Other Audio Obscura
The Fog of War / trumped up disbelief [disquiet0254]

This track was made as per the instructions of the Disquiet Junto project number #254. We were given two samples from freesound.org - one of a fog horn from a boat leaving Kiel in germany and one of a distant train horn. We were asked to make a track with nothing but these sounds. (Full details here...disquiet.com/2016/11/10/junto-0254)

This sounded like a fair challenge and listening to the source sounds I knew I could get something from them and twist them into new forms. I have been attempting for quite a while to use certain sounds to construct beats and sampling little sections of sound and seeing how far I can manipulate them.
In fact I have done this for a number of previous Junto submissions. The SETI track I did back in Junto 0213 was made with a similar method (soundcloud.com/audio-obscura-m...mplexsignatures)

So everything you hear comes from these source sounds. The method/ approach with this sort of source sound I find it best to first edit the source sounds down into short sections with the idea of editing tiny little sample of the sources into drum sounds and simply creating a rack of segments that would work as individual drum/ rhythmic sounds. I find that if I take a fraction of second and use things like the Ableton transpose, either detuning really low or high and then add various effects, echos and amps and reverbs you can sooner or later get to some sort of standard drum type sound, this is how I get the kick and thud type sounds you hear. I did this a few times and then I opened a few drum racks in Ableton and spent well over an hour editing 7 or 8 different tiny micro samples before even trying to see if they fitted together. These make up the rhythmic parts of this track. I then took the source samples and opened a few up in my sampler and synths and thus could play them on keys and manipulate the source with more effects, time stretching them etc. I kept in mind the 'drum' parts I had made and tried to match the two different parts of the track together. After I had something which seemed promising I recorded a basic run through of what I had and then opened a bottle of wine and spent a short period away from the computer to get a break. I then sat down and started to construct a track from this recording, it took a while but here it is. I can't stop thinking of Trump, my fears of this cunt and the future, lets hope its not as bleak as are darkest visions we encounter.