#120

Here is a second part to the very nice contribution made by @Anatol called “Whatever Comes”. What I found challenging was balancing the right channel with the content on the left while not obscuring the delicate melody that gives Whatever Comes its appeal. I ended up cherry picking the very high end and low ends from a duplicate track and processed these through a tape loop and added a mid-section with fills from SA instruments . I hope I left enough headroom for a third part!

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Disquiet Junto Project 0474: Police Action
#121

I added a guitar piece to @Chris_Ledwidge’s lovely, off-kilter piano piece, No. 34 in A minor. I listened to all the tracks on the playlist and bookmarked ones that I felt I might be able to add to (there were quite a few that I liked a lot but couldn’t hear a way in). Then I played through my 10 or so choices with my iphone recording while I doodled on an acoustic guitar. If I had more time I would have done at least one more but that’s not going to happen (see note in next para re: time constraints).

In addition to the music, I was intrigued by Chris’s simple I/O diagram (it’s the graphic for my Soundcloud track) which he used to somehow structure the piece. @disquiet and a few other friends on this list will know that I’m a sucker for rules and constraints, so I interpreted the diagram in my own way: the I represents a descending, 4-note scale run on the higher strings while the O represents an ascending run from the lower strings. I think I made it through the first four rows before my time ran up (one of my constraints is time-based: I don’t have a lot of free time so I have to be as efficient as possible with all of this, which means first thought best thought (an impulse I normally resist) and a minimum of takes and editing).

My timing and rhythm is free and improvised. I am aware there’s something subtle going on with the timing (bars of 3 and 4 etc) but by the time I realized that, I had grown to like the counterpoint created by my more straightforward rhythm (also see note in previous para. re: time constraints).

There’s an interlude in the middle and the second half of the track has a recurring high A note which I responded to by playing an E (mostly) on a harmonic. I liked that touch because it connects to my piece for 0472, Final Frontier. I’m trying to make my own contributions to this project have a kind of consistency. By the same token, the guitar (a Gretsch duo jet) is minimally treated, however Chris’s piano treatment is so evocative that I decided to ramp up the reverb and add a bit of delay to try and match the mood.

Apparently I’m limited as to how many replies I can make and how many people I can tag since I’m a noob so I had to remove my responses to gentil and ntrier unless I’m mistaken? Anyway, great to hear people playing around with my previous track, I’m looking forward to the next phase.

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#122

I decided to add to @homeontheland’s lovely performance and added some sounds from my Nebulophone.
We’ve had it for a while but only this month have i rediscovered the joy of that little synth. It’s conveniently in D major by default and I thought it might be nice to attempt adding more textural sounds to contrast the smoother mellotron-tape soundscape.

All in all I recorded 10 layers of Nebulophone. If desired I can package them separately but I tried my best to blend them all to one channel in a sensible manner.

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#123

@gibbsdavidl no feedback, just overdriven sine tones and reverb

@wasabicube we all need more safe at the moment!

@wagneric cover from scratch is a neat approach; perhaps this idea has been, covered, by other junto projects?

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#124

Here’s something I managed to finish just in time. Collaborating is both exhilarating and frightening for me; in fact, my original thought for a track title was “Impostor Syndrome”. As soon as I listened to Chalk Walk’s piece I thought “Yeah, that’s the one I’ll work with”. I was rushed, but I had fun!

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#125

Based on Chalk Walk’s ‘not used’ list I added to @chaonaut Sparse Stop with some synthetic Orchestra and yes, Locusts (via Spitfire Labs).

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Disquiet Junto Project 0472: Jam Time
#126


A random number generator suggested that I collaborate with @jasonw22 by incorporating his track “Chopped Jam - disquiet0472” into the left channel of this track.

I completed this in Numerology Pro. After trying lots of other things that went nowhere, I created two sequences each using an instrument from the Spitfire Audio Alev Lenz - 3 sample pack. Mellower sounds seemed to best complement the drum beat distortion. For one sequence, the note probability for each note decreases steadily from 80% to 5% over the length of the piece. For the other, the note probabilities steadily increase from 5% to 80%. These are both panned hard right.

