#14

Really had fun working with these samples. Great stuff.

I decided to load all of the samples into my digitakt… which totally ran out of project memory so I selected a subset based on sounds I liked. Everything was done in that machine with no external processing. And it was just a 1 bar loop.

I tried sticking to the rule of not manipulating the sounds much… but quickly found myself breaking it. Some of the tracks are using very low random trigs to keep some essence of aleatoric music. Other sounds are used in a more granular / time stretch way, plus other random bits and pieces that I’ve forgotten :sweat_smile:

I recorded myself playing live with the samples - mainly just messing with filters… it’s quite obvious from the way the music evolves I only had access to one screen at a time.
As it was done on the fly I see little bits that are rough or I’d like to change - but I also kind of like it that way. Did a few different takes and each one came out a bit different in quite pleasing ways.

I usually just use (and really enjoy) using the Digitakt as a one shot drum sampler for most things I do. Rarely thing to use it in this more longer ambient, textural kind of way. I did moreso when I first bought it and was still experimenting - so I’m really glad to have got the chance to reconnect with that way of using it a bit through this weeks project

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#15

Amazing and really atmospheric use of the samples here. And the way it slowly fades out is lovely.

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#16

Hey All, Big up to Patricia Wolf for the samples-beautiful. I had done 3 separate tracks and was going to mix them but I stacked all 3 on top of each other and they were basically the same length so I made that the track and saved you guys a lot of time. Hope all are well.

Peace, Hugh

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#17

Thanks so much. I didn’t manipulate the samples at all beyond layering, looping, and chopping.

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#18

Such a pleasure repurposing the music from this incredible project from @patriciawolf

The four samples used for this piece:

Cellular Chorus harp_b367e6
Cellular Chorus harp_cca1fe
Cellular Chorus P6_13_318339
Cellular Chorus_Harp_790dc1

I kept it playful and fun, imagining a group friends together playing samples on their phones using just a volume knob to control the sounds. I love @patriciawolf’s work and did my best to honor her original performances including timing and emphasis, so I left the original timing of each sample and just looped each sample, layering each one on top of the other using just the volume knob to manipulate these samples. Panned each performance to put the listener amongst friends :wink:

Looking forward to listening through the pieces posted for this. Thanks to @disquiet and @patriciawolf for the opportunity to iterate this awesome project. Much love.

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#19

Hello Everyone,

Here is my remix of my Cellular Chorus project. I followed the rules and did not significantly alter the sounds. I did some eqing in Ableton with EQ Eight and some additional fade in/fade out, but aside from that and some adjustment of levels there were no changes. It was just about layering and arranging the sounds into a song. It’s funny because I recorded all these sounds piecemeal or exported them from other projects I have done in the same key not knowing how they would all sound together. I am very pleased with the results and love hearing everyone else’s arrangements and interpretations. Thank you so much for participating in this! Have any of you tried Cellular Chorus on your smartphones with friends? You can access it here at cellularchorus.com. Just make sure you have “Silent Mode” turned off otherwise it will not work. Thank you!

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#20

My overall feeling is that I didn’t really keep to the “spirit of the challenge” but I quite like the result. I only used 9 of the 64 samples and made something far more ambient than I originally had in mind. This is partly because I wanted to leave the samples in their original form for the most part.

The samples were all handled on my MPC. The ambient samples were looped with a little automation and delay/reverb as required. The vocals were cut into phrases and applied randomly with similar automation, an HPF and some manual panning. The two instrumental elements were treated similarly as loops and sat alongside the ambience.

In this case only one device (the MPC) was used. No external effects or even EQ in the mixer. My generally feeling is that I didn’t get the best out of the material available but I did enjoy the process and made something I quite enjoy.

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#21

I had played with Cellular Chorus earlier in the week and was mesmerised, so it was a treat to get the source material to work with.

I set the vocal samples on independent loops, and added another 2 loops for the foundation drone and “lead”, with LFOs controlling various parameters. Finally I had another LFO granulating the “bass” sample.
This was all done in a Digitakt, with outboard delay modulation and reverb provided by a Mirage and a Polara. Recorded the stereo mix into Live and ran it through Ozone.

