#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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#52

(FYI this definitely a track for headphones!)

I had just finished a beat for my side project and was worried it was a hair too fast - so I thought I would take this as the perfect opportunity to slow it down…A LOT.

I took the stems from the original version and pitch-shifted them all in Ableton (old-school, so that it also changed the speed) down by 10 half-steps or 80% (if my math is right).

I didn’t have to do much else - I revised the tonal centers of each section of this version to match the pitches played in the piano part. I had to spend a lot of time on the drums - the kick stayed as forceful as it was in the sped-up version, which didn’t work. Likewise the snare - so I used a gate to lengthen the attack on it. I also added some swashy cymbals.

I meant to add some accordion in the verse, but ended up adding some birds from outside my window instead.

I spent the most time mixing - pitch-shifting whole tracks like this leaves unusual holes in the frequency spectrum, so I had to spend time making everything work (sometimes using effects to add back the high frequencies in the mix that the pitch-shifting process got rid of).

I also mixed this using the rotary encoders on my Ableton Push, which was delightful. I even turned off the computer screen to mix!

Edit: Here’s a video for the track, if your eyes need something to do…

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#53

I slowed down and mixed two old songs for this:

  1. “Magnetic Beach Transistor” (submission to Disquiet Junto Project 0362) to 1/4 of its original speed, and
  2. “Baby and Child Care” (demo recording for February Album Writing Month 2011) to 2/3 of its original speed.

The former was fed into a shimmer preset of Audiority GrainSpace. Verses and choruses of the latter were overlaid on top of this.

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#54

This week’s project is squarely in my wheelhouse, and I took the direction of using an “old piece” to heart: the source material here is from the very first cassette recorded on my (then) new Tascam PortaOne with my (then) newish Yamaha DX7 back in early 1985. The sketch had never previously been further developed.

Following the instructions I slowed the piece (1/16th time) and began adding a few layers inspired by what was revealed in the sap of shifting chords. I restrained myself from adding too many new layers for the Junto version (and also I was running out of time!), so a simple altered bell and a patch on the Serge modular were the only additions to the slowed material. Typical mix processing produced more textures, but it is fun to note that NO reverb was added to any parts of the mix - nor was there any on the original cassette tracks - everything that ‘feels’ like reverb is actually the very slowed envelopes (and a little bit of TC 2290 delay).

As I have with several other Junto projects, I’ll continue to develop this starting point, quite possibly for later release, since I’m enjoying the direction it’s moving. Thanks as ever to Marc and the Junto community for the nudge back into a fruitful direction.

“What Now”
kS: Yamaha DX7, Bell, Serge Modules, Electronics

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#55

I’m afraid this is slightly past the deadline (I think)

This is a Benjamin Britten song that my partner and I recorded for a christmas album. We slowed it down and added bird sounds and some synth bits in ableton.

The original is here

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