I was so excited to learn of this week's Junto theme. The best patch I ever created on my original Clavia Nord Modular I named "Crickets," and it's the only sound source in this track. Before I moved from my childhood home in Howell Michigan, one evening I sat down in the dining room (which at the time served as my studio space)with the windows wide open and set about recreating the nighttime chorus synthetically. I felt then, and still do, that I nailed it. Hearing this takes me back to the yard of my youth in an instant. I let the patch run during the length of this work and simply split the stereo image into the two sides of the Verbos Dual Pole filter ... Hipass on the left, Lowpass on the right. The two filter slopes created various rhythms which excite the two reverbs creating a sense of encapsulated near and far space simultaneously. I think of the hums and thrums heard throughout as the sorts of deep sounds a spaceship might make which would creep in through the flesh, even whilst wearing headphones.
More on this 199th Disquiet Junto project (“Make a field recording of a field recording in a spaceship”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/10/22/disquiet0199-spacecrickets/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/
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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/
NOTE: I created my own image and did not utilize the image associated with this project; a screenshot from the film Interstellar.