#28

wow, so much creativity here, i love hearing all the different styles of beats and then also hearing the tracks that transcended the percussive nature of the sounds, all equally thought-provoking… also really inspiring to hear folks who chose the same sounds but translated everything into such a wide variety of interpretations: no one here used frogs or bells exactly the same way, quite the contrary, y’all went in amazingly varied directions that transported me into completely different spaces every time. thanks for all the musical brilliance here!
(i’m relatively new to disquietjunto, so i hope it’s ok to comment on what i’ve heard so far, perhaps i’ll have more to write after everyone is done posting tracks too…)

so here’s mine, after hearing everyone else’s i feel like i might’ve gotten too obsessed with exploring the sound of paper alone :joy:… couldn’t help it though @spacelordmother made a kit i couldn’t resist :raised_hands:
sounds processed through Max patches of mine, see the soundcloud description if you’re curious about those(there’s also a deep bass sound which is actually a sine-tone phase-modulated by the sounds of the kit, hard to explain… but that might be the only sound which doesn’t come directly from the kit… then again one could say every sound is comprised of sine-tones anyways, so it’s kinda like i used the chicken to kick the egg :egg: :chicken: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:), and then edited, mixed, mastered in Logic.

for some odd reason the title “Rabid Pandemic Disquiet Alembic” kept screaming back at me as I made it :sweat_smile: :laughing:

Hope ya enjoy :massage_woman: :massage_man: :dancer: :man_dancing: Cheers :beers:

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#29

I made this track in FL Studio, (which I have not used much in a very long time).

But I had a great time manipulating the samples that @RABID provided.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4jq4h8dlfzz4i1e/disquiet0433_Raj.zip/file

I used the tools built in to FL studio to “chop” the samples.
Some of them were a bit long and I used the “piano roll” to pitch them down. I used the limiter for some side chaining PUMP action and I used reverb for one of the tracks. ( the public pool reverb, because who knows when we can safely go back there.)

THANKS @RABID !

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#30

my pleasure! (wasn’t sure if my kit would get used, was worried it was all over the place, i’m honored)
and i love the creeping darkness of your track: my favorite stylez/feelz of all the music i gravitate towards… gotz that nice edge to it. Thank YOU! :pray:

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#31

Downloaded a few of the many lovely kits from last week, loaded them into the Octatrack, and ended up using sounds from @samarobryn, @chaonaut, @jks, @william_boldenweck, @blunderspublik, and @spacelordmother.

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#32

I ran the ISOLATION SAMPLE KIT from @brej live through some dynamic pattern generators to create the beats, and played a lot with density and space in the mix and performance.

Listening to the new tracks, it’s interesting to see how many folks, myself included, felt the need to add reverb to mostly dry samples. Apparently we’re all listening in comfortably padded cells.

I also hear a need for tonal content; this is sometimes, and impressively, coaxed from the original samples, but often it’s been added by some other instrument.

@ymeynard it’s serendipitous you chose my sounds and the sounds I chose (from @brej) . Thanks for all your SoundCloud notes on process.

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#34

I used @square_wave Digital Destruction kit. I was going for a hip-hop sort of feel with a slower tempo and a little swing but it ends up feeling quite industrial anyway. Wrote a little melody which is being played out by a plaits in speech synthesis mode. There is also a two vco drone going in the background. The pitch of the drone is being modulated by a slowish sawtooth lfo. The drone and plaits are fed into a sallen key type filter and then into chronoblob, the kit samples are totally dry. Then all is mixed together.

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#35

My own beat kit consisted of found sounds in my kitchen - it was a fun exercise to see what I could make! For the second part of the assignment, I used a number generator and picked beats from the following to accompany my own kit:

@PopGoblin
@AuralAntithesis
@brej

I also upgraded [finally] to Ableton 10 and tried out the new Echo effects on this track!

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#36

Glad my froggies found their ways into some of your worlds, even if it seems to have been via the kitchen in at least one case! :slight_smile: I’ll look forward to checking all the tunes here out later when I’ve got more time.

I did a vid this time: https://youtu.be/qTrXZ9Df2K0 - 'tis on soundcloud too tho & all tagged up. Pretty shabby but it’s quite liberating to let it be, so I’m happy enough. I did a poem again, over a beat made from @howthenightcame ‘s hitting on Shakespeare (you bashin’ the classics made me feel it was okay to throw some words in again, it’s what I wanted to do/fitted with what i was already up to - but I learnt that it wasn’t always the case that words/singing/etc were welcome on the junto, so if ever any problems with this someone please let me know… just going with my flow) & also @sevenism 's lovely windy birdy in the gorse bush, 'cos i love me wildlife… the beat’s a bit aggressive i guess but i like a bit of that too, loved my jungle/d&b etc growing up & still do…

anyways hope all are well
ape leisure
as always

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#37

Disquiet0434
Strike Apparatus
• Key: F# minor BPM: 200 Time signature: 3/2 DAW: Reaper
• Instruments:
• Plug-ins:
• Used Random’s dice roller to get the number for the project to use: 34
• https://www.random.org/dice/?num=8
• https://soundcloud.com/boldenweck/hail-mary_cereal-edition_disquiet0433
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#38

I created 3 separate drum racks in ableton by dragging in the individual one-shots from the disquiet0433 Kit Bit participants below. I experimented with them using my Push to create the beats. These beat kits were layered with some reversed vocals to create a little meditative glitchy jam. It was awesome hearing so many wicked samples, and that made it super hard to chose which ones to work with. Thanks for the great samples everyone!

