#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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#68

55 minute version link available shortly :slight_smile:

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#69

Thanks for the + feedback!

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#70

Great job. Really enjoyed this track.

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