#14

Back in the early 2000s, I had a band called Revival Revival with my friend Babsy Singer. In 2004, we recorded a lot of extended techno improvisation. She played beats on an MC-909 groovebox and sang, and I played guitar through various effects. These were open-ended jams with no prepared material ahead of time. I did some of the wildest playing of my life during these jams.

For this Junto project, I took one of our best jams, originally 37 minutes long, and sped it up by a factor of eight. I used Ableton’s Beats mode for timestretching, and set it to preserve bars, so it’s playing back the first bar of each eight bar phrase. It conveys the feel of our evolving jam, but it progresses from one idea to the next a lot faster. I did a little editing to make the section lengths more musically satisfying, layered in some additional 909s, and added some compression, EQ, and delay.

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#15

A year and a half ago I wrote Music For Meditation (racketinmyhead.wordpress.com/2018/03/09…editation/). Doubling the tempo gave the piece a completely different flavor, and the tubular bells more reminded me of fate, which I felt would better be represented by a gong. The piece had originally been written for string quintet (two violas, two cellos and string bass) but I felt that the movement of this piece might better be represented by woodwinds, so I re-orchestrated for seven low instruments.

Inevitability was written for two Alto Flutes, two English Horns, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon and Gong.

The score is available at bit.ly/2RswOlz

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#16

this is a speed up version of

with some additional drums

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#18

This is my first time participating in the Junto:

The Source Song
In November 2018, I had just moved my [upright] piano to a new location in the house (which also involved reinforcing the floor structure under the new location). I improvised a slow (no metronome, but about 45-50 BPM) piece and recorded it with my DR-05 from the soundboard side. I posted it to Soundcloud as a sketch/work-in-progress.

Original:

The Treatment
I sped it up exactly 1/3 as suggested using just a resample. This brought the pitch up by a perfect fourth. Since the original recording was fairly organic, I added two synthetic elements: A slow bass synth and an arpeggiated synth that sometimes synchs up with the shaky time of the original recording.

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#19

@OakBloodThree Welcome to the Junto!! Great first contribution - I especially like the piano chords, they feel like they are constantly opening and closing…

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#20

I’m still on holiday, so appreciating the projects that don’t require me to start from scratch :smiley: Also forcing me to work with what I have.

This is a track I shared with a group of friends a few weeks ago. My girlfriend had to make some lo-fi hip hop for her work and so I copied her and tried making one myself. I made loops out of the lullaby from Pans Labyrinth (which is in my head at least once per week) and some vocal samples of Bertrand Russell.

I doubled the speed from 90 to 180bpm which gave it a more drum n bass flavour. On top of my original sounds I added some texture using the Expanse plugin from Puremagnetik, this isn’t really tied to the BPM from what I can tell, so I added an LFO to change the space parameter in time with the track.
Then I added a new aged plucked guitar from a built in Ableton instrument and looked up the chords for the lullaby.

To add a bit more interest to the track I occasionally play with the BPM, bringing it back down to its original tempo.

The original track is here for anyone interested.

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#22

The playlist is now rolling:

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#23

Used an old track called Ex Nihilo. Doubled the speed then slowed it down a tad with PaulStretch plugin, and ran the result through delays and reverbs etc. Used Logic’s convert to midi function to generate odd second part played by a sine wave.

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#24

The speed of time increases naturally as we get older. In Suss Müsik’s estimation, the only way to stop time is to create a parallel facsimile that suspends belief in our sense of chronology. Good luck with that.

In 1880, Eadweard Muybridge underwent a similar conquest: he wanted to start and stop the action of time in motion. Using a camera equipped with two boards and a spring (leaving a 1/8 inch opening in the lens), Muybridge was able to capture the image of a man riding a horse at one five-hundredth of a second. Putting these images together in a sequence allowed for a visual precision never achieved by the human eye.

Using a device Muybridge named the zoogyroscope (basically a metal drum mounted on a spindle with slits on the side), viewers could watch an entire series of Muybridge’s frames at any speed they wished. Thus was born the technology that eventually became the motion picture. If you’ve ever been stuck watching a truly horrid movie, blame Muybridge.

For this odd piece, Suss Müsik started with the output from Disquiet Junto 0299. Granted, it doesn’t take much effort to speed up a tempo of only 10 BPM, but there you have it. The instrumentation is largely the same with some added electronic percussion, soft electric piano chords, and gritty synth guitar to form a bit of structure.

