Tuonela

Made from a few small samples of Cocoquantus generated tracks taken from demo videos.

Sentimental and subjective all the way. The backing is a stretched version of the Lawrence of Arabia theme, one of the most majestic themes in movies, introed by a piece from Field of Dreams and the sound of an old movie theatre projector. Over this I’ve sprinkled bits of dialogue from some of my favourite movies. On another day I’d probably choose others but some I picked to align with the theme of age, decay and lost time. Some of the cuts are a bit clumsy but, well… I ran out of time.

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The Assignment: What sounds haunt a discarded movie theater in the middle of the night?

This week’s project is just one step:

Step 1: What sounds haunt a discarded movie theater in the middle of the night?

More on this 421st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Marquee Ghosts / The Assignment: What sounds haunt a discarded movie theater in the middle of the night?

https://disquiet.com/0421/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

"When TV signals are sent out, they don't stop. They keep going. They pick up speed as they leave the solar system. By now, the first TV programs ever made have been traveling for thirty years. They are well beyond our solar system now. All those characters from cowboy serials, variety hours and quiz shows are sailing out. They are the first true voyagers into deep space. And they sail farther and farther out, intact, still talking

And as we listen with our instruments, as we learn to listen farther and farther into space, we can hear them. We listen farther and that is all we hear. They are jamming our lines. We listen and we hear them talking, traveling, going faster and faster ... getting fainter and fainter. And as our instruments become more sophisticated, we can hear them better .... speeding away ... the sound of speeding away ... like a phone continuously ringing." (Laurie Anderson, from “Three Songs For Paper, Film And Video” 1984)

Made for Naviar Records' 316th Haiku Challenge.

See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/01/22/naviarhaiku316-a-dark-corridor/ for information and inspiration.

Installation Theme Two by Tuonela

The chaos of textures by Tuonela

To you, from the land of fire. Made for Naviar Records' 315th Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/01/15/naviarhaiku315-ambushed-by-bush-fire/ for more info and other inspirations.

Created for ambientonline.org's 33rd Image Dare - see https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/105181-image-inspire-dare-33-christmas-19-double-challenge

My contribution to the 314th kaiku challenge posted by Naviar Records. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/01/08/naviarhaiku314-buoyantly-we-go/ for info and other inspirations.

I made a single track out of all the samples, an easy task thanks to Audacity. Probably should have balanced them then, but I was too lazy. This track was multi-tracked; all were repeatedly “ambiented” using plugins, 2 being pitched down a tone as well. Another was put through a subtle reverb. A bit tricky as I hadn’t balanced the samples and had to go in and manually reduce peaks on all tracks using Audacity’s Envelope Tool.

The track was also improvised on in Audiobulb’s ambient, then doubled and overlaid on the 2nd half of the mix with one reverbed. This produced some strange moments which don’t sound vocal at all. Which is why I like it!

Track image is pinched from the Wikipedia image of the cover of James Lane Allen’s 1897 book and modified.

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The Assignment: Make music from 100+ vocal samples of held syllables by members of the Disquiet Junto.

Step 1: Welcome to a large, asynchronous, distributed choir. The Dischoir consists of 113 samples of held syllables by over 50 participants in the Disquiet Junto. You can access the files at the following URL. Note that a few of them deviate from the initial instructions:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pkuvmzwcdz6dx27/AACUsNclLLqToLp-OJWVkaQXa?dl=0

Step 2: Create a piece of choral music from the provided samples. You are encouraged to make music that feels “human,” that feels like it is simply a lot of people singing at once. However, of course, the end result is up to you; you can and should mix, mash, and create as you please.

More on this 419th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Dischoir / The Assignment: Make music from 100+ vocal samples of held syllables by members of the Disquiet Junto — at:

https://disquiet.com/0419/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Another one made for ambientonline.org's 68th One Sample Dare, details at https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/105180-one-sample-challenge-68-christmas-19-double-challenge