Disquiet Junto Project 0402: Music for Tasks

krakenkraft · 2019-09-13T15:03:52.301Z

The idea was to have some background music for the task of wiping the kitchen compartment, where you repeat, redundantly wipe, and occasionally get lost in the small.

I’m currently on vacation in France and on a marché in Valbonne I today found a Kalimba (see image) for 15 Euros (17 Dollars) and recorded it with the Zoom H1N. I tripled the track: Track 1 was the Original recording. Track 2 the Original with some Orilriver-Reverb (for beautyness) plus Track 3 the original, but scaled one octave down and with some strange ambience from Riviera Reverb (for obvious “ambient” reasons). Mixing in Reaper.

cold_fashioned · 2019-09-13T16:14:38.977Z

Wow, so much for me to like in your post. To start, I do most of the dishes in my house, and ever since I started listening to music / youtube / etc., the time flies by quite a bit faster. I think I’ve heard of ChucK before, but thanks for reminding me about it. I’m looking forward to learning more about it. Unfortunately, I couldn’t access your github link (blocked, or maybe it’s private?), I’d love to see the code. That piece was quite soothing. Cheers.

NorthWoods · 2019-09-13T17:00:33.624Z

Thanks so much! That’s very kind of you.

I tried to fix the link but in any event here’s the code. Happy to field any questions if you want to give it a try.

Noise noise => LPF filter => ADSR envelope => NRev rev => dac;

ModalBar bar => rev => Pan2 pan => dac;

TubeBell bell => rev => Pan2 bellPan => dac;

5 => bar.preset;

40 => float barFreq;

.2 => noise.gain;
.2 => bell.gain;

SinOsc LFO0 => blackhole;
SqrOsc LFO1 => blackhole;
TriOsc LFO2 => blackhole;
SinOsc LFO3 => blackhole;

50 => LFO1.freq => LFO2.freq => LFO0.freq;

.05 => LFO3.freq;
.05 => LFO3.gain;

360 => float baseFreq;

20 => filter.Q;

(1000::ms, 1::ms, 1, 1000::ms) => envelope.set;

now + 120::second => time future;

now + 5::second => time barTime;
barTime + 10::second => time bellTime;
bellTime + 10::second => time squareTime;

while (now < future) {
Math.fabs(LFO0.last()+LFO1.last()+LFO2.last())(baseFreq(1+LFO3.last())) => filter.freq;
1 => envelope.keyOn;
if (now > barTime && Std.rand2f(0,1) > .995) {
barFreqStd.rand2f(.7,1.5) => bar.freq;
Std.rand2f(-1,1) => pan.pan;
1 => bar.noteOn;
<<< "fire bar ">>>;
}
if (now > bellTime && Std.rand2f(0,1) > .995) {
barFreqStd.rand2(1,4)*4 => bell.freq;
Std.rand2f(-1,1) => bellPan.pan;
1 => bell.noteOn;
<<< "fire bell ">>>;
}
if (now > squareTime && Std.rand2f(0,1) > .995) {
spork~fire_square();
<<< "fire square ">>>;
}

10::ms => now;
1 => envelope.keyOff;

}

fire_square();

10::second => now;

fun void fire_square() {
SqrOsc sqr => ADSR env => NRev rev => Pan2 pan => dac;
-bellPan.pan() => pan.pan;
.05 => sqr.gain;
bell.freq()*.5 => sqr.freq;
( 1::second, 1::ms, 1, 1::second ) => env.set;
1 => env.keyOn;
2::second => now;
1 => env.keyOff;
2::second => now;
}

cold_fashioned · 2019-09-13T17:41:48.689Z

Thank you - maybe it’s biting off a big chunk to start, but I’m going to download ChucK tonight and try to run this program.

(sorry for the off-topic derail)

ryanscottmattingly · 2019-09-13T19:17:44.670Z

Housekeeping.

bassling · 2019-09-13T19:18:56.034Z

I’d recently revisited the recording of my washing line for Junto 356 and had just finished hanging a load, so I set about recording drums to accompany that chore.

I decided to include the sound of the washing line for context and, the way it builds, reminds me of how electronic music employs white noise.

RupertL · 2019-09-13T20:00:12.488Z

Here’s mine. Music to accompany a task I do at least once if not twice a week: Fold up washing… I often listen to music while I do this.

Thinking about music that would fit it I decided on something repetative and rhythmic - I’ve also been listening to Datachi’s Bones a lot recently, so decided to head in that direction. The 6 mins duration is probably a little conservative timewise, but hey…

Made with Native Instruments Maschine, Rounds, Prism, Korg MonoPoly, Spitfire Audio British Drama Library and Iztope Stutter Edit.

abalone · 2019-09-13T20:17:19.647Z

an ios production, koala app on the iphone
sounds of washing dishes

disquiet · 2019-09-13T20:58:28.936Z

The playlist is now rolling:

mdh · 2019-09-13T22:48:11.559Z

I always found the early morning pre-work routine something akin to a chore. And a really monotonous one at that. Perhaps I’m a bit childish in my feelings towards it, but sometimes I would be so bored by the sheer Groundhog Day-esque repetitiveness of it that it was close to being unbearable.

