The Burial Of The Dead

I wrote a sketch with Processing to program 12 cells that are looking at one pixel each from the blurry shadow of the video. The luminosity of the 12 