#41

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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#42

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

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#43

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

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#44

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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#45

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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#46

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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#47

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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#48

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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#49

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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#50

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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#51

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#52

Hi, normal service resumed, track is up!

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#53

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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#54

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

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#55

I’m also new here but mainly just listening for inspiration… trying to encourage the more talented folks along the way. Was intrigued by what you mentioned about mastering quality concerns… maybe a broken sound would be something that does the opposite of traditional mastering… ie bass way too loud, frown curves instead of smile curves, in a frequency plot the amplitude gradually increases as you go up the spectrum instead of decreasing… might be something I try later. cheers

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#56

Here’s an idea I got while thinking about how/if one could actually “break” sound, but no way could I figure out how to do this over a weekend. - take a dense fourrier of a not-changing-too-much sample, say the first 10 harmonics. Now you have this plot of frequency values and amplitudes. Pick some frequency as a reflection point. Now differences between the reflection point and each frequency above and below are calculated and corresponding frequencies in the the other direction are generated. If a harmonic is 150 herz above the reflection point, it is replaced with a harmonic 150 herz below the reflection. Similarly if a harmonic is twenty herz below the reflection point, it is replaced with a harmonic 20 herz above the reflection point. If a harmonic generated in this way is below the hearing threshold, we discard it. As an example, if you have a standard harmonic doubling of 100 200 400 800 1600 3200 6400 with 800 as your reflecting point you end up with 200 800 1200 1400 1500 - by toggling the reflection point, you can make more unexpected variations in the timbre and even the fundamental of the sound. Please let me know if and if possible how someone has already done this… or if you know how/if this could be done… thanks!

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#57

This is real nice. Interesting idea to sample the click/fissue on a tape loop - might have to dig out my endless cassettes.

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#58

Thanks for listening and commenting! I really enjoyed this project- I hope to expand this one, 1:45 is too short!

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