#9

This is basically a dubstep track. I used white noise in two ways.

  • In the traditional dubstep manner, I used white noise filtered by frequency during the two buildup sections.
  • During the parts where Jimmy Swaggart is speaking, I used white noise with grain delay modulated by the LFO amount.
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#10

The playlist is now rolling:

#11

Just left a bunch of stuff on all night. Put in a binaural drone. Played into the wild blue. Tried to get the machine monotony and the overall eeriness of being in a tin can at 35k. The last one is just like all the others…

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#12

I used a piece of ambient music which is still at work, but (shortened it and) changed the whole instrumentation and added destruction fx and EQing, so that the sounds are more rough and noisy and have more impact even within the sound of the airplane drone. To test this, I used a inflight recording and mixed it with the music. The result is what you maybe would hear inside a A320…

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#13

I love that kind of noise - it lends itself to all kinds of pareidolia - dreams of distant music.

Another Supercollider track - this time with midi control (I’m getting the hang of this supercollider thing :slight_smile: ) - white noise, lots of filters & a couple of sine waves to give a bit of weight (and Valhalla reverbs because why would I not…)

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#14

Improve air travel by making it sound like a train.

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#15

Calming sounds of the process of boarding, the business of luggage being moved around and people walking about, with the coming noise as an ominous drone that moves in and out. Lot of different instruments, Solina (keep calm) and a Minimoog (dangerous drone) among them.

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#16

I’ll be on a plane in just a few weeks. In thinking about this I decided to put together a somewhat dronish piece that could be listened to in a loop. I thought about the change between activity and the lack of it and wanted that reflected.

Music for Airplanes was written for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Cymbals, Gong, Violin, Viola, Cello and String Bass.

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#17

Disquiet0427

Music for Flying

  • Key: G minor BPM: 40 Time signature: 4/4 DAW: Reaper
  • Instruments:
  • Plug-ins: Captain Plugins, Izotope, Waves, Youlean
  • Simple and mechanical this time. Four tracks: drums, bass, chords, melody
  • added a .wav file from Freesound that was recorded from inside a airplane in flight.
  • Thank you: Mrthenoronha for the sound normal noise Inside an airplane
  • Please, consider listening my music on bandcamp: https://mrthenoronha.bandcamp.com/album/mstech-educational-projects-soundtrack
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#19

This week I was a little unsure of what I was going to do; in particular I wasn’t sure if it would be best to include the aircraft drone in the track or not. I concluded that no-one would actually be listening through an aircraft sound system so I went “drone included”. In the end I didn’t get the music to employ the drone as a central element in the way that I’d wanted: I wanted to leave the drone intact and try and treat it as a musical element but it ended up textural instead.

My plan was to have an aircraft drone fade in the out to illustrate the musical elements with and without it. My first pass was only with synths but in the end I wasn’t too sure if they worked so I ended up using some sample based elements: piano and an upright bass. I got some aircraft noise and automated their volume to have that fade in/out I planned. I wrote three looping elements which I arranged out then improvised the final piano part in a single full length take.

As usual I used my MPC (sequencing, drone and bass part) and Boss 500 effects. This week they were joined by Peak, Volca FM and Casio CT x700 (providing piano). I ended up overdriving some of the mixer channels to add some texture and slightly overdrove my EQ which I hadn’t intended but it worked out fine. All in all another fun week.

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#20

Photo Courtesy of Sydney Tran

The core audio of this piece is a cabin recording I made during a flight a couple of years ago. I took the raw recording and made a wavetable from it for use in the Waldorf Nave app, then processed it with various parameters on the Nave.https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/kone-disquiet0427

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#21

I had an idea for this one about finding patterns in the white noise of the plane that turned into music. I’m not sure I capture my idea all that well, but here is something anyway.

I made the engine noise and the lead part with a Behringer Neutron. The rhythm came from Akemi’s Taiko. The plucked sounds from a 2hp pluck. Everything was sequenced with Hermod. The airplane beep and pilot talking were some royalty free sounds I found online. I tried to keep everything a little noisy in the end to keep the feeling that the music was imagined in the engine noise, but I don’t think it really worked out that well. In any case, I had fun with my first Disquiet Junto.

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#22

Nice video effects.Nice bass sound.

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#23

I originally took the prompt to include a bunch of white noise, then I just decided to pick some Ableton instruments that included white noise and figured they could blend with airplane white noise. I then wanted to add some punchy drums to get through the noise (tried to add more white noise to the snare and failed) and then a friend sent me a harmonica, so that had to go in.

Ableton Live
Hohner Special 20 Harmonica > SM57 > Presonus FireStudio Tube

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#24

I did the majority of my international (longhaul from Australia) travel in the first decade of this millennia. During that time my favourite music to listen/sleep to on planes was the Future Sounds of London’s Lifeforms album, just enough melodies and rhythms to carry me away from my economy seat and enough found-sound to let any cabin noise blend in without waking me. This is a lot simpler, yet with the same intent.

Created with a now recording of the rain sounds in my music room with some synth from my new Microfreak, mixed in Logic with some extra reverb and compression.

Thank you.

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#25

I’ve been wanting to do something like an MFA-inspired piece with free-running loops for a while and what better time than this task? I downloaded a sample of airplane ambience from freesound, and I built the piece on top of it and then removed the ambience later. There are just the two virtual instruments (which are just built from tweaked presets in Reaktor’s SubHarmonic and Iris), and the loops are just sending MIDI to one of the two.

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#26

Another cross country commute in coach.
Airline ambience processed to add frightening subliminal sounds of metal fatigue, failing engines, and other scary stuff. Happy landings!

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#27

For this one I grabbed five harmonics, by eye, from a field recording I made on a trans-Pacific flight from SFO to AKL. The frequencies were: 45Hz (F#0), 158Hz (D#2), 341Hz (F3), 562Hz (C#4) and 2170Hz (C#6).

Five Ableton Corpus devices, set to either tube or pipe, were allowed to harmonise at those frequencies (or octaves thereof). They were then gated, in various ways, based the field recording. These were then sent to a group track that split the signal 50/50 wet and dry, the wet signal passing through a XILS 3.2 LE in FX mode for a ring mod and filter.

I then recorded 25 seconds of the resulting sounds and split them into four channels using the Regroover Pro software. These, depending on their pitch I considered to be bass, mids, treble and highs. The bass was Paulstretched by 8 times, the mids stretched by 4 times and the treble stretched by two. The four tracks where then arranged with a shimmer reverb and a touch of blackhole reverb and mixed with the original field recording.

Might not be particularly musical but it is somewhat evocative of being stuck in an aluminium tube at 35,000 feet.

[Edited because I completely forgot to mention the gating on each of the Corpus tracks.]

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#28

Title is pretty self-explanatory. Based on a real-life experience.

Technical things.
Several atmospheric drones layered to set the mood of flying in an airplane. The rest is just me improvising with sampled loops, trying to create something that sounds like an anxiety attack.

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#29


lately (as in last week) i was working with recordings made by placing a portable recorder inside a polystyrene fish box found on the streets of hong kong, then checking in the polystyrene box as luggage on my flight back from hong kong. i’ve done this a few times (the flight with the fish box). though it seemed too easy to use these recordings as a source for this week’s disquiet, so instead, since the project was announced while i was on a twelve hour bus ride, i used recordings of the bus ride itself. on my first flight back from hong kong, there was a camera beneath the nose of the plane that you could access via the headrest monitor. it was very beautiful watching the clouds.

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