Ambient, Glitch, Electronic APOB (aka Lolo Lolo)
Lolo - Shrink Spin Chop [disquiet0220-rhythmicarrhythmic]

Disquiet Junto Project 0220: Rhythmic Arrhythmic

For the rhythms I used a collection of 6 loops randomly chosen from my collection of found sounds and noise samples. Some samples were cut into smaller chunks, repeated and layered until something rhythmic appeared. I used a very short chunk from one of my earlier tracks, chopped it up, resampled and time stretched to create the backing "chords". I used a recording of a crowd in a sampler, repeated across the keyboard with various loop lengths. These were "played" to create a glitchy vocal texture. Little melodic bits and a descending bass added for flavour.

Disquiet Junto Project 0220: Rhythmic Arrhythmic

The Assignment: Make overtly rhythmic music from short loops of overtly arrhythmic source audio, following instructions from Dennis DeSantis.

Dennis DeSantis adapted this week’s project from the chapter “Implied Rhythm in Short Loops” from his excellent book Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers. The project explores how rhythm emerges from almost any audio material if short fragments of it are repeated incessantly enough.

Step 1: Find or make an audio recording of the arrhythmic material of your choice and gradually reduce its loop length until rhythmic patterns begin to emerge.

Tip: This usually works well with loops that are no longer than about two seconds.

Step 2: Use the inherent rhythm in these short loops as the basis for a piece of new music in which the “discovered” rhythm is clearly audible.