#30

https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/dj0265kitchen-musicfinal012017

Disquiet Junto 0235 Kitchen Music

Used a AKG P420 microphone to record sounds made by items found inside my kitchen drawer.

The items were as follows:

metal spatula, plastic box filled with screws, metal chain, wire brush, two pieces of wood, hammer, push button flashlight, plastic pipe, plastic scoop

The items were hit, scraped and shaken to produce various timbres

Sounds produced were recorded onto a single track in Reaper

A second track was created by copy/pasting the first track on to a second track and pushing the start time of the second track to seven seconds after the first track to create an offset

Each sound was then cut out of the first track and pasted on to a third track and each item was stretched to connect with the one following it on the same track

Did a little mixing and added a VST preamp to increase the output volume

Uploaded to Soundcloud and mastered by Landr for Soundcloud

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#31

I chose the silverware drawer and picked out a serving fork and two serving spoons (one was slotted, the other was not). I recorded each being struck with the handle of a soup spoon. I loaded those recordings into The Mangle for granularization and adjusted settings until I liked the results. Then I tweaked settings on the Spiral sequencer (from the Reaktor library) and sent the notes it generated to The Mangle. The piece starts with the dry recordings, then basic granular sounds are added, and then the sequenced granular comes in. Used a high and low cut with ReaEQ and reverb from Room.

Paul

https://soundcloud.com/plusch/silverware-disquiet0265

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#32

  • Started with recording various sounds from a kitchen drawer that holds cutlery and some spice jars using a Zoom H5. Opening/closing the drawer, knocking the contents around, shaking things, picking out some items and tossing them back in.

  • Plugged the Zoom H5 output right into the modular and setup a chain through a couple resonant filters, delay, and a granular sampler.

  • Sent the delay and granular outputs to left/right to create very different stereo images

  • Used a number of LFOs, envelopes, and triggers to create a slightly rhythmic generative system that would keep modulating itself

  • Hit play on the field recorder and played back the recording one time all the way through while tweaking a few knobs

https://soundcloud.com/newtendencies/drawer-music-disquiet0265

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#33

I am in a limbo between places, only have 2 drawers, one full of silverware, the other has 3 kinds of hair clippers – one for the coif old skool with a cord, a cordless razor for the face and a smaller trimmer.
Used a guitar tuner pickup into Ableton then some resonators and some filtering. Made a few adjustments in Logic and edited in Audacity.

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#34

https://soundcloud.com/mikedayton/where-the-fires-never-quenched-disquiet0265

The sounds which I decided to utilize were taken from a can of tuna, quinoa, and popcorn. I went pretty heavy on transforming them relying entirely on granular samplers; Borderlands, IDensity, and Ipulsaret. At first I was thinking about a gentle ocean’s roar with the bag of quinoa but that idea went out the window as darker sounds began to take shape. Reverb was added liberally to smooth things out a bit.

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#35

i think i missed the deadline but i put too much effort into this to not post it

for a video of me recording the sounds go to my instagram @fomosapien

recorded with SD744t and Rode NT4
sliced n diced with audiofinder
the spatula made a nice bass note so that’s the foundation of the track
made a rhythm with timeline delay pedal that helped guide the rest of the song
from there just added a ton of sounds and effects
the chord comes from ableton’s resonator, i only used sounds from the drawer on this one

boom

hope you like it

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#36

Great theme and very nice contributions!

Fun fact: I just noticed that there isn’t a single drawer in my whole apartment. I did not notice that before - shelves, cupboards, wardrobe and a fully working kitchen - but no drawers…
:open_mouth:

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#37

Thanks! Well I think that’s one of the interesting things about this group isn’t it? Sharing not just the music, but also insights about the process. For me Junto is mainly a way to learn and practice.

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#38

Video is fantastic! Can you share a bit about the tools you utilized in making the video? So fun!

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#39

One thing that this week’s Junto surprised me with is how remarkably similar our kitchen drawers look. From the photos and videos it looks like we could swap drawers and probably make do just fine.

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#40

The assignment was to record a piece of music with the contents of a kitchen drawer. I took a device for slicing hard boiled eggs and chopsticks. Since I do not use a pc for my music, and don´t have a DAW or plug-ins or what-nots, I reorded a little sequence of chopstick-on-eggslicer into my looper and got out my Kaos Pad for the first time and mangled it up. At the same time I came dug out an older track of mine - a live recording -, and mixed these two into my Kitchen MUSIC-disquiet0265
I´ve got a second mix - More Kitchen MUSIC - using only refurbished sounds from my egg-slicer and 2 chopsticks which I´ll upload to you Tube. l´ll post the URL here

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#41

You better feed that animal :sunglasses:
Nice work

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#42

Nice sound from the egg slicer and chopsticks, kind of oriental sounding :sunglasses:

#43

Here is my track. It was great fun.
https://soundcloud.com/rudzupuke/push-the-button-grandma-version

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#44

This is really great, I feel like you found the exact right amount of processing.

I didn’t have as much time as I expected so went for some looping and a blunt abuse of comb filters.

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#45

https://soundcloud.com/an2netto/barbdisquiet0265

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#46

https://soundcloud.com/user-696185036/happy-new-years-disquiet0265
The tongs made the base drum sound. They are actually tongs for taking tea out of a (Chinese style) tea pot. It’s the year of the rooster as of a few days and so there are some roosters in the picture and the saying “gong xi fa cai” or … congratulations become rich …
There’s also a picture of XiJin Ping … the glorious leader of all Chinese. Well then there are some red envelopes, given at Chinese new years, but also perhaps at other time for bribes.
Nothing special for the music, it’s not the end result I want, but some things I feel are ok. I’m starting to get a bit better understanding of a vocoder (or at least the Abelton one), and that is in there, other than that just standard sampler and direct sample manipulation.

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#47

https://soundcloud.com/streetviolence/monsters-in-the-cupboard

Just scraped this in after waiting all week to be able to sit down and do this. The track takes place within a single clang of a metal measuring cup, stretched out beyond reason.

oops. first Soundcloud upload, I assumed they would encode it to m4a. reuploaded.

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#48

@Detritus_Tabu3 I’m imagining a sped-up clip to go with this.
@paulf Reminds me of a soundtrack to a Tim Burton movie, probably one of his fairy tales.
@ClaudeLeBelge Nice stereo image and I like the flanging on the breathing sound.
@sevenism The stretching makes this feel microscopic.
@dizzybanjo Nice result, really goes.
@lio Takes a little while to get going but when it gets there it’s a surprise.
@fjna Are you rollerskating around the kitchen? I like it when cooking feels like this.
@Larry_Frazier Swoosh!
@audiodays Everything sounds huge, so the visuals make me feel small.

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#49

@RandomShuffle This is how it feels for me when someone else cooks.
@Craig_Wharton Intense. Clearly I can’t stand the heat in your kitchen.
@Hypoid Heh, Anoia. I don’t remember this from Wintersmith and feel you’ve enriched me. Thanks, the track has depth too.
@papernoise Feels like midnight and I was waiting for someone to walk in and catch me eating something I shouldn’t.
@encym Woah, that conclusion. It’s like a soundtrack to washing the dishes during a party.
@jks You’re making a mockery of the crockery.
@337is Great narrative. It was nice to get into someone else’s drawers.
@vgmrmojo I like the sense of repetition. That captures something about my experience of the kitchen.

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