It seemed like something was missing, so I added a third sequence in the bass register with random jumps and a constant note probability of 64%.

The title refers to Jason’s piece and the two Reaktor ensembles I thought I was going to be using for this.

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#127

Second submission utilizes the nifty Looper Unsynced by Torsten @kn00t
Added some Pedal Steel and seasoned with a little kick drum all panned right.

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#128

I utilized Disquiet0472 - (Paper) Jam by Benjamin_D | Benjamin D | Free Listening on SoundCloud
From
Benjamin_D | Benjamin D | Free Listening on SoundCloud
I choose this track because it reminded me of green and somewhere old and far from my gear. I used Roland DJ 808 with programing in the 909, 808, 707, 606 banks and using Push 2 with sampler of the original track. I created some loops and a side chain of a slowed down loop in a group. I had fun listening to these.

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#129

After a few starts and stops, I settled on Jasonw22’s Chopped Jam and hit it with a wild LFO from my hacked Monotron Delay. I feel like it has the same nervous energy as the original track.

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#130

I added drums to @Creatures_Once very fun track. I started with a very different idea in my mind, and actually I ended up where I did because time was running out but it wound up being a fun direction. I put some 606 samples through some granular stuff and distortion, and then resampled the results into Ableton’s Simpler. I programmed a pretty simple reggaeton beat to bring out the latent banger-ness of the track.

The drums are probably obnoxious (sorry @Creatures_Once!) but I think it would work on the right dance floor. I used to make a lot of dance music in another life and I mostly don’t work with drums these days but I forget how much I love a groove.

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#131

Hey Matt, I love what you’ve done with the track. I’m also happy that the diagram was a help to get into the structure of the piece I had laid out. The diagram isn’t perfect but as a shorthand I think it worked well enough. Your guitar adds a really nice counterpoint to it and gives it balance overall. The tone of the guitar is great too, just the right amount of delay and reverb. You’ve also left this duo recording with enough space for a third to be added next week.

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#132

Thanks a lot, Chris, I’m very pleased you like my addition and the guitar sound. I also agree that there’s plenty of room for someone to add a third part, which I hope we’ll get to hear next week.

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#133

I love where you took the viola-tron! I had kept it sparse and not too dynamic, so your warm layered synth building up was a perfect pair. Like lying under 10 blankets (it’s cold here these days, so that’s where my mind ends up going…) Thanks for the collaboration :smiley:

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#134

Relaxing and chill. (sleep-music)

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#135

Breaching the completion time limit a little here, as I had some big deadlines over the weekend, but I really wanted to participate in my first collaborative Junto so here we are…

I took @ray_cobley 's brilliant Pure Data rhythm track (which I must say sounded astonishingly like acoustic objects in an acoustic space to me, nice work), and added a Pd patch of my own of a slowly rising and falling drone. I tried to balance the levels quite carefully, which is a bit harder with hard-panned audio, but I’m pleased with the results.

In the spirit of collaboration (and to make the back-and-forth file process a bit easier), I’ve decided to try grappling with Soundcloud again, we’ll see how that goes.

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#136

@Zax Thank you for adding a pedal steel guitar. It’s such a nice sound. I especially like the pitch bends.

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#137

What a great run. Thanks, everyone. I’m pretty sure the playlist is now up to date, but if your track or tracks go missing, lemme know.

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#138

No it cool; will be interesting to see what the third is!

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#139

Hey @Xylr this is awesome! You definately brought out the “latent banger-ness” (lol, I can’t stop saying that phrase today too), I thought there was some of that in there for sure. I feel like bringing out the latent banger-ness in all the things is good life goal :grinning: . Crazy drum sounds! The granular stuff and distortion sound cool. Obnoxious in good way, they don’t give any F’s.

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