#11

I love these challenges! And congrats Marc on nearing number 400, too. It’ll be interesting to see how your series is recognized a few decades from now. It’s so unusual and full of cool conceptual ideas.

I didn’t apply a vocal but instead had fun finding sets of words from local news headlines (and one news paragraph) to spin out a narrative.

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#12

Love this atmosphere… Amazing, as always!

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#13

I’ve grabbed a small sentence from a headline (CNN; France just had its hottest day ever recorded!) and mangled it.

I’ve created a “voice avatar” at LyreBird, and had that AI voice (that to me sounds like a digital ghost of myself) read a single line of the news bit. Then it has been mangled and a few extra sounds added. It’s a short piece (but… an important subject).

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#14

Used this article: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/28/boris-johnson-conservative-leadership-hustings-avoid-scrutiny-jeremy-hunt

Specifically this sentence:

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Anyway, I knew when I saw the description of this project that I wanted to take samples from Boris discussing his bus making hobby. Put a bit of a beat under it and some chords using the xylophone program on Volca FM, some bus sounds and uploaded.

I’ve been living in France now for a couple of months and so far haven’t seen any turd like people walking around. I will let Mr. Johnson know.

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#15

I chose this article because it made me smile:

https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2014/08/25/bigfoot-researchers-of-the-hudson-valley-host-public-meeting-in-red-hook/

I now realize this was from 2014 but I linked to the article from the front page of our local newspaper, so go figure.

Bigfoot lives!

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#16

The playlist is now rolling:

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#17

SoundCloud’s search returns are wonky this weekend, so if 24 hours pass after you post your track and it hasn’t been added to the playlist, lemme know.

#18

The Times wrote: Theresa May has clashed with Donald Trump as she demanded world leaders take tougher action to combat climate change.

I used Emvoice One for the speech.

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#19

The news story is from the June 29, 2019 print edition of the Chicago Tribune. I looked through both major Chicago papers with the goal of finding something that was locally-reported, avoiding the crime stories. I also skipped a couple other possibilities that opened with very short sentences or fragments. The online version of this story is somewhat different, having been posted earlier and in the future tense, describing an upcoming visit.

After several frustrating attempts at generating a satisfactory computer-voiced version, I recorded myself in the best faux-newscaster voice I could. (The unaltered reading is appended at the end for comparison or curiosity.)

The alterations to the voice are fuzz distortion, wah filter and delay.

“Drums” are from the Xpand! plugin, played manually through a MIDI keyboard. Not quantized. I set the tempo to match my natural vocal rhythm in the first few syllables.

Other instruments are from my Prophet Rev2.

Tonal instruments are tuned to Kraig Grady’s centaur 7-limit just intonation: http://www.anaphoria.com/centaur.html

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#20

The text is from a pamphlet about astrology I found discarded in the parking lot of a bookstore.

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#21

This brings to mind that Twilight Zone about how rising temperatures and homicide are linked.

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#22

“What’s happening at the border doesn’t match the scale of these horrors, but if, as appears to be the case, these harsh conditions have been intentionally inflicted on children as part a broader plan to deter others from migrating, then it meets the definition of a mass atrocity: a deliberate, systematic attack on civilians.” -Kate Cronin-Furman

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#23

Remembering the Stonewall Rising, 50 years on. Twitter headline read by Siri. First attempt was very clashy, evolved into a steady flow.

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#24

My own translation and voice… :roll_eyes:

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#25

SoundCloud’s search (at least on my brower) continues to be broken, so this post is a bookmark telling me which earlier tracks I’ve already added to the playlist.

#26

A sentence from an article entitled “‘Slow’ roll-out of median barrier despite reducing deaths by half” on the RNZ website (https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/393311/slow-roll-out-of-median-barrier-despite-reducing-deaths-by-half)

The sentence is synthesized then mangled in various ways with a bassline and drumtrack added.

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#27

found a local news story (nottingham post)
used audition text2speech with a bit of echo
converted to midi, ran thru protoplasm with flute cello choir samples, lots of reverb
forgot about step 4

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#28


I grabbed about 30 seconds of random radio from the 88-ish, lower-end of the dial. I have a magical relationship with an old Sony Sport jambox I picked up recently.
All went into Ableton w/ the following instruments: Ableton Analog, Arturia Piano, Arturia Analog Lab 4, and stock 606 samples. Quick and simple.

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#29

Here’s my track for the week.

I was reading an article in the New York Times about Pride. This article specifically talked about trans* people and queer people of color, who are very often still marginalized in the queer movement. Trans* women of color are still regularly murdered in the U.S. But it was these marginalized communities that were instrumental in the Stonewall uprising. Let us not forget their struggles.

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#30

I needed the paper for this, I grabbed a section from my in-laws house yesterday. They had yet to read it so I was left with the sports section. I came home and cut out the headline on the front page of the bottom right corner of the sports section.Avs more likely than Nuggets to win title…keep reading to the first sentence, dropped few words…“Louder than thunder it sounded like hope it shook….Mark Kiszla Denver Post Sunday 6/30”

Roland DJ 808
with and vocoder SM 7B
I used multiple -Oct and+Oct on the vocoder with 50-75% Reverb to the SM 7B

The ROLI was ran thru channel 4 into the dj inputs as a thru on the iPad thru ROLI Noise app.
ROLI Noise
ROLI Block
ROLI Seaboard
Accordion
Maraca
Korg SV1
I started the Looper for 16 bars with the microphone channel. I then played a few stretches of the accordion and a maraca.

I then started the Roland 808 sequencer. starting a looper for 16 bars on the channel with the ROLI while looping thru the instruments selected in the ROLI Noise app. I also made the loops on noise fm that were captured while running the drum sequencer. I used an EQ I created to duck out some points in the low end.
I ran thru 2 loops of the instruments at various speeds and time signatures. I then compressed these at various rates.
The different channels were then fed to the delay and reverb then back thru a group that had a looper on it that was capturing all of the instruments and various loops.

I utilized a limiter and additional bass for some pounds of stretched out sound created with the SV1.

I uploaded the ROLI Noise session to Noise.fm https://noise.fm/VonnaWolf/wolfin-news-disquiet0391

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