Samples used from the following kits:
William Boldenweck’s [boldenweck] “Hail Mary Cereal Edition”

Karl Katschthaler [ausgesuchtestenohren] “Old Bell Kit”
Andreas Winterer- Krakenkraft [winterer] “Electromagnetic”
Banders Duckpow [duckpow] “Erhu Percussion”

*since I’m a new user I can’t use more than 2 links in a post

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#40

Very interesting stuff from the tracks this week, i was just scanned as i was posting this. Some great use of samples I’m sure i could learn from. My piece was kinda rushed as my deadline loomed before I had even realised.

for this i used beats by Krakenkraft and Popgoblin, from last weeks disquiet assignment plus a drum sample from my archives for a pulse. Two variations on a melody where applied to pull the sections together. delays fx etc…

I didnt start this until late so if there is an element of random about it, well thats because i kind of just rolled the dice and hope I turned up something interesting

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#41

Hi! I chose the Shakespeare kit by @howthenightcame because it sounded nice and the concept made me smile. While on an isolation walk with my partner around the neighbourhood talking about Shakespeare and the current pandemic, she remembered the frenetic hand-washing in Macbeth, and I took that as a theme for the title, art and video.

In terms of process, I am moving towards mini sound programmes using probability and automation rather than playing parts. I got a little carried away so unfortunately the original samples may not be all that recognisable by now. This is the first time I’m taking part in the Junto and listening to all the kits and the productions I just think that the whole project and level of skill and creativity is inspiring and you lot are great!

The tools I used for this are:

[software] Ableton Live with Max MSP followed by Steinberg Wavelab.
[hardware] Ableton Push 2, Korg Nanokontrol, Yamaha CS-5, Kenton Pro Solo mk3, Edirol UA-25

Track

Short film (1 minute)

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#42

For this week’s project, I used the Household Samples drum kit created by @brej.

Continuing to explore the use of speech rhythms in music, I used both Ableton Live’s audio-to-MIDI function as well as the Widisoft Audio to MIDI plugin to create a drum track, guitar track (AAS Strum GS-2) and saxophone track (Karoryfer Samples Weresax) from the LIbrivox recording of chapter 5 (“Hunting Bees From Buckwheat”) of John Ready Lockard’s “Bee Hunting.”

I included samples of the words “bees” and “buckwheat” spoken by the reader Mike Pelton. Additional buzz was provided by my Bugbrand Board Chirper.

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#43

Y’all made such amazing sounds last week that I had trouble deciding who’s sounds to use, so, (whoops!) I just used all of them.

@Ausgesuchtestenohren @fbusche @AuralAntithesis @Leonard_Bowman @brej @MikeJDayton @verosoma @square_wave @DetritusTabuIII and the kit @banabila made is TOTALLY SICK (though I didn’t get it in time to use it)

Also, I can’t figure out if it’s respectful, or totally obnoxious, that i tagged all of you in this.
Correction: I tried to tag all of you in this, though apparently the limit is ten. So here is everyone else, sadly, or thankfully, tagless:

Yasha, bassling, DeDe, Sannicandro, Paul_Reiners, tristan_louth_robins, howthenightcame, chalkwalk, mode.analogue, Calmnesia, krakenkraft, baconpaul, joose, spacelordmother, krehg, RABID, duckpow, mateo, PopGoblin, blunderspublik, the-participant, kspringer, jks, samarobryn, chaonaut, wasabicube, sevenism, BennDeMole, Jorg, synthetivv, morgulbee,

Sincerely, I had such a blast working on this, it’s been the most fun I have had in the (dear god) seven years that I’ve been occasionally submitting a project to this group.

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#44

I downloaded lots of these great kits, but in this short little track I used my own recycling sounds, @Ausgesuchtestenohren’s bells (like everyone else), @mateo’s bitwig drums, and @fbusche’s buchla sounds. Thanks to everyone!

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#45

@mateo is there a way to properly tag you in my description on Soundcloud?

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#46

Hi,

I have used the beats of The Atlas Room @theatlasroom, Jmmy Kpple @jks and Quiet’s Color @synthetivv for this week.

https://soundcloud.com/verosoma/disquiet-junto-0434

I have used audacity to isolate some sounds, sonic pi to create some loops and audition to put it all together.

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#47

“Your Uncle Mows Your Tuna” -Disquiet 0434

74 BPM

Minimal and Crunchy

Looping and chopping time-stretched samples

No additional instruments or samples

Used samples from four of the kits:

“Udu Kit” by DeDe - @DeDe

“Shakespere Drums” by HowTheNightCame - @howthenightcame

“433 Drum Kit” by Calmnesia - @calmnesia

“Electromagnetic Kit” by Krakenkraft - @krakenkraft

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#48

I’ve been putting all my junto related stuff here https://soundcloud.com/premiere-etape

thanks!

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#49

@DeDe - I am impressed with how you gave it a clear and strong rhythm while also giving a feel like it could really be the sounds going on in a single room. The bass/guitar really accent it well and everything moves along nicely.

@renegog - I like the water sound here and in particular how I could imagine it being made by some sort of special water sculpture which creates the rhythmic drips and trickles. The melodic sound also sounds like a tubular bell in the bass but a water drop in the treble: nice work.

@Leonard_Bowman - I enjoyed the mix of rapid and glitchy percussion against a down tempo and slow ambiance. Listening it sounds almost like a backing for something, but at the same time complete in itself.

@tristan_louth_robins - The melody makes me think country, as do the “improvised percussion instruments”. The production feels interestingly electronic and open. The dissonance that the piano section brings also acts almost as a bridge which I thought was a great idea.

@brej - The vocal and bells really tied this together. Alongside the noisey percussive elements it felt very evocative.

@william_boldenweck - I enjoyed the idea of using all the samples and the way it felt random but insistent at the same time; as though it was going somewhere but didn’t quite know where. I was also pleased to hear my guinea pig in there :smiley:.

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