Video for this track here...https://youtu.be/bYcc8NQKwVo

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

This project has just one step: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “octave leap.”

Details at disquiet.com/0564

Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept

This track celebrates the word "fancy", which I'm overusing at the moment, especially to describe the results of futile efforts to create something hip and ingenious.
The composition was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0536 (description see below).

I want to thank the following freesound-users for providing sounds that I used in the track:

The biggest thanks goes to Tim Kahn for providing the recorded sentence https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/68030/ covered by the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
I cut out the word "fancy" from this audio and pitched-shifted it to various harmonies to create the refrain of this track.

I  also want to thank the creators of the following sounds provided under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ license;
frosthardr for the drumloop https://freesound.org/people/frosthardr/sounds/253065/ that I cut up and reassembled
mdayalan for the pub-atmosphere https://freesound.org/people/mdayalan/sounds/398224/ from which I extracted the female voice
SoundEnsemble for the blackbird https://freesound.org/people/SoundEnsemble/sounds/519125/
Samulis for the thunder https://freesound.org/people/Samulis/sounds/242013/

The next thanks go to the contributors of sounds I used in the custom drum-kit;
Kodack for the book page turn https://freesound.org/people/Kodack/sounds/256475/
AmberdeMeillon for the opening of the chocolate https://freesound.org/people/AmberdeMeillon/sounds/443064/
Red_Jay for the steps https://freesound.org/people/Red_Jay/sounds/594460/

And also used for the drum-kit covered by the Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/:
NoiseCollector for the shot https://freesound.org/people/NoiseCollector/sounds/126791/
Juan_Merie_Venter for the pencil sharpener https://freesound.org/people/Juan_Merie_Venter/sounds/327685/


The photograph shows the Palladian Bridge at Prior Park in Bath, a building I would describe as "fancy". It is a typical architectural element of English landscape gardens.

More on this 536th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Metaphor Play (The Assignment: Take a favorite figure of speech as a creative prompt) – at: https://disquiet.com/0536/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0536-metaphor-play/

Fancy! (Disquiet 0536)

*Original tapes of the "meta maschine" project (1994) with audio recordings of Jean Tinguely‘s sound installation "Méta Harmonie II" (Kunstmuseum Basel, 1993)

Méta Machine, Part V / ulrich langenbach / marc schaffroth

Plight Of The Hemoglobin Hobgoblins

21Aug22

This is an extended experimental mashup of 4 recent tracks by Joel Putman;
https://soundcloud.com/joel-putman/recursiveshuffle-1
https://soundcloud.com/joel-putman/trends
https://soundcloud.com/joel-putman/sorted-past
https://soundcloud.com/joel-putman/redacted

:D

Joel Putman Re-imagined #1

Trace

Silence 

The city shines apocalyptic tonight 
An avalanche of grief in a sea of blue lights 
Turning the other cheek, falling into their graves 
Rising like Lazarus to do it again 

A crowd of youths are getting ready to “meet”
There’s an air of violence running down every side street 
Put down your guns 
Thrown down your arms 
No one’s brave enough to sound the alarm 

The deafening silence 
This silence is deep
Been silent for so long we’ve forgotten to speak 
Words like silent raindrops fall 
The silence is deep but the anger is shallow 

The toothless vampire’s getting ready to bite 
Fuck me man you know what’s wrong and what’s right 
For every Abel there’s another Cain 
Every vow of silence is another bloodstain

Silence

Electronic sequences created in Pure Data & edited with Audacity, the 2nd & 4th sections one octave higher.

More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) – at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “octave leap.”

8 - Up (disquiet0564)

for the disquiet junto //

arrangement of a classical piece, in half time, with an octave leap

Floating Through

[disquiet0564] Floating Through

The one instruction for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to use an octave leap, which is something I quite often do anyway. 

So, I just set about writing a new track without thinking too hard about the brief. I actually started with the percussion that shows up later in the track.

The root on the opening part steps down an octave before introducing the next chord in the progression.

A two-note synth part is just the minor 7 on two octaves (with a major 6 once for colour - still fits the Dorian mode but is pretty HELLO when it shows up imo).

A second synth part doubles the guitar harmonic sounds, coming in via an opening low-pass filter. That synth part has its pitch modulated by a little step sequence, so it steps up one or two octaves, and the rate at which that's happening in shifting about. That part then runs into a delay (Valhalla Delay) which as a descending octave shift in the feedback patch.

A synth bass part arrives later that is just sustained notes following the root of each chord, but an arpeggiator steps up and down an octave. Kind of like with the pitch modulation on the other synth, the tempo of the arpeggiator is being modulated by an LFO, then quantised, to make it less synth disco / Girls & Boys.

More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “octave leap.”

[disquiet0565] Octave Leapt

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Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.

I used a track on which I was already working on and added automatic tools to randomly add or substract up to two octaves to all tracks. The probability was chosen so that the octave jumps should go unnoticed.

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Track cover based on image from Dall-E2 prompting "Sudden jumps, not too hefty, edward hopper". This tool is so much fun!

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More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

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Disquiet Junto Project 0564: Octave Lept
The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music.
More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) – at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

Octavio Paz - disquiet0564

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a jam in the newly discovered bespoke-synth (https://www.bespokesynth.com) - an incredibly great, modular sound design environment! some effects and automation added in ableton. hope you enjoy!

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My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

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