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Recorded & mixed on 13 Sep 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes -
Bitwig - I started in Bitwig by pulling four samples from Freesound.org, including the one offered for use with this project. After this, I applied different settings of the Tuner device, very wet, different stretch modes and some limiting before exporting the 4 stems.

I grabbed my iPad and sat in the cool night air with AudioKit’s Synth One and recorded a few slow takes on the same arpeggio.

Ableton Live -
- I pulled in all four of Freesound samples. I warped each one differently, grouped the HDD Sounds together & applied pitch correction in Nectar along with some CHOWTapeModel. I grouped the other two sounds together and applied Corpus on a beam setting.
- I used 6 different pieces of the Synth One recordings, with some filtering applied to some and used Caellum Audio’s Tape Cassette 2 on one of these tracks.
- I pulled three bits of a Max session from 19 Apr 2024 as some icing on this cake, using the same basic Corpus patch as the second Freesound set.
- I mixed it - just went with it

Title - I just liked how the word "orchard" contains the word "hard."

Artwork/Photography -
Sunnyside, Queens, NY 08 Sep 2022

Samples used from ffb.soffa obtained from Freesound.org
- 04 625269__ffbsoffa__toilet-flush-gentle-w-water-admission
- 02 625266__ffbsoffa__1

Samples used from eardeer obtained from Freesound.org
- 03 379004__eardeer__wire_sawnoise_4
- 01 401271__eardeer__toshiba-hdd

This work is published under a Creative Commons License.

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This original version of “Peach Orchard Skiffle” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0663: Drive Way. The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/

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