Other Audio Obscura
Arlo3 [disquiet0244]

This track is part of Disquiet Junto #244.
On first listen the three tracks were very intriguing for a remix attempt. The first thing I did after getting the first 20 seconds of each track loaded into Ableton was to extract the Midi information from the track 'Zraerza' (performed by Geeksha Beka and Berio Molina). This is what created the piano you hear in this track, I was really pleased with this and it formed the basis of the track. I added various effects to give it the sound you hear on the track.
The other two tracks I loaded into drum racks and edited small sections and also created loops with various warped effects. After an hour or so of jamming around making further editing and refining to the samples I had about 3 or 4 short bits which sounded quite nice but these changed each time I messed around and played them back, I noticed the different pieces didn't always fit together.
Anyway and despite this I then hit record and just jumped around on the various sections I had laid out in the session view of Ableton, it was in no way seamless! After that I spent another hours or so editing the arrangement and that was it really, its still got a few clear different sections but fits together well (I think) as one piece of music.

Step 1: This week’s project is a remix. The following three tracks are available for creative reuse thanks to a Creative Commons license. Please download them and extract the specified source segments:

Use the first 20 seconds of “The Station and the Underclass,” performed by the Phonetic Orchestra, released on the Insub. netlabel based in Geneva:

insub.org/insub44

Use the first 20 seconds of “Cloud Scissors” composed by Lo Wei; performed by Cristián Alvear, Santiago Astaburuaga, Gudinni Cortina, and Rolando Hernández, released on the Impulsive Habitat netlabel based in Portugal:

impulsivehabitat.com/releases/...es/ihabp001.htm

Use the first 20 seconds of “Zraerza,” performed by Geeksha Beka and Berio Molina, released on the Alg-a netlabel based in Galicia:

archive.org/details/alg-set05-zraerza

Step 2: Create an original piece of music based on the source audio from Step 1.