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Foghorns [disquiet0020​-​nodebeat]

from Mark Rushton - Disquiet Junto - 2012 by Mark Rushton

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I bought Nodebeat a while back but never used it much. Why? I don't know know. Too many toys? Too little time? I think I forgot I even owned it. I'm glad Marc decided to employ Nodebeat in this Junto as I was able to spend more time with it and appreciate it.

As far as the Nodebeat section was concerned, I decided I wanted to keep that relatively simple. My setup was what you see in the screen capture.

Node: All nodes "off". Key of "F". Lowest octave "1".

Audio: Square waveform. Minimal echo. Slight attack. 30% decay. About 60% release.

Rhythm: tempo 137 bpm. I recorded three different variations based no different Node Beats. It starts off with the half note Node Beat. Then when it speeds up it's the sixteenth note Node Beat. Then, in the final half, I add (I believe) the eighth note Node Beat.

All recordings were run out of my iPad, via my Zoom H2, into my desktop running Ableton Live Lite 8.2.5. The Live Set had a Chorus with Delay 1 highpass 22.2 Hz and 9.99 ms, and Delay 2 Fix and 14.6 ms. Amount 0.56 ms. Rate 0.54 Hz. Negative polarity. No feedback. 100% Wet. Also in the Live Set was Warm Reverb Long that would take all day to spec out, but suffice to say the decay time as 38.2 seconds, and it included another chorus. 55% wet. This was run out through my Tascam US-122L and into a noisy (in a good way) Zoom H1 where it was recorded. I used my Grado headphones for monitoring. The recordings were then edited using Sony Sound Forge and I used Acid as my DAW.

I knew I wanted to do a slow/fast variation with the arrangement.

An alto sax was my chosen second instrument. I have one that I use to play along with my fifth grade daughter, who started band this year and is also playing alto sax.

For the live recording of the sax, it was the same setup as how I did the Nodebeat, except I used the Zoom H2's mic. All this was run into Ableton and through the live set I previously mentioned, and out the same way. This is also the same way I recorded my piece "Refactoring Dreams for the third Disquiet Junto (Glass) a few months ago.

Once I got the levels figured out, I discovered that through the processing that holding notes sounded a bit like higher pitched fog horns, so I just ran with that.

Then I did a bunch of cutting and pasting of alto sax sections and adjusting the rhythms into something I enjoyed. I hope you like it, too.

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This track employs the app NodeBeat, created by Seth Sandler, Justin Windle, and Laurence Muller. More information on NodeBeat at nodebeat.com.

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from Mark Rushton - Disquiet Junto - 2012, released April 7, 2014

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I make way too much electronic music. Mostly ambient, some beat-driven.

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