Vocal Cuts (Disquiet Junto Project 0266)

fjna · 2017-02-04T12:29:37.129Z

Good evening everybody and welcome to the show,

At first, I wanted to skip this project… but in the afternoon, I thought…let me just record the A(without a number)… and in the evening, it became fun! I had to stop myself from going into an hour session of “AAAA”
I realized I liked myself singing the letter A… maybe next step will be a B and I’m on the way to become a singer-songwriter

https://soundcloud.com/user-242143924/the-letter-a-without-a-numberdisquiet0266

ikjoyce · 2017-02-04T12:41:36.301Z

I started by recording a rather lacklustre “Ah”, a bit like being at the doctors. I wanted the voice to naturally decay and crack towards the end. I then processed the sample in Sound Forge, cutting small snippets and normalising them. No other processing was done. I imported these into AcidPro, and set about creating a track with them, layering and pitch shifting the samples, occasionally reversing them. I wanted to have a lot of tension building, so I used some close intervals. One of the samples was quite rhythmic, so I was careful to overlay the different copies so that the rhythm was shifted in each layer for more interest. I added a tiny amount of reverb to help carry over as the totally dry track was too brittle.

https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/say-ah-disquiet0266

ikjoyce · 2017-02-04T12:49:16.157Z

Perhaps “Om” should be next. Very meditative!

fjna · 2017-02-04T12:57:20.708Z

I wanted to end the song with… llah akbar

I already apologize to everyone who thinks this is a bad joke

ikjoyce · 2017-02-04T12:57:56.302Z

Kamikuma for the win - that track is amazing! Makes me think of Ligeti’s Atmospheres.

RichardFair · 2017-02-04T13:12:29.115Z

https://soundcloud.com/richardfair/ooooo-disquiet0266
Oooo, I like this. Plenty of looping going on here with some pitch change. At the halfway point I put the whole thing into reserve and backed out of here.

petrusmajor · 2017-02-04T17:37:05.408Z

Hi everybody, here’s my track
‘fere’ - As you know, ‘A’ in french is ‘R’ in english.
Well, well…
https://soundcloud.com/petrus-major/french-a-disquiet0266

echinacea · 2017-02-04T18:15:19.126Z

my track mobilephone rec + reverb

https://soundcloud.com/user-941288896-491859901/evayo-disquiet0266

pirxthepilot · 2017-02-04T19:19:30.878Z

I love how a lot of these tracks remind me of the eerie score from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

EDIT: Turns out that score is is “Ligeti’s Atmospheres” as mentioned by @ikjoyce!

bassling · 2017-02-04T19:27:22.317Z

Glad to hear the drums because I had to resist the urge to add them at every step.

ikjoyce · 2017-02-04T23:31:17.383Z

I’m a big fan of Ligeti. Got to see 2001 with live orchestra and choir last year, and will be seeing Ligeti’s Atmospheres performed on Friday, can’t wait!

Hypoid · 2017-02-05T01:14:43.262Z

Agreed, every turn was NOT adding something needed! With my strict adhesion I paid the price Next time I will give in to the darkside, BWAH HA HA HA HA…

tapes · 2017-02-05T03:18:21.827Z

back again with a quick one. stuck to the no processing and mono recommendations in the description…it was really hard to not add a bunch of effects

https://soundcloud.com/matthewsimonson/mouth-vowels-disquiet0266

recorded vowels with a shure sm7b
put each note into a sampler in ableton
did the thing where you make the LFO randomize the sample start, so that i’m starting in a new place on the sample every trigger
made a disjointed rhythm by taking the loop length of each midi clip and making them all different (3 beats, 5 beats, etc)
added M4L LFO to some of the samples sustain and release to make each line a little more varied
called it a day

Neurogami · 2017-02-05T05:47:27.583Z

Breath First

https://soundcloud.com/neurogami/breath-first-disquiet0266

I sang the sound of an “Oooo”. Then chopped it into varying segments, trying to capture parts that differed in texture. These were then used to make a Renoise instrument (there were five different notes, including the full take, which appears at the start of the piece and again later on.)

The first version had some clicking sounds owing to how the original wav was cut. It sounded OK but I felt it introduced an overly artificial element. So I rounded-off the wavs a bit to remove the clicks. The pulses still remained, which is what I was aiming for.

duckpow · 2017-02-05T10:25:02.778Z

I never listen to any tracks made for a project before having finished my own, cause I usually want to find my own interpretation of the rules. And this week, like so many before it, I find that my own interpretation is way more restrictive than others have found…
So “no fx” as laid out in step 5, meant that most of my usual tricks (like time-streching, pitch/fequency-shifting and variable playback speeds) were useless… Instead I had to rely on me being able to sing something in one breath that had all the content I wanted. And to make matters worse: I’m a terrible singer…
https://soundcloud.com/duckpow/at-a-loss-for-titles-disquiet0266
I set up my mic anyway and took a few takes of me holding some nondescript vowel. I chopped it up into several small pieces and began making rythms. The drones were done using multiple shortloops of the same clip layer on top of each other. The clap-like sound is some accidental background noise, that is heavily amplified.
As a final step I fed it all trough my analog mixer and did a light mixdown adding a slight bit of EQ and reverb.
To my mind, that final reverb ended up being the only ‘fx’ on the entire track.

unstable_range · 2017-02-05T11:06:33.514Z

Well that was fun, but also a little painful. Added a bit reverb.
https://soundcloud.com/rudzupuke/buff-tailed-bumblebee-disquiet0266

unstable_range · 2017-02-05T14:05:55.974Z

glad i’m not the only one who found it painful

Hypoid · 2017-02-05T18:12:14.426Z

Always enjoy your videos. As someone who can barely make the weekly deadline and has also edited too much video, I don’t know how you do it! But we are glad you do Cheers!

jks · 2017-02-05T18:27:58.303Z

i went for ‘uh’ because i have a kind of faith in uncertainty & hesitation.

I squashed it down to mono which seemed to hollow out the noise which don’t find appealing but, hey, a learning experience, i guess.

bassling · 2017-02-05T18:35:12.085Z

Thanks! Video is a ridiculously fiddly medium but Ableton Live’s handling of this media makes it a bit easier but also a bit frustrating when it crashes while exporting.

There’s a paradox with video though: one wants to show where the sounds come from but gets an impression that viewers don’t listen as closely.