#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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#50


The source audio was recorded on the shore of Lake Michigan. I use it as intro and background material, also sampled it into the Logic EXS24 sampler for the percussion elements of this track. Layered on that are harmonic and melody elements that seemed to flow from the sound of the lake.

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#51

hey y’all, just wanted to drop a little note to say thank you to Marc for organizing this weekly exercise and to the other participants for all the great stuff they contribute. The Junto has been a huge factor in getting me out and onstage with my experimental music practice, and some of my Disquiet pieces have made it into my live shows too. I look forward to the exercise every week and try to listen to as much as I can even when i can’t contribute myself. Always lots of ear-opening, mind-opening and moving stuff there.

It means a lot to me that there are so many people out there willing to push the boundaries of sound, share with each other and have fun doing it too. Thank you!

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