Disquiet Junto Project 0396: Hum a Few Bars

[Pineyb]

Hummed a few bars of random melody. I processed the result through several IOS apps, mostly drum machines and granular processors.

[junklight]

it turns out my humming is like my singing - can’t do it to save my life…

hummed a few “phrases”* into my h6- dropped them into the Ableton sampler. Added a little filtering, reverb, EQ - I felt like too much processing was not right for this track - I kind of wanted to see what I could do without hiding from the source material - and played four separate tracks

*should you be of a generous frame of mind. Otherwise: “made some humming noises”

[candlesayshi]

My attempt for this week: Went simple and kind of played around. I feel like building up layers of processing and effects is kind of my wheelhouse… So, I thought I’d relax with this one. However, one thing of note is that since upgrading to Bitwig Studio 3, I haven’t used the Grid much for sound design or processing, maybe because I just adore Reaktor so much, but what I have started to really like it for is routing ideas. Since there’s a device in the Grid that lets you pull audio from other tracks, blend with the current signal path and things like that, it really lets you pull just a couple, or in this case, a single sound into several different areas at once, and I’m really getting into it. So, that particular technique saw a lot of use in this piece.

[notrance]

I hummed a bit. The prompt seemed to evoke my common process of translating the hum to another medium. The bass part that comes in is generated from the hummed part by running it through FAC Envolver abd then into Thomas Burns’ Modal app based on a Mutable Instruments module. I diverged from the instructions and played in on guitar, and enjoyed the 3 part jam.\

[tristan_louth_robins]

I was wracking my head on the drive down to my mum’s farm this weekend. I’d made plans to start building a much-talked about aeolian harp on the property using found materials and various bits and pieces I had lying around my home studio. I was (over) thinking aspects of resonance, wire lengths, fundamental tones, harmonics, etc and in between this I was also thinking about this week’s challenge. A couple of days work resulted in the MiddlePhone* (see pic and footnote below) and an outcome for this weeks Junto challenge.

I attached one end of a slinky to the chimney flue on the MiddlePhone, and the other to a tin can. I fixed a contact mic to the interior surface of the chimney flue and pointed a shotgun mic off into the distance. Hitting record, I stretched out the slinky/can and hummed an improvised melody into the can for about a minute.

In the recording you can hear two simultaneous recordings which have been mixed together: the slinky’s in contact with the flue, and the shotgun mic (which is aimed on my position with the stretched slinky/can). I’ve mixed the track so that you hear only the shotgun mic recording at first (w/peripheral sounds) and then gradually crossfaded into contact mic - the latter revealing the reverberent/harmonic effects of the slinky, as well the articulation of resonances. Whilst most of the resonances are derived from the flue/slnky combo, I’m fairly certain the network of stretched wires has had some effect too.

*** The MiddlePhone**

Yesterday afternoon, I deviated dramatically from my original design plan for the aeolian harp; to such an extent that it resembled a completely different instrument - which you can see pictured in the track cover. It comprises of an old tallowwood fencepost jammed between the branch stumps of a Melaleuca tree. The post has thin wires attached to it which are tightened and fixed to the ground, as well as run over an oil drum and also connected to a chimney flue. The wind interplays with it discretely, but is most effective as a ridiculous percussion instrument. However, attaching contact mics to it reveals a variety of resonances and sonic perculiarities.

[krakenkraft]

I’m humming an ambient song, so the melody is very minimalistic … to be honest: most from the original recordings, in which I was humming a song, has been deleted in the process of processing the humming, and at the end I decided to stick with two humming samples … I like it anyway.

[OakBloodThree]

Recorded myself humming a simple tune (condenser stereo pair + dynamic in contact with neck).

Made rhythm track from first notes and edited breaths.

Mixed in reversed audio with fuzz + wah.

Mixed in double speed audio.

Added talk box effect to main track.

Misc. delay, reverb, compression, etc.

[wasabicube]

This started with a badly-recorded ditty sitting at my desk on Friday.

All the sounds are based on the hummed melody I made up on the spot. The instruments are made up of Ableton Live Wavetable synths containing hum fragments, Simpler instances with short hummed samples and one instance of iZotope’s Iris 2.

No additional sounds were introduced although some of the extracted samples were reduced pretty much to very short sinusoidal fragments, especially for the kick, snare and hi-hat.

Everything was heavily processed with filters and equalisers as well as a fair amount of reverb.

The final part of the tune is mangled with Sinevibe’s Robotizer and Eventide’s Blackhole reverb.

[bassling]

I looped myself and ran it through my Sherman Filterbank.

[sevenism]

hummed what was in my head through a similar podfarm tone to last weeks track
then did an accompaniment to this
then hummed a memory/variation of the first part with a slightly different tone
some more processing in audacity - time stretch, pitch stretch, paulstretch, echo, delay, reverb, distortion
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[cachalot]

I processed my humming in ableton by copy pasting it, selecting little snippets of it, transposing and looping etc.

[OakBloodThree]

It ends up being reminiscent of Tyvan throat singing!

[vgmrmojo]

Disquiet0396
Humming
• Key: ? BPM: 120 Time signature: 4/4 DAW: Reaper
• Instruments:
• Plug-ins: Kontakt 6
• Recorded myself humming several different note duration’s and pitches
• Processed these in Kontakt 6 and Reaper

[mdh]

I’d been travelling over the past few days, so came to this quite late. It was very nicely timed as I’d recently recorded @Elisa-room237 and myself humming (turns out it wasn’t quite humming… vocalising?) for another song. So I decided to repurpose those sounds here.

All done inside Ableton. I had two tracks of the basic humming clips with some EQ applied to each. The audio of myself is also send to another echo audio track which does some frequency shifting and gradually adds distortion.
The low sustained notes are using Simpler with midi notes mostly in C0-E2 range (and then occasionally as high as C5).

[brasslens]

I sat in the garden last Friday evening and recorded me humming a simple original tune on my iPhone. It includes a little ambient birdsong. I used Sugar Bytes Factory app and put the recording into each oscillator using the ‘transformer’ - a granular oscillator. I altered the formant and the playback position and modulated it with the lfo’s, added some spring reverb and came up with the backing. I was going to add the original humming to the end but tried it over the track and liked it.

[otolythe]

I asked them to just hum, for a drone of about 40 seconds. When I Paulstretched it in Audacity, all the overtones welled up.

No other processing; tried layering in a few other things but took them all out again, this felt quite lush by itself(ves).

[RichieWitch]

I love using (and destroying) found sounds and field recordings, so when I saw this project, I knew I had to participate.

Using only a 1-minute recording of me humming into my phone, I started chopping, mangling, shaping, glitching, and creating instruments I could then play. Aside from my usual filter delays, LFO-controlled filters (big love for Vengeance Philta XL!!), and Live’s Erosion, I also used a lot of Glitch Machines’ Hysterisis, Inear Display’s Eurydice, and Eventide’s Black Hole reverb.

The result was a grinding Industrial Techno track. Enjoy!!

[RichieWitch]

Who doesn’t love a Sherman Filterbank??!

[VonnaWolf]

Humed on the Vocoder of the Roland DJ 808 with some drum patterns and loops. I used 3 loopers and a MAX for live device I built that has the L and R with independent loops. I looped in each loop a section of the captured hum loops with 808. Enjoy! I will post a video of the screen capture shortly. Barley made this one. Back to regular programing…

[bassling]

Heh, sadly mine had been neglected.

I should plug it in more often though.