The feeling each day kind of stacks and becomes more and more nightmarish. I wanted to capture that feeling in this project.
I recorded some sounds of the routine and consolidated them into one clip. Which is then repeated over and over again and an increasingly fast tempo. At the same time I recorded a drone sound with a BPF from a Minibrute 2 which gradually becomes more and more prominent and jarring - along with some really long delay of the routine sounds gradually becoming apparent to compound the horror.

Bent the rules a little bit here, but this really is the soundtrack in my mind to this chore

Quite happy with how this one came out. I do feel that perhaps I should’ve increased the overdrive, maybe even to the point of clipping to really drive the point home and now that I’ve made the groundhog day comparison I realise the routine is missing the sound of an alarm clock!

Noimspartacus · 2019-09-13T22:51:20.777Z

I recorded a kettle being filled and boiled as well as the clink of a cup on the counter and opening a tea caddy onto my iPad.
I loaded these samples into ape matrix and spacecraft(a granular effect).
I then fed them into chains of reverbs and Burns Audio’s Resonator, Spectrum and Modal free effects.These were then faded in and out of the mix.

notrance · 2019-09-14T01:08:52.352Z

This is music for quiet focus - late night programming, pre-meditation walk, reading absorbing material:

The basis is 2 tones 4.36 hz apart at frequencies for D2 and D#2. I set Bram Bos’ Collider for a D Phrygian scale and added a 60bpm drum. The 4.36 beat is at the lower end of theta waves, so it should help one find a relaxed openness.
[forgot to mention - headphones required for the binaural effect]

howthenightcame · 2019-09-14T01:38:34.231Z

i love exotica, quiet jazz, easy listening… but why do so many coffee shops insist on playing those kinds of soporific music? i thought coffee was supposed to wake you up. so here is the music inside my head, as i make my morning coffee…

Paul_Reiners · 2019-09-14T01:40:58.584Z

This is a dub version of a reggae version I posted earlier. It was done in Ableton Live. All the loops were hand-made.

Recited by John Richetti at the Kelly Writers House Wexler Studio, October 25, 2016. He sent me a nice email today complimenting my earlier version.

GLSmyth · 2019-09-14T05:13:04.511Z

As pretty much always happens, I started in one direction and the act of working on that direction sent me in a completely different direction (sounds like quantum mechanics). The genesis of the piece had me recording myself emptying the dishwasher and resulted in a piece for solo viola and electronics.

Go figure.

Unloading The Dishwasher was written for Viola.

The Viola score is available at http://bit.ly/2kzQbNM

sevenism · 2019-09-14T10:57:49.024Z

i was listening to some music and had some gentle feedback in the background then a nice tone became prominent so started recording. this turned into something more rhythmic which happened to fit with this project, so i just played around with the feedback to make it fit more (swishing and clacking and plopping and clanking.

podfarm 2 fx - bronze master distortion > sine chorus > tape eater > echo platter > stereo delay
also ddly

i was gonna do an experimental vocal shanty (a la wounded knee; i’m sure he must’ve done one about a chore but i can’t find any) sorry to deprive you of that

divmod · 2019-09-14T13:23:21.773Z

Hi all,

this is my first contribution and actually even my first published work ever.

All made with an iPad in AUM. I recorded samples from my dishwasher with the built-in iPad microphone in AUM with Brusfri for noise reduction. Selected samples with AudioShare.

Instruments:
5 x E-L-S-A sampler instances
1 x Tardigrain

Plugins:
FAC Maxima
FAC Bandit
FAC Chorus
Replicant 2
FuzzPlus 3 Distortion
Kosmonaut Delay
EOS2 Reverb

Controlled by Rozeta Cells, Particles and LFO
Patterns controlled by custom Mozaic script that allows me to switch the patterns in each Cells instance.

tristan_louth_robins · 2019-09-14T14:09:35.695Z

I take a real pleasure in sweeping around the house: the kitchen, living room, the front porch. Maybe it’s the repetitive process that leads to the satisfying outcome/objective of accumulated things (dust, grit, leaves, etc.) Incidentally, I utterly LOATHE leafblowers - they’re lazy and a sonic horror. Typically, I’ll only sweep in short bursts, so this is why the track is about a minute and a half in duration.

If I’m listening to music in the background, it could be anything, but my preference would be something quite discrete (with little repetitions or motifs) that sits in the background, like Eno’s ambient work or the small music of Miki Yui or Rolf Julius.

My composition is derived from the single 1/8 note pulse of Ableton ‘African Bars’, with the note subsequently processed through filters, a glitch plugin, and a couple of busses with delay and grainy modulation applied.

TotalEnergy · 2019-09-14T15:55:17.390Z

Music for brushing my teeth

NorthWoods · 2019-09-14T20:24:56.985Z

Great stuff! Welcome to the Junto!