Treebait Consortium - noiseworks

Treebait Consortium is the noisy sister of snailsnail. Here, at noiseworks, we produce occasional noise. You can listen and download. All tracks are available under a creative commons attribution license. This means that you can do whatever you want with them, so long as you mention that Treebait Consortium made them.

Grumpiness

Programming by Ank Est Dir
Laptop performance by John Barnes
Mix by snailsnail

The track is made entirely from samples taken from Disney's 1937 film 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' featuring the character Grumpy.
The sounds are processed using Pure Data.

November 2010

5 Note Composition

Programming - Ank Est Dir;
Keyboard - John Barnes;
Mix - snailsnail

This was entirely written in Pure Data and then performed in one take. The music was written for the video, although the video was made afterwards, in After Effects

September 2010

This New Model Sound Experiment

Effects and Mix - snailsnail.

Created to be the soundtrack to the (very) short experimental film New Model Experiment [YouTube Link] this was largely generated automatically from stills from the film using RGB Music Lab. The resulting midi files were then applied to a variety of instruments and effects and mixed together.

December 2007

I Still Love You (Five Years On)

Mix - snailsnail.

A lost and found track remixed 5 years after it was first made, hence the title. I've no idea how I first made the track, although that's a Microsoft Speech Synthesiser in there.

November 2007

Madrid Composition #02 - In Anticipation

Violin - Laura Soto Gutiérrez;
Laptop, Keyboards - John Barnes;

Field Recording, Manipulation & Assemblage - snailsnail

Assembled from mp3 recordings made in Madrid, 2006.

October 2007

Living Through Requital

Recorder, Piano - Helen Barnes;
Guitar - Ceri Woolsgrove;
Vocals, Synths & Laptop - John Barnes;
Programming - Ank Est Dir;

Construction - snailsnail.

A re-performance of elements of the soundtrack for the film Requital.
Contains elements of Pornoscapes #01 - #04.

October 2007

Pornoscape #01

Programming - Ank Est Dir;

Construction - snailsnail.

Constructed using Audacity, spinDrum and StockSynth from amateur pornographic video uploaded by the users of YouPorn.com.

June 2007

Teenage Angst (Type II)

Programming - Est Dir Fnc;
Laptop - John Barnes;

Production and Edit - snailsnail.

programmed and performed in ChucK.

April 2007

Fealty

Clicks & Slurps, Postcard Weevil, Three-Note Recorder, Three-Note Piano, Nokia 3510 - John Barnes;

Lo-Fi Recording, Hack & Slash - snailsnail.

Postcard Weevil made by Tom Bugs @ bugbrand.

August 2006

We Ploughed It Into The Land

Grunts, shouts, wails, screams & heavy breathing - John Barnes;

Chop & Splice - snailsnail.

June 2006

Sly Follow and Debutate Angst

Recorder - Helen Barnes;
Vocals, apple & tones - John Barnes;
Clicks, trills & fricatives - John Wells & Jill House;
Heartbeat recorded by G.W. Manning;
Field recording - snailsnail;

Chop & Splice - snailsnail.

May 2006

Excert from the soundtrack to the motion picture Sleep

Vocals & Door Keys - Sarah Barnes;
Vocals - John Barnes;
Recorder - Helen Barnes;

Sampling, Chop & Splice - snailsnail

December 2005

Satan's Children

Sampling, Chop & Splice - snailsnail.

Contains samples from too many songs to mention - all gathered from here.

March 2006

Mi Corazon

Coke Can & Sweets - John Barnes

Sampling, Field Recording, Chop & Splice - snailsnail.

Samples taken from an unknown Spanish song found on the soundtrack of a version of Man Ray's 1928 film L'Étoile De Mer.

April 2006