Disquiet Junto Project 0402: Music for Tasks

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!

TotalEnergy · 2019-09-14T22:22:43.022Z

Welcome! 20 Characters!

disquiet · 2019-09-15T01:03:43.387Z

divmod:

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

So great you could join in. Welcome.

Ahornberg · 2019-09-15T06:14:40.698Z

This music shall support you doing your workout.

Compress your muscles and exhale for 4 seconds while listening to the ascending melody.
Hold for your position and inhale for 2 seconds while listening to the 2 steady tones.
Release your muscles and exhale for 4 seconds while listening to the descending melody.
Hold for your position and inhale for 2 seconds while listening to the 2 steady tones.
Repeat from step 1.

If you don’t reach the part with the choir, decrease your weights at your next workout.
If you reach the part with the choir, stay at your weights at your next workout.
If youreach the end, increase your weights at your next workout.

Bach-y-nal · 2019-09-16T04:00:37.406Z

Every morning I have some of my wife’s coffee to wake up. Then about 45 minutes later I sit on my office floor and make my own, very strong, pour-over coffee.

The objects involved – cone, filters, ground coffee, water jug, electric kettle, mug, waste basket – are placid and dependable, and respond to my body’s actions. This music is for them.

Sereptie · 2019-09-16T05:27:18.400Z

wasabicube · 2019-09-16T09:39:45.316Z

I recently had to have a dental implant and consequently I’ve upped my teeth cleaning game. It’s quite mechanical. Electro-mechanical. Electric toothbrush, electric water flosser and much repetition. Almost industrial.

This track is based on manipulated sinewaves generated by Serum. There are three instances each with a set of C notes spread over several octaves. Each has apQualizr2 applied, sweeping frequencies with double band-pass filters using sine waves as modulators and adding a comb filter. These are then grouped and set to four effects returns. A gate sequencer, a shimmer reverb, and a couple of granulators. These are all automated to come in and out of the track. Alongside these are recordings of the toothbrush and flosser passed through as space echo.

Oh, and there’s a nod to Alexander’s Ragtime Band in there too. Sometimes I slosh mouthwash around to the tune of ARB…

theatlasroom · 2019-09-16T15:17:35.168Z

I opted for washing the dishes, because that is something i do every, single, day . Reflecting on this everyday experience I think the most interesting thing is overhearing little conversations from outside the kitchen window, or people listening to the news as well as the shift in temperature of the kitchen as the water heats up. A little late, but i got there in the end!

Peter · 2019-09-16T16:14:23.747Z

Pineyb · 2019-09-16T20:19:28.593Z

Many of my daily tasks involve a subway ride. On a recent trip, there was a malfunctioning PA system in the 59th Street station, which I recorded. I got on a 1 train along with a Mariachi band that were also waiting. They started playing shortly after the train left the station. I recorded them. There is a cool cross fade between them and the subway background noise, which happened naturally as they moved from the back to the front of the car. Later, comparing the two recordings, I noticed that they were playing in tempo to the PA noise, that must have set their internal clocks. I just lined them up in Pro Tools and pressed play. In NYC, you don’t really need to write music…