Pangaean Permafaction - Phantom Rails (disquiet0254) by Pangaean Permafaction

Those rails; they have the memory of all the trains that have travelled along them. Put your ear to the rail, and if you’re quiet enough you’ll hear them too.

This track was created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0254 entitled Fog and Steam. The brief was to make music from two provided samples; a fog horn and a train whistle.

We started by stretching the two samples to 99 hours long and took some minute-long clips and looped them to make eight tracks. Next we chopped-up the real-time source samples to make some new one-shots which were used in a soundfont to make three rhythmical (generative) sequenced tracks (120bpm) to add movement. We further chopped and screwed some of one-shots to make a couple of screeches and and a final horn blast.
Next, we added some harmony and tension, with a ghost-drop-of-melody at 80.5 BPM to add a 'poly rhythm' feel.

More on this 254th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Fog and Steam: Make music from two provided samples” — at: http://disquiet.com/0254/
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Source samples:
Fog horn sample by Schaarsen: http://www.freesound.org/people/schaarsen/sounds/69663/
Train whistle sample by Ecodios: http://www.freesound.org/people/ecodios/sounds/119963/