Tuonela

I returned to the Samplebrain tracks from a couple of weeks ago – I had subjected one of the results to my trusty demo copy of The Mangle. One of the original samples was of birdsong, and they reappear in an interestingly altered way, realistic and yet surrealistic/enhanced/dreamlike as well. Which may or may not be what this Disquiet is about. Or both.

Image courtesy of NightCafe AI generator

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The Assignment: What does this imaginary genre sound like?

Step 1: Think about what a genre means, where it begins, where it ends, what makes a genre a genre.

Step 2: Familiarize yourself with the concept of magical realism, most often associated with the fiction of such authors as Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Hoffman, and Haruki Murakami, among others.

Step 3: Imagine what “digital magical realism” would sound like, were it the name of a genre.

Step 4: Record a piece of music that sounds like what you think “digital magical realism” sounds like.

ore on this 562nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Digital Magical Realism (The Assignment: What does this imaginary genre sound like?) — at: https://disquiet.com/0563/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /

Residue at the edge by Tuonela

Out beyond by Tuonela

Made with processed sounds originally generated in samplelicker by samplebrain as in https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/aneurysmatic-disquiet0557 Check it out at https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain

I was probably being too impatient initially. Since I’m still running Windows 7, I just thought it wouldn’t run and forgot about it. Until today. I shortened the three samples, followed the instructions and produced this mess. Well, sort of. This has a reversed version overlaid and a reverb of both tracks mixed. Shortened the whole thing to avoid boring you. Sorry it’s so shit, haven’t got time to do anything else with it, but what a nice little toy!

Thanks Marc!

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The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software.

Step 1: There’s a new piece of freely available software called Samplebrain. It was designed by Aphex Twin and developed by Dave Griffiths of Then Try This. Download Samplebrain and read up at:

https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain 25

Step 2: Create a piece of music using Samplebrain. For source audio, only use sounds tagged “bird” or “rain” or “night” from freesound.org 6. Use as many as you like. Be sure to credit the source material when posting your finished track.

More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project – Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) – at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /

A focus on deterioration by Tuonela

Parade of the beggars by Tuonela

The circuitry of melancholy by Tuonela

Even ghosts take drugs by Tuonela

Unpublished thing from 2013. Can't recall what C2 was or if it was ever understood.

Edit: Okay, it was a track from this album: https://archive.org/details/tn038

by Adrià Bofarull & Joan Saura, originally used in an early disquiet junto piece