Day 351: Noises in Your House

Today's work is a project for the Disquiet Junto.  It's a little obtuse, but kind of interesting.

My first step was to find three things that have a distinctive "on/off" sound.  Those ended up being the dryer, microwave, and toaster.  The toaster was the most musical of the three, providing both melodic and rhythmic elements.  The microwave was the most melodic, having one long tone, and the dryer kind of just makes a low rumble.

Initially, I didn't alter the sounds at all and just tried to overlap them to create a natural rhythm.  Sadly, the natural rhythm wasn't very natural, so I started playing with making them sync more.  I didn't want to make it very plain, so the rhythm is still quite disjointed, something like if you had several of the actual devices and were trying to "play" them as a band.

Finally, to finish it out I created a short section that would be the most musical of all. Squashing samples, playing with pitches, and making it all "fit".  Hope you enjoy.

Day 194: In my house

An industrial style piece using patches by FGL.

Lyrics:
This roller coaster is going off the tracks.

Day 172: From Germany, with Noise

One of the great things about the internet is the people you "meet".  Since I've been online (1996) I've met a lot of people in different parts of the world.  Sometimes we have even gotten to meet in person!

Today's work comes courtesy of my only German friend.  We converse on Soundcloud (you can find him here) and we have recently started to exchange custom Reason patches and works.  He makes some beautiful, noisy, quasi-industrial works of art.  Here's what I did with some of his patches.

Lyrics:
Now how we gonna pass the time? 
When you have no arms and legs, 
how are we gonna pass the time?

Climb the ladder, every rung.  
Don't you stop, we'll come undone.

Day 164: Taken from Real Life

Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of installing a "new" dishwasher (new to me, that is).  The old one had been there for about 15 years and the previous tenants had been a little dirty.  After my brother and I had struggled with getting it wired up and hooked up (more difficult than we both thought it would be) my floor was covered with pieces of dead bugs from years past... as I swept them up this piece began to formulate.

Day 158: On an alien planet, making weapons

The sound of the dretlk factory is not like any other.  Everyone there is a slave, but everyone is also content with their work.  As a GHYTU there’s no point in being obsessed with freedom or free will.  We will all be slaves to the YUToU.  Some of us may be lucky enough to be house slaves and live in relative comfort, not the squalor of a dretlk factory, but slaves all the same.  I count myself as one of the lucky ones.  I was born in the factory.  On the factory floor, actually.  My mother put me inside her droa and went back to work.  Luckily her shift was almost over.  I wouldn’t have survived the whole 26 hour work day.  She was able to keep me alive by playing on the pity of other slaves and also by killing as many fiudor parasites as possible.  Living her in the factory has been acceptable for me and on some days, when the work is light, I’m almost happy and hear a certain music in the sounds of the machines and the people’s hands working them.

Day 71: Organic

Sometimes you try so hard to get something "original" that you forget that simplicity is often the easiest way to originality.  Today I was really trying to be creative and come up with something "new" that was also "electronic"... and I was failing miserably.  Instead I reached back into the bag - way down there - and pulled out some traditional instruments.  Harp, Oboe, and Bassoon.  They are very colorful instruments in the classical family and combined they provide a very unique-sounding palette.

It's a brief one, so I hope you enjoy.

Cheers.