Disquiet Junto Project 0330: Wax Off

[Ethan_Hein]

https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/rez-meditation-in-a-cold-sweat-disquiet0330

A subtractive remix of “Rez Meditation” (https://soundcloud.com/ethanhein/rez-meditation-disquiet0323). I planned to remove frequencies from the track using some kind of automated EQ or filter. Then I thought, what better automated filter is there than a vocoder? So I used my source track as the carrier, and loops of “Cold Sweat” by James Brown as the modulator. (This required me to transpose “Rez Meditation” down a fourth to be in the same key as “Cold Sweat.”) I used a Max For Live LFO to slowly sweep the Depth parameter of the vocoder back and forth, and voila.

[George_Smyth]

https://soundcloud.com/glsmyth/looking-for-planes-disquiet0330

A little over a year ago I offered Looking For Planes – Looking, the first of a three part piece for two pianos that dealt with my granddaughter looking for airplanes flying overhead. I completed the other two parts and make them available.

The original three part piece, Looking For Planes, was written for two pianos. I had started working on a single piano arrangement but set it aside because of the difficulty. When confronted with this week’s junto project I decided to get back to work and complete the erasure of one of the pianos in the original version.

This version of Looking For Planes was written for piano.

The score is available at http://bit.ly/2HS24rQ

[Autogeneric]

There’s a joke here somewhere about a Vince Clarke remix but I don’t have the time for that nonsense.

I grabbed an earlier piece of music from my archive, 2011 I believe, and judiciously removed various frequencies using the 4MS Spectral Band Resonator, whilst using various eurorack modules to modulate the frequencies left behind and their volume.

[ninjadru]

Found an old piano based sketch. I eased the sounds by eqing out the body of the sounds. Made a few loops, loaded those into my modular. Did two takes into ableton live mixing the loops with some effects. Made a few minor edits.

[disquiet]

The playlist is now rolling:

[Don_Stanley]

Started from C9vTSM(disquiet0264)

User-696185036 – C9vtsmdisquiet0264

Thought of “erasure” in two or three different ways.

1. Take the original piece considered as a piece of raw rock, and sculpt it down.

2. Erase over original piece by smudging stuff. Like what happens when erasing a blackboard, parts of what you erase get carried by the eraser to other parts.

To implement this we sent the track to 4 Abelton send tracks, with varying volume (so that it is like sculpting). EQ8 which is some kind of direct erasing of sound, resonator which kind of smudges the harmonics of the sound, and beat repeat and simple delay which kind of pastes over (like maybe white out) sound that occurs later with sound that occurs earlier.

We applied that process once and the took the output sound file, and put it through the system of send tracks again (with the same automation) to get the final track.

[Yasha]

The preexisting track that I used was my submission for the April 2018 Contest at KVRAudio: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7064683#p7064683 (I don’t believe I’m going to win.)

I decided to erase different multiple sections of the frequency spectrum over time by using the Image Filter room in Metasynth 5. Wow, you can get lots of fun timbres by filtering piano and drum samples!

[CarlMikaelBjork]

Starting from my #sixtysecondsong “AI”, I used phase inversion, filtering, bit and sample rate reduction to erase various parts of the original track.

For the final mix I’ve combined the three of these erasure processes to remove stuff from the original recording. I’ve both played and drawn automation in Ableton Live. The results are musical, emotional build ups as well as rhythmical changes to the timbre.

[Will post a vlog/tutorial on the process no later than Wednesday May2nd. youtube.com/carlmikaelscabinetofcuriosities]

Vlog is up: https://youtu.be/1ILXfAj9AQU

Original track: https://soundcloud.com/carlmikaelbjork/ai-002

[krakenkraft]

“Take an old track and make it new by erasing things from it.”

I took Steps from the early nineties (uploaded for reference and sentimental contemplation) and duplicated it to half a dozen layers or so in Reaper.

Three layers got scratched off by diverse EQ VSTs, so that they had only low, mid, hi frequencies.

One layer had been “noised reduced” (but I decided to use the noise instead the cleaned material).

