#71

ICY RHYTHM - pt 1 of 3 disquiet0471

This is a reworked and sparser ice percussion piece based on my submission for last week’s disquiet0471. I left it (a bit) sparse intentionally, hoping for some foreground elements that could lead this beat somewhere. 120 bpm 4/4

Mono on left, as specified in the challenge, but a stereo download is available at:

(Right click on play arrow to download audio, I think)

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#72

Morn Lighting (solo voice track)

January 13, 2021 Naviar Haiku #367, a poem by Morikawa Kyoroku:

morning light
the first blossoms of spring
bloom over-night

The Haiku was divided into 12 syllables and randomly reordered. This was done 12 times creating 12 lines of random text from the original Haiku. I recorded myself reading the text.

The track can be chopped into phrases to make it longer or add space for other sounds.

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#73

A lot of cool stuff on this thread already!
Here’s my contribution. It’s a pretty simple improvisation on electric guitar (Gretsch Duo Jet), recorded straight into Ableton Live and processed with a little bit of reverb and delay.
The inspiration/point of departure is the opening notes of the theme to of a certain TV show that I’m guessing most people in this group are the type to have watched unironically in their youth.
I’m playing in A using a G pentatonic that keeps it pretty open, I think. At the very end it transitions to mainly harmonics and I hit a high C# a few times for a bit of resolution.
There’s not really a rhythm or set pattern to it but I recorded it with a metronome playing at 90bpm in case someone wants to add rhythm to it.

If you use this track feel free to chop it up, add effects or other modulations to it (as long as it falls within Marc’s rules of course!)

I look forward to hearing the next stage.

PS I’m going to post another instrumental piece on my Soundcloud today or tomorrow, not a Disquiet project but a short, atmospheric piece made partly from a sample swiped from an Eno documentary from 1974 that improbably showed up on Youtube recently. I’ll post the link in a comment when it’s ready.
PPS
Here’s my other little song. Not intended for this project necessarily but if anyone wants to use it, let me know:

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#74

Key of D (actually just Ds and As, no thirds), 115 bpm. This is made with samples recorded on my Bulgarian tamboura.

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#75

Wow, there’ve been some amazing submissions so far! Mine is not so inspired, but, like Jimi said, “We’re just jammin here, you can leave if you want to.” Got a fairly nice Kala uke the other day and was testing out the harmonics with this door chime melody through the Canyon delay pedal. Added to that is a recording of pigeons cooing on my windowsill run through Yann Seznec’s granular sampler in Pure Data.

Rats! I forgot to pan the thing left – you see how they zap me with the mind ray?
*fixed and updated!

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#76

All sounds from recordings of my tongue drum. I had big groaning, creaking sounds in mind. Created in hotel room on day three of a power outage caused by falling trees after a windstorm. Took a walk and found this big pile of fallen trees by the river. So here’s some droniness, some crunchy textures. A little melody because there’s always some of that around.
Experimenting with Ableton Live’s warping modes for most of the sounds. Some delays and verbs. Rolled off a little low and high end. I hope its not too full and dense for someone to add more to it!
Panned left as requested for the project.

BPM: 100
KEY: D minor (?) The notes on the tongue drum are in D “celtic” minor scale: D3 A3 C4 D4 E4 F4 G4 A4 C5 I have pitched some notes up and down.
Arrangement:
Intro: 8 Bars
A section: 9 bars
B section: 8 bars
A section: 12 bars
B section: 8 bars
Outro: 4 bars

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#77


Evening, Used Roli Noise app

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#78

I wrote a short chord progression with string libraries from Kontakt and then processed it in different ways (fx, granular) and laid it down. I hope I left enough room for others to have ideas. Some parts are a bit more full than others though I think I left a lot of space for transitions. I haven’t been here for other iterations of this particular prompt, but I would love to hear this completely reimagined or just finished, or whatever winds up coming of it.

It’s 100 bpm, the chords I used were Dm, Cm9, Gm and Fmaj6

As a side note I was very glad to find this. Having difficulty finishing things.

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#79

This is beautiful - the notes you play and the instrument you’re playing them with. I have listened while looking at your diagram and still don’t understand what’s going on, but I’m into it!

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#80

Hey Simon,

Thanks, I’m very happy you like it. I’ve been writing a lot of piano music like this lately. On the diagram, the I is where the 3 notes cover a beat each, so 3 beats for a bar, the O is where the 3 notes cover 4 beats, theres a note held for 2 beats. I’ve no idea how I came to use this system, it just kind of happened when I was writing it yesterday. Then to create variations I made each section of 4 bars with a different IIOO combination. Hope that explains it a tiny bit.

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#81

Project Update: I believe there are 61 tracks in the playlist, not counting the ones that aren’t available to be included. When I post the resources in the duets project announcement, I’ll have the complete number. If your track is missing, let me know. And certainly, if you’re straggling and didn’t get it in last night, that’s fine. Feel free to still add it.

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#82

Maybe I’m going blind, but can’t see mine on the playlist. Here’s the link again (in case I’m not going blind): -

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#83

Thanks. I’ve added now. I think the playful title somehow eluded SoundCloud’s search engine.

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#84

Marc, I’ve just uploaded another version panned left, if you care to replace the stereo version. I found that taking just the left side of the stereo version leaves even more space, as opposed to combining stereo channels and panning both hard left. Probably would have done things differently had I actually conceived this in mono, if we’re heading for some sort of Zaireeka-like experiment. But I will trust the plan. :wink:

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#85

Ha! Got it. Could you reshare the link here?

#86

@JochenEdmund I think I sorted it out. I deleted the stereo one and dropped in the new one.

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#87

Yep, I edited the post above to include the new version and removed the tags from the previous one. So if you search Soundcloud now, you should find only the left channel version. Sorry for the trouble!

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#88

Thanks Marc - appreciated. :relaxed:

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#89

I forgot to share my track in here.

Bastl Kastledrum doing a little shuffle beat and a PO-14 playing a dubby bassline. It’s about 65 BPM (it’s hard to know exactly with the Kastledrum in charge but that’s where it landed when I tapped it out). Not fully panned L because I didn’t have the time to do it. I will knock that out and replace the file when I have a free moment.

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#90

No problem. Thanks for having participated.

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