Disquiet Junto Project 0583: Wall to Wall

Aethyr · 2023-03-02T21:17:14.245Z

hello.

in case anyone else is in a living situation where doing this project exactly according to the instructions would be a problem (i live in an apartment building and i doubt my neighbours would appreciate me playing music loudly enough to be heard through a wall, even if it was only for a few minutes), i managed to find a few tutorials on how to accomplish a similar effect using audio processing: (1) (2) (3)

while this is obviously not following the instructions to the letter, i think it’s better than not being able to participate at all.

disquiet · 2023-03-03T01:17:52.537Z

Aethyr:

while this is obviously not following the instructions to the letter, i think it’s better than not being able to participate at all.

Totally. Thanks for this!

Soundoferror · 2023-03-03T04:02:24.501Z

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El90 · 2023-03-03T09:45:39.044Z

Although I sadly cannot participate, the prompt does remind me of a recent track by a drummer I really like which sounds like it uses a similar recording technique (‘different rooms’ by Valentina Magaletti): Spotify

ray_cobley · 2023-03-03T11:06:30.583Z

ampegfretless · 2023-03-03T19:23:45.819Z

AO Smith 40 gallon propane water heater, cycling behind the basement wall. a second tack of the water heater cycling, and the plastic pipe ticking as the exhaust is leaving the basement. Playing back the recording, as per the instructions, then adding open-tuned 6 string guitar through a strymon nightsky pedal

tendigits · 2023-03-03T19:52:17.973Z

I recorded the kick drum and percussion from eurorack, then played it back over a speaker while recording from a nearby closed bathroom. This new recording was then layered with other samples and instruments, all played via Tele-touch. I enjoyed how this Junto’s objective brought a softened quality to the percussion. Audio compresson au naturel.

Ausgesuchtestenohren · 2023-03-03T20:02:14.904Z

leonclowes · 2023-03-03T20:38:01.080Z

I created nine looped tracks using the Boutique 808 sound on Garageband, then recorded my live mixing these from the next room on a Zoom recorder. I then recorded the playback of that, compressed and added noise reduction which made for some nice squeaky higher pitched sounds. I’ve mixed an extract of that here with all of the original drum loops used at various points, panned either side of the wall to wall to wall sound. With the (original drum patterns) back (in) again.

The20Watt · 2023-03-03T23:06:30.468Z

My daughter decided to start teaching herself the banjo recently and listening to her pluck away through the walls is pretty great! Much nicer than what I put my parents through at her age when I was trying to do my best Sonic Youth impression…
I recorded some of her banjo sounds mixed with room noise and fiddled around in GarageBand.

disquiet · 2023-03-03T23:28:27.933Z

And the playlist is rolling:

kterauch · 2023-03-04T17:58:43.117Z

Oof I struggled with this one - maybe because I still had “waltz techno” in my head? Anyway, I looked up popular waltz tunes and found Shostakovich’s Second Waltz. Here’s what I did:

Played along to a YouTube video of the Shostakovich piece with headphones on my hybrid piano for the “beat”
Recorded my playing in midi and on my phone (just voice memo) in the kitchen, through a wall (that’s why you hear the fridge buzz in the beginning)
Tried to make something of it all with the phone recording at the piece’s center

I mixed in a field recording from a restaurant from a few months back. I think I was trying to create a FOMO feel of a wallflower at a dance. Like I said, this one was hard! But at least I got the waltz out of me.

bassling · 2023-03-04T18:36:43.785Z

It’s kinda hot at home this weekend and I’ve a lot of work to do, so I wasn’t sure I would have time to record.

Then I remembered an earlier Junto that involved recording from an adjacent room, as well as another that imagined a doorbell.

While I was looking for those, I found a couple of Juntos that involved another sort of muffled approach in wearing cotton gloves.

Anyway, it all sort of made sense at the time, so I made a remix from my tracks for Juntos 115, 174, 253 and 289.

This is my 360th Junto video.

XHG · 2023-03-04T19:20:47.661Z

I started this project with the rough idea of a Rhythm & Sound track playing in another room. Then I already got carried away with the rhythmic track, which turned out much too dense. As I don’t like restarts, I went on with the track and recorded it through a wall, playing on a Bluetooth speaker in the kitchen. I then added several layers of Plaits and Lyra 8 and sort of finished the track.

Later while cleaning windows and listening (and singing) to music, I had the idea to add more tracks (like singing) to try and create the acoustics of a big house with many people going about their lives. So I did this.

Now it starts with the neighbors having a party while the kids are playing in the hallway. Then the parents have a short argument before another kid (me) starts to practice clarinet. It’s not music per se but there’s a lot going on.

Hugh_Prat · 2023-03-05T00:51:40.596Z

Hey All,
I actually built the wall I recorded on the other side from. It is insulated with sound absorbing batting. The batting does a good job of blocking most of the sound but the bass makes it through and vibrates everything in the kitchen. I have a very big subwoofer which really puts out low end. I know my mixes lose quit a bit going through my car speakers but in my studio the low end sounds so much better. I really don’t know how to mix something that is so low that it comes across on other speakers.

what was I talking about…

Oh yeah I recorded on my phone the recent drum track we did as a drum track for others in the Junto to add to from the next room. I then played that recording and recorded again on the other side of the wall. That was my understanding of what we were supposed to do. That basically was just a very muffled kick drum. You can hear it as a background in this track. You may not even hear it at all because it is very muffled low frequency.
I also added some synths and a recording of me going into the sauna. The door closing may give you a jump.
Hope all are well.

Peace, Hugh

idioteque · 2023-03-05T08:51:52.007Z

Sounds like the south of Italy!

fakeg3nius · 2023-03-05T14:29:51.768Z

I found it quite hard to get loud enough to transmit enough detail through a wall. So, I stopped trying to and just recorded what I got.

wasabicube · 2023-03-05T16:07:27.279Z

Sometimes, you hear a beat through the wall, then you imagine what tune accompanies it. Reality does not always match my imagination.
Here, I recorded a drum track, just kick and snare, through the wall. The mic in the other room picked up cicadas and a cat, outdoors, as well as the thumping beat. The track was then used to generate a series of recordings from my modular synth. I used a variety of approaches including envelope following, quantizers, wavefolders, filter and LPG pings, and passing some of the results through a filter bank. There are also a couple of tracks created with the KORG Monologue and Casio CZ-1000. All source sounds for this project were external.

lazenbeeindustries · 2023-03-05T20:48:23.033Z

Recently got a studio space in a former M&S building downtown - so I made a beat, then shut the door and recorded it on my phone. I added in some synths in FL Studio, as well as a guitar bit, where I used one of my favourite effects, the Squeeze which makes it sound broken and metallic.

kterauch · 2023-03-05T22:17:42.572Z

Sounds like a scene from a film!