hey peeps!

“Didn’t have much time to spend tweaking these - but basically spent a good while with our noisy froggies, couldn’t get a lot of tonal variety, though there are different croakers - I tried to listen out for interesting little rhythmical snippets, as they make a bunch of interesting beats, a bit like a shaker or something… I listened to them a good 20 mins, with the bats flying over the pond too - towards the end I became aware of a sympathetic resonance or something in my ear drums: i was hearing a sound they weren’t making, in my ears, a kind of complementary rhythm - they are quite loud and really get the old membranes bouncing! I haven’t done anything to the samples, just snipped at zero crossings, hope someone finds them useful!”

separate samples here:

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I have a tiny buchla, which consists of a touch sensing note memory, a 258J Osc, and a 292h lo pass gate. I made this kit by just jamming on the tsnm and spinning knobs.

buchla_kit.zip (1.1 MB)

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my original idea involving bowed deer antlers and spent bullets didn’t quite work out, so twenty minutes to midnight i picked up an empty cereal box.

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All sounds recorded off my DIY springboard / e - kalimba. pictured with the most common beater tools, a copper wire “bow” a screwdriver and a large zip tie.

The file should be downloadable off the soundcloud page, I made sure to mark the box.

Looking forward to next week, when I can choose a kit and make a track! (hope someone choose my kit too).

Stay healthy y’all!

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It’s comforting to know I’m not the only one who goes around visiting deserted playgrounds with a microphone in hand.

@baconpaul keeps mentioning this group in the Surge development Slack channel, so when they mentioned that this round was all about drum kit I jumped at the chance. I have been slowly amassing a collection of synth patches and field recordings for drum sounds so I decided to split 50/50 here.
There are some “normal” drum sounds made in Surge 1.6.6, and some more fun sounds recorded in a playground, a library, and an empty public pool.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=13wxLmNJwDIUkXPM29-AnBd3Xwni4hRzq

My Surge sounds mostly come from abusing the built-in Reverb: at small sizes in makes impressive metallic resonances. I’m happy to provide the patches if asked but I plan on tweaking them a little more to formally release a sound set.
The recorded sounds were captured with Zoom handheld recorders and edited slightly in Reaper.

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SOUNDCLOUD:

DROPBOX [ Link to download individually edited one-shot samples ]

ABOUT
These samples were captured on my Zoom recorder today, using only the things around my house. I tried to incorporate sounds from the things that have been a part of my daily life in isolation; planting seeds, watering plants, closing doors, sanitizing things, making medicinal tinctures from Astragalus and Chaga, cutting my own hair and sewing masks. These drum samples are all sounds from activities I’ve just mentioned. Some of them have been pitched up or down inside of ableton.

Tried to upload individually on Soundcloud but my internet is too glitchy at the moment.**

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19mJHA5mbGVmdleK7Dk-7bux2EbMcJG9w?usp=sharing

Feels like I have way less time for anything creative in the current era but feels like I’ve missed a ton of Disquiet project. Recorded a handful of items lying about my garage including: sidewalk chalk, thumping the wall, skidding my foot on the ground, a comb, and a plastic baseball and bat.

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I hear you on this. So glad to see your name pop up.

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Hi! I recorded some kitchen sounds with an old zoom h2 recorder. I tried to remove any noises and to make usable sounds :slight_smile:
Thank you!
https://soundcloud.com/verosoma/disquiet0433-verosoma

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I’ve been experimenting with some digital destruction techniques lately and thought I’d apply some to this week’s assignment. Namely, in Ableton Live I put a chorus and a reverb and then five utilities with their gains turned all the way up, then a limiter. You can get some interesting glitches this way as the reverb tail decays. (I stole this technique from a Mr Bill video on youtube.) In this case I used it to get something reminiscent of lo-fi vinyl beat chopping.

I also was playing with some simple bit-reduced synthesis, which produced some more familiar low-bit-rate tones. I threw in one bit-reduced field recording. (OK, “field” in this case was my back yard. I’m not sure what the sound was, but I was trying to record moths and failing at that, it seems it’s too early in the season here.)

Enjoy!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SmDJA9jlUEr6yBmxsFNJZwNKM9aiMX3v?usp=sharing

(I was having trouble uploading to soundcloud…I may revisit that tomorrow and I’ll update this post if I can get that to work.)

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Hey All, Sorry I am late but here is my kit of loops. Look forward to hearing what people submitted.

Peace, Hugh

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Complicated week, and a complicated playlist. We had a ton of entries, and adding them all to a playlist stopped making sense, so what I did was add one track from each person who posted audio to SoundCloud, and in the 0434 project today I’ll explain folks should click on those individuals’ accounts to check out the beats. And if I neglected someone, just lemme know. These are the folks I included, and I’m pretty sure this is everyone who posted beats to SoundCloud:

  • Aural Antithesis
  • wasabicube
  • Spacelordmother
  • chaonaut
  • jmmy kpple
  • paul.reiners
  • Krakenkraft
  • quiet’s color
  • Tristan Louth-Robins
  • calmnesia
  • Sam Knot
  • Detritus Tabu3
  • hard math
  • verosoma
  • baconpaul
  • ausgesuchtestenohren
  • ktspringer
  • blunderspublik
  • Breanna Johnston
  • The Atlas Room
  • ¶radio hummingbird
  • L’expérience de Fred Busche
  • Ohm Research
  • s v n sm
  • thenewobjective

The playlist is here:

Thanks!

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a bit late but here is my kit

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