#32

First Junto for a long time. something of a NY resolution maybe… Anyway there was no ice left in the freezer tonight so I used some of Jason’s nice recording. Played it live with a Max/MSP patch that loops / pitchshifts and brassages the sound. It also grabs fragments of the input and puts them into a convolution reverb, so the sounds get convolved with fragments of themselves. By adding feedback you can get beautiful drones or - more often - a glade of glitches as at the end here. No post-processing except cutting a boring bit out of the middle. Happy New Year to all, x GUS

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#33

I’m not sure how I feel about how this turned out, but as I feel like I’ve mentioned before I know I have a tendency to get picky and needlessly stressed with music projects and I feel that’s extremely against the spirit of why I like doing these tasks. So, I figured I’d just let it go. Besides after being busy for a while I was excited to get back to doing one of these and I thought the tribute to the very first was a great jumping back point.

This is all made from a single recording. My ice cube was in a brandy snifter, because I wanted to swirl it around the glass. However, that only really came in use with the background texture, which is made up of a granulized version of that. It was a good excuse to try some of these new plugins that were given out as holiday gifts. The blast made with a buffer freeze and pitch shifter got most of its power from that new Waves distortion that was given away and the other two parts are using that new NI reverb Raum.

A lot of this was done by the seat of my pants, a short splice of the ice cube dropping into the glass became a pitched melody, but I ended up not liking it, so I improvised a little thing as the texture played. I like the sounds and textures I created with the sample, but I’m not sure about the actual use of them. Shrug. Happy to be back to having some time for the Junto nonetheless.

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#34

Great atmosphere. Well-manipulated too, I didn’t really recognise the sounds!

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#35

All sounds, including drums and percussion, created from a recording of two ice cubes rattling in a glass. Granulation courtesy of Quanta and Iris 2.

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#36

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/my3-disquiet0418

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#37

Groovy! I shouldn’t be surprised, as your stuff is often good for toe-tapping.

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#38

Using the provided sounds made for a renewal of inspiration…

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#39

I believe this is the sixth year I have taken on this assignment - and for me this adds an extra level of effort to go in a at least somewhat new direction. Many of you know I often have detailed structures in mind in these pieces - but not here, this time. I tried to create this as intuitively as is possible using the tools as I do. I built up the sound script starting at the beginning, working forward, then going back and modifying by ear to get things to work. The different sections interrupt and tumble over each other. All are constructed from 3 short recordings of ice dropped into three different glasses. I made use of narrow IIR filters to get the clear, pitched ringing sounds. All sounds move around within a small virtual room, which gives the piece its somewhat claustrophobic
feel. Everything was processed and mixed using the RTcmix software toolkit.

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#40

I completely forgot about this until a couple of hours ago so it’s a little rushed. Ignoring that, every sound is from a 10 second clip of ice being shaken in a glass. All sample recording, processing and arrangement was done on an MPC (using an SM58 Beta). The only effects were a delay and reverb (both Boss 500 series). The samples were made into 5 instruments: a bass, a wooshing pad, some percussion, a harpsichordish sound, and a lead. The lead is using a very short loop which I would ordinarily not do (feels a bit like cheating) but I was rushing.

My typical process is relatively fast but ordinarily synth based so the sample processing slowed me down quite a bit. Despite that, I did make something fairly structured that might pass for a composed track. There isn’t anything hugely noteworthy about the approach I took beyond trying to turn the samples into instruments then writing and performing as I might on some synths.

Beyond the general process I was also trying a new approach to recording which proved unsuccessful for two reasons. First of all I was listening on different speakers so the mix is poor, secondly I was recording a different signal path on a different device and ended up clipping but didn’t have time to redo.

In any case, the process was fun; I’ll try and put in a better effort next week!

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#41

Happy New Year!

So I took recordings that were provided in a newsletter and tried to make a simple track with just them not using any external samples or instruments. I’m happy that I’ve made it having only few hours during the flight to relatives. Made in GR-16 and later mixed down in Cubasis

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#42

I really like the way the sample has been used musically yet remained musical. I had something like this in mind for mine, but I ended up leaving it too late and had to rush. In any case, this is really nice work.

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#43

I’m really impressed with how tonal you kept this while retaining the timbre and character of ice. I kept hoping some more elements would join the ice sounds. I’d very much like to see this worked into a more extended track.

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#44

i’ve only missed one of these - i was computerless for a few months - & i do quite delight in this tradition; thanks Marc, as ever.

I took the opportunity to listen back to my previous submissions - they have been in something like conversation i think; i have tried to make each new one a kind of commentary on the previous years… After listening to last year’s reletively un-filtered, though aggressively edited piece, i got to thinking that i should make something totally anonymised/transformed, ideally unrecognisible. I started in a similar place and made a thing i like quite a lot - a spliced, chaotic, busy thing. I then took tiny sections of that and put 'em through multiple granular delays, trying to keep the sound * clean * - unfiltered/effected, kept at actual pitch - even as it’s blurred, abstracted. I then layered these sections up into this protracted drone thing; i kind of fear the intermediate steps are * better *, but, well, it’s nine o’clock on Monday night & i’ve got a deadline to hit, y’know?

Thanks again Marc - these projects have been a delight these past nine years. ^______^

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#45

Love the way this track builds, from those rising flourishes through to the harmonious chorus.

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#46

@chalkwalk thank you for listening and also for your feedback. I am planning to use this recording in a multichannel sound art piece I am exhibiting next month at Portland State University. It will be joined by other sounds. I will post more information about it soon and include instructions on how to experience this piece once I get it all finished. It’s fun to have these exercises because it is helping me create additional material for my projects using an approach I may not otherwise try.

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#47

Hi all, I did the very first ice Junto project so I thought I’d jump back in with this one.

I sampled ice in a cup with Koala on iOS (iPhone 6s), manipulated it in there and then took it to Audioshare. Title is a Vonnegut reference and the photo is a details of a drawing I did.

Thanks to MW and all the juntonauts. I’ve been listening for years and years.

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#48

I did it! Finally put something together in time for the deadline. I recorded a few ice cubes dropping into a mason jar and then swirling around. Every sound except the kick drum came from the sample, all processed within the elektron model:samples. I applied some compression and mastering to level things out. It was a fun way to dive into the new machine, while also challenging myself to try out a new genre. I’ve been listening to Burial lately, and I’m realizing that future garage (if you will) is a genre that really resonates with me. I think my 2020 goal is going to be producing an EP inspired by the likes of Burial, with some ambient interludes thrown in for fun. Anyway, thanks for listening.

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#49

Fun way to break the ice of the New Year.

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#50

Started with a binaural recording of ice jostling in a glass, glass moving around the mic. Imported recording into SoundBow app and manipulated visually by dragging ‘bow’ strings around the visual field while small balls race around and define which parts of my recording will play…

P.S. if anyone is having same issue I was with not having a share/embed button in soundcloud try disabling your ADBLOCK extension. Share didn’t show up as option until I disabled my adblock extension.

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#51

didnt feel like recording ice, thought i’d use last years sample, but then decided to use last years track: iec

had 4 versions of the track in iris 2 starting from different positions, playing at a much lower frequency and through vinyl and ozone 8 elements too

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