#48

I really liked this one a lot. It has a very visceral feeling to it. I initially wanted to go with a concept like yours. I wanted to do a waking up scene. Waking up to loneliness. The sounds of human things overlaying the ship rumbling. I wanted to have a lot of cloth sounds and water running, coffee being made. I love that you used radio. And thanks for Radio Garden. I didn’t know it and never think to go any further than my shortwave.
I also appreciate your including the VCV rack patch. I’ve only recently started playing with it, but it seems like amore than adequate gateway drug for future modular addicts. A lot cheaper than my 12u of 104hp… andI’m just getting started :slight_smile:

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#49

The Assignment: „Record the sound of an apartment on a large interstellar ship.“

My solution: “Throw in as many samples as you find in one hour.”

It may seem repetitive, but it is not. All samples placed by human hands with love (in Reaper… :wink:

Although I do not believe that human beeings, as we know them, will ever travel interstellar: Here the apartment of bord janitor 7th class, McLane, who misses the comfort of silence.

VSTs, VST fx, and 8 cc0 samples, as listed on soundcloud.

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#50

For the track “Apt12”, I compiled and filtered audio recordings using Supercollider so this track could continue indefinitely. The obligatory rumble is evident throughout the track and I added a couple of hallway cleaning devices that pass on several occasions throughout the track to add some texture. My first submission to Disquiet challenges and this site and Soundcloud.

Joule

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#51

Lonely Starships

They created sixteen starships
Sent to sixteen points in the sky
In hopes the human race could survive
They accounted for all possibilities
Except the one that happened
All that survived were the service robots
Keeping the starships well maintained
For the creators
Who would never wake

Ambient sounds from the lonely starships, made for the Disquiet Junto prompt to record the sound of an apartment on a large interstellar ship.

Created from a combination of environmental recordings around my house (refrigerator hum, microwave oven, air purifier fans, cat water fountain) and various sounds and sequences created with my modular synth (Keystep and Teletype controlling several oscillators and LFOs). Combined and processed in Ableton.

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#52

In addition to life support on the massive craft there are appliances, communications and other audible noises, biotech mechanisms, many different devices at play. What it lacks in human presence, movements, voices, etc., it makes up for with the activity in the electromechanical world we are surrounded by.

PaulStretch bed underlies unedited modular activity, mastered in Pro Tools with EQ, dynamics and reverb. Long!

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#53


A clock in a bathroom and some mlr stuff

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#54

Hehe - we went the same route - Mine is also a budget cabin…

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#55

For this week’s junto, I imagined being a passenger on the “Titan” Interstellar Cruiser. Sadly after spending all my money on the latest Martian modular synth gear, I could only afford to go steerage class, so my cabin is not too well soundproofed…

I recorded various background sounds from around the house (fridge compressor, washing machine and dishwasher, computer fans, a tape being rewound, an old 3.5" floppy disk drive being read, I set my recorder spinning on a record player deck… etc…) and then processed each recording to create a series of different ambiences, some designed to feel closer and some more distant. I then layered these up and played aound with them until I had my ambience. Some sounds repeat every few minutes, though at different rates, while others fill the entire 1hr 25min length of the track so it is not totally repetitive.

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#56

Lets see if someone creates a first class cabin sound :smiley:

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#57

The inhabitants died long long ago and the ship is endlessly floating in space .

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#58

off course. keep it disorganized (not so much that its flagged). send missive back (obscure group - potential listeners high on openness/cynicism/progressive/tech oriented. hopefully high enough probability of conscious raising) meditate: focus on neural static, visual noise when looking at clouds(?) (remember?) hiss in silence (already updated against), focus architecture on sound, peripheral attention on thought
idiosyncratic that no data for these thoughts (yet: please not another update) focus
wasnt enough to pay extra for ad free, less intrusion, but always there. can only shield for so long
this doesnt make sense. imagine choosing not to wear glasses because you don’t want to be augmented, you had the choice
everyone feels that they’re in control who wouldnt want this ease. i knew it when it became mandatory i knew it woul/ oh no focu/

radical/incorrect thought detected
shit more ti
update complete
we’re so lucky to have google mind neural architecture
…
voice recorded in podfarm, paulstretched
converted to midi
cello/trumpet sample in protoplasm +vinyl/ambient reverb

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#59

So this week it seems I will be mostly working really remotely… using my electronic thumb to hitch-hike through space!

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#60

Nice piece! Welcome to the Junto :slight_smile:

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#61

First class cabin = 4’33” = very uninspiring :wink:

Really enjoying this weeks variety of works! Maybe my ISP, maybe the lengths, but having a hella hard time loading in SC. After lots of listening, a bit of regret going the literal route myself, maybe a bit more musical artistic license would’ve been nice?

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#62

Welcome. @Joule. Great to have you here (and in outer space).

#63

Hey All, This article showed up in my Google feed at work today for some reason and I started reading and low and behold Marc pops up in it. Posting as this is kinda an ambient week i thought it was interesting.

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#64

I think my personal circumstances–spending the next month on travel living in a hotel room–helped inspire my contribution this week. I imagined a lone traveler, in bargain accommodations on an intergalactic cruise, spending one day of many, drifting towards his destination. The wheel of time, like the stars outside, rotate slowly. The mocking tone of the laugh track, penetrating the walls from the neighboring compartment, is intentional. The following is the list of “movements”:

  • i awaken
  • in the next compartment, they watch a show
  • i re-watch the travel video after lunch
  • a vague disturbance somewhere, not here
  • i wonder why
  • i sleep

The ship noises were created using the Ticky-Tacka instrument from the Toxic Metal Kontakt collection, generated by interwoven random number generators and processed through a convoluted FX rack, and finally a Black Hole reverb. The engine noise was created with a random drone sample, pitched down to be in tune with the musical elements of the track and mangled with a Nebula plugin. The laugh track was pains-takingly extracted, laugh-by-laugh, from an episode of “Big Bang Theory”. The ambient meal sounds were recorded on my phone as I ate dinner tonight. The musical sections were all performed on Dune 3.

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#65

It turns our there are plenty of annoying noises around my apartment if you put the mic in the right place. A few tracks of that, plus a few from my synth, and I got my version of the cheap seats.

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#66

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#67

Whilst considered superior apartments in Sector 7, (they are generously sized for any spaceship in the Megafleet ), they have the one drawback of being next to the cargo deck… nowehere is really silent anymore, not even in space.

All inside AUM (kymatica) on iPhone.

Base is a Mixtikl patch generating very low frequency mechanical noise, some harmonics accentuated mixing original signal with 2 other busses one with hpf one with lpf- each of these 3 tracks has a different reverb size.

Next is a field recording of a very noisy sloped travelator pitched down to 1/8th speed, with a very large reverb, these generate the vast booming sounds and strange occasional squeals and more mechanical hum.

Next another field recording - this one of the inside of a refrigerator, pitched up a little, this is fed into adverb/AUFX space, these are the hissing gurgling noises, a smaller reverb space is used here.

One final field recording, this one of an evacuation alarm test at a local shopping mall… happens at 08.45 every Wednesday. I am happy when I get to catch this as I make a shortcut through the mall as it opens… sometimes recording as I go!

Next up are two synths (Ripplemaker) auto generating two different speed buzzer/alarm sounds.

The last field recording and two other synths have volume modulated by LFOs running at very low frequencies using a sample and hold waveform, to generate some sense of movement and space.

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