naviarhaiku262 – the reef’s silence
It's only a couple of verses, so I think it may develop further.
Disquiet Junto 0367 Trio Initiate
The Disquiet Junto this week asks for a piece of music that allows space for collaboration in coming weeks.
I’ve recorded a chord progression at 108 BPM on my electric ukulele.
It goes Gm Dm Gm Dm A#7 Dm A#7 A7, then a chorus that’s F A F C.
You can download the track here.
Look forward to hearing parts from other participants and recording a collaboration next week!
Disquiet Junto 0366 Ice Breaker
It's a new year, and we start it just like we have every year since the very start of the Disquiet Junto, back in January 2012: "Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it."
First time I made something for the Junto with ice in a glass I used a contact mic and drew a comic.
This year it’s the third time I’ve used the glasses I recorded at my parents-outlaws’ house.
They were recorded using a Rode NT4 stereo mic and Zoom H4, later exported with the video from a Nikon D5100.
I began by opening the video in Ableton Live and finding loops, up to a few bars for rhythms and shorter for tones.
The rhythms were gated and layered.
The kick is pitched down nearly four octaves and heavily compressed.
Those tone loops mentioned earlier have been repitched as descending notes, then I’ve duplicated the track and changed it around a bit (the light blue ones above).
The first track is playing through a reverb for the higher-pitched part (up about an octave), the second is creating a distorted and side-chained bassline through a Sinevibes effect.
I spent about an hour on Wednesday night developing one idea, then another hour on Thursday developing another, and then brought those together on Friday morning in about another hour.
Exporting the video took about that long too, so it wasn't such a long time spent making this track but I have a quick workflow these days.
This is the seventh time I’ve made something with ice in a glass and the process I’ve outlined isn’t so different to 2014, 2015 and 2017.
In 2013 I used a contact mic and ended up with a more ambient style of piece, then in 2016 and 2018 I used additional instruments – but that often felt difficult to create a cohesive sound, as ice in a glass is quite harsh and distinct.
Those qualities, particularly the transients, make the project a challenge each time and I try to get better but still think my 2015 piece was my best.
This year was good but maybe I’ll do even better next year.
No sir prison
While listening to old songs, I started layering them up and found these two from 2016 worked well together.
New album: DANCE
I've decided to put together a few albums in 2019 and started with the uptempo material that's accumulated since 2015.
Disquiet Junto 0365 2018 Tracker
My Disquiet Junto audio journal includes one second from sixty videos produced during the year.
Disquiet Junto 0363 Gymnopédie Rats
The Junto this week asks for "Erik Satie’s 'Gymnopédie No. 1' in your chosen genre," which triggered some existential angst for me.
What genre am I?
Disquiet Junto 0362 Operational Surrealism
The Disquiet Junto this week develops a Surreal idea:
Make something as “beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella.”
The image of the sewing-machine and umbrella reveals their similar curves; and the dissecting-table to me suggests an editing suite.
Anyway, I started looking at the videos in my Disquiet Junto folder and noticed two that were similar length and tempo and key and, then a penny dropped, water themed.
Sunrise
Playing with a few recordings and using the drums as a gate for the bassline, which has also been warped up a couple of octaves and reversed.
Hairy tunnel
Some months ago Gavin was offering this big hairy kick drum and I had to have it
The sound in this video came off my Rode Videomic, then passed through EQ and compression.
Disquiet Junto 0361 Zork Diaries
Step 1: Zork is the title of one of the earliest interactive text adventure games. The complete text of a spoiler-laden full run of the game is at the following URL, housed at Georgia Tech, or the Georgia Institute of Technology:
http://bitly.com/junto-zork
Step 2: If you’re not familiar with Zork and/or with interactive text adventures, consider reading up. Otherwise, just think of the script as exactly that: the bare-bones narrative of a story. Step 3: Compose a score (along with, if possible, sound effects) for the first page or so of Zork. It is suggested that you begin with the fifth line of provided text (“West of House”) and end about a page down, where it reads “The door reluctantly opens to reveal a rickety staircase descending into darkness.”
Zork is a similar age to an old MIDI soundcard I have, which was designed to accompany early computer games.
The piano sounds it produces led me to consider a soundtrack like that for a 'silent' movie for Zork.
My accompaniment starts with the title screen, which looked awesome back in the day, then follows up to the arrival in the attic.
Sounding Nature
The project covers 55 countries, with almost 500 sounds and 250 artists taking part -- you can explore it in full at www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
Also, look for me jamming with cicadas in Costa Rica!
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