#17

What a fun one, this week! I have a few noise modules I really cherish but haven’t had much use beyond percussion for them, so this was a great opportunity to explore some things.

Used a Red Noise generator to make a good turbulent storm sound and then combined a number of colors from the FSFX 5U version of the SSF Quantum Double Rainbow. The module is literally built for this challenge, which you’ll see with the front panel:

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So I mixed a bunch of those noises and added a little modulation. It’s not ‘Soothing Sounds for Baby’:

But I also used up all my Raymond Scott references with the last challenge

This is instead Soothing Sounds for Convicts, continuing the story from last week:

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#18

I have used a germanium diode based noise source. Classic. The recordings are made with a Zoom H1. The wav-files got a peak amplitude -6 dB in Audacity. First part of the sound is a shaped (colored) noise. I tried to make a soft soothing noise. Second part is the raw noise. Noise is important for me. The other day I made this noise exploration https://freesound.org/people/gis_sweden/sounds/471047/. But how will you experience my noise? Does everybody like the same noise?

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My noise uncolored - log scale.

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Shaped/colored noise - log scale.

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#19


I haven’t done anything for a Junto which saddens me deeply but fortunately I had some time to create something for current Junto.

So my main idea was to create a constantly moving type of noise which is kind of comforting and also masking external sounds. So I used few white noise sources filtered by low pass filter to create this low frequencies rumbling sounds and then I created a bank of 4 bandpassed filters sounds which frequencies were controlled by processing.org script that analyzed sounds considered unpleasant by me and tried to discern frequencies at which this sounds were most prominent and then setting the bandpass filter frequency in such manner that bandpassed noise would mask the unpleasant sound.

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#20

NON-SUBMISSION Hey All, I little ditty made with 3 junto members. I used tracks by how the night came, Ryan Scott Mattingly , who is from my hometown of Nashville.TN and la bolsa chica. Thanks to those cats. Posting as it still gets quite noisy.

Peace, Hugh

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#21

Noise filtered through flickering filter banks (& a little piano) - supercollider/Norns, Zebra

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#22

By the time each one of us is born, we’re already intimately aware of security. We sense our mother’s heartbeat while residing in the womb, which carries us through childbirth. As an infant, when we hear a familiar voice—frequently that of our mothers—we begin to develop the rudimentary physiological responses that correspond to feeling safe and protected.

The human brain is remarkably adept at processing complex information, which arguably is what separates us from other living creatures. Plants have no parents and thus no thoughts or feelings—or so we assume. Suss Müsik poses an interesting philosophical dilemma: it’s a crime to harm a human being, and there are strong moral arguments for treating animals with the same level of respect. And yet, the ethical argument against plucking a tomato from its vine is considered an exercise in absurdity.

Clearly, one must draw a line someplace. Any living creature—human, plant, or animal—can only express the information it receives and internalizes according to its cognitive capabilities. That said, it’s entirely possible that the concepts of timbre, pitch, rhythm, tone and context are untranslatable between species. And none of us can formally declare that a plant doesn’t verbalize danger in its own fashion. Wasn’t it Roald Dahl who wrote a short story about trees that scream?

For this soothing yet quietly unsettling piece, Suss Müsik sought to create a concept known as “evergreen noise.” A soothing synth wash was played for an amount of time in one channel (the “human” side), then pitched downward with a dollop of static added in the other (the “plant” side). In the background are sampled female voices coupled with heavily treated audio recordings of deciduous foliage fluttering in the breeze.

The piece is titled Tomatis and named after Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis, a French otolaryngologist who specialized in the way infants use sounds produced by their parents in order to develop cognitive and social skills. The image is an organic “herb wall” in Austin, TX.

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#23

Speaking from personal experience, it gets more fun as you get older: “Where are my glasses?” “Uh, you’re wearing them.”

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#24

I forgot to mention it in the description I put on soundclout, maybe it’s obvious, but the title pitter was influenced by the phrase “pitter-patter” and also the fact that parenting sounds like it might be the pits at times.

I read the prompt for this project and took it on myself to make a piece that could be described as “playful drone”. My visualization of this piece was something that could be played outdoors on a sunny day with kids playing (not that I have kids or plan to have them). It is not entirely background music nor is it super intrusive.

I also wanted to cover the entire frequency of sound, hence the bass and the higher keys/pads. However, when mixing, I cut out all frequencies around 3500 Hz, the resonant frequency for the human voice and especially higher-pitched voices like that of children. This was to better match the prompt of music that can be played while parenting – you wouldn’t want your music to drown out your kid(s)… probably.

