#103

excellent, the lick with the little chromatic note is perfect! E-D#-E-D-C-B love it, makes the track even more “surf-Tarantino”.

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#104

Really nice work! Enjoyed hearing what you did with this & thanks for your kind words about the source material.

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#105

Thanks… it was fun to play on. Nice use of electronics and field recording.

#106

Well done! The repetition on the vox pulls against the repetition on the keys nicely. Such much watermelon!

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#107

I chose @Xylr’s excellent 0472 submission to do a cover of, from scratch. I then merged the original’s left channel with my right, and this is the result.

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#108

I used a random number generator and got the track “Final Frontier” by @mattmadd (Final Frontier - disquiet0472 by Matt Madden | Free Listening on SoundCloud). I thought about chopping it up and having Mr. Madden duet with himself, but then I lay down an improvised electric piano accompaniment and it all seemed to work pretty well, so I went with that. I nudged a few of my MIDI notes around to synchronize with the guitar and to give the impression we had planned it!

I EQ’d and compressed Matt’s guitar, and EQ’d my electric piano also. I added a bit of delay for flavor at dramatic times (mostly the end). I accidentally added an amp sim to the keyboard, and hey it sounded nice! I also added a little flanger to hit a fairly high-frequency to move a little motion to the “fuzzy” static sound of the keyboard. The weirdest thing I did is sidechain-compress the guitar to be a little quieter when the electric piano played…and then sidechain-compressed the electric piano to be a little quieter when the guitar played! It actually works out pretty well, I think, for an experiment. Maybe because both instruments have pretty intense transients and because there’s a lot of back and forth.

I worked this out on my weekly livestream (twitch.com/natetrier) - I was planning to post the whole video here for interested parties, but then I realized the video is basically me editing MIDI for 45 minutes :smile: So here’s the excerpt where I recorded my part: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKfJXtIh12k/

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#109

Here is my contribution to the track Bedding by Stray Wool. I added some minimal lo-fi electric guitars and the ambient rec of the dawn few blocks from where I write this…

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#110

Thanks, it was fun :slight_smile:

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#111

Hey Junto, such a pleasure to work on everyone’s tracks. Here is my second submission a duet with Jason W since his is not taken.

Here is a playlist of the 33 duets I did. I tried to leave comment for everyone whose tracks I used.

Looking forward to next week, Hugh

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#112

… don’t forget 'bout one of My all-time faves, The Kingston Trio.

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#113

Sorry about that. It was a quick response and the repeat and fade approach was kinda uninspired.

Thanks for sharing your keyboards, they sound great.

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#114

I picked Seven Strings in Longji by @BennDeMole - and ended up doing something totally new for me, my partner sung, and we recorded a couple of very sparse acoustic tracks (pencil on glass, and the wrong side of the kalimba) along with it.

Live set with full stereo available on request.

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#115

Awesome work Hugh!

Keen to hear how our collaboration shapes up

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#116

What a smorgasbord of fascination! I wish I could do more like Bick has done, but may have to leave you with this piece with @comma and the coffee machine at the data center. We have the kind that grinds the beans fresh for each cup and makes quite a show of it. I recorded this with my phone and scrambled it up with Emission Control (Marcin will not respond to my entreaties for Pulsar Generator. Sad!). There’s a bit of rhythm from the “intermittence” and random sine waves that I tried to match with @comma’s bass pulses. This was then bussed to 3 instances of Portal and a bit of SuperMassive. Maybe Charlie will now come and play some desperado guitar in an open tuning? Hmmm, we shall see!

And one more as I drift off to sleep with one of @sevenism’s more luscious and accessible offerings; on the right is the uke dropped to bass harp range with some buffer effects and a few sounds from Matmos in the bargain.

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#117

They sound so different and it works so well together. Really interesting and well done :slight_smile:

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#118

I added some drums to @chalkwalk awesome piece from last week. All kicks and low end sounds from the Volca Kick. Snare/rim sound from the Pocket Operator 12, and the snare drum rolling background stuff I played and recorded live. The rolling snare stuff was the first thing I was inspired to do when I first heard his song. Edited in Live. My drum additions all panned right per project instructions. Image is one of the kick waveforms.
ChalkWalk original piece: Chalkwalk-junto – Jam-time-13-disquiet0472

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#119

This is my third piece for this challenge, each one based on a randomly selected work from last week’s Jam Time. I started with the lovely and sparse chime melody from @BennDeMole called Seven Strings in Longji. I hope I haven’t overladen it with my extra layers. This is a stereo piece. I will make stems available to any who wish them for their work on disquiet0474.

My added work is based on Ben’s sounds which I’ve stretched and pitch shifted and layered over his original track. I added some subharmonics, and some Supermassive and some Adaptiverb.

Edit: Here are the stems if anyone is interested. Dropbox link

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#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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#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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