Disquiet Junto Project 0625: Noise Ceiling

Hugh_Prat · 2023-12-21T22:59:35.224Z

Hey All,
I just got back today from taking my kids to NYC for 5 days so this prompt was great as I had been surrounded by all kinds of sounds. It was kind of sensory overload for me but it was a great change of pace for me.
My kids are into vintage clothes shopping so that it what I thought of for this. It looked like a light in a storage room in the back of a store.
I used about 6 different sounds including a room tone from freesound(credits in description). I used the room tone pitched down in a few tracks and the ambients sounds I really muffled so they sounded outside on the street. I also added reverb and some filtering.
I also made it 2:32 am as it would have been much louder during normal hours.
Speaking of sensory overload. I did not smell one cigarette while I was there but the smell of weed was everywhere outside. Come on North Carolina legalize it!
Hope all are well. Happy Holidays!

Peace, Hugh

Kitzmann · 2023-12-22T00:14:17.217Z

I imagine this room beneath many others and filled with the noise of what is above, which filters down in stutters to me as a I stare at the ceiling. But there are also noises from the anonymous machines that keep everything warm and flowing and I find myself drawn to them as they too are down below, hidden in this room. So I headed down to our basement with an old mini cassette dictaphone and recorded Lynch inspired mumblings while I paced the room. The hum and clicks you hear come from the furnace and dryer and dull roar from the low fi tape recording. Back in the studio I used the Torso T-1 to create some off kilter sequences with a couple of analog synths (which represent what is above the room), tossed in some effects, and connected the dictaphone to an EQ to tame the lonely machines somewhat. Happy Holidays everyone and thanks Marc for an inspiring year.

DeDe · 2023-12-22T09:37:49.879Z

Hi, I imagined a ball bouncing on that concrete room.
The room is huge.
the ball is hollow and metallic.

Used:
Hang (treated with a bouncing delay fx)
Synthesized field recording
Filtered and treated field recording.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYBODY.

See you in 2024.

disquiet · 2023-12-22T16:36:00.658Z

And the playlist is rolling:

Raincat · 2023-12-23T00:09:27.159Z

The room reminded me of an old job in a hospital. My job sometimes involved visits to the chemical storeroom. It was filled with extractor fans, equipment and generators all humming away. I enjoyed spending time there as I actually found the hum quite soothing.

To recreate the room I recorded as many humming machines as I could find in my studio. So several layers of laptop, hard drives, mixer, tv, lightbulb, and tumble drier. No effects but EQ’d a lot of the treble out of most layers.

lazenbeeindustries · 2023-12-23T00:19:20.810Z

Here’s what I made. I used BeepMap and put the photo into that, then added a couple of synth sounds and a messed up woodblock sound. Makes a kind of horror soundtrack.

tristan_louth_robins · 2023-12-23T01:27:09.699Z

I imagined one of those intermediary empty rooms that workers pass through, a bit like the platform in a stairwell, but all on the same level. I wanted to suggest that this space was located to adjacent rooms and spaces where other things were happening. I think part of the inspiration came from my recent trip to Singapore and transferring train lines through long subterranean thoroughfares of the MRT (Mass Rapid Transport) network.

The bed of the track is a quick modular synth patch of heavily modulated and filtered oscillators and transient pulses of noise. I then mixed in a couple of field recordings which consisted of rough, grey industrial textures suggesting heaviness and slight degrees of movement. Finally, I mixed in a brief phone recording of a multi-lingual PA announcement from one of the Singapore MRT thoroughfares.

I really enjoyed the challenge of achieving an equilibrium in the mix here, suggesting an authentic, but interesting ambience.

For the record - after a minute of curious listening - I’d probably last about four minutes in this space.

CoralineAda · 2023-12-23T03:33:20.808Z

The picture looked like a basement closet to me. So I took my stereo field recorder to the utility closet in my own basement, recorded a CLAP, converted it to an impulse response file, and then turned that into a convolution reverb patch. Essentially, I created an aural simulation of that space, which let me place any sound within that space.

The rhythmic breathing and kick drum are placed fully in that simulated closet space, to create a sensation of “close air”. The background pads also migrate from a very spacious tone to the constricted space of the closet.

he_nu_ri · 2023-12-23T09:21:48.618Z

“Waiting on the sofa on a hot and humid afternoon, in a small dark room, staring up at the ceiling while listening to the sounds of the city drifting in from an open window. It begins to rain.”

Ambient track was created in Ableton live using K-Devices TATAT sequencer with Slate+Ash Spectres plugin. Field recordings of rain and city sounds downloaded from freesound.org were added to the mix.

ossimuratore · 2023-12-23T17:12:38.507Z

Stacked fifth and light bulb noise blend to a C minor chord. An chromatic arpeggiated motive emerges and slowly dissolves into the bulb noise.

Made with NI Maschine+ and ASM Hydrasynth Deluxe.

derangement · 2023-12-23T18:04:18.845Z

love the assignment this week!

recorded various noisy ambiences on my tascam, combined in ableton live - filtering, some panning, touch of reverb

RabMusicLab · 2023-12-23T18:50:05.028Z

For me the photograph looks menacing, and I wonder what is going on below that ceiling.

