#37

scary good :slight_smile:

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#38

https://soundcloud.com/7777777777/coming-of-age-process-disquiet0354

it seems strange to me to have a ritual for coming of age. at the moment it’s quite literal and legalistic - what you’re allowed to do at 16, 18, 21. it seems more like a gradual process: steps forward and back, mistakes, reflection, learning.

after the apocalypse i think there’ll be more of a naturalistic sense of this, the necessity of survival, the trauma of where did we go wrong: a rejection of civilzation, but also a desire not to go back to the ‘tribal’; a need to progress.

i used nine of the samples in three instances of protoplasm, i also applied ambience 0.1, vinyl warp and ddly. had them all playing at the same time, 2 notes forward 1 back. then a reflection: back down the octaves at the end. bit more reverb and eq’d in audacity.

initially i tried to create my own instrument by feeding the samples into nsynth https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/magenta/nsynth/nsynth.ipynb but fittingly (for a post-civilization project) that didn’t seem to be working

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#39

Thank you abalone. I was going for scary, so I’m pleased. Did you post a track?

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#40

https://soundcloud.com/noimspartacus/hymn-for-our-brothers-return-to-the-earth-disquiet0354

I liked the idea of this week’s project and was pleased that this weekend’s bad weather meant I had an excuse to stay in and create something. I rolled a two - death. I guess I had an idea of some sort of ritual to celebrate transmigration of the soul and had a mental picture of a junkyard version of Nitsch’s aktions (probably with smaller mammals substituted for the cow carcasses and bulls blood which I’d wager would be pretty scarce after the apocalypse)
I loaded four instances of SpaceCraft (a granular iPad app) into ape matrix, loaded in four of the samples and played around with the automation and this is what resulted.
I had intended to just use these samples as source material but had a moment of weakness and threw in a Gregorian chant sample for a good measure.

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#41

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/lishi-disquiet0354

coronation

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#42

yes :slightly_smiling_face:

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#43

https://soundcloud.com/mtnviewmark-bits/ritual-of-recycling-disquiet0354

I rolled a 2: Death. But in the post-collapse world, resources cannot be wasted, and so death has become a ritual of recycling.

Four voices represent the forces of the world: The drumming of walking upon the earth, the clang of machines, the deep moan of the environment, and the breath of humans trying to speak.

The work is in 9/8 with a fractured beat as befits a fractured world. The section in 4/4 is the indifferent functioning of machines. The procession walks from outside to a large inner space.

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#44

https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/ceremonial-chant

Disquiet0354
Ceremonial Chant

• Number 2 came up (death)
• Downloaded the music files
• Manipulated the files with Paulstretch and mammut
• Mixed and Mastered
• https://www.finder.com.au/funerals-of-the-future
• The End
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#45

I assembled this in Audacity, using effects sparingly. One track was produced using The Mangle, kept relatively effects-free.

https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/sky-burial-of-the-matriarch-disquiet0354

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#46

Really just fantastic

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#47

I used Google to generate a random number… Got a two, which is death.
Which got me thinking… I don’t believe any future that has destroyed technology will leave humanity behind - for me, tech will live long past us, becoming its own lifeform, constructing its own destiny. And I expect us to be superfluous, expendable, an impediment.

So in this twist, this track is the technology’s celebration of the passing of humanity - a discordant chant by technological monks, a glorious lament for vanquished animal life.

So I didn’t go super primitive in the production, as suggested by the Junto brief. I did use Nathan Moody’s source material from the Junto project this week, but using IRCAM granular delay and New Sonic Arts Granite granular synth, coupled with Fracture XT and some SoundToys effect racks, I mangled the sounds beyond the recognisable.

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#48

My submission for Disquiet Junto project 354: Rituals and Canticles.

Uses samples of instruments built and recorded by Nathan Moody

My process on this one was pretty straightforward. I chopped and repurposed the samples that Nathan provided in Renoise. I recorded some vocal breathes and dug into my library for additional percussion samples.

https://soundcloud.com/schemawound/rush-toward-the-flame-disquiet0354

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#49

https://soundcloud.com/dascott/procession-disquiet0354
I wish I had had more time to work on this project - the possibilities were so rich! I rolled “Death” as my ritual (to be honest, I rolled twice because I hadn’t a clue about my first choice. Sue me. ;)). As indicated by my title, I thought of this as a solemn procession honoring the dead. The lowest hit-spring sample tolls every six seconds throughout. The hit steel gong, filtered to muffle it, beats every second, subdividing the tolling. Two elements make up the “incorrectly remembered combinations of past musical traditions and styles”: A mournful, repeated, drawn out opening to “taps” played on the PVC pipe, and a fragment of the “Dies Irae” chant played on the diddleyBow.
Punctuating all this at intervals is an ultralow drone made by transposing the bassDiddleyBow sample even lower than it started. Lastly, I pulled out small, quiet snippets of breathing from between the PVC pipe samples, and random looped bits of this appear throughout, and have their final, whispered say at the very end.
All processing and mixing was done the RTcmix software tools, using a script written in the MinC score language. My heartfelt thanks to Nathan Moody for providing the great source material!

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#50

no playlist this week right?
Hope we’re not missing much, there’s always people contributing on SC and not here. Thus the importance of Marc’s curator work every week, that I thank once more.

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#51

https://soundcloud.com/cboulter/october-13th-2018-disquiet0354

I’m a bit late to the party, and this entry is more rushed than usual.
I got ‘Coming of Age’

I wanted to go for a droney clattery thing with a bit of a trancey feel - using samples in Native Instruments Battery; more percussion from the modular running at 7/8; and drones sampled into the Make Noise Morphagene.

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#52

NON-SUBMISSION Hey All, I took some short loops from four tracks from this week to do a cover of JD’s Isolation. I would put these lyrics in the coming of age category. I am sure many in the Junto can relate to the lyrics as we spend large amounts of time in our solitary musical pursuits. This isolation is “our lucky prize” but it also nice to be a part of this Junto also -so big ups to Marc for keeping it going. These were the tracks I sampled.
Mtnviewmark-bits – Ritual-of-recycling-disquiet0354
Howthenightcame – Disquiet0354-if-a-man-were
Ikjoyce – Funeral-mass-for-a-mass-extinction-disquiet0354
Daniel-diaz – Ritual-disquiet0354

In fear every day, every evening,
He calls her aloud from above,
Carefully watched for a reason,
Painstaking devotion and love,
Surrendered to self preservation,
From others who care for themselves.
A blindness that touches perfection,
But hurts just like anything else.

Isolation, isolation, isolation.

Mother I tried please believe me,
I’m doing the best that I can.
I’m ashamed of the things I’ve been put through,
I’m ashamed of the person I am.

Isolation, isolation, isolation.

But if you could just see the beauty,
These things I could never describe,
These pleasures a wayward distraction,
This is my one lucky prize.

Isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation.

Peace, Hugh

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#53

I always love hearing the vastly different directions you take the source materials. Great track, perfectly dark and brooding.

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#54

Great twist! Perfectly executed. You sure you aren’t a rogue bot from the future?

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#55

:slight_smile: There is no way of knowing. I cannot even know myself. :wink:

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#56

Busy weekend. (Weirdly so.) Playlist will be up before I go to bed. Thank so much.

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