#23

The reason why I love the junto projects is the restriction to the sound sources!!!
Unfortunately sometimes my “musican hand” get’s through with me!

I will improve myself;)!!

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#24

This was another great one! Sampling random bits I find laying around and mangling them into a track is one of my favourite activities, so thanks a lot Marc for it!
I did choose a random drawer, without thinking too much about it, so there would be at least a little bit of surprise about what I would find in it.

From the things I found I chose: salad cutlery made of a bamboo-based material, some metal salad cutlery, a chicken cutter, a pizza-cutter wheel, a bottle opener, some paper straws, a small strainer, a cake fork, a small wooden sushi-rice spoon and last but not least a weird kitchen multi-utensil… which has a rather undefined purpose and made me wonder why I still had that.

I did play around with all these things to see what interesting sounds they could make. The pizza cutter was my favourite, it would make these long chimey sounds when hit properly. The bamboo cutlery also was nice for percussions, with a nice wooden sound to them. Some other objects turned out to be rather uninspiring so I put them aside.

I took a Zoom H5, fed its line out into the inputs of my Octatrack and sampled some of these sounds. Then I started to manipulate and arrange them. Some sounds I kept almost untouched, just played with envelopes and LFOs on the volume and maybe added a bit of filtering (eg. some rattling sounds made with the bottle opener). Other sounds I manipulated more heavily. I used a tiny, pitched-down fraction of the pizza cutter chimes to make a bassline o sorts. The wooden hits mad with the bamboo cutlery were turned into reverberating timpani-like bass drums.
Other things I did: randomize sample-play position via s&h LFOs, add a inv. exp LFO on a copy of the bassline to create this pulsating rhythm, played with filters and high resonance on some samples.
The result was recorded in one take from the OT, I set up some scenes to modulate the various fx and fade some tracks in and out.

https://soundcloud.com/papernoise/0265-kitchen-rec

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#25

Hi all,

You can listen to my track here:

https://soundcloud.com/encym-soundtracks/the-dangerous-kitchen-disquiet0265

Listened to what’s been uploaded so far, very inspiring!

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#26

Sounds really good!
And thanks for your in-depth insights.

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#27

I like clanks and snaps and abrupt edits.

left to my own devices i think i would work/smear/amend/distort/mangle it further, totally obscure it’s soundsources but, in a Junto , i felt an obligation to make it at least * suggestive * of the original soundsources, y’know?

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#28

https://soundcloud.com/337is/in-search-of-kitchen-music-disquiet0265

With a friendly nod to Laurie Anderson, my wife improvises a journey of loss and discovery while rifling through our “other utensils” drawer. Everything referenced here actually resides in this drawer (including the three ice cream scoops and the llama-shaped bottle opener), and this recording is representative of the exercise of searching through layers of ephemera in both physical reality and within one’s own mind.

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#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

More on this 265th weekly Disquiet Junto project, “Kitchen Music: Record a piece of music that uses items from just one drawer”:

disquiet.com/0265/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto/

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MasteredByLANDR“disquiet0265″Experimentalfound soundsfield recordingfound sounds USApennsylvania
Simple Kitchen Sounds #1 – “disquiet0265″ by VGmrmojo is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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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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