I started off with slightly unsettling sounds, but then got carried away (as happens from time to time when working on a project ) and made the track happier with every layer added… So I finished that track and discarded it for this project. You can listen to it here: The Room.

I started again and decided to express the uneasiness more drone-like. The track consists of two Hainbach Landfill Totem noise-sounds, one high pitched granular synth sound and a Spitfire Epic Choir. All four sounds have effects added that were automated “live” with the knobs of the Midi-keyboard.

martincee · 2023-12-23T23:42:10.830Z

Disquiet 0625

the lamp without a shade is brash but ineffective,

its metal fitting is dull and suits the dreary grays of the ceiling

although there is water – water pipes on the ceiling and the power line to the lamp even resembles shower tubing, it’s certainly not a room I’d want to spend much time in.

soundscape made by manipulating the sound of a finger fanning the pages of a book and, for the light, the clicking sound of putting the top back onto a felt tip.

Probably too much going on when compared to the image,

happy holidays everybody !

blisterpop · 2023-12-24T02:01:25.008Z

“The Lady With The Watermelon Hugs” by Wishbook (disquiet0625)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 23 Dec 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes

Over the course of a few hours, I recorded alto saxophone in my bathroom six times using my iPhone in various places in the room - in the shower, by the dripping sink, near the running toilet. Any incidental noises in the room - water, movement - have been left in these recordings. The room I used was an important part of my recording.

A bit later in the day, I imported all six recordings into Ableton Live and divided them evenly into as many tracks and into three groupings. Each group was given one instance of Baby Audio’s Transit. The last group was further subdivided into four tracks total. Each grouping’s individual tracks was also given one effect. I used Live native devices throughout as well as Arturia EFx Refract and SynthesizerWriter AUD HexFrequencyShifter.

After getting a good mix, I mastered using iZotope Ozone 9.

Artwork: Jim Lemanowicz, 27 Feb 2010

lazenbeeindustries · 2023-12-24T10:46:29.213Z

Love this! Creates a very compelling soundscape. Love the horns as well!

henklass · 2023-12-24T19:40:42.636Z

Some 52 years ago there was this very famous psychedelic rockband that had this song about someone having breakfast. The slow echo on his voice made for a fine psychedelic atmosphere. And now there is the Disquiet Junto 0625 that asks:What does this room sound like? It is a not too large room with bare concrete walls, so there will be a strong fast echo that will make for a fine neurotic atmosphere. So I recorded myself having lunch, added a fast echo and filled the silent passages with music. I had just begun experimenting with duplicating a sequence and sending the clock signal through a Bernoulli Gate at 50%. I added a delay, panned the dry signals hard left and right and the delayed signals hard right and left. It adds nicely to the neuroticism.

There is a snippet available at SoundCloud, because, well, SoundCloud:

wasabicube · 2023-12-25T06:16:21.965Z

A 50Hz hum and a drip. Arturia Synthi V and sonicLAB Thermo 2 for the buzz. Ableton Simpler for the drip.

RandomShuffle · 2023-12-25T15:34:47.984Z

Recorded with SOMA Lyra 8 & Terra in TE TP-7.

XHG · 2023-12-25T18:42:54.816Z

Thinking about the photo I imagined a small room in a multicultural environment, people working, talking, music and TV noises from the outside. So I layered parts of a field recording and several decaying hip-hop-ish loops. It’s all pretty busy…

thgirwnhoj · 2023-12-25T19:10:21.366Z

I was not planning on participating this week, but I had a few minutes to myself so I started to browse sounds on Pixabay then became inspired to start layering them. I first looked for a lightbulb buzzing sound and found one called “Factory Fluorescent light buzz.” I am not sure if the pictured light bulb is actually “fluorescent,” but I do imagine hearing some kind of buzzing sound coming from that light fixture. On top of that, I wanted to add the ambient noise of some heating or cooling appliance. I first looked for radiator sounds, but settled one called “Concrete Hallway with Air Conditioner.” I liked the low end and I definitely picture this room having mostly bare concrete walls. I also see this room as adjoining another one, but also having a wall or a glass block window facing the outside. So I gathered two sounds: “car passing by” to simulate traffic going by and “People talking in small room” to simulate indistinct chatter coming through the wall. Even though I pictured mostly empty walls in my mind, I did think there might be a ticking clock, so I also grabbed 'Wall Clock Ticks, Quartz Clock." Finally, I also pictured the people talking in the adjoining room as listening to music. Not wanting to do a search for a song that I would need permission to use, I just grabbed my submission for Project 0619 because it had a heavy kick sound that I wanted to simulate as coming through the wall. I layered all of the tracks and then organized them to only last a minute - because, as the prompt suggests, I would only want to spend that much time in this room! I added a low pass filter to the sounds I imagined coming through the walls and panned them to each side to suggest they are coming through different walls. I had to play with the mix for awhile to make the volume of the light bulb buzz and ticking clock appropriate. I added some effects like putting all of the tracks in a group and adding a “small room” reverb, compressor, limiter and then exported after I found myself spending way more time on this track than I anticipated. In the end, this was a fun experiment and I am glad I tried my hand at some of these sound design techniques because I learned a few things.