Read the directions. What? No idea how to go about this. I don’t have a mixer, real or virtual. Gave up, then came back to it.
I created three tracks that sort of complemented each other, then simply amplified alternating five-second segments of each, ten seconds apart. I then used delay to try to smooth the abrupt sound jumps, reversing the tracks to smooth both directions. Which didn’t really work – the method was too rigid and my judgement re amplification levels was off. Not sure I like the result, subtle it ain’t. I would mind trying the method with a different range of sounds one day.
Track one was made from scratch using a 75hz sine wave, which ended up having different effects applied to each stereo channel, then it was convoluted, pitch raised, corkscrewed and… something else. Ended up sounding like scuba gear.
Track two was woven from the ending of something I’m working on – it’s the “sleigh bells’ effect that even gives it a Xmassy feel.
Track three is a highly modified piano passage from another work in progress, made to sound like a church organ, stretched, reverbed, reversed and so on.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0206: Three Switches
Compose a track with a trio of through-lines that repeatedly alternate relative prominence.
Note: It is generally helpful to read through all the steps before starting the first step.
Step 1: This week’s project involves a single piece of music with three separate simultaneous parts. Each of those three parts should run for the full length of the piece. The parts should individually be relatively consistent throughout.
Step 2: The one change that should occur is that every few beats, two of the three parts should be pushed to the background and the one remaining part should be prominent in the foreground. These relative positions should alternate every two seconds to four seconds or so for the full length of the piece.
Step 3: For the final few seconds, the three lines should be heard at equal (foreground, not background) volume for the first and only time in the piece.
More on this 205th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Interpret boxed-up music-education materials as a graphic-notation score”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/12/03/disquiet0205-superposition/
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