Disquiet Junto 0643 Stone Out of Focus
The Disquiet Junto this week takes inspiration from Yoko Ono, who wrote “Take the sound of the stone aging.”
I've used the gear that I brought on holiday to the coast and thought about the stones along the beach.
These will give a crunchy sound and glisten in the most beautiful colours, which become muted by the time I bring them back to the house.
The guitar swells like the surf and I gated the 303-style bass to bring the rhythm back to a slower pace, like a geological scale.
Then I took the MIDI part and ran it through a Live preset with gold in the title.
naviarhaiku538 – Only the moon remains
I found myself thinking about the pummelling of the surf, while jamming on the gear that I brought along to my holiday at the coast.
Dozer
The tone was thick and the lift switch brought in the higher frequencies, but my fretless sounded better without those.
naviarhaiku537 – Deep in the mountains
I've been on holiday at the beach and had recorded the chords using a Jamstik guitar, sending the MIDI to Ableton Live's electric keyboard instrument.
It's been a rainy day today, so I arranged those parts and then recorded my upright bass.
This is about the sixth take and I think I was getting a bit carried away as the bass part is probably too busy.
Anyway, it's been fun to make music and it helps justify all the equipment I packed!
Disquiet Junto 0642 Kick from Champagne
The Disquiet Junto project this week invites participants to make a techno track using kick drums made from the sound of something carbonated.
It stumped me for a few hours, as I'm on holiday at the coast and wasn't sure I could record a good pop even if I had a bottle of sparkling wine.
Then I remembered Archive.org and downloaded:
- https://archive.org/details/bigclive_20201107
- https://archive.org/details/VirtualWine-vwtip_060810_03_how_to_open_champagne936
- https://archive.org/details/twitter-1304429831409537024
These were edited in Ableton Live and used only the effects within that software.
I found the sparkling pops worked for the snare sound and also the bass part, but there was a sample of Clive putting down some bit of equipment that gave an okay kick sound.
With that in mind it's interesting that two of the three videos compared the pop of the cork to a farting noise.
After shaping up the loops and getting a rhythm going, I gave the track structure in Live's Arrangement view and added the vocal part since I liked Clive's commentary.
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