathal Ranwan Samanalayo so I guess technically I have an extra prince.

Overlaid some bass and a DX7 “sitar” patch, both with a lot of processing to get the final track.

https://soundcloud.com/joe-mcmahon/ceylon-batu-biru-disquiet0305

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#35

https://soundcloud.com/cboulter/november-5rd-2017-disquiet0305

Here’s mine. I pretty much followed the instructions to the letter.

  • Took three tracks chosen by random number generation
  • Made some arbitrary-ish loops out of sections from those tracks
  • Put them into Logic, time stretched them as far as it can, then looped them for a few minutes.
  • Played them back via two methods: through an 4ms SMR set to ‘Indian Pentatonic’ scale; and sampled a chunk into a Morphagene
  • Also, used a comparator / envelope follower to derive some percussion from it.
  • Added some more texture using some ambience through MI Clouds.
  • Added some fairly random modulation from a number of sources.

My kids reckon it sounded like ‘ghost music’. That’s good enough for me.

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#36

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/sigiriya

Tracks 6, 14, and 114 were used for this piece.

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#37

https://soundcloud.com/elfusilado/oya-disquiet0305

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#38

Apologies for the lack of interaction of late, but whenever I’m away for a bit, the return is always an enlightening experience on the depth of talent and originality this group possesses, and as always I am humbled!
Once again, thanks Marc!
Vive les Junto :smiley:

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#39

I was thinking about extracting some bits and pieces of the loops into Simpler - but Una Cordt just beats it :wink:

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#40

https://soundcloud.com/tylerjohnarnold/disquiet0305

I decided to just listen to the source material and see if anything stuck out. I heard bits in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th tracks that I really liked and thought would work nicely together, so instead of spending more time searching I just decided to go for it. I did have to cheat with one section - it was about 8.5 seconds so I doubled its speed to halve its length. With the three loops running together, I kept envisioning a really nice ambient, melodic piece. So… I accentuated some things with EQ and volume, pitched some things around a little, and started playing with effects. I’ve been trying different combos of plugins to accomplish the Eno/Lanois “shimmer” effect lately - the tracks got a mix of delay, reverb, and pitch-shifting all feeding into each other in a controlled feedback loop (or matrix might be more accurate?). Lastly I put a bit of EQ on the master to help push the stereo image outward and clear up some muddiness in the middle. There was a limiter last in the chain just to be safe but I don’t think it ever reached the threshold.

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#41

My very first one here. Thank you for the challenge! Some details under the track.

https://soundcloud.com/yaanno/the-ceylon-tiger-cult-ritual-disquiet

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#42

Welcome, @janos_hardi ! Listening now.

#43

This is my first submission to Disquiet Junto.

I randomly selected, Jala_Matha_Olu_Kumari, Mage_Menika_Suwase_Nidai, Sadu_Sadu_Ma_Buduhimi_Saminda and found interesting sections of each by ear.

From there everything was done in SuperCollider. I layered the loops and essentially created an instrument by applying an envelop, filter and feedback delay. I added a second instrument as a background. At the end I briefly add the samples to reveal the source sounds.

https://soundcloud.com/drop-table-user/three-princes-disquiet0305

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#44

Didn’t get time this week - I had pulled my three princes using the numbers from the date the word Serendipity was coined (January 28, 1754 - so I was going to use tracks 01, 28, and 54), and grabbed a few nice loops, but I didn’t get round to finding any usable overlaps. There is some fantastic music there though, so I will revisit this one when i have time.

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#45

https://soundcloud.com/nuunnuun/three-princes-in-a-sinking-ship-disquiet0305

I choose the tracks by using Supercollider to generate three random numbers between 1 and 138 [rrand(1, 138);]. This generated 94, 109 and 58. I choose the length of the samples in the same way [rrand(2, 7);] and this generated 2, 4 and 5. I layered these loops to 2 mins long. I listened, applied some fx and “performed” it with midi faders to gain control and reverb.

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#46

Note to participants: If your track isn’t showing in the SoundCloud playlist, lemme know.

#48

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#49

https://soundcloud.com/rleydon/phat-prince-disquiet0305

Really fun brief! Picked 3 tunes randomly, picked 3 samples carefully and then just bashed about and tried to make something of it. Ran out of time a bit, but sure isn’t that what it’s all about!

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#50

Here’s mine: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/princes-of-serendip

https://soundcloud.com/plusch/princes-of-serendip

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#51

Hi all!
It’s been a really long time since I’ve done a Junto project, and I’m really glad to be back. :slight_smile:

Here is my contribution for the week.

https://soundcloud.com/alt-formant/ceylon-loops-disquiet0305

The loops came from tracks 10, 119 and 133 (goo.gl/szUFd2), which I picked via a random number generator.

I then listened to each track in full and cut out snippets that I thought were interesting. From those I created a bunch of loops per track and picked my few favorites.

In this piece there are a total of 10 different loops - 3 from Track 10, 4 from Track 119 and 3 from Track 133. Track 119 happened to have various mechanical and needle scratching sounds, so that’s where many of the rhythmic sounds are from. And I think track 133 was from a movie, so there is a snippet of dialog there too.

I started each of the loops all together, and then selectively muted certain chunks until I found something that sounded interesting. Then I arranged the top of the loops to be a little more rhythmical, but once I started a specific loop in one spot I let it go and did not move it in time any more, only muted or unmuted parts of it. Then I added some volume fades and panning to help differentiate the various tracks. I added some gentle compression and a verb tail at the end. There is no other processing.

Enjoy!

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