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#25

Okay, here’s a thing I did. It is decidedly not baby music, however, contrary to the design of the project and my initial intention. I do like how it came out, though, and so am sharing it.

Some time ago, I got an idea for a Max project in which I built a bunch (turned out to be 14) simple sound generators that would bleat, croak, chirp, hoot, etc. when triggered. I then hooked these up to random trigger generators such that they would do their thing collectively in a way that they sounded (sort of) like a night in the jungle (that is, if you were in a jungle with exactly one each of 14 different noise making species). It was fun, but I didn’t have any further thought about its use.

It came to mind again in this project. I liked the idea of starting with sounds that covered the spectrum but not necessarily all at once; in the spirit of “new” colors, I also thought the sounds should not be immediately recognizable. Even though my artificial jungle crickets, etc., were far from perfect imitations, I decided to process the recording of my “Night in the Jungle” to reduce familiarity.

I took an eight minute clip of this, Paulstretched the daylights out of it (10x at 1 second resolution); this produced some really fun sounds, but they were also kinda creepy. So, I took this now 40+ minute clip, chopped it into nine minute chunks, stacked them, reversed several, added LFO-driven peak and notch filters and auto panning to each track. Still pretty creepy; maybe even more so than before, but also kinda cool. Resonators pulling a nice C Major chord out of this dark jungle attenuated the creepiness a bit (maybe?) and a bit of reverb made it feel fuller. But in the end creepy.

So, I would not play this for my baby (who is now a junior in college) and if yours likes it, I suggest introducing her to Edward Gorey, Caitlin Doughty, and Tim Burton at an early age. That said, I hope other listeners enjoy this as I did.

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#26

The color of the noise was taken from this video’s audio, washed out by tons of reverb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCFnkouNYxg

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#27

I was going to pass on this week’s assignment–lots of chores to do! Then I was out mowing the lawn with my reel mower (the kind that doesn’t have a motor–you push it to cut the grass) and I realized it needed some adjustment. So I fetched a screwdriver, and immediately it was doing a much better job, but also making a really glorious and extremely loud metal-on-metal noise. I switched on my phone memo recorder and grabbed a sample. Later I pulled it into ChucK and created a simple chord from a short piece of it, overlaid on a drum patch I cooked up earlier this week.

As for our theme–what could be a more comforting noise than Dad mowing the lawn? Especially pitched down to half speed and morphed into a major triad?

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#28

Push/reel mowers are awesome. Good for you (and your lawn)!

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#30

cool sounds :slightly_smiling_face:

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#31

Thanks! I see now that I’m not the only one that ended up with a daemonic baby soundtrack… :smile:

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#33

Used a whole bunch of plugins on this one. Started with a noisy sample I generated in MaxMSP. C major is a pretty safe chord.

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#34

I was in Montreal this weekend and thought the Junto would be a great opportunity to launch a quick project with The Dim Projection. The central idea is to turn the distracting noise of the street into white noise so that - if deployed as a relaxation tool - any new contributions from the environment (cars driving by squealing tires) might blend in and be thus defused.

I filmed 3 minutes of a Montreal street on Friday night and manipulated the audio (with additional new-colored-noise from Phil - @The20Watt). Phil manipulated the video into the visual equivalent of new-colored-noise - with additional peaceful video footage of the rainy view off his front porch.

The finished result is here:

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#35

I love when you get down with a junto remix. Thanks

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#36

The journey is long but you are safe here

Boog model D generates some pink noise. That gets gated into Axon, and Axon drives Ripplemaker and Quanta. Binaural beat produced at 73 and 77 hz for some delta wave calmness.

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#37

As part of my day job I produce short radio broadcasts about agricultural commodity futures. Listing grain prices and the reasons why they’re moving one way or the other can be very dry to anyone who isn’t a farmer (or my mother), but when my kids were babies making up farm reports on the fly usually calmed them down and helped them sleep. My wife’s technique of singing German songs probably worked even better…

For this week’s project, I mashed up a recent radio show with Nana Mouskouri singing ‘Leise rieselt der Schnee’. That was then sliced/diced/stretched/altered/etc in Audacity - to be left with just the underlying calming noise.

My good friend and artistic co-conspirator Simon, @homeontheland, utilized some bits of this in the track he posted earlier - but the end results are different enough that I figured I’d send this out too.

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