February 5, 2018 (disquiet 0318) by josephbranciforte

note:
please listen on headphones or good speakers to hear the piece as intended. very little of interest comes across on latptop speakers or earbuds.

i began by recording a single tone on the makenoise 0-coast into my daw. the tone was harmonically rich, with lots of overtones generated by using the slope section in cycle mode as an fm source. i then used izotope rx to slow the recorded audio file down by various very small amounts. this produced 4 additional files that, when looped and panned across the stereo field, produced interesting phase relationships, stereo movement, and emergent overtones.

next, i processed the tone using a hexe revolver pedal, recording 4 additional files into my daw.

i looped all 9 files (the original, plus the 8 processed files) added various lowpass filters to differentiate the voices timbrally, and then chopped up the audio files semi-randomly, muting chopped regions to create microrhythms and compositional development.

the whole process took about 2 hours.