A huge thank you to @disquiet and @patriciawolf for making this happen!

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#22

Beautiful!!! I was hoping you would do a remix. Straight from the source!

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#23

really nice one (and 20 characters)

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#24

Here’s four little remixes. I was capturing in real time and looping bits and bobs. This was done just from the website pulling sounds into my granular looper patch on my organelle. I’ve used it for live performance but this is the first time I’ve used it for remixing.

Very rough and ready, but I’m trying to do things quickly nowadays.

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#25


Tried to make this very simple and minimalistic: only vocal tracks (including birds) from the source material with minimal adjustments (mainly volume and pan). Ahhh….

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#26

So, so hard but I tried to stick with the rules and do minimal processing. Listened to all the samples and then started to combine them, first 2 and 3 together to create a rhythm and sound that I liked. Kept a noisy one in the background all the way through, while offsetting slightly the additional samples I added. In the end I used 10 of them. Only did a little bit of limiting and a tiny bit of compression on one of them, to even the dynamics out. The result somehow made me think of some temple on a distant island, viewable but inaccessible.

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#27

I guess that this is essentially a performance of this piece - albeit on different equipment than originally intended. John Cage would surely have loved this

I made a supercollider/grid based instrument that laid out the samples (coloured by category so it didn’t quite become a memory game :slight_smile: ) in an 8x8 grid on one side and on the other a 5x5 “nearness” style mixer and channel and rate selectors - I then wired supercollider to Ableton via 6 channels of loopback and had Valhalla delays and reverb setup. At some point I listened to some of the playlist and realised that everyone else loved the vocal loops too - so I tried to not use those too much. This is a straight recording of a ‘performance’ on the instrument I made.

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#28

I made a quick max patch was created to generate chaotic yet natural alterations of playback speed for the chosen elements. a bit of filtering and reverb were used to allow the elements to sit together as a whole. The bass element heard is one of the voice elements stretched and pitched down further.

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#29

Disquiet0426
Cellular Chorus
• Key: F# Major BPM: 120 Time signature: 4/4 DAW: Reaper
• Instruments: n/a
• Plug-ins: Waves, Izotope, Youlean
• Used Random.com to randomly choose which source tracks to use
• Placed the chosen tracks on to 3 separate tracks in Reaper

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#30

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#31

Long time since I’ve played Djunto…!

I took a handful of samples, mainly voices, as a chance to play with Takt. This is the first time I’ve played with the updated engine… simply amazing app!

I did bend the rules a little, while exploring the tonal mappings available.

Really looking forward to exploring Takt more - my mind is a bit blown! Thanks @its_your_bedtime!

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#32

Seven samples were used to create this track. Cellular Chorus 0_Coast_ff82a6 was played several times (silently) with an envelope follower providing pitch modulations on six Ableton Simpler instances containing separate samples.

An Euclidean rhythm generator generated three separate base notes, based on differing-length sequences and beats. These were sent to the six Simplers (the pitch modulation modifying the base notes). The Euclidean rhythms were introduced, one at a time, and removed as the track progressed.

The six samples were:

  • Cellular Chorus P6_1_2780f1
  • Cellular Chrous 0_Coast_c85d9c
  • vocal improv 2_3ea68a
  • vocal improv 3_08936e
  • vocal improv 4_089670
  • Ahh 1._30997cmp3

The Simplers were treated differently, all used Transient detection but with various levels of sensitivity, some in Mono, some Poly and some in Thru mode.

A convolution reverb was added to give some space.

The vocal improvs, vocal improv 2_3ea68a, in particular, gave me a Twin Peaks vibe, hence the title (I know, Washington, not Oregon, but north west, nonetheless, so I’m running with it).

Thanks, Patricia, for providing the samples and the basis for this Disquiet Junto prompt.

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#33

An arrangement from samples provided by Patricia Wolf, based on her Cellular Chorus project. The samples provided all of the audio for this project. I used a bit of reverb here and there to smooth some transitions.

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