#41

I used temperature signals from wind, along with recordings of quiet piano sounds, to guide this piece. I had in mind a jellyfish exploring shallow depths, encountering humanity, and then retreating feeling a bit less safe.

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#42

It has a very nice vibe to it and the strings are great, well done!

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#43

Tried to keep it very simple this time. Only some different sounds with reverb at different settings. Ok, and an LFO here and there to add movement.

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#44

Very effective, conjours a nice underwater feeling.

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#45

I had jokingly posted a picture of this anemone last week and said “wet things say hello” in response to the initial posting of the prompt on the Junto Slack, and it was obvious to me that I was going to have to make good on that.

I didn’t feel like I’d be playing fair unless I used appropriate source material, so I started with a short surf clip from Asilomar State Beach, recorded at one of the tide pools last week. (Week two of a holiday that started with too much hot and way too much smoke; fortunately things got nicer the second week.)

I loaded the sample into Live, and slathered it in processing several different ways, including absolutely dry. I added a little Arturia Buchla Easel for continuity, hit record, and faded tracks in and out, and retriggered samples as appropriate.

A fun exercise, and much more intense than I expected the final result would be. It does approximate the cumulative effect of being right down at the water’s surface with so many lively denizens.

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#46

Hi Hi, first time here.

I sliced up a couple of youtube videos in the Ableton sampler - including “Jellyfish and Sound” by Charles Edward Fambo here; and made something that sounds something like a jellyfish coming down after a real rager.

Can’t wait to listen and learn from this community I’ve been meaning to contribute to for a while!

JH

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#47

Coool. Would love to hear what samples you’re using/what settings you used on the reverbs/LFO

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#48

I knew I wanted some downward arpeggios on piano that ended with the root vs. a sustained drone a 9th above. I played them as high as possible on my piano and then pitch-shifted them down a few octaves, then used the Pitchproof VST to double the sound an octave higher. Lo-fi deliciousness.

For the B section, I just came up with some polyrhythms I liked.

Overall I think this is ok. I wanted it to feel a little more gentle and flowing (like you’re floating aimlessly around the ocean), and I didn’t quite get there. If I had more time to work on mix and sound design, I think I could have gotten there. Oh well - this was still fun!

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#49

For this assignment, I focused on locomotion, which I imagined to be much of a jellyfish’s experience. A jellyfish moves by alternately contracting and relaxing its umbrella, expelling a jet of water during the contraction phase. I represented this by compressing and expanding the bellows of a bayan, a Russian button accordion, at a frequency that roughly matches the pulsing of the jellyfish on the live Jelly Cam at the Monterey Bay Aquarium website.

Their tentacles don’t really contribute to motion – They dangle beneath to paralyze prey. These are represented by four simultaneous tinkling sequences.

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#50

Nice! The Bayan really provides a nice sense of locomotion as it bops up and down, sounds almost like a engine. Was the Jellyfish having a good or a bad bay?

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#51

Thanks. I am using in Ableton a combination of sound generators in parallel, wavetable instrument with ping-pong delay and modulation on the filter and noise, and another two with sawtooth oscillator plus different settings on delay, distortion and chorus. Reverbs are different Valhalla ones, as return track and on the tracks themselves, with EQ and compression over them to moderate.

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#52

I’m a bit late on this one but this pandemic has had a strange effect on my perception of time. My jellyfish has a song stuck in his head. Lots of guitars, a thumb piano and some samples from freesound. Also a bad pun which I hope doesnt offend.

https://soundcloud.com/widdly/om-shanti-disquiet0455

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#53

I can relate all too well. This piece is great.

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