Probably one of the best versions of the score. Well done.

For this one, I chose to use no reverb.

The Assignment: Stop doing something you always do.

Step 1: Thinks of things you consider unbreakable rules when you make music. Maybe you never use a vocal, or you always use a click track, or you never remake earlier work, or you always use a specific instrument. The longer you think about these rules, the more you’ll unearth rules that you hadn’t even recognized as rules before.

Step 2: Make a list of the self-imposed rules you came up with in Step 1.

Step 3: Choose one rule from Step 2 and record a track in which you break that rule.

More on the 653rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Break a Rule — The Assignment: Stop doing something you always do — at https://disquiet.com/0653/

habit of a lifetime [disquiet0653]

"Thinks of things you consider unbreakable rules when you make music" ... pretty much without fail, pitch cv goes through a quantiser; and pretty much without fail, there's some regular tempo or timekeeping... so skipping both these rules for this krell patch.

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More on the 653rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Break a Rule — The Assignment: Stop doing something you always do — at https://disquiet.com/0653/

disquiet0653 - unquantified / unqualified

walk by your hand

The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann.

See the feature-reel here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9iXpNfMHa9/

There were many options with this particular graphical notation. Since I had an academic background, I initially planned to make 7 x 5 tiny piano movements. 

But – this time together with my girlfriend – we focused on the artistic quality of the notation. The inner images of a little story of a trip from New Jersey to Manhattan emerged. 

With and beyond all the noise of life, there is a deep trust.

By musically connecting many of her field recordings through a trip from New Jersey to NYC, we orchestrated many different impressions together while maintaining contact with the former academic, now cacophonous expression of notation.

Taking the staves into account, accelerations and rhythmically inappropriate situations underlined our approach.

Enjoy!

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More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/

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The cover image for this track contains a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch

walk by your hand (disquiet0654)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0654: Just Notation. 
Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0654 discussion thread on Lines:
In studying the graphic score "True Glimpses 1" by Franziska Baumann, the abstract notations reminded me of the random generative sounds that can be created using a Krell Patch on a modular synthesizer. In this piece, I used a version of the patch on a semi-modular Make Noise Easel – 0-Coast, 0-Ctrl and Strega. The audio was recorded to Ableton Live where I added reverb from Valhalla Supermassive. An additional track was added via MIDI keyboard using the Fors Tela plugin. Used Supermassive again as well as Aberrant DSP Lair "occult reverberator" for effects on that track. In studying the graphic score "True Glimpses 1" by Franziska Baumann, the abstract notations reminded me of the random generative sounds that can be created using a Krell Patch on a modular synthesizer. In this piece, I used a version of the patch on a semi-modular Make Noise Easel – 0-Coast, 0-Ctrl and Strega. The audio was recorded to Ableton Live where I added reverb from Valhalla Supermassive. An additional track was added via MIDI keyboard using the Fors Tela plugin. Used Supermassive again as well as Aberrant DSP Lair "occult reverberator" for effects on that track. Sun photo by Alexey Demidov via Pexels.

More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/ 2
The cover image for this project is a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch 7.

Flux Erosion Event [disquiet0654]

Disquiet Junto Project 0654: Just Notation
The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann.

This project is the second of three that are being done over the course of as many months in collaboration with the 2024 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 4 through 8 (details at musikfestivalbern.ch). We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who manages the festival’s educational activities. This year is the sixth in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

Step 1: Spend time observing this graphic score by Franziska Baumann, the Swiss composer and musician who is part of this year’s Musikfestival Bern. It is titled True Glimpses 1. There is a larger version available for download 12. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch 7.

Step 2: Consider how the image in Step 1 can be interpreted as a graphic score. (If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of graphic notation, read up and join the conversion at the llllllll.co 3 link below.)

Step 3: Record a piece of music that interprets the graphic score from Step 1.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0654” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0654-just-notation/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you.

Deadline: Monday, July 15, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

About: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Newsletter: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/ 1

License: It’s preferred (but not required) to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., an attribution Creative Commons license)

WOT NO TABS! -disquiet0654

Disquiet Junto Project 0655: Soothing Sounds II
The Assignment: Make music for babies.

Step 1: Back in the early 1960s, Raymond Scott released a set of music for infants, titled Soothing Sounds for Baby. We’re going to produce music along those lines. Feel free to revisit Scott’s great collection. (Not one but two Junto participants give birth this month — one did a week-ish ago, and one is due to very soon. We’re doing this project in their honor and with their approval. Perhaps there are other brand new parents in our digital midst, as well. We did a project just like this one way back when we hit the 250th consecutive week 2, in October 2016.)

Step 2: Compose a piece of music intended for a newborn child, something peaceful as they first experience the world outside the womb.

I have a 2 year old great-grandson, the Tommaso to whom I dedicated the piece. The piece begins with a sample that forms the basis for the entire track. It is the sound of the sea which, like other sounds very similar to white/pink noise, rain, water etc... is used to calm him and help him fall asleep. Very common practice for all newborns/children.

This type of repetitive mechanical dance is grafted onto this element, with sounds reminiscent of music boxes.

Track instruments/tools: Euclidean sequencer, percussive and (prepared) piano sounds, cello pizzicato...the usual "palafernalia".

 Picture of Tommaso by Maura Marongiu

PS.: above all, so as not to be hypocritical and live only on aesthetics and superstructure, let's remember the daily massacres in many parts of the planet which, apparently, are now the distinctive sign of our civilization, so advanced and fake.

Tommaso's Lullaby [disquiet0655]

Stretching ahead -
the straight road,
loneliness.

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.

Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.
 

Haiku by Santoka Taneda

Picture by Devin Justesen

Lonely road ((naviarhaiku552)

sound art for disquiet0658.

More on the 658th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Re-Amplify — The Assignment: Re-record and re-compose an organ improvisation by Daniel Glaus — at https://disquiet.com/0658/

Created some loops and played them through a bone conduction speaker. Then used the speaker as a vibration tool to resonate a plastic bottle that had once contained sparkling spring water. It was recorded it using a contact mic over the mouth of the bottle. Moving the speaker about by hand changes how it resonates, less pressure on the speaker will make it vibrate and buzz. Some EQing, but no further effects added.

WOT NO TABS! -disquiet0654

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