#370

My track, rectangular iceberg, is constructed primarily from Extremely Slow LFO and a couple instances of XFX Wave in VCV Rack.

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#371

Thank you Mark, Jason and all the contributors for creating this monolith!! Iā€™ve written briefly about our postcards from slow places here:

My contribution ā€“ ā€œFor Wallace Stevens (submersion mix)ā€ ā€“ is a gentle reworking of two pieces from my GREEN E.P., which was based on water imagery found in the lines of Wallace Stevensā€™ poetry. The first and final quarters of the track originated as an acoustic guitar loop which was paulstretched before being processed with VST filters and reverbs. The resulting drone was played backwards for the intro and forwards for the outro. The central thirty minute passage of the composition was my first experiment in having various low pass filters and high pass filters change gradually over the course of thirty minutes. The overall tone of the composition was meant to represent oceanic immersion and emersion.

Best wishes, how the night came

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#372

My track: to live is an act of courage was my first attempt at a generative piece of music.

I used the iPad app wotja and set up my parameters there. Each voice is playing to a different time signature, and they all have various probability rules applied. I havenā€™t really dig very deep into the app but it was an interesting experience.

I exported the midi file created and set up ā€œrings likeā€ sounds in Ableton using collision and reverb.

I used paulstretch to timestretch the sounds of a 5 year olds birthday party and put that into the mix for some ambience.

I enjoyed this immensely, but will have to study the wotja manual more thoroughly next time.

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#373

Bravo, congratulations to everybody and thanks for fulfilling this @_mark and @jasonw22
34Hs, wow, I will take a month to listen to the whole thing, but I will.

My 30 minute track 30 Minutos Con La Realidad (pun intended to a famous Astor Piazzolla piece ā€œ3 Minutos con la Realidadā€) includes and expands a couple of drones I was already developing and the full disquiet junto track: A Five Minute Dice Rolled Drone (disquiet0364).

Instruments used overall are Indian Harmonium, bowed upright basses, ebow guitar, bandoneon, cello, acoustic piano and several synthesizers.

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#374

Thanks again, @_mark and @jasonw22, for your herculanean effort!

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#375

This is epic! Thanks @_mark for organising this one.

My track started with a loop played using Omnisphere and captured in my modular (Phonogene or W/, I canā€™t recall!). This was then played back through an ErbeVerb with the settings slowly tweaked. Back in Live, Iā€™ve added some Cloud Chamber Bowls from Sonic Coutureā€™s Glassworks, and a preset from the Ice & Water library from their Geosonics library. A little Valhalla reverb and some delay and thatā€™s about it.

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#376

I used logicā€™s timestretch on a guitar recording Iā€™d had kicking around my hard drive for a while. Fed that through a pair of rings and a delay in vcv rack, and added a drone using Aalto. The Aalto drone was a result of opening up the lpg and tuning the oscillators (well really just octave shifting, conveniently Aaltos default A440 played nicely with the guitar recording in E).

The track name is a Culture series reference, in part because lines introduced me to them.

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#377

This truly is incredible to be a part of. Thanks again @_mark and @jasonw22 !!

My track ā€œVisusā€ consists of two main sound sources, Just Friends and Tides, slowly fading in and out and eventually droning in the last third. It was extremely cathartic to make.

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#378

Amazing work everyone - and massive thanks to @_mark and @jasonw22 - I have just dipped my toe in a few places for the moment, but this is going to be the soundtrack to my work trip this week (I have a 4 hour train journey tomorrow- and another on Thursday - perfect timing!)

My piece is a combination of stretched and processed source materials from the modular synth, field recordings from a trip to a remote cottage in North Wales last year, with live modular synth work recorded over the top in a single take to add more interest and variety. The piece was inspired by the old minerā€™s cottage I stayed at, which was quite remote, up a mountain with no radio/tv/phone/internet, and a 10 minute walk up the hill from the car. The only sounds were the stream, sheep eating grass, and the wind up the valley. I took a walk along the roman road nearby, at least 1600 years old, but likely much older. It wasnā€™t so much a case of feeling the weight of time in the place, but rather the lightness of our own fleeting existence within it.

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#379

Thank you thank you @_mark and @jasonw22.

My contribution, titled ā€œQuaver_C,ā€ came out of a simple process: I granularized a sample of very poorly played acoustic guitar through the Max For Live device Iota. I made several passes, playing grains with my computer keyboard to build up layers. I reversed and pitch-shifted some of those layers. Thatā€™s all. No other editing.

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#380

Another thank you for @_mark and @jasonw22 :wink:

My process was rather simple. I recorded few arpeggiated chords through Zoom MS70CDR to tape on maximum tape speed and then slowed it down as slow as possible on Tascam 464. Then I sent this track on separate auxs to yamaha spx900 for reverb and through my small rack where it was processed mainly by Clouds. The ending of the song is field recording of frogs and various insects in the countryside, processed through bitcrusher and also reverb from spx900.

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#381

Thanks @_mark and @jasonw22 so much for making this happen and getting it out into the world! First off, I forgot to send the correct track name and artist listingā€”it should be ā€˜Scott Burtonā€™ for the artist and ā€˜December 11, 2018ā€™ for the track name.

Notes: My son was 9 months old and it was my day for childcare. For some reason, I knew that today I was going to create my drone track for this wonderful project. I put Isaac down for his morning nap, and started patching. After getting some sounds I liked, I started recording as fast as possible, and that is more or less what my track ended up being. I set up two sequences on the Korg SQ-1, one for the melody, being played by Rings, and one for the bass on Mangrove. The middle note drone is an 0-Coast with an LFO used for slow white noise, and Clouds is being Clouds. This was 27 minutes of time on December 11, 2018. Isaac woke up about halfway through.

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#382

Iā€™m now logged out of the account, but Iā€™m sure @jasonw22 will correct when he sees this.

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#383

Done! ā€¦

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#384

So fast! Thanks much.

#385

Iā€™m up to the middle of track 9 and this has been a fantastic listen so far. Perfect music for tinkering on this & that, though Iā€™ve been keeping a little list of favorites I want to come back to on headphones at least. Seriously great stuff, and flows really nicely so far.

Edit: has anyone downloaded this yet!? I plan to but I need to clear some space off my backup drives. Iā€™m not even sure how much room I should make haha.

#386

2.3G download in m4a format.

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#387

@_mark thanks so much for doing this. Taking on a 34 hour album is no small feat.

I personally donā€™t think the album should be kept up as a growing thing and if it where to keep going it would be another album or season or so on with a specific timed cut off of adding. Iā€™m going to download the album now and if it was updated after I would not realize there are more tracks and they would be missed out. Also if it where to come around again Iā€™m sure people would like to make a second track. Or maybe the next step is to make an album out of this album via reprocessing and sampling.

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#388

I agree with this after thinking about it.

I still have it on my todo list to create a neural network capable of creating new works based on this corpus. Stay tunedā€¦

And of course, we can always do a remix project based on this work. (paging @disquietā€¦)

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#389

Ah cool ā€“ and looks like the FLAC is just 11.8 GB zipped. Downloading nowā€¦