They Dont Get Your Sense of Humor but They Will(disquiet0244) by Nate Trier

I managed to squeeze in a disquiet project despite an incredibly busy new school year. I was hoping to achieve my goal of reinventing Eno's semi-stochastic Music for Airports album, but I ended up going in a slightly different direction (and perhaps falling back into old habits!)

Pitch-shifting and time-stretching were the name of this game. I started with modifying these source samples down as low as they could go, and lovely tones emerged. Then, I pitch-shifted and time-stretched the excerpts to make them match the subsections of the golden mean. I let the length of time to fill determine how much I time-stretched the samples: long lengths of time fill meant severely down-pitched samples.

The other central component of this piece is a slow increase in gain to the golden mean point. I put a limiter on the track to keep the level even, but the gradually increasing gain creates distortion and changes the timbre of familiar samples.

The title comes from a piece of advice my kid gave me after I led her choir rehearsal tonight.

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More on this 244th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Combine tracks from three different European netlabels (Portugal, Spain, Switzerland) into one sonic union” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0244/

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Image associated with this project is by Thomas, used via Flickr and a Creative Commons license:

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