Made with my Fall Norns script: https://github.com/ambalek/fall

Fall4

This is the second addition to the I love you So Much series. I love you So Much part 1 dealt with the anger and spite from heartbreak, while part 2 is about the obsession with new love and wanting to sustain it. The shame that comes with Obsession and what it can make you do.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6LikJ5burDxiIVjVwFLzO6?si=143f25168fd84655

I Love You So Much pt.2

I Love You So Much Pt 2

For the #disquiet junto nr. 561, "Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software", I used "Bird call in spring" by jmiddlesworth, "Ambience, Night wildlife" by InspectorJ amd "Heavy Rain" by lebaston100. After some experimenting to find out how to get any sound at all out of this app, I just pressed Play and Record and this is the result. Now we know how Aphex Twin does it (and why it is so boring).

More on this 561st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Samplelicker (The Assignment: Rework environmental sound recordings with Aphex Twin’s new software) — at: https://disquiet.com/0561/

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

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0561-samplelicker/

Samplelicker(disquiet0561)

The European fire-bellied toad is, in fact, a frog. (No fire, either.) However, this is more than compensated by its satisfyingly fun-to-say Latin name: Bombina bombina. They also produce antimicrobial peptides in their skin secretions – the even more fun-to-say ‘bombinins’. 

Native to eastern mainland Europe – recorded here in the protected land of Poland’s Barycz Valley Landscape Park – they use their internal vocal sacs to produce their “whoop” call: the mournful, slow-motion honk immortalized here. Imagine the sound that clowns might make when they cry and you won’t be far off.

Bombina bombina mysterious call

performed by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista (Onsernone), 30 June 2023

This piece is the third and the last piece of my Wittgenstein cycle and also an homage to Solage to express my fumeusement**
for his Rondeaux ‘’fumeux fume par fumee’’. 

The idea behind the polytext use is based on how much each text can be perceived 
as explanatory, commentary and complementary in relation with each other. 
As a composer I consider myself very lucky because the self-contained and self-explanatory qualities of each text
make it possible for me to stay silent whereof I can't speak as Witgenstein suggest in his famous sentence.

**fumeusement: with sadness, with grief, quarreling, with haziness, intangibility,
 tendency to rise, shifts in shape, easily wafted or dissipated  with the heat that fum produces, just like the fumeurs.

fumeux fume par fumèe, a whole world of fume (2023) for five voices

you first

I had started out with the assignment yesterday… today, I re-read the instructions and found that I might have been on a wrong track. Is it 0-40-60-0 of overall volume? Or the ratio of sound to silence in the overall piece? 

Not being totally sure about this, I started to carve out bits and pieces from the track. I removed most of the underlying drone, dimmed it down to 40 percent maximum, cut off reverb tails, removed some notes, trying to get the „guitar“ part in front.  

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Disquiet Junto Project 0607: Silence Wave 

The Assignment: From close to zero and back again, alter the relative amount of sound to silence in a piece of music.

There’s just one step to this project:

Compose a piece of music in which the relative amount of sound to silence starts at zero (that is, no sound), rises to approximately 40 percent (that is, 60 percent silent) and returns to zero again. Keep the pace fairly steady.

Background: This project builds on the two previous ones. You needn’t have done them; do give them some consideration. In the first of the two, each participant composed a piece of music with as much silence as notes. In the second, each composed a piece of music with three times as much silence as sound. Jason Richardson proposed the first project in what has since become a sequence. As that project unfolded, Klaus-Dieter Hilf (aka RabMusicLab) commented that maybe the instruction should have read “sound” in place of “notes.” Since the first project went well, a subsequent project increased the amount of silence, and implemented Hilf’s proposal. This project takes it a step further still.

(...)

More on this 607th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Silence Wave (The Assignment: From close to zero and back again, alter the relative amount of sound to silence in a piece of music), at: https://disquiet.com/0607/

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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Carved Out [disquiet0607]

performed by Schallfeld Ensemble at the Klangspuren Schwaz Composers Lab

live recording, September 18, 2023, Schwaz, Austria

conductor: Pierre-André Valade
recorded by ORF Austrian Public Radio

Before you were born | for piccolo/alto flute, saxophone, accordion, piano, violin, and cello (2023)

live at km28 (Berlin)

live recording of the premiere of "deep terrane (earth dreams itself, sweating)," which overlaps with "nestbuilder" (nestbuilder begins around 25:20)

with MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik & Ty Bouque:
-Ty Bouque [voice: dt + nb]
-Gregor Schulenburg [flutes: dt; glass: nb]
-Heni Hyunjung Kim [contrabass clarinet: dt; glass: nb]
-Sarah Saviet [violin: dt; glass: nb]
-Paul Hübner [trumpet: dt; glass: nb]
-Simone Beneventi [prepared bass drum: dt; glass: nb]
-T McCormack [prepared bass drum: dt; glass: nb]

more info:
https://www.timothy-mccormack.com/earth-dreams-itself
https://www.timothy-mccormack.com/nestbuilder
https://www.timothy-mccormack.com/deepterraneproject

[photo credit: Hang Su, @oliver_espace]

deep terrane (earth dreams itself, sweating) /  nestbuilder [2023]

Performed by Oerknal:

Gregory Charette - Conductor
René van Munster - Cello
Daniel Boeke - Bass Clarinet
Susanne Peters - Alto Flute & Piccolo
Jellantsje de Vries - Violin
Christian Smith - Percussion
Sophie Patey - Piano

October 2019, Bilkent Concert Hall

Art: Yugo Kohrogi

A Night of Music in the Uncanny Valley, Part II (2019) for ensemble & electronics

www.artuncekem.com
a_cekem@hotmail.com

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Profile art: Christian Rex van Minnen
Cover art: Mario Panciera

A Night of Music in the Uncanny Valley, Part II (2019) for ensemble & electronics

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