#28

https://soundcloud.com/zedkah/back-to-weena-disquiet0264-time-travel

Back to Weena [disquiet0264- Time Travel]

“In the 1960, film version, The name “George” was given to the time traveller. Travelling through different times, George reaches AD 802701 where he finds a girl drowning in the shallow, and the Elois are indifferent. He rescues her and comes to know her name – Weena. Unlike the novel, George does not leave Weena dead. He rescues the Elois and Weena and eventually returns to the future to be reunited with her. Weena was played by Yvette Mimieux.” (wikipedia abridged)

Track made in Pro tools 11 using the in-house drum and organ. Lots of subtle tempo changes and loops slightly off from the beat. used the elastic audio in both the rhythm and varispeed mode. The time machine is depicted as a mechanical device with rotating discs and this is in part why I used overlayed fast clicking rhythms. A small school choir sample loops through the second half subject to filter sweeps out of synch with the loop length.

I did struggle with the mix and capturing that odd dislocating time feeling. I feel that the last minute was the most successful.

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#29

https://soundcloud.com/triermusic/teapot-confessional-disquiet0264

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to add a sense of steady forward motion to free improv and noise music. So this composition challenge made me rethink my normal approach (always a good thing!).

I took a sound with a clear beginning and end: a teapot boiling. When I was doing a lot of free improvisation and noise music I liked experimenting with limiting time constraints based on the durations of mundane processes–including a boiling teapot. The recording was much longer than 2:40, so I use Ableton’s Warp feature to shrink the duration.

Then, I wanted to change this linear process so it appeared unordered and unpredictable. I sliced the recording up into about 64 audio clips, then mapped each one to a different pad on a MIDI controller (I started with a Push, but it was fairly inflexible about each button launching a clip, not a “scene.” So then I dusted off my old Launchpad, which worked perfectly. Sometimes simple tech is better!) I improvised; I tried to highlight the different “tones” of the hiss in the boiling teapot.

It worked…but the track was a bit static and felt very “mono.” To rectify that, I used an audio effects rack in Ableton and set it up so that the appearance of different frequencies would trigger different effects chains. I listened to and watched the track on a spectrometer and took note of sudden appearances or disappearances of frequencies, then gave them their own effects (low sounds were transformed into a grumble, high sounds became shimmering echoes). I panned them left and right to make use of the stereo field.

I also added the Beat Repeat plug-in, with very mild settings and a bit of pitch decay, because I knew that would create a sound opposite to the increasing hiss of the boiling water. It was set to trigger randomly, but it decided to rework the first few seconds of this track, which I think is an artful choice.

The end result is interesting, in my opinion. I’m not sure it stands alone as a piece, but it gave me more tools in my toolbox.

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#30

Here’s mine. (I’ll describe my process a bit later.)

Paul

https://soundcloud.com/plusch/stitches-in-time-disquiet0264

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#31

Thinking about clocks and such.

https://soundcloud.com/dascott/times-up-disquiet0264

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#33

https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/final-1

My concept here is to try and manipulate the two types of time used in music. Rhythm ( whole, half notes etc) and linear time ( minutes, seconds)/

  1. Put a click track on track one at a tempo of 150 BPM

  2. Added three other synth tracks

3.Added two drum/percussion tracks

4.Each track is a different note value for instance:

synth track 1 = whole notes. Synth track 2 half note, percussion track 1 eigth notes, drum track 1 sixteenth notes

  1. All notes are played at random times

  2. One synth track is a continuous pad

7.Added delay and tremolo to selected tracks

Finally the entire composition was slowed down at to separate times at 2 minutes and about 2: 15 seconds

Mastered by Landr for Soundcloud

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#34

I like the waviness of the sound

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#35

https://soundcloud.com/qype-dikir/time-disquiet0264

Had to rush to get it finished before the deadline and then forgot to post it here.

Original idea was to stretch and contract some old sounding vocal recording in various ways to get stay close to the time-related theme, but ended up going another way in the end.

