This track is an attempt to imagine the sounds of insects/birds that have emerged through synthetic evolution, far in the future (25 years or so, somewhere distant from our planet).

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For this track I tried to use a similar method to Frippertronics at least with my cursory understanding. I used bird samples in Samplr with the tape loops technique feel through long delays to build up a wall of sound.I also built up a drone using Droneo as well as some slowed down samples.

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Dreams, but with touches of modem-esque fritiniency.
Gear: OP-1, modem, PS-2 (Cicada), Chase Bliss Tonal Recall, generic plate verb, some photos.

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i was staying in the northumberland countryside last week and had the time and space to listen to birds.

funnily enough i took a robert macfarlane book with me but it wasnt til the project came thru that i picked it up. woller is a word in that book (landmarks) for a seal waddle (saw lots of seals around farne and stockton)

i’d recorded a load of birds at a junction waiting for a train to pass, there were loads of sparrows, jackdaws and tits; not sure what else

i denoised and converted the recording to midi so you could say it’s composed by the birds.
ran thru zynfx ddly and freqecho then had the recording of the birds appended towards the end

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Modulated sinewaves and a birdy sample from Iris 2.

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Hi, I thought fritiniency as a granular music genre.
I used mainly granular file players (Fog and Grain3) from Cabbage (Csound frontend)

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Gorgeous. Love the concept, love the execution.

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Really appreciate the structure, feels like it has a direction and narrative to it.

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This is my contribution to this weeks challenge, and my first ever at it. I made the original field recording on a Zoom H1N earlier this year at Leighton Moss Bird Sanctuary, near Morecambe Bay, Lancashire UK. The track was created entirely in apps on an IPad Air 2018, no hardware or computers involved. I edited the original field recording wav in Hokusai, imported it into Cubasis, and arranged further additional spot samples against it (a clip of the birds twittering into Sampletoy for real time multitouch pitch variations, a pitch shifted child’s ‘twirly tube’ toy sample, the static and bird like computer glitch noises from Fractal Bits, and a clip of a jet going over from the original field recording .) The tuned percussion sound was the cykle sequencer app driving a patch on Audiokits’ free Synth One synth app. FX: Eventide Blackhole and Blamsoft reverbs, FAC Maxima for mastering. The untuned percussion was actual shotgun blasts from the shooting grounds immediately adjacent to the bird sanctuary. An odd juxtaposition, hence the title.

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Hi - interested to know how you achieved the extreme slowing?

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Hi folks,
Created on iPad with Droneo and Ripplemaker, LFOs from Rozeta modulate volume and various effect sends…
:smile_cat:

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Hey all,

I managed to get one done with two hours to spare!!

I wanted to emulate a cacophony of birdsong with my Microbrute. Much patching and LFO weirdness ensued. Recorded 4 separate tracks then warped/reversed/added reverb in Ableton.

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Excellent. Welcome to the Junto!

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Field recordings and Modular synth… the late night chirping in the studio.

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I used the stretching functions in Adobe Audition :slight_smile:

Paulstretch is the classic one though! You might find this interesting: https://cdm.link/2018/02/free-plug-brings-extreme-paulstretch-stretching-daw/

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Didn’t quite write anything worth sharing this week but really enjoying the contributions. Always interested in hearing and learning about the different approaches. Thanks.

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Thank you! Yes, I knew about Paulstretch, but I choose to limit myself to IPad only, no desktop DAW. (Everything else about the workflow makes it worth it.) An app called Hokusai has a fairly good extreme timestretch, I could probably get something up to that with repeated passes of it.

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This made me laugh - completely mad! :slight_smile:

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