#2

The project is now live.

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#3

I did this in Ableton Live.

I used the following sounds from Freesound:

  1. metro.m4a
  2. Piccadilly_Circus_Ambience.WAV
  3. Ambulance_Traffic_Mic inside of car.WAV
  4. London Underground, Arriving, A.wav
  5. SUBWAY_01.WAV
  6. Dog Bark.wav

I put each of those songs through a Beat Repeat effect called Brain Dance.

Finally I added me reading Maya Angelou’s poem, “Awaking in New York”.

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#4


I used the vocoder on SM7B the Roland DJ 808 I processed thru some vocals,plastic icicles, paper shreds in plastic bags, a maraca with a drum sequence programmed in. I then took the clips from the filled bags and using follow action in Abelton Live moved thru the clip to create 4 new clips. I then took these clips and added to the other clips. I then reran the follow action with a 1 1 1 setting to get the final layered tones. This one was fun to make, I enjoy bringing the ASMR sounds of the paper and the plastics into my creations.

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#5

hello everyone,

i used excerpts from six of my own recordings:

  1. thunder storm in england
  2. canto xxvii from my recent album inferno
  3. recording outside a temple, around 6.45 a.m., from my daily 12km walk
  4. semis (cicadas) from sakura park opposite my house
  5. the classic MSX konami game “penguin adventure” played at 1% speed (many thanks to my brother for the great sessions setting up a retro gaming system on a raspberry pi)
  6. a baby crying in amsterdam airport

i sequenced the samples then played them twice: once panned left at an octave down, and once panned right at regular tuning. for a “filter” i simply applied a volume cut every bar on the right in channel. i was horrified at the way the baby sample came out, right near the end, all zombie-like…

(track subtitle is a reference to that great song from the cure’s album “the head on the door”)

other than hearing the scary baby from amsterdam, have a great weekend!!

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#7

I thought it would be interesting to see what it sounds like to use samples to process other samples. So Ioaded up six samples, some of which I’ve used for other Junto stuff:

1 piano notes
2 lawnmower
3 a fountain at the Watergate hotel
4 sounds made by the planet Saturn
5 random voice mail left by some telemarketer
6 a crosswalk light saying “wait”

then I put the samples in a list (1 to 6) and ran through each one, doing two things:

  1. adding or subtracting a function of the sample just before it in the list
  2. skipping a number of milliseconds (basically downsampling) with the skip size dependent on the value of the other sample

when I fiddled with the parameters of these two functions, some really interesting tones emerged. I also got a ton of high-frequency noise, so I applied an actual low-pass filter that I swept using two LFOs. I put some reverb on there to smooth it a little.

the whole thing is coded in ChucK, i’ll stick it up on my Github.

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#8

Hey All, My filter was actually taking the sample and spreading it over 6 tracks with various fx of all sorts, pitching up octaves and down octaves. I used a lot of guitar rig and ableton fx. The filter works better on some sounds than others. I really like what it did to the fox bark, the bongos and the mouse click. I start with the clean sample then the filter and back to the clean sample to give you an idea of what the filter is doing. It changes according to pitch and attack and decay so gives a good variety. Cool assignment Marc.

Peace, Hugh

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#10

Righto, I stuffed up my initial submission since I didn’t read the brief properly. I’m blaming this on the fact I’ve just started some long service leave and my soul is buzzing a bit at present. Notes for this new submission (adhering to brief this time) below:

I used the following sounds from my personal collection:

  • tape hiss emulation
  • radio static with a high frequency tone
  • microwave oven operating
  • the resonance of a tank/cannon shaft
  • walking through the city
  • Climate Strike protest
  • Blue Faced Honeyeater (from a 1950s EP of Australian Birdsongs)
  • Runout groove of the above EP.

I sequenced these tracks in Ableton and applied a 3 band Filter Delay. A bandpass for low, mid and high frequency bands.

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#11

@tristan_louth_robins I love how you twist something musical - really musical - out of what I’d consider to be non-musical sources. You’re making me think that I need to change how I listen to the world…

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#12

The playlist is now rolling:

#13

Hello everyone!

I used 7 sounds

  • boiling water
  • analogic telephone
  • wood door
  • a key falling to the floor
  • My own voice
  • voices of a crowd
  • One VST

I used the same effect filter in all sounds: beat mosaic from Ableton Live, but I changed some parameters.
In my voice I used also a delay and I repeated the phrase: You can talk in Portuguese.

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#15

@disquiet, can you please omit 0403a and include my resubmission (0403b - below) instead? The first one didn’t really follow the assignment brief properly. Thanks!

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#16

Sure thing. Just made the switch.

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#17

I feel like I kind of screwed up this task because it mentioned there should be a variety of successive, unrelated sounds that don’t overlap, and I didn’t have much time. However, I really wanted to do this one anyway, because I really liked the idea of building a filter in weird ways.

I recorded about 6 different sounds on my phone (though only playing the cello and guitar made it through clearly, and I only used one other, a tambourine) then I took a speaker to a nearby riverbank with an abandoned building across the way and pointed the speaker at it with a microphone set back to record the reflections. Despite feeling like I messed up the task, I had fun and I like the character of the sound that resulted from it. So, I can’t really feel that bad about it.

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#18

@disquiet, thank you for that!

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#19

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#20

@howthenightcame: thank you! Yes, particularly enjoy seeking out musicality from sounds - especially resonances and complex frequencies. :slight_smile:

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#21

I grabbed six samples from Japan, Luxembourg, Copenhagen and New York and recorded them to tape and added to a Eurorack Hacked Tape-machine by Xavier Gazon - voltage controlled and put through filters and delays - and re-recorded back into Ableton live for some minor EQ’ing and Eventide reveeeeeerrrrrrbbbbb.

I limited the original 6 samples to 7 seconds (Bells in Luxembourg, Restaurant in Tokyo, Shinkansen in Kyoto, Airport sounds, Ice packing in the Northsea, Sounds from Chinatown in New York).

Check out the Tape Player from Xavier here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ebCvCmNUo

Thank you for a fun assignment - that for me, pushed me to go more on the experimental side than usual…

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#22

I made a layered patch using 3 synths, which can be heard towards the end of the piece. Then I passed each separate voice through a notch filter using filterstation2 on the ipad, and finally passed the layered patch through the filter as well:

I also used this patch on 2 other pieces, This path I’m on, and Sisyphus, although the latter also includes some additional retro patches.

I am having some uploading issues, sorry for the deletions and repostings. I hope you enjoy.

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#23

Hi All,

A bit of a recursive process on modular - using a randomly switched CV to control various parameters …

Have a great week!

h u :slight_smile:

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#24

i played a short midi phrase and had that repeating
used iris 2 - kept loading a random preset throughout (sometimes a bit abrasive)
had it filtered through loop slippery in live8 and some reverb

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