I also did cut all these layers into small pieces, so that sometimes you can only hear one, sometimes some, sometimes all layers.

Another layer got partly erased of with methods like “declicking” and “voice removal” in Audacity, I did cut off parts of the stereo channels here.

An additional layer works quietly as a “faded image” in the background (which can’t be scratched off completely, so to speak) in order to glue the thing together and to be able to do it without reverb/echo/bla.

So this track erased the original in dimensions like time, frequencies, stereo.

[DetritusTabuIII]

Hey All, I tried several different attempts. I don’t know why but the idea of erasing magnetic tape was the idea I settled on. I used boo koos of filtering fx they come in over time.Cool idea for this week. Defintely something I should pursue more often in the future.

Peace, Hugh

[beckmesser]

Hi all,
The preexisting track that I used is ambient tape.
The PO-33 was used to record the samples and for the composition too. I used the internal microphone which is quite terrible (remove details) to record some chunks (remove parts) applying an external low pass filter (remove frequencies) to keep the noise out. Puredata was used for some granular sound and the final noise was recorded into a cassette (remove details).

[morgulbee]

I chose the music I created for Disquiet Junto 0327 called Deep Thought. That piece involved creating three lines of music: one in 3/4 time, one in 2/4, and one in 7/4, played simultaneously.

I applied several kinds of processing to the audio of that piece to create this new piece, called Shallow Thought. I used several spectral filters to subtract different ranges of frequencies to create four tracks containing different spectral subsets of the original music. I used a Max for Live filter called Max CutHacker, which randomly cuts out pieces of the audio in time with the beat, applying it to three of the four tracks using different parameters. The volume of each track varies throughout the piece, removing different portions of the spectrum at different times.

One of the more interesting things to emerge was a percussion track that did not exist in the original music. The percussion sounds were an effect of applying the Max CutHacker filter on a very low frequency track where the pitched frequencies were almost totally removed.

I’m not sure this music is really “listenable” except in the context of comparing it to the original piece. It works in small doses, but two and a half minutes is a bit much for my ears. It was an interesting exercise and I will surely use the techniques I learned here in future music, but perhaps a little more selectively.

[bassling]

Whoops, I didn’t read the Junto instructions properly.

However, the error seems to fit the theme.

When looking for a track to erase, I settled on ‘Lame Brain’ from Junto 322.

I figured I’d erase the MIDI viola and cello, then use the original guitar parts.

When I opened the project file I found I’d erased the guitar parts.

As a result, I went back to the recording and created a new arrangement.

It’s about a minute shorter than the original, which is probably for the better.

[rrizzi]

It’s been a while… more that that, I guess?
However, I still read and often listen to the projects as they occur, so I feel I’m still a part of this great community. 330 phew, that’s an accomplishment!
This time I had to participate, and it so happened that I had Monday off, Yihaw!
I reworked a recent piece - this; https://soundcloud.com/rizzi/hvac-drone-slide-and-a-little-piano
It is what the title suggests, field recordings from my trip to Japan last fall, and a little leftover piano bits from another composition.
I’ve been thinking about how to go about the task of erasing sound since receiving the email.
I decided to try with M4L´s Spectral filter, and it did exactly what I thought it would. I then tried a bunch of other stuff, but kept going back to the beginning, so I left it at that, as it did what I wanted.
https://soundcloud.com/rizzi/disquiet0330-hvac-drone-slide-and-a-little-piano-rauchenberg-erased

[rrizzi]

I like this a lot…haunting and strange - in a good way!

[rrizzi]

Very nice indeed. Like your approach as well as the results you achieved.

[SYS2064]

Soundcloud doesn’t work… I lost my account. the tracks of @beckmesser and @morgulbee are missing too

[morgulbee]

Hmmm, hope it’s just a temporary glitch. At the moment all my tracks at Soundcloud are gone.

[disquiet]

@SYS2064 @morgulbee When you say the tracks are gone, what do you mean? I see them currently. The playlist as of a couple minutes ago is in this screenshot, and you’re both in there:

[SYS2064]

now it works

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