Some drones from the modular as background, a bit of ms20 being looped in the OT and 4 flex machines playing around with the same recording and being looped.

Source audio from this video of the Argentine poet Vicente Luy.

Really enjoyed doing this one and will work further with it.

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#37

unfortunately i had some heavy issues with my health and did not expect to be able to join this project. so things went better and i thought about the assignment how to accomplish this task.
so i went back in my memories how working has been without any plugins and other “modern” possibilities to create music.
therefor i took a track i made with a friend in 1995.
this track was already released here on SC,but there has´t been that much interest in this track.went back from the doc this morning and heard that Jaky Liebezeit left us on sunday. one of my absolutely favorite musicians. saw CAN at the age of fifteen in a school auditorium,but they security found out about my age,so i was told to leave the concert. short fun for about 45 minutes,but unforgetable
till now.
on this track we used snippets of a track by Can where we made a drum loop from and a snippet from Soft Machine,which features the wonderful organ of Mike Ratledge,treated both snippets so as we thought no body would recognize,haha juvenile levity.
if there are no further disquiet tracks i might be in prison somewhere.

for this track we used : E-max 1+2 ,E-mu Classic Keys,Basstation,Casio MT-120
Korg Poly 800,Roland D-110,Dynacord Spring Reverb,Atari 1040 and a crappy analog Mixer.
so sorry for some less hifi sounding track.
hope you enjoy this time travel.

Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel
Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

https://soundcloud.com/wust/softer-a-tribute-to-jaky-liebezeit-rip-disquiet0264

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#38

Ironically enough, I didn’t have a lot of time this week, so I took my ‘Year In Sound’ from the other week’s Disquiet as my source material (travelling back in time already!), and played around with stretching, shortening, making massive reverbs, reversed reverbs, repitching, etc… and created a multi-layered piece. My intent was to give a sense of being “out of time”, or in “deep time”.

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#39

https://soundcloud.com/project-dirigent/motionstasis-disquiet0264

Motion/Stasis [disquiet0264]

Disquiet Junto Project 0264: Time Travel
Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

After trying several ideas I focused on contrasting quick, short, rapidly changing sounds with long, sustained sounds. Juxtaposing rapid change with static sound where time is suspended (motion/stasis). After playing with this for a while I also started incorporating subtle phrasing (accelerando, crescendo) within each of the rapid phrases.

Sound sources:
This was played and recorded in one take (one of many) on my small performance modular synth. The patch consists of a Modcan FMVDO through a Ripples filter (acting as a low pass gate) modulated with short envelopes generated with Maths and triggered with a Wogglebug. I’m “playing” the Wogglebug clock and manually biasing the Maths envelope to sweep the filter and to hold it open.

The sound goes through several delays (further time variation): Echophon with some pitch shifting, Flashback X4 for long delays with a bit of feedback and a Ray Wilson voltage controlled delay.

Recorded with Audacity.

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#40

Title: nxA20170123234718
Author: Miquel Parera

for Disquiet Junto 0264 - Time Travellers

I used a “relaxed” version of “A Discontinuous Change of Time Perception Caused by Time-shrinking”:

http://www.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~ynhome/ENG/Demo/illusions.html#TP

https://soundcloud.com/computermusicneix/nxa20170123234718-disquiet0264

#41

Hello all… newbie sane here… thanks for the comments and likes and such… introducing me: I make music that’s more fun to make than to listen to… I am an internet/cisco/telco/devops engineer-ish person. My son has autism and I spend a fair amount of time caregiving and being with him in his world… am slightly active in the vaporwave world not because I agree w its dogma (now that it seems to have got one) but because I discovered I can retool all the music-library rejects I made in the naughts and call it vaporwave :smiley:

I’m slightly into the underground jazz music of Kansas City - there is just amazing stuff going on by gifted brilliant minds (not mine) out here. I hope some of it breaks out into the wilder world. Anyway here is the track:

I’m trying to embed but I may not succeed… sorry for newbness… here is the description:
here is a rough anagram - the end events reflect the beginning events. It melodically sounds more or less the same backwards as it does forwards. I’m also playing with duration and how duration affects perception with a symmetric juxtaposition of very short durations with very long ones. The durations gradually approach uniformity and at the fulcrum of the piece, notes are sped up until you hear tones that are the result of the frequency of notes rather than the pitches of the notes themselves. Time sped up becomes frequency.