The piece is titled Muybridge. The image is one of his series of a woman playing tennis.

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#25

I took an old track I submitted for the Naviar Haiku project “After” Noimspartacus – After-naviarhaiku111-after-the-dancing.

I doubled the speed and double tracked it, running one of them through a filter fx chain. I then sped the track X8, reversed it and bookended the track with this. Added a drum track and a reaktor ensemble playing a simple sequence. It’s very busy in the higher frequencies because of the accelerated chimes and the laidback, bucolic vibe of the original becomes a bit more Haribo and Redbull with the tempo ramping.

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#26

My song “a donut wash derby” at 4x tempo with added synth figures from Monark in Reaktor. I deleted my first attempt with another song because I decided it stretched the prompt too much, and not in a clever way, and my submission last week kinda did that too, and etc

The original is based on a sample from a robocall voicemail that’s been abstracted by scaling the complex phase of each Fourier component, initially by 7 then 5 then 3 then 2, gradually revealing its speechy nature. In this version most of that process is obliterated by the synth. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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#27

I had this drone choir thing at 36bpm, I sped it up to 64bpm and went to sleep by a stream.
This ended up being a more complicated setup than usual for me. One melodic part comes from Bran Bos’ Particles, which feeds Cality (a sort of smart midi randomizer), which then goes to the midi clone and filter au to send it on to a hardware synth. The outputs of the hardware synth go to one audio input of the iconnectaudio4+. One of the outputs of the audio4+ goes through a meris polymoon and back into another audio4+ input. That is sent back to AUM on the ipad to mix.

The other melodic part is a sequence in Ripplemaker. The choir comes from Sunrizer modulated by FAC Envolver. Ripplemakers parameters are also being changed by Envolver .The FAC Chorus and Audiodamage Adverb also get a lot us use.

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#28


Quite a happy ditty based on the very sad Glimpse of Hope (disquiet0271)

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#29

This is my first junto. A friend and I used to do a lot of improvising with me on modular/octatrack and him singing through FX pedals. Most of it was kind of intense and beat-based, but I found this ambient thing that worked for the prompt. I sped it up twice as fast, did some heavy subtractive eq-ing (because all I had to work with was a stereo mixdown with a lot going on in the midrange), and layered a single electric bass note through an infinite sustain pedal, plus a little acoustic guitar (processed by MLR) layer near the end.

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#30

I’m not an expert, I have the same bass I started with, a 1910 build, very warm sounding, noble old wood, but not loads of volume. Very easy to record tho, put a mic in front of it and that’s it, sounds lovely. Live is a bastard though.
10 years ago I was playing live a lot and went for a replacement, my luthier said I could get 5000€ so I started trying basses on the 6000-8000 range and no way, mine was much better sounding.
So, if you’re going to just have it home and record go for an old piece of wood, if you like what you get when testing it, it’ll be ok.
For live gigs is different, unless you have much more money, you better get a Chinese loud bass with a great pickup.
But again, I’m far from an expert, i’m the kind of guy who likes to stick to just one instrument…
good luck

dd

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#31

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/ral-disquiet0390

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#32

Hey All, Returned from a family reunion in Pigeon Forge Tennessee. I used the Gronk disquiet which was a greatly slowed down pitched down Hank Williams track. I added the beat. I like how it pitches down as it slows down. The title comes from a great experience I had at the Vans shoe store. All the employees looked kinda meth head sketchy but they were all super nice and went above and beyond making sure my and my daughter’s footsies were styling and profiling. I always appreciate it when I get great service cause nowadays it is hard to get. So shout out to the crew the Vans crew-you were awesome.

Here is the original.

Peace, Hugh

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#33

So I sped up an ambient track to make it into a slow jam…

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#34

Hey Autechre Fans, There is a we transfer file made available to all who are interested in early Autechre tapes made for Warp records. Just thought some in the Junto might dig.

Peace, Hugh

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#35

Hi all, new here!

I used an original track of mine that I created in Auxy.
I sped it up to 1.55 in Anytune (I’d normally use Audacity, but was away from my computer).
It was so fast and kind of a mess, so I didn’t want to add any instruments to it. I ended up sampling chunks of it in Koala Sampler and using some of the built in effects like “ring” and “stutter”.
Not sure it qualifies as a finished piece of music, but it was a great experience for me to get out of my usual workflow and accomplish a very different sound. :slight_smile:

This is the original:

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