Alice Wyan

This composition is based on the track "On tiny sounds and irregular rhythm patterns", which can be found at: https://soundcloud.com/finitud/disquiet0215-tinyrhythms To the original track, two thin layers were added, as follows: * The first layer was created by applying strong reverb on the original track, extracting the wet component, and reversing it. * Some light effect return tracks were created, and the second layer was improvised on a MIDI keyboard to the existing layers. * The tracks were mixed, some effects added (reverb, delay, ping pong delay, some light amount of compression), and the MIDI layer was fine edited to produce the final rendering. The track was composed using Ableton Live 9.5 Suite edition, aided by a Launch Control XL and an Akai LPK25 MIDI keyboard. More on this 216th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Add a thin foundational bed to beats of pin-prick audio”) at: http://disquiet.com/0216 More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://disquiet.com/junto/ Join the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at: http://disquiet.com/forums/ The image associated with this project is by Evelyn Flint, used thanks to a Creative Commons license: https://flic.kr/p/rKoG1i

This track is a study on the juxtaposition of irregular rhythmic patterns created by using five small sound objects as percussive elements. Three of the sound objects have been taken from fragments of field recordings done in the London Underground, the other two correspond to pre-existing recordings of the vibrations of a knife on a ceramic plate. I chose the sound objects based on their percussive interest, and built an Ableton Live's Drum Rack instrument with them in order to create the three basic MIDI clips of different lengths on which the track is built. After the initial capture of the MIDI performance, I added some effects: reverb, delay, panning, ping pong delays, and some compression. The effects are switched off at the beginning of the track, and they build up progressively until the final section, in which the effect channels are mutually fed back to the point of self oscillation. More on this 215th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Make a short track with just pin-prick audio”) at: http://disquiet.com/0215 More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://disquiet.com/junto/ Join the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at: http://disquiet.com/forums/ The image associated with this project is by Philippa Willitts, used thanks to a Creative Commons license: https://flic.kr/p/4L37Fm

I started by making a reversed copy of the DWAVE clip, which was then stretched to the whole length of the track. Then I used Ableton Live's "Drums to MIDI", "Melody to MIDI", and "Harmony to MIDI" functions on the reversed stretched DWAVE clip to create the underlying theme that extends through the track, as well as on the other clips, to create the remaining rhythms and patterns. The different parts were treated with sparing use of light reverb and occasional ping-pong delay, then mixed and finished. The image, "Tiny spaces of Heaven" by defkreationz, is used under a Creative Commons licence, and was taken from https://flic.kr/p/6iSjPu More on this 213th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“The Assignment: Combine three field recordings from artist Charles Lindsay to explore and express notions of perceived techno-organic intelligence”) at: disquiet.com/2016/01/28/disquie…complexsignatures/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/ Join the Disquiet Junto at: soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: tinyletter.com/disquiet Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at: disquiet.com/forums/

Textures, drones, noise, stasis...

Track based on "Sight-read the whiteboard notation from a children’s music class”. I took the starting lower C note to be a bass drone, upon which the upper notes are added as a ringing melody. The intermediate voices become a blurry trill that fades to the background. The track was done in Ableton Live Lite, using MIDI instruments with additional reverbs and filtering, and resampled to an audio file. This is a submission for the Disquiet Junto Project. More on this 196th Disquiet Junto project (“Sight-read the whiteboard notation from a children’s music class”) at: http://disquiet.com/2015/10/01/disquiet0196-wholelottawhole/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://disquiet.com/junto/