Washing machines have a natural rhythm to them, but it's not usually a very funky one. Our LG washer plays various cheerful little tunes for its alerts, but they're too classical-sounding, and not groovy enough. Here's a washing machine where the water sloshes around in tempo (made from sampled water drumming from the Baka Forest People of Southeast Cameroon album) and where the alerts are syncopated riffs in Mixolydian mode (played by me on electric piano in Ableton.)
More on this 414th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Mod Cons / The Assignment: Compose one or more sounds for an appliance/device/gadget of your own choosing:
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Thanks to Junto member Iain Holmes for having proposed this project.
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