#42

alas failed to embed here’s the link: https://soundcloud.com/sanefiftyfour/disquiet0264_s54

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#43

https://soundcloud.com/giselafrick/utopia-14-disquiet0264-time-travel

Hi there. I hope you will enjoy the ride. This is past future time travel, as inspired by Kurt Vonnegut and the synth aesthetics of spaceship soundtracks, Carl Sagan over chroma, brass and wind fuelling the peaceship. 23:19 Santiago, Chile. As always, downloadable and copylefthanded.

Narrative: the future of the past as shown by Kurt Vonnegut’s 1952 Utopia 14, Carl Sagan’s spaceship and the like. Recorded sounds would dance and swim in the vast obscurity of future space continuum, that is now.

Tech: A layered three track midi improvisation. First improvising with clarinet, then with french horns upon oboe. Finally with an arpeggiator called ‘fig leaf’ I improvised over french horns, oboe on mute. The idea is to partly disrupt the possibility of harmonic improvisation, to meet and part melodies, while also using reverse arpeggios for clarinet and horn. Later in audacity I cut the original improvisation (6:15)into a 3:02 format, with bits of fade outs in the beginning for a little balance and paulstretching outro.

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#44

My first Disquiet Junto submission… gulp.

This submission was recorded with an ebow, a lap harp, and a guitar. The idea was to use time as an instrument. I recorded a few short loops with the harp and guitar and used MLRV, CapstArc, and Ableton to manipulate playback speed pitch to create different chords and melodies - even typing in the figures live at moments. I apologize for some noise on the guitar clip - I seem to have a faulty jack or something. Also, there may be some clipping.

https://soundcloud.com/bradfromraleigh/170121presentedisquiet0264

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#45

Hi all!

Here’s my contribution this week.

Music to me is all about time and rhythm, so I thought I’d play with the idea of rhythm breaking apart. I started with a downward falling melody, that very quickly loses itself. A strong rhythm is set up within the melody and on various tracks that then also fall apart or disappear. I was also trying to add many opposing sounds, up to the edge of being non-musical and somewhat unlistenable, so it’s a wash of sound energy more than anything else.

Thanks for listening!

https://soundcloud.com/alt-formant/breaking-the-rhythm-disquiet0264

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#46

My app of choice for this project was Triqtraq as it features tempo manipulation. I recorded my self alongside a simple beat which included a couple leftover bits from the ice project. The idea for the therimin like synth was inspire about equally by doctor Who and Gin & Juice. I also went pretty heavy on the reverb as was as “erratic” delay to add to the sense of stumbling through time.

https://soundcloud.com/mike-88/time-slips-away-disquiet-0264

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#47

https://soundcloud.com/wilwilwil/timeflies-disquiet-0264-time-travel

I have always been fond of mixing elements from different sources, styles etc., like playing slow over fast.
And I have been particularly fond of playing in real time to something slowed down or reversed.
I recorded a chord progression into my looper and played it reversed. The drum part is accomponied by a guitar and is in real time. The solo part is slowed down; and the little ending is a blend of real time, reversed, slowed down.
I had fun doing this, and as I tried out this and that, so much interesting material accumulated that I might easily produce another tune. And now I am very keen on the results of the other participants

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#48

The video combined with sound really helped to disassociate my connection to time. Haunting.

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#49

Welcome. You’ve got a lot of interesting influences going on in your world and I’m eager to here more of your stuff.

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