#31

7-8 years ago we had a truly atrocious summer and I posted a little doodle on thumb jam inspired by the torrential rain.
(https://soundcloud.com/noimspartacus/shitsummertimeblues)
History seems to be repeating itself this year so I took my old track for the source for this week’s Junto project.
I took four bars from the beginning, middle and end and used Paulstretch on a stretch factor of x8 which turned the sound of rain into a slow static hiss.
The clips were set to loop and I faded them in and out whilst i jamming on a Microfreak.

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#32

I didn’t expect that bell to be software. Great atmosphere and vibe.

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#33

The playlist is now rolling:

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#34

About a year ago I did this Waltz at 10 bpm. It seemad a nice idea to slow that down even a little bit further. I added a few things in VCV Rack and here’s the result: https://soundcloud.com/henklasschuit/long-then-disquiet0389

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#35

This is a paulstretched excerpt of a saxophone quartet rehearsal about ten years ago. It sounds like a recorder choir now.
Just added a litte bit of paulstretched percussion, sounding like breath. I tried several other things, but everything I did made it worse, so I kept to this very simple processing.

Created with Audacity

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#36

Extending time between moments provides opportunities for self-reflection. Anselm Hollo’s wonderful poem, titled Bits of Soft Anxiety, examines the mental space in which long-ago memories calcify into decisions we never intend to make:

dreamt: crossroads
drove straight ahead
arrived then with some confusion beating of wings sound of great engines etc.
in a strange country where things kept falling on him and out of him
they didn’t hurt but caused some anxiety nevertheless
maybe they were just cherry blossoms
maybe it was just his old difficulty of remaining in the upright position of
the higher primates
maybe it was May
as it was in the other place where he spent most of his happy waking time

For this piece, Suss Müsik revised our contribution for Disquiet 0275, which in itself was a revision of Disquiet 0272, a version of which ended up on a Suss Müsik Bandcamp release in a different style. This resulted in a derivative of a revision of a revision, which at one point became a derivative of another revision. Got all that?

The piece from Disquiet 0275 consisted of eight polyrhythmic phrases counting six notes apiece. The pace was slowed down to a third its original tempo, which allowed for greater nuances between instruments. The piano was replaced with a heavily treated Wurlitzer sound; the vibes and strings were set at 1/4 and 1/8 their original meters.

The piece began to sound like something out of a David Lynch movie, so vocals were used to add a spot of color. The piece was recorded live to 8-track; the quality is a bit dodgy.

The work is titled Rosaceae. The vocal is by Roses Sabra and used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY 3.0) . Full details below.

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This work, “Rosaceae [Disquiet0389]”, is a derivative of “Romantic - night hour >> Saturday.mp3” by Roses1401, used under CC BY 3.0. The original source audio was edited, copied and pasted into 16 parcels controlled by a MIDI pad device. Filters and reverb were applied to the individual samples during recording.

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#37

Slowed it down to dubtown

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#38

Signed up to the community for this project. Though, I’ve been familiar with the lines community for a while. Mostly due to the Sound + Process podcast that I really enjoyed. I learned of the Disquiet blog a little bit after that and finally decided to get involved and give it a try. Anyway…

I chose the climax from a song on my first album because I sometimes still hear it played in clubs and at goth nights and whatnot. Also, I commonly have a small insecurity freakout where I think about that when I was with a label people only listened to my music because of the hype that the label/sound was generating at the time and I got swept up in it and now that it’s passed I’m entirely unsaveable as an artist. Deep breath.

I slowed it by a factor of 5 (IIRC), and filtered it a bit to make some space to add something in. To add something I was originally going to play a cello part to go along with it, and after a little while it was upsetting me that I couldn’t get it to come out right. So, I scrapped that and wanted to do something simple/low-stress so I came up with a small melody on my d-piano to go with it and then improvised with the idea of that using the Spitfire Labs Soft Piano through Native Instruments Replika XT and Valhalla Shimmer.

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#39

Welcome to the Junto

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#40

I took a ukulele drone that I recorded last summer and slowed it down by 1/3. I added some other elements using only a Yamaha PSS-460 and slowed all of that down by 1/3 as well.

