#82

Woodshedding with some new toys - Atmosphere (Cycles&Spots), Excalibur (Exponential Audio), and Sandman Pro (Unfiltered Audio.)

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#83

In this short piece I explore some of the sonorities of the Hauptwerk virtual organ.

Rob Precht · disquiet0435 Song for Organ, Guitar, and Wavetable
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#85

from my woodshed -
working on bringing back lost skills, strengthening tendons/muscles, keeping hands flexible(15 years away from piano because of tendonitis from playing guitar too much, then got acupuncture to heal it down to a minimum a couple years ago, so i been practicing everyday again for the past year or so… have to be careful to not aggravate tendonitis and avoid beginnings of arthritis, etc.)… planning to integrate with a monome-grid256 app i’m still building… many things to practice and rebuild, taking much time, much patience… hard to explain… just a humble glimpse of a (re)beginning:


:sunrise: :stars:

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#86

My submission for this week here:

Inspired by someone’s handmade gear at a recent show, I made this similar box with an interior contact mic and guitar strings to generate spooky ambient sounds (pictured). It’s not as resonant and reverby as planned ;( .

The contact mic came with a volume/rheostat knob, and a quarter inch jack, with no need for a power source. It put out enough signal to make it through my iMic and into laptop.I cut up six 1-foot lengths of guitar string of different gauges and wove through the holes in top. I wanted a more shimmery sound but think the tin is too light and no resonance happens(?). The lower holes haven’t been put to use, clearly.

In this cut its in the background to accompany two keyboard tracks and a cut-up newscast hinting at the future. If I work on it more I’d like the words to ultimately be more uplifting, and the voice-like keyboards a little more composed instead of near-continuous.

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#87

Hi,
I’ve been loosely following this project since some time last year, but this is the first time the prompt and the rest of life have aligned to turn around something myself:

I’ve been periodically making these abstract/ambient pieces that are built on the process of using the test oscillator plugin in mainstage/logic, and manipulating the raw sound using a stack of effect plugins (filter, delays, granular resynthesis, saturation modeling, etc), but in ways other than their intended uses. It’s sort of a software equivalent of plugging a raw oscillator into a chain of pedals and searching for an interesting place in how they’re set and chained together. They’ve been a periodic exercise in quick sound design/soundscape creation to break away from my regular more-planned-out approach to creating music, almost a way of catching one’s breath or stopping to look around while otherwise preoccupied with longer term creative work. Typically these result in potentially never-ending soundscapes (well, until they’re turned off).

For this piece, I took one of these ideas, and made an arrangement that evolves the sound over time to form a more considered time-bound piece.

For comparison, the earlier version was used here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-s1cBlBDTr/

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#88

A live take of a patch I had set up last weekend. Modular and semi-modular synthesizers playing through a matrix mixer then out through a reverb pedal.

2hp Turing Machine and 2hp Tune provide the melody via a 2hp Pluck and a tuned Omsonic Ladder Filter. An MS-20 mini provides some percussion along with a Neutron. The Neutron also lends its overdrive to part of the matrix mix for some distortion. A Volca Sample chimes in with a kick, snare and occasional clap mid-way. The filters are modulated by a couple of envelope generators and by hand.

Edit: correcting spelling

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#89

I haven’t been working on my own stuff much, but my time just freed up so I’d dust off and try to finish this piece based on Schoenberg’s approach to hexachords later in his life (long story short, he loosened his rules for 12-tone serialism).

I wrote a pretty six-note riff and then ran it through the ol’ tone-row matrix to get its inversions, retrogrades, etc. From there I tried to find hexachords that went together to sound melodic, harmonious, and unified. Finding interesting melodies and harmonies was fairly easy, but it was very hard to find transitions that “felt” right. Maybe after I work with this a bit longer.

The piano sounds are Afro DJ Mac’s 100-year old piano paired with a felt piano off of pianobook.co.uk. I used Klevgrand’s Gaffel plug-in to pan the higher frequencies to the right a bit.

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#90

This track not only made my day, it made my week. Just great!

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#91

Intense and griping.

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#92

Welcome! I dig your piece. I like the Junto because it gets me to create without thinking too much. Sometimes I really like the result and sometimes it’s just ok. A big draw for me is listening to the other pieces-an ocean of inspiration!

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#93

Just got the Koma Field Kit FX and using it to tie together some bits and bobs. Using the OP-1 as a recorder while the FX feedbacks and loops a Monotribe riff. This doesn’t really go anywhere, but I’m still trying to figure out what happens when you plug one thing into another.

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#94

Glad you could join in. Welcome.

#95

Thanks for the welcome. Yes, my 8 months on SC has certainly been a very good source of new ideas and inspiration. :slight_smile:

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#96

I used this challenge to finally finish my first track with proper vocals :slight_smile: My ‘lockdown song’, if you will. Full process is in the description on SC but I was basically going for a dreamy, sombre vibe.

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#97

Oooh I love that subtle pulsing beat! Very hypnotic. Really nice bleepy noises too.

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#98

The playlist is rolling. Lemme know if I’ve missed your track. Thanks, folks.

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#99

I’ve been singing in the woodshed.

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#100

now that Kria on the Norns sync’s via link it’s easier to just sit and play stuff. Topic wise you can likely spot my mood this week from my social media

On a technical basis - built a track using Aparillo, Zeenon, Modular driven from Kria on the Norns by link & crow. I’d been listening to little Simon Grab videos segments just prior to making this

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#101

I had this totally bizarre idea tonight; what if I try to make music, like music with a capital “M”? I acknowledge the power of music… the domain it has over listening… though I have been resistant for so long, I wouldn’t even no where to start. So I tried to begin with a sample of a violin that I acquired from my brother, who saved it for me when a former flatmate of his knowingly abandoned it. Employing it fits in with my idea of producing sound with discarded objects.

Seriously, where would one start to learn how to make music? I haven’t much rhythm, nor knowledge of melody, etc. … Any insight would be appreciated.

The violin was played through “The Mangle,” which is, if you didn’t already know, a phenomenal “granular synth/sampler” plugin, which is available here: http://sound-guru.com/software/mangle/

This likely isn’t the best place to make this request, though heck, if you’ve read this far why not… A lot of my visual work makes use of discarded materials, and I have long wondered what a digital equivalent would be. So, would anyone be willing to send me sound files from their trash bin so as I might use them in new compositions? If so, and if you have any questions, I can be reached here:
david.sean.more (at) gmail (dot) com

Thank you.

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#102

Interesting. Initially it sounds, at least to these ears, insistent and irritated, irritated perhaps with the current global situation (perhaps I’m just projecting my own feelings). At around the 1:20 minute mark, hope rears its head, perhaps a bit cautiously… for now it’s leaving this listener in a sort of space between irritation and hope, which isn’t a bad place to be, given the circumstances. The track reaches an ambiguous end, which seems fitting. I really enjoyed this.

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