Say "Ah" (Disquiet0266) by ikjoyce

This week's Junto involved recording my own voice, holding a vowel sound, and then making a track from that sample.

I started by recording a rather lacklustre "Ah", a bit like being at the doctors. I wanted the voice to naturally decay and crack towards the end. I then processed the sample in Sound Forge, cutting small snippets and normalising them. No other processing was done. I imported these into AcidPro, and set about creating a track with them, layering and pitch shifting the samples, occasionally reversing them. I wanted to have a lot of tension building, so I used some close intervals. One of the samples was quite rhythmic, so I was careful to overlay the different copies so that the rhythm was shifted in each layer for more interest.

More on this 266th weekly Disquiet Junto project, “Vocal Cuts: Use segments of your own held vowel to make music”:

http://disquiet.com/0266/1

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http://disquiet.com/junto/

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Image associated with this track is by Dean Shareski and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

flic.kr/p/95EKhx

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