#22

so i didnt exactly follow the brief.
was going through some old music from last year and this track came on. my partner thought that it was the sound of the washing machine (some of the hi freq arp stuff has the same tone)
thought it was serendipitous to use this. remixed a little bit in audition

initially i was just gonna record the silent kitchen, i really hate appliance beeps. whenver possible i turn them off. ive turned off any sounds on my phone, and only have vibrate notifications where essential. likewise at self serve checkout i mute all the notifications ‘unexpected item in bagging area’ : nope.

i sort of like the idea of appliances just playing music and carrying off where they left off so that the length of the sound doesnt matter

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#23

From the brief I kept thinking about the Mood Organ described in PKD’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It’s described as a device that is able to put the user in a very specific mood like existential despair or an urge to just watch TV no matter what’s on.
It’s not described as a musical device, but I wanted to sonify what it would be like to experience using it. So this piece is about a person using his Mood Organ.
I imagined that it would have some sort of dosage mechanism so the user won’t get trapped in the experience and just wither away. I also thought about how a direct feed of someones inner workings would be rather confusing and chaotic to a third party and the sound reflects that.

I took sound bites from my library of field recordings and experimented with different stereo image processors and Sennheiser’s AMBEO Orbit plugin. I also recorded some Foley for the opening and created an atmospheric synth bed gluing everything together.

Context: the year is 2070 and most things are not what they used to be.

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#24

I would very much like to go to that teleportation bar.

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#25

Washing machines have a natural rhythm to them, but it’s not usually a very funky one. Our LG washer plays various cheerful little tunes for its alerts, but they’re too classical-sounding, and not groovy enough. Here’s a washing machine where the water sloshes around in tempo (made from sampled water drumming from the Baka Forest People of Southeast Cameroon album) and where the alerts are syncopated riffs in Mixolydian mode (played by me on electric piano in Ableton.)

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#26

I was thinking of a Philip K. Dick future in which we get into arguments with doors and locks and coffeemakers and a million-and-one other items we now understand as networked with Capitalism through the “internet of things.”

These three prompts, or ‘Selection Cues’ intended to provide a backdrop to the consumer while thinking about making a paid selection (exercising one’s Freedom as supplied by the market, etc.), have something to do with some kind of wacky sex machine, a la the Orgasmatron featured in Woody Allen’s Sleeper.

The music itself was made with the Elektron Digitone.

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#27

This is the sound of an electric dog polisher. Dog not included.

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#28

super nice :slight_smile: … 20chars :wink:

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#29

This one was a reflection on a plastic fisher-price plastic record player I bought from a thrift shop for my daughter when she was tiny. Someone had written the name Lorraine on the bottom of it, so I took a photo of that before I donated it last week. As for the song itself, I used a bitcrusher on a piece I wrote on mtron and ended up with this. The song had never really had a home, so I’m happy it found one here in a lovely aged, muffled, addled state.

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