#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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#50

Thanks for all the great comments, another perfect example of why I enjoy this community Marc created so much :smiley:

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#51

choose the best organized drawer as you can see on the image.
recorded with my DR-40 about four minutes using most of the tools shown
on the image,cut all the recorded bits. ended up ins some kind of rhythm like
bed to put improvised tracks on and off switches.
to get some ambience to this i used the Densitiy Instrument and CatStretch2, i used on Density the whole track, on the CatStretch i used only one of the snippets from the recorded track.
Fx i used are a simple reverb and a compressor.
kitchen gear is Spoons,Forks,Knifes,Scissors and a Garlic Crusher.
https://soundcloud.com/wust/besteck-schublade-disquiet0265

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#52

Thought I’d add an image to the thread. I don’t have a picture of the drawer handy, but here you can see my patched modular as it was used for the performance of the piece I recorded.

No oscillators were used… just the Zoom output split into the MMG filter, Clouds, and 4MS Dual Looping Delay. Rene and Maths were used to sequence changes in delay time and Clouds modulations, Tempi provided a clock for the modulators.

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#53

Very cool. Pictures are always appreciated.

#54

Just found this in my notifications, hope it makes everyone smile as well!

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#55

That’s pretty great. Thanks.

#56

@bassling: well it was almost midnight indeed when I recorded the sounds. :slight_smile:
@qype: thanks! The Octatrack does make it easy I must admit. It’s easier to over-process sounds in a DAW.

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#57

@Hypoid: as somebody who mainly lurks in the group as a listener*, I totally agree! :slight_smile:
(*) thought that’s supposed to change now!

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#58

I opened a kitchen drawer, pulled out a brush, a hard boiled egg slicer, rubber bands, a pizza slicer, corks, and a metal cheese grater. I plucked, smashed, tapped, spun, rubbed, and clicked these utensils underneath a microphone to create all the samples used in this track.

I created the bass line with a rubber band stretched between my fingers right up near the microphone (Shure beta57). Then I pitched it down an octave and rearranged the notes.

Some other noises you may hear are the circular pizza slicing blade spinning (forward and in reverse), plucking the wire on an egg slicer, snapping rubber bands on corks, rubbing corks together, brushing a cheese grater, etc.

I edited everything in Ableton. I sequenced some of it by mapping sampled sounds to a MIDI keyboard.

As usual, I ran out of time and had to leave out many layers of sounds, but the basic idea is there and I may expand on this original project someday.

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