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Disquiet Junto #0017: Transition [disquiet0017-transition]

iPhone 4S w/ Tascam PCMRecorder armed at bus stop in Bristol RI, USA. 

This track includes a segment of “The Day Love Came In The Mail” by Lee Rosevere off the album Play 3 on the WM Recordings netlabel, thanks to Creative Commons license.

More information at:

http://archive.org/details/WM074_900
http://www.wmrecordings.com/free-downloads/wm074-lee-rosevere-play-3/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto


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Disquiet Junto #9: Cross-Species Collaboration

No birds were harmed in the making of this audio file.

The source material for this track was provided from these two samples:
http://www.freesound.org/people/UncleSigmund/sounds/30266/ 
http://www.freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/32480/

Changed length of birdsong » songthrush_17_03_07.wav  to 1 hour, 7 minutes. Pitched up 2 octaves. Sent to 40 tape delay bus. 

Changed length of A_c#minor_bminor_E_chord_progression_on_guitar_with_echo.wav to just over 5 minutes, keeping pitch intact. Re-EQed and sent through 40 tape delay bus. 

The “40 Tape Delay Bus” exploits only the tape modeling and does not provide any wet/dry mix of the audio sent through it. This basically just adds some warble, warmth and slight timing/tuning distortions. 

Once I got the two tracks nestled in a mix, sounding roughly the way I wanted, I uploaded this “beta” version to Soundcloud to play trough my iPhone and into my Harvestman modular. The audio went into one Double Andore channel and direct into the Polivoks VCF. The signal split there, as I sent the LPF out to Tyme Sefari; the bandpass out back to Double Andore channel 2, which then led to Qotile Ultimatum (which is being used as mixer) before hitting the Stilton Adapter (which is my main output). Both of the Tyme Sefari’s 2 outs were used: Mix Out led to the Piston Honda (in Table Addressing mode) straight to that same Qotile Ultimatum; DLY Out took a trip through a Kuzminorgel sub-octave divider before hitting the Qotile Ultimatum. Double Andore’s Mix out was also sent directly to the last of 4 inputs on the Qotile Ultimatum. These 4 channels were summed and some very light delay and reverb was applied to the master as it ran through the Stilton Adapter and back to Logic Pro. The Hertz Donut (LFO), Double Andore (envelopes) Stillson Hammer and Zorlon Cannon were used to manipulate the signal path as I manually controlled various settings.

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info


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Disquiet Junto #7: Subtraction and Sculpting

Last week’s Disquiet Junto saw us creating a new piece by removing material from an existing field recording. For my submission, I used Logic’s automation feature to “draw” in a jungle rhythm with the volume level. The rhythm is 8 bars in length which repeats several times, variation is provided by the rolling waves in the source material. 


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Disquiet Junto Project 0005: “Layering Reality”  

As per the given instructions, this week’s project for The Disquiet Junto is based around an un-edited field recording which serves as the foundation of our track. The track can be built upon, but the field recording must remain as the primary focus. 

Audio recorded with Tascam PCM Recorder for iPhone at approximately 7:25pm in Providence, RI.
Over 5 train tracks and a river.
Under the Providence Place Mall.
In between 2 parking garages.
Just a few yards away from Interstate 95.

The accompanying audio is made up of 3 recordings made with the Harvestman modular, triggered by Make Noise Pressure Points and/or René which I recorded on the 23rd of January, 2012.

I added an instance of D16’s Toraverb to one of the modular sequences in post, everything else in this mix is dry. 

The above images are taken at the site of the main recording.

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto