Disquiet Junto Project 0457: System Alert

disquiet · 2020-10-02T02:18:40.448Z

And the project is now live. Had to make dinner first.

license · 2020-10-02T02:36:33.406Z

I love this idea! I am slightly confused, though - is the intent for each contributor to make a full cohesive suite (theme?) of the enumerated system sounds, or is the idea to contribute one sound each with the expectation that someone downstream will curate the submissions? If the former, should the contributor then submit each sound (track) separately, perhaps indicating their intended role, or should the submission be a single track consisting of all the sounds in sequence?

Forgive me if the answers are obvious to someone who’s participated in a Junto before, as I haven’t

disquiet · 2020-10-02T02:50:25.014Z

license:

is the intent for each contributor to make a full cohesive suite (theme?) of the enumerated system sounds, or is the idea to contribute one sound each with the expectation that someone downstream will curate the submissions?

Hi. The intention is for each individual to do the full set. If that’s a tall order, certainly just do as many as you’re comfortable with.

Leonard_Bowman · 2020-10-02T03:08:22.917Z

While I am no expert on these matters either, here is my current plan:
1 draft a number of sounds.
2 figure out which ones make a cohesive soundset
3 upload them all, played in sequence, in a single file to Soundcloud for the Junto
4 zip the individual sounds together to send for the actual contest, probably without disquiet0457 in the titles
5 take a deep breath and know that there isn’t a wrong way to do this

kvn · 2020-10-02T03:19:27.877Z

Wow, cool project!

I kept it simple. The only conceptual thing really going on is that Haiku derives from BeOS… and I did the sounds pretty much in B major. Uh…I hope I got the idea right.

DeDe · 2020-10-02T09:13:34.501Z

Here’s my set.
I used samples of my Hang (hand pan)

Sound Systems for the HAIKU OS.

For junto0457 challenge.

Created in Paris using samples of my Hang (hand pan) on Friday Oct 2nd at 10AM, Paris France.

There’s an operating system called Haiku. It’s open source. The OS is currently running a contest for System Sounds.

Specifically sounds for:

General:

Beep
A nice and soothing startup chime

Notifications:

Information notification
Important notification
Error notification
Progress notification (= the percentage of the progress bar gets updated)

Key/mouse events:

Key up
Key repeat
Key down
Keymap switch
Mouse down
Mouse up

Window events:

Window activated
Window close
Window minimised
Window open
Window restored (= gets ‘unminimised’)
Window zoomed (= when ‘zoom’ button (right widget in tab) is clicked)

I ended the set with the soothing welcome chime sound.

bassling · 2020-10-04T03:42:45.341Z

nikikana · 2020-10-04T03:53:19.458Z

What an intriguing prompt! This is my first contribution to the disquiet junto, it is very simple and all from samples from freesound.org (attribution included in soundcloud post). I imagined system sounds for an OS that cultivates the peace, serenity, and contemplation I find in haikus, which led me to thoughts of space travel and the idea of an OS that helps humanity to work together toward the collective effort of space travel for purposes of exploration and discovery in the absence of conquest, competition, and ego.

disquiet · 2020-10-05T04:01:34.495Z

The playlist is now rolling:

bitigchi · 2020-10-05T14:52:56.664Z

Hello!

Thank you everyone very much for your work, it’s really appreciated. We are adding the entries to the contest post.

Cheers!

disquiet · 2020-10-05T15:20:02.830Z

Thank you, @bitigchi. Best of luck with the project.

bassling · 2020-10-05T20:58:24.017Z

@kvn

This sounds like I’d expect an OS. That opening chime is lovely.

@DeDe

Those bends are wild. Did you process the sounds?

@nikikana

Surprising sounds! I liked the variety of associations I made while hearing them.

Leonard_Bowman · 2020-10-06T02:43:14.985Z

Finished my set. Not perfect but it’s something.

note - the sounds aren’t strictly in order of the list, because the list is alphabetical and splits up some natural pairs.

I tried to follow some of the Material guidelines for UI sounds while designing the key and mouse sounds

I titled the soundset “Forest Dreams” because the synth chords from Surge feel rather dreamy to me, and every sound incorporated some sort of wooden percussion instrument from my collection.

the chords in question are various utonal chords created through Scala’s “List of Chord Names” dialog. They are mostly built on prime harmonics but generally approximate chords we are used to hearing in 12edo.

I hope to work on a couple more concepts for this contest before the deadline - I learned a lot designing these and I feel that I can make an even better set in the future.

DeDe · 2020-10-06T06:20:10.534Z

@bassling
thanks Jason, I sampled the instrument and then I played it on a keyboard and used the pitch wheel for the bends.
The actual hang just has a single scale and limited range so this time I used the chromatic possibilities of the samples (for the clusters and the very high notes, etc)

Loved your original approach, wish they pick yours for the OS, wouldn’t it be great to have a bass as system sound?
cheers

bassling · 2020-10-06T20:17:06.370Z

Cheers!

At first I thought the bass wouldn’t translate, then I realised that’d be non-intrusive.

The sounds of some operating systems can make me jump at times.

disquiet · 2020-10-07T16:00:04.855Z

DetritusTabuIII:

I am flabbergasted there aren’t more entries.

I am almost always wrong about which projects will have more or fewer participants. That said, I of course don’t really choose projects based on maximizing participation. It’s all about balancing variety and throughlines.

bitigchi · 2020-10-07T16:22:40.750Z

Just a reminder, please don’t forget to send the files to us via email, so that we can upload them to Haiku website as well. We will eventually need them for packaging too.

You can send them to humdingerb -gmail, and bitigchi -me (com).

Thanks again to everyone who participated!

kvn · 2020-10-12T18:01:14.065Z

thanks! OS sounds are fascinating, to me. Incidental music that scores a person’s actions on their computer. Def was thinking of conventional, unobtrusive, but pleasant tones!

kvn · 2020-10-12T18:19:54.272Z

ah! fretless bass works so well for these sounds. the “window zoom” sound gave me a bit of a chuckle.

bassling · 2020-10-12T21:44:18.838Z

Because it’s the same sound as the beep?

I only noticed that a day or so later.