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#41


So glad to be back creating pieces after almost 6 months away!
One of the nice things about generating compositions from scripts is the ease of modifying them to produce something different. This track is generated from exactly the same script as “Mutations” (Dascott – Mutations-disquiet0281) but with the tempo set to 8 times slower. Please read about that track to understand the original structure.
To this slowed-down chordal pattern, I added 4 new piano lines, each in its own octave, each at its own rate. In addition, the digital “room” in which the notes play is huge, and as the track progresses, all the sounds gradually move off into the distance.

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#42

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/lengd-disquiet0389

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#43

Working from lead sheet of a jazz waltz I had written almost ten years ago. Dialed back the metronome and stretched it into a relaxed 6/8. Recorded in Logic, various key and synth sounds. The harmony parts are new.

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#45

Look up (disquiet0389)

Look up, a track I created a year ago, slowed down to 15 bpm (from its original 125) the split into two sends. One via a delay sequencer to create a rhythm and the other via a reverb to build a wash. The track was then sliced and shortened (!) considerably.

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#46

Unfortunately very little time but I managed to do this little thing ;

  • I chose my track “Play” = banabila.bandcamp.com/track/play

  • I tuned it lower, added a few vinyl sounds, some fx and played a few sine tones.

  • Cut a part from the original track, mixed it, and that’s it.

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#47

Welcome!! What a fantastic first contribution. I especially liked the gorgeous low end hums and rumbles…

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#48

Disquiet0389
slowed down karma 6
• Key: D BPM: 120 Time signature: 4/4 DAW: Reaper
• Instruments: bass, drums, percussion, sampled sound
• Plug-ins: reaktor 6, drumlab, battery 4. trk-01

Added percussion from Battery 4 to the original project after slowing it down by 2/3 (0.66)

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#49

I slowed down my “a song for hilma” which I had created for the December 2018 solstice (here on lines!), and realized as I was uploading it that the new version is just in time for the summer solstice 2019 :slight_smile:

In the slow version this becomes quite a different animal – the overtones and rhythms are much more pronounced, creating harmonies and almost a ‘percussion section’, while the individual voices assert their own uniqueness, and the entire piece takes on, to my mind, an almost narrative structure, and a sense of proceeding through different, real, spaces. I can’t imagine who would listen to all 16 minutes of it besides me, but I was really drawn in. :slight_smile:

No other work done to the track except for slowing it down in Audacity; sometimes the simplest approach is the best.

When first thinking about this project, I intended to take a field recording and slow it down to different speeds, then string them in sequence for a kind of ‘Stone Tapes, the making of’ audio documentary, but then I found this single more complex track that I had left on my work computer after clearing everything off to backup, and, well, the *sound of it… :slight_smile: Stone Tapes are everywhere after all…

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#50

Hi all,

Here’s my take:

This is my crunchy track “Kaverne” – which I made with the Elektron Machinedrum only a couple of years ago – pitched down, slowed down, and other elements added, standout amongst these the guitar chords that I chose as the intro, and carried on playing through the whole piece. I layered on top of that some micro-sounds I stole from elsewhere in my back catalogue and loaded the aforementioned chordal guitar into Sampler, fading a minimal-ish high-pitched bit of that in towards the end.

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#51

Wasn’t sure I was going to make it this week because I’m on a road trip through the south west coast of France. Found some down time in the place I’m currently staying and managed to throw something together using Ableton and a much neglected AKAI MPK Mini.

Weirdly I can’t find the original Ableton project for this track, I think it was around 120bpm though. It was made sometime in May and posted in a whatsapp group a friend of mine made for sharing music and quickly forgotten. I saw it in my library, imported it to Ableton, set the bpm to 30, warped it and immediately liked how it sounded, so I took a chunk from the first 3rd to use.

For the additions I looped + messed around with some of the dialogue from the track (was originally only used at the start). I added some mallet sounds from Ableton built in instruments to add a bit of a softer sound to counter the glitchy-ness of the rest.

Tried to take a nice polaroid picture of my setup to use as the image, forgot to set the camera mode to “evening”, blankness resulted. So @Elisa-room237 used some watercolours to paint a little picture over the blank photo. Which I then took a photo of.

strangers.wav <- original track for anyone interested

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