“Have You Ever Been To Butter?” by Manhattan Rubber (disquiet0626)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 29-30 Dec 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes

First, I selected the following recordings from which to draw my loops for this piece –

– Sounds from the Atari 8-Bit game Bruce Lee recorded on 14 Jan 2023 via the Altirra emulator
– An Ableton Live piece recorded with Brian Funk’s 100-Year Old Piano instrument on 20 Feb 2023
– An iPad/AUM piece recorded using Animoog on 09 Mar 2023
– An 18 Apr 2023 street/bird recording from 70th St in Manhattan NYC
– A tenor sax recorded 07 May 2023
– A 24 Jun 2023 recording using the Max For Live device Screaming Janus
– An iPad recording from of the formant synth Howl from 04 Jul 2023
– A 01 Aug 2023 recording made in Bitwig using an organ sound and other things
– An experiment using voice in FL Studio recorded on 26 Sep 2023
– A recording made on 16 Oct 2023 using Coldcut’s Midivolve generating notes and Cherry Audio Surrealistic MG-1 generating the sound.
– A piece recorded on 17 Nov 2023 using iSEM on iPad/AUM.
– A recording from 02 Dec 2023 using two Puremagnetik devices – Strom & Replicas

Then, I edited and arranged small pieces of these as loops across 12 tracks in Ableton Live and applied a handful of effects/mixing. After this, mastering was completed with Ozone 9.

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This original version of “Have You Ever Been To Butter?” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0626: Audio Journal 2023. The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments.

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