wasabicube tracks

From (and including) a recording of a backup drive. Expert Sleepers' Spectral Conquest is used on three tracks to isolate several pulsing frequencies. These tracks are used to sidechain a gate on three tracks containing a XILS 4 from XILS Labs, with the result being processed by various plugins, including Devious Machines' Infiltrator, and Baby Audio's Humanoid. The original recording is blended i...

Two fairly evenly matched cyclists vying for the lead of the race. Ableton's 909 through AudioThing's Lines providing the beat for each rider. Sonic Charge's Synplant 2 providing the guiro-sourced sound of the free-wheeling hubs. Qui va gagner? -- More on the 662nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spin Cycle — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another — at https...

Two bathroom fans recorded directly and using EMF pickups, and a kettle boiling. The fans and kettle are passed through wave folders and Chebyshev filters and are combined to modulate each other before being passed through a modulated filter banks and modulated high and low resonant filters, and a modulated delay.

Reimagining of W C Hardy's St Louis Blues using various granular and sampling VSTs to sample a recording by Ted Lewis and His Band, from 1922. -- More on the 660th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Louis Blues St. — The Assignment: Break a public domain song into parts and reorganize them — at https://disquiet.com/0660/ Background: More on the source track here: https://archive.org/details/78_st-loui...

Bursts from Sumu, Tomofon, Atoms, Generate, and XILS4, in Cm. -- More on the 657th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Straight Edged — The Assignment: Held tones, sharp edges — at https://disquiet.com/0657/

Welcome to the world. May you find peace and happiness. -- More on the 655th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Soothing Sounds II — The Assignment: Make music for babies — at https://disquiet.com/0655/

I took Franziska Baumann's score and chose to read it left-to-right, top-to-bottom. However, I restricted myself to the first row of seven ideograms, mostly due to time constraints. I took each and transcribed the notes into Ableton and considered each to represent a bar. I then repeated the sequence six times with various instruments. I interpreted the smudges as harmonic distortion.

I pretty much broke the rules by not making a list, then braking more than one rule: I made a piece that I felt broke a lot of my usual patching "rules" on the modular; made then broke a rule about not adding effects in the DAW; then added reverb; then uploaded late… -- More on the 653rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Break a Rule — The Assignment: Stop doing something you always do — at https://d...

Experimentation with Bitwig's FX Grid, processing a Harmony Bloom generated sequence with various randomisers, such as dice, sample and hold, and logical arithmetic based on several channels of source. The result was then further modified with Infiltrator 2, and Sampleson's Haptic Perc, and Xils-Lab La Palme.

Harmony Bloom generating a sequence into Baby Audio Atoms, with a delayed fuzz send. -- More on the 648th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shadow Boxing — The Assignment: Employ shadow boxing as a musical metaphor — at https://disquiet.com/0648/

Two drones combined. One created with Sampleson Scaper, and the other from FullBlotter's processing of the first drone. -- More on the 647th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Drone — The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day — at https://disquiet.com/0647/

When all there's left is the bouncing ball. I wondered what would happen if the bouncing ball was all that was left, and what it might get up to when left to its own devices. -- More on the 646th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Empty Orchestra — The Assignment: Interpret the literal translation of “karaoke” — at Disquiet Junto Project 0646: Empty Orchestra – Disquiet

Experimenting with Harmony-Bloom. First track halved in speed, then added to again with Harmony-Bloom and some heavily processed percussion. -- More on the 645th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Trap — The Assignment: Record something, slow it down, and then record over it — at https://disquiet.com/0645/

The stone (y garreg), aging. -- More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/ This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit 60 years ago, back in 1964.

A "techno" track with all sounds coming from the sound of bubbles in an open can of lemonade. -- More on the 642nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Kick from Champagne — The Assignment: Use carbonation to make a beat — at https://disquiet.com/0642/

I took SAMPLAIR's track (https://soundcloud.com/user-248104983/disquiet0636-85bpm-1?si=7f73fecc7db545d6bdaa4d34fcb41c38&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) and played with long delays, granular and fft effects, against the original track. The track is at 85bpm. -- More on the 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third...

Lo-fi, ambient, base for a future track, perhaps? Cm at 115BPM. -- More on the 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0636/

I bookended Todd (@toaster-1) Elliott's shorter rail crossing recording with percussion and drums, then added a chord progression. (https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1?si=3a06785c071440e99ae7fedfddd856a9&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) -- More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmat...

Muffled Sonata in A minor, Andante, by Georg Philipp Telemann, overlaid with a slightly sinister orchestra of Baby Audio Atoms, TAL Sampler, and Arturia Pigments. -- More on the 634th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Bust a Move — The Assignment: Record a piece of music on top of a muffled recording of a piece of classical music — at https://disquiet.com/0634/

I replaced the instrumental parts of a track I completed for ixi Music's Patreon Challenge, in January (https://soundcloud.com/wasabicube/andiamo?si=c1d963b8e5ba48eab5ccaf512118e147&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing), with samples of my voice saying "Disquiet Junto, number six hundred and thirty-three". The only original track is a field recording of the voice of ice...

This is a mix of a track I created for ixi Music's January Patreon challenge. The challenge was to use a specific chord, comprising of a perfect fifth plus a minor third. So, if C was the root, the chord would be C, G, and B♭. Another part of the challenge was to not write in the key of C. I chose D as the root, and based the entire tune around the three notes (across several octaves).

Two Arturia KORG MS-20 V, and an Arturia ARP2600 V3, processing two recordings made in the airstream of a circulation fan. The wind noise both contributes to the output sound, but also is used to trigger envelopes and, in the case of the MS-20s, follow the envelope of the recordings. The ARP2600 is responsible for the Morse code-like sounds. -- More on this 632nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, She...

Harmonic drone modulated by a resonant low-pass filter and ring modulators, then PaulStretched to half-speed. -- More on this 631st weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Silent Waveform — The Assignment: Take one held tone and make it dance slowly — at: https://disquiet.com/0631/ About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet...

I used zplane's PEEL to divide the frequency and panning into nine, then randomly played the nice parts before concluding with the original recording. The track was composed for Ixi Music's December Patreon Challenge, and inspired by a sample of hers. -- More on this 629th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jigsaw Logic — The Assignment: Break a piece of your music and put it back together again — at:...

Separating a melody from pink noise and resonating a pipe through a convolution reverb. -- More on this 628th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Alchemical Brothers — The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music — at: https://disquiet.com/0628/ About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/...