Disquiet Junto Project 0342: In Sea

[euclidian]

Terry Riley Don Cherry

[DeDe]

Several water samples, drops on a glass, waves of the sea (Baltic and South Atlantic) , a brandy glass hit with a stick, rain drops (field recording) + several instances of Chris Watson’s Ice and Water Recordings for Geosonics. And a grand piano.

Photo by Tim Marshal

https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/water-in-c-disquiet0342

[HeyBail]

Hi. First time contributing to this project. I am pleased to see something like this exists!

This is a very quick track done entriely in iOS on an iPad in about 30 minutes or so.
I did a quick field recording of some ocean waves on the coast of Maine while on a walk with my children.

I saved two loops of the waves in the AudioShare App.

Using Dropbox I moved the samples into

1. Elastic Drums
2. Spacecraft Granular Synth
3. Borderlands granular

I loaded these Apps into AUM and played the loops live. Gradually fading the loops in and out in the different samplers.

Finally sent it into Final Touch for some probably completely unnecessary mastering.

https://soundcloud.com/hey-bail/in-sea-disquiet0342

[Hypoid]

Hope all are well!
https://soundcloud.com/hypoidsound/reinfallen-disquiet0342
Reinfallen (disquiet0342)
A vague shadow of a tribute this week, time has dictated a quicker and less involved homage to Mr. Riley’s work. A more manageable 11 phrases for 6 instruments and lasting a mere 2:20 minutes. I did maintain other aspects, including phrasing and the “beautiful girl” “Pulse” for some rhythm. I also managed to keep it entirely water based samples. The first of which is a holdover from last weeks session, the drop in a bucket. This acts as the pulse and has been eq’d with a mild verb. Another instance layers and shadows, and is has a large assortment of effects: Eq, Kosmonaut, RoomWorks verb and DLYM chorus/flanger. I tried to effect a different frequency and phrase while keeping a similar sound. Various samples from a recorded sink faucet are spread across two tracks, one with Mani Lofionic Analogue Chorus and RoomWorks and the other with Eos2 and automated panning. The longest phrase, which is somewhat choral like, is a stretched recording of the Atlantic, with both eq and RoomWorks again. The final phrase is a heavy rain with heavy manipulation. It’s a looped sample that undulates and is frequency enhanced around 110Hz, has a comb stereo spread, a bit of RoomWorks verb and a perfect amount of Nebulizer sound mangler, mangled but still recognizable. I hoped for this shortened session to sound of a deep, dark and disquieting(pun if you got one!) place that blurs the line between a sentient being and a cold unforgiving grave…

[bassling]

https://youtu.be/17RqqwBQay0

Had a surprising variety of water recordings waiting for this prompt, including Valla Beach, Ebor Falls and the Murray River.

Selected short phrases, applied gates and also resonators. Some delay and reverb too.

[samarobryn]

Welcome to the Junto!

[Ahornberg]

https://soundcloud.com/ahornberg/serial-waters

I took 4 samples from freesound.org and looped them at different length.

[samarobryn]

For this piece, I wanted to explore the possibilities of one moment/one sample, and also kept in the mind the idea of phrases being left to chance. I remembered doing a field recording at John Forrest National Park where there was a disused rail tunnel [Swan View Tunnel], and recording water droplets falling from its roof.

Before being decommissioned, the Swan View Tunnel was known for its penchant for near-asphyxiation due to its narrowness and gradient, and indeed one driver did die from that in 1946.

I wanted to create a soundscape that invoked a sense of heaviness. I spliced my original field recording in two - section one [the main section] had the droplets only, while section two [which acts as a bookend] had a plane passing over.

Layer 1: Water droplets
Layer 2: Water droplets - slowed 800%
Layer 3: Water droplets - slowed to 800% and with resonator
Layer 4: Water droplets with Great Buddha phaser
Layer 5: Water droplets with overhead plane

[disquiet]

The playlist is now live:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0342-in

[project-dirigent]

https://soundcloud.com/user-347866220/water-music-disquiet0342

Disquiet Junto Project 0342: In Sea
The Assignment: Record a piece of music in tribute to Terry Riley’s In C using only samples of water sounds.

Water Music disquiet0342

Inspired by Terry Riley’s “In C”, the sound of water dripping from a faucet into a bowl. I recorded a “drip track”, a repeated drip which plays throughout to represent the high Cs in the piece “In C”. Also used the sound of water pouring into a bowel. Lots of layering and moving between motives. Ring modulation used at the end to create the metallic sound. Played in Samplr with delay, recorded and edited in Audacity.

The first time I heard “In C” in San Francisco in the 1960s, the high Cs were played by a Moog synthesizer. I had never seen one and didn’t know what it was.

[janglesoul]

https://soundcloud.com/janglesoul/janglesoul-disquiet0342-insea

Hi, uneducated as I am I had to read up a little on In C and listen on Spotify. I used my phone to record drips, drops and the pouring of water in a few different containers. Chopped up different loops, sometimes one-shots and arranged patterns in Live. I did very little to the sounds, just added some reverb - but to get some low end content I tuned down a “drip” four octaves and got some kind of bass drum.

All done fast, random and in the spirit of happy accidents.

[Autogeneric]

https://soundcloud.com/cboulter/july-21st-2018-disquiet0342

This was a fun exercise to do.

I filled my kitchen sink with water and recorded various sounds, including a tap running, splash and drips. I then put these into the modular via a Morphagene and a Disting, and created an additional couple of watery sounds using self-resonating filters to give me four main voices.

I then looked at the score for In C and used some of the principles, rhythms and intervals therein. And chucked all this through far too much reverb as I have a new one and wanted to try it out. A feedback loop from the Z-DSP goes through a Spectral Multiband Resonator which provides the drones.

I have the In C - Mali recording of the piece and it felt like that some of the rhythms I produced sounded familiar.

[Tuonela]

Drip Filter [disquiet0342]

I used a recording I made some years ago of water dripping into a large porcelain bowl. The single drip motif imitating the piano is an obvious anchor, treated to sound a little more percussive. The entire recording is compressed, re-stretched and reverbed, made to descend six semitones with a progressively stretched ending and replicated seven times at different pitches.

Then the recording was treated using The Mangle, and the result was replicated and – in one case reversed – and, er, dropped into several places in the mix, according more to whim than any sense of musicality, and certainly with NO intention of replicating the wonderfully disciplined and rhythmic structure of Terry Riley’s composition.

[VonnaWolf]

Totally nailed that drunken feeling of the spins. Long weekends are good!

[otolythe]

This piece was constructed with recordings of the sea where I’m doing an art residency this summer; all recordings made with hydrophones in the ocean in Reykjavik harbor in Iceland, except for one recording of a sudden squall sounding on metal.

[lifesonance]

Here is my take for this week. I’m glad I made time to wrap it up.
When I went through the description it reminded me of a couple of songs from this indie Album from Nana Vasconcelos (R.I.P) where he played with water to get a some sort of drum sound.
There are some bubbling sounds, some field recordings from my last winter trip with people talking on the background and a water shaker.
The idea was to keep the repeat on the drum sound and throw in some ambience from the other samples.
https://soundcloud.com/gbel/h2o-drum-repeat-disquiet0342

Here is a video from the album I mentioned:

[Formant]

Hi everyone, here’s my contribution for this week:

https://soundcloud.com/alt-formant/water-in-transit-disquiet0342

For this track I used a few different water samples that I happened to find on my computer. The (somewhat) descriptive names of the files utilized were: Single Wave, Water Pen Plop, Drips of Water Fall onto China, Lake Water Loop, Ocean 1, Butler Drowns, Water Pour in Metal Bucket, Water from Sink, Water Pour Glass, Water Pour Pan and Swimming.

I used varying clips from each of these, arranged them and ran them through LOTS of processing. Different verbs and delays, glitch tones, pitch shifters and limiters. Everything is generated from the original source audio. Stir it all up, and this is what I got.

The picture from a recent vacation.

Enjoy!

[healthylives]

Song
https://soundcloud.com/healthylives/in-sea-disquiet0342

Sample:

The following are recordings taken by the United States Navy likely around the 1950’s and 60’s aboard a submarine. These were later declassified as sonar technology was passed on to civilian scientific communities such as NOAA in the late 1970’s.

Structure / Guidelines

In C

“The piece begins on a C major chord (patterns one through seven) with a strong emphasis on the mediant E and the entrance of the note F which begins a series of slow progressions to other chords suggesting a few subtle and ambiguous changes of key, the last pattern being an alteration between B♭ and G.”

"As detailed in some editions of the score, it is customary for one musician (“traditionally… a beautiful girl,” Riley notes in the score)[5] to play the note C in repeated eighth notes, typically on a piano or pitched-percussion instrument (e.g. marimba). This functions as a metronome and is referred to as “The Pulse”

Process
Ableton
Simpler
Resonator
Shimmer

Thanks!

[YaWha]

https://soundcloud.com/yawha/hello-world-disquiet0342

This track is inspired by this week’s Junto project (In Sea), Terry Riley’s “In C” piece (youtu.be/yNi0bukYRnA), and the lovely modern programming language, C.

I narrated the archetypal ‘hello world’ program, on page 6 of the classic 1978 Kernighan & Ritchie book “The C Programming Language”.
Yes, including stdio.h as a preprocessor directive wasn’t required in K&R C - printf was an implicit prototype. And yes, the return 0; to exit the program is implicit too. But, this correct program will compile and run with no warnings in any ANSI C compiler.

I layered members of my family saying “Hello World”, and various sea and ocean noises, in keeping with the Junto brief. I did use two Synth patches, presets from Arturia V Collection, both having ‘ocean’ in their name.

And yes, I took a leaf straight from Terry Riley’s “In C” book - playing a C note at the same tempo as the recording linked above (123 bpm), undulating in its octave, and in its velocity, a-la waves on the ocean.

Synths: Matrix12 and CS80 from Arturia V Collection, and the stock Grand Piano from Ableton.
Effects: Glitchmachines FractureXT for a bit of subtle movement in the ocean tracks, and later in the piano track, and two instances of Eventide BlackHole reverb.
Used three instances of the stock M4L LFO to modulate the velocity and octave and reverb send on the piano track.

Hope you enjoy.

[bellyfullofstars]

Nice! I used to do that when I was a kid (water drums). Glad your recorder was waterproof!