#44

Fortunately my partner has a turntable and, even better, it was covered in dust.

Her record of bushdance songs had a lot of surface noise, which plays throughout my track.

I looped short sections of the needle being placed for percussive parts and used the hum when the turntable turned on as a bassline, after it’d been dropped an octave.

My MIDI guitar drove a couple of sine presets in Ableton’s Operator synth, which were then slightly distorted with various valve imitating VSTs.

I also used a little of Izotope’s Vinyl plug-in for the “slowdown” effect.

My track can be downloaded here for inclusion in the event next Saturday.

You can see a screenshot from Live of this project on my blog.

Cheers :slight_smile:

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#45

https://soundcloud.com/heroicspearthrower/soundwave-superior-disquiet0326

Concept - shove as many sine waves into this thing as i could think of.

3 analog sines, performed blind from one another and single pitch each. Then 1 final sine towards the end with 2 pitches to lend some momentum into the end. Real vinyl loop sourced from end of record after final sound - (source - an old inherited musique concrete album).

1st sine - Pittsburgh SV1 osc 1 through its own filter, through Makenoise Optomix, manually performing the CTRL. 2nd Sine - Pittsburgh SV1 osc 2 - through Optomix controlled by LFO from SV1. 3rd and 4th sines - Mopho (OK, so its technically a Triangle, but with some filtering sounds pretty much like a sine), performed with the “Push It!” button and looooong atk/rls to emulate a sine, even though i am a paltry human. Vinyl loop performed with Music Thing Modular Radio Music with start position controlled by… yep, you guessed it - ANOTHER SINE LFO. Assembled in Live with Fabfilter Timeless (with sine wave XLFOs controlling sundry items!) and Valhalla Room and Shimmer.

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#46

A track containing only sine waves and turntable surface noise (from [https://freesound.org/people/lollosound/sounds/387005/]), that quite was a challenge.

I pitched, rearranged and chopped up the turntable sound to get a rhythmic track.

All the sines are coming from Ableton’s Operator. To get some musical variation, I used plain vanilla, 8-bit and 4-bit sine waves plus a bunch of effects.

Btw, if you can whistle the tune in its original tempo, I’ll provide you with an award :wink:

https://soundcloud.com/analoc/the-whistler

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#47

Haven’t done a disquiet in ages. My usual load of old noises, delivered just under the wire…

https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/fried-sines-and-crackling-disquiet326

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#48

I NEVER HEARD A SINE WAVE BELOW 100hz THAT I DIDN’T LOVE

MY RELATIONSHIP WITH SURFACE NOISE IS AMBIVALENT BUT ALSO CHARACTERISED BY DEEP AFFECTION

I tinkered, i played. I’d hoped to record fresh crackle but my turntable remains boxed-up & unconnected so i went scrounging around for recordings of run-out grooves; came up with one from 2012 that pleased & suggested some sort of rhythmic usage.

I scrolled the Herzes, looking for one that pleased - settled on 326 & certain divisions of same. I filtered them so they’d kind of waver, hover, around their true frequencies.

I then made to sort of have them - the crackle, the * rhythm *, the sine/drones - sorta argue sorta dance, sorta * exist * in something like the same spacetime; i’m enamoured of the fizz and throb…

I considered the sort of music that might be conducive as partially-heard, partially-background music for an art event but came up with little more than ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ; so hear we are.

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#50

https://soundcloud.com/vonna-wolf/vonna-wolf-sinwavetablezmix
The process I utilized was creating multiple SIN waves at various tempos, pitches and with different oscillation chains. I then utilized high pass and low pass filters to sculpt the sound. I played with the waves and then bounced out a track and a reversed track. I took these 2 tracks and attempted to scratch, in DJ Pro. I then bounced this out and re-mixed it back in with the original sounds at different speeds.

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#51

This is a pretty straight-ahead response to the prompt, but I had limited time (just a few minutes over the weekend and while eating lunch). I used Ableton’s Wavetable for sine sounds. The percussion sounds are all processed vinyl surface noises from freesound.org.

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#52

https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/the-sine-museum-disquiet0326

0326_disquiet_junto
Used the vsti synth “Helm” http://tytel.org/helm/ to create the sine wave By user: Nashev - flash file, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3055940 sounds.

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#53

A little video madness!

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#54

https://soundcloud.com/morgulbee/sineapple-disquiet0326

For sound sources I used three sine wave instruments from Ableton and Z3TA, and three vinyl surface recordings from 99sounds, processed with a variety of audio effects. I liked the idea of using rising and falling pitches to emulate sine waves, so you’ll hear that in the melody and siren sounds. The music may be a little more active than requested by the assignment, but every time I tried to scale it back the energy level kept returning. I guess I was in the mood to make hyperactive music this weekend!

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#55

Thank you very much Mark! When I was working with the samples it very much felt that way, coaxing that brief moment into a larger picture while trying to maintain the personality of its beginnings :slight_smile:

#56

Finally got some time to work on this. With the turn-table theme I wanted to experiment with 3D sound, if you listen in headphones, it should rotate around you. Because I didn’t have much time, I set up two semi-generative sequences with sine waves.

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#57

So many contributors! I’m so late! Anyway, I found some turntable noises on Youtube then fired up an empty project with UA analog synth. I changed all the waves to Sine and then messed about loads eventually struggling to keep to around 4 minutes and ending up with this. Thanks for the great inspiration!

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#58

Just under the wire here…

Audiomulch, KorgNANOKONTROL for the basic sine sounds. Vinyl static from several real (and emulated) sources…

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#59

the binaural effect is impressive and felt like it moved through the front (mostly) of my skull. Very nice piece too

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#60

Thanks! I had a lot of fun experimenting with that. I think I spent most the time on that effect, then tried banging out some melodies, hating it, and settling on the generative sequences. I need to play with the reflections to better figure out how to better differentiate front and back…

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#61

Vinyl noise came from a free sample pack (recorded by Matoto/Chia) from 99Sounds.
I created a simple sine wave patch within Zebra, using a scale that’s an 11 note subset of 23-EDO.
I used a lot of randomization within Numerology – for varying the number of repeating notes, amount of transposition, muting of notes, and sample selection.

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#62

hi folks, loved this week’s project,
some field recording and sampled needle noise, mixed with some mangled sine waves.
all iOS
various apps used:
DroneO
Hexaglyphics
Dedalus
Dubfilter
Reverb FDN
Discord4
Eos2
Fieldscaper
Gliderverb
ApeDelay
Dubstation
Kosmonaut
running on Honolulu time this week!
:slight_smile:
Jason

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#64

Phenomenal turnout this week. This is a reminder/request to set your SoundCloud tracks to be downloadable, so they can be used at the event in San Francisco this coming Saturday. Thanks!

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#65

Thanks for the reminder! This is a step that I forgot :slight_smile:

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