#30

This is a dub mix of my earlier track for this week.

I’m using the Croaker reggae riddim. Instead of traditional drums, I’m using rauschen to create a beat. There are bits of Ezra Pound reading “Hugh Sewlyn Mauberly (Contacts and Life)”.

My rauschen is from my Disquiet Junto Project 0399.

“Sit you down father, rest you.”

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#31

This piece is based on a sample of more than 100people discussing designing for meaningfulness. I’ve stretched and mangled the sample - and added fuzz and compression, sidechaining into a suitable rhythm.

On top of everything is a few vocal samples and some different granular-synths - so most of the raw material to this small piece is from live samples and only bass and some drums are “synthesized”.

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#32

Hello everyone. Got an “up close” recording of our air cooler at home - you can hear it at the beginning. The beat was generated by using compressors, filters and volume control. The melody is courtesy of resonators. All done in Ableton. The single air cooler recording I used seems to fit the concept of “Rauschen”, but I’m not sure if my track itself does. Apologies if I messed up!!

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#33

A beautiful thunder storm rolled through Seattle last night Sept,7 2019.
I got a recording of the rain and thunder, and it reminded me of this project.

I took a section of that recording, imagined a beat within it and used the Roland Juno 60 for melodic interpretation.
I recorded 2 minimal takes off the Juno 60.

[Image credit to American Public Power Association free to use on Unsplash]

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#34

there’s a primary school close to where i live
the sound of hundreds of kids has a rauschen quality i think
i recorded on my phone, and there’s the sound of wind too

i ran through the electronica 1 and 2 filters in live with ddly too, i like the swirling quality you get from that effect

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#35

This track more or less builds on the two previous Raushen projects. The sounds are rain and thunder from the weekend, our dishwasher washing, amongst other things, a large stainless pasta pot that makes recurring sound and an industrial washing machine I recorded while on holiday.

I use a gate on the transients from these sounds to trigger the melodic part which is sent through two effects chains; one with a resonator the other raw. Throughout the track I alter the ratio of these two chains.

For the bass beat I once again use the Xils 3LE as an envelope follower and use the transients to trigger a saw which is applied to the filter on the original sound. This is then processed through two chains; one boosts the bass by compression and Ableton’s drum buss and finally the Wavesfactory SK10 drum sub simulator, and the other is sent through a shimmer delay and Glitchmachines’ Fracture for some additional ambience.

I’d hoped to be able to spend more time on this and make it a more sparse and melodic track but was, appropriately, inundated with work.

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#36

I’ve also recorded rauschen for the earlier project, which I didn’t complete. Here’s a slightly cacophonous modular layer on top of recordings I made of a washing machine and some waves at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz.

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#37

I recycled some sounds I enjoyed in 0398 from other contributors (I hope they dont mind :joy:), cutting and sampling some parts to trigger from a drum machine.

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#38


Processed rauschen sounds and open guitar strings.

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#39

Disquiet0401
Noise Pacing
1) Key: F major BPM: 120 Time signature: 4/4 DAW: Reaper
2) Instruments: Massive X
3) Plug-ins:
• Used 4 samples from sample packs to make the rhythm
• Added a melody with Massive X

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#40

It’s been a while since I participated in on of these!

I’m not much for sampling, so I tried to use various noise colors to accomplish the prompt. I decided to use every color of noise from Sapel for at least 1 rhythmic element, and tried to do something at least a little unusual for each one. I don’t feel like I really captured the intent correctly, but I’m happy I finally made something for a Junto again.

Pink noise into Ripples with a bit of resonance, and random duration envelopes modulating FM and amplitude made the bass drum.

Blue noise into Aperture, with a narrow width, frequency at max, and some resonance and feedback made the right panned noise voice. The frequency was modulated with an inverted envelope.

White noise into Optomix then into the left side of Chronoblob with time at minimum made the karplus like sound panned left.

The swell was red noise into Prism, in high pass mode with resonance, time, and comb at 12 o’clock, into Chronoblob’s right channel, with a moderate time setting, then into Erbe-Verb.

And lastly for noise based elements, the glitchy tom/snare thing was Pink noise into Sprott, set to almost self resonate, went into the Addac 601 input 2 for some shaping. More pink noise was mixed in through input 1 of the 601 to get some of the fuzz back.

The bassline was not based on noise. It was the Dannysound EN219 into QPAS. With some FM and SR modulation.

Euclidean Circles and Marbles provided triggers, and Arpitecht provided pitch.

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#41

Various statics were used to create some fast and slow rhythms, then a Tynemouth blackbird (slowed down 75%) was layered in for the melody.

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#42

like that feedback sound

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#43

Wow that is a lot of creating, processing and a lot of work. Sounds fantastic.

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#44

Special Note/Reminder: Hi, folks. Just a reminder to please set your tracks to make them available for download. I’m working with our Musikfestival Bern host, @TobiasReber, to get hour-long playlists together that will be part of the events. The festival gets going on Wednesday, the 11th, which just leaves tomorrow to get the final playlist set, after this 401st project ends tonight, the 9th, at a minute-to-midnight. Thanks! More on the festival here: musikfestivalbern.ch.

#45

When I saw the assignment a train noise I recorded a while back came to mind. You can hear it at the start of the track.
And then I got stuck so I did put the project of for a day. And then (by accident because life) for another. In the morning
I picked up a guitar … only to discover that I had no cables for recording. So my planning went out of the window.
In my frustration I called up a friend and we went for a walk. The recording of the footsteps became the addition to the rhythm section. The sunshine inspired me to have a soft sounding melody, albeit in the distance/background. I stumbled across the
marimba in a sample collection I had build some years ago.
The composing consisted of weaving the marimba into the footsteps and the ongoing train noise. No effects, just faders.
Software used: audacity and Ardour

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#46

I went to my (poorly organized) sample archive and pulled in some rhythmic sounds I had been saving: dishwashers, laundry dryers, ceiling fans, crickets, etc.

I put them together into an ABACABA form, with some of the A sections much shorter when they repeat.

I created the constraint of not time-stretching any samples to make them loop or lock in - I would let the polyrhythms be truly polyrhythmic.

This one doesn’t feel quite finished yet - it feels much more “noise music” than I intended. Maybe in the next iteration I’ll spend more time with EQ to clean up the background sounds (eliminate the rausen from the rausen?)

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#47

Pure data and field recodings on this one…

quite pleased with it though mix is very un tight. love that random narrow bandpassed white noise thing.

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#48

Drum kit made from processed background noises using transient shaping and FM. Loops derived from playing samples in Patterning for IOS. Melodic elements from processed E Bowed pedal steel guitar. Recorded in Pro Tools and mixed through the Calrec console and various outboard gear.

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#49

Thanks! I really enjoy synthesis. haha

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