Hello, here’s my contribution for this week. Live recorded from playing with Aalto and a little sound squeezing effect. How to break sound without making noise?

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Love an imagined genre.

i think I went for more broken music than broken sound but it was cranky good fun.

richard

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this assignment was quite easy for me to accomplish because i have several hours of stuff like this recorded with a friend from 2010 til 2013.
this track was recorded live and there are no overdubs, mixing or other manipulations done after the recoding.
as far as i can remember we used EMS Synthi Custom,Guitars,Bass,Voice,
Looper,Ringmodulators,Drum Machine,RE-201 and some Foot pedals.

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It been a while since my last disquiet and its been fun.

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https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/elmer-disquiet-0274

This started out being broken, but somewhere along the line I put it back together again. At least partially. it is possible I am guilty of losing the plot.

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Another strange video…

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This weekend, decided to do a big track! Lots of abuse of 8 instances of Cakewalk Z3ta (what a great synth!). Quick arpeggios, waveshaping, bit crushing, overdrive, distortion, sample reduction - the intention was noise, chaos, and a frantic pace.
It’s not -really- broken sound to my ears tho!

(Fixed the issue with the first post)

Hope you enjoy.

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Hypoid, this is super stuff! Both track and video… Top notch!

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Thanks for the kind words :smiley: Glad you enjoyed!

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Osteo Fractus: Fantasy for Broken Bones and Piano [disquiet0274]

Disquiet Junto Project 0274: Broken Sound
The Assignment: Record a piece of music in the genre called “broken sound”.

A brief improvisation using the sounds of broken bones and piano. Created on an iPad with Samplr and Garageband. Broken bone sounds courtesy of batman6661 and qubodup on
freesound.org.

Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California, March 30, 2017.

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This was Jason and I with all of our amps turned waaay up (and a lot of beer). Not sure my neighbors appreciated last Thursday evening but we were at least done by 11pm.

It was our first session trying out a new Zoom F4 digital field recorder, which is affording 8 channels of input, much better quality (24 bit @ 192kHz) and stereo separation. We’re starting to put together material for our first album, which is very exciting…

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Back to Disquiet Junto after a long break… I made this last year but only just got around to mixing it now and I thought it would fit. Broken Folks started as a kind of folk song, but then I borrowed a digitally controlled analogue matrix from a friend and it all got terribly broken. Made with a broken Mandolin, an intact bass guitar, some amps, an organ through a randomly triggered noise gate, sampled drums, the whole thing processed with an EMS synthi with its matrix controlled from a max algorithm - that’s the kind of cut/click/panning/chopchop/sssshh thing going on. xGus

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First Disquiet Junto project I’ve managed to do by the deadline! No great concepts here. Just tried to mess up a (broken) bed track a bit. Details on SoundCloud.

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the birds chirping is constantly interrupting the soundscape and then easily becomes it. the broken sound here is many manual interruptions…the broken repetition of interruptions becomes the sound.

recorded random children running towards the water fountain in the taipei botanical garden along with the birds that were nearby
i have no idea what any of them they are saying. broken phrases. i don’t speak mandarin.
messed up manually in realtime with stop-starts, quick staccato rewinds and fast-forwards while transferring the handheld cassette recording into the computer.

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Sadly didn’t have time to do something specific for this- but it does relate nicely to another project that I completed recently in another group. We all had to take one of our existing pieces, and then destroy them by whatever means we desired. The result was an album of destroyed sounds - which I think may have inadvertently marked the first experimental forays into the ‘Broken Sound’ genre :wink: In case you are interested, this is the album (its a free download - and I genuinely think it relates to this, so please don’t think I am spamming!)

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https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/00-master-124bpm-dj0247-broken

Disquiet Junto 0274 “Broken Sound “

Definition of “Broken”

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/broken?s=t

Defination of “Sound”

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sound?s=t

Steps: Recorded three days of sounds on my Tascam DR-07mkll
Put the recorder in record mode and carried it with me everywhere
Ended up with a 6 hr recording
Used Paul stretch to shorten the 6 hours to 5 minutes
Processed the .wav file in Paul stretch with some Harmonics and delay
Imported the file into Reaper and ran it through Fragmental to break it up
Mixed
Mastered by Landr

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Hi, normal service resumed, track is up!

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I wasn´t sure what a genre called broken sound might be, and I am not sure if I am sure now…but I broke down the piece I was am working on into its parts, randomly chose 2 parts, chopped these into little segments, randomly chose 2 and gave them a little treatment. The first is a part from a bassline, the second from a keyboard chord-progression.

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Welcome to the nicest asylum you could find! Nice track you brought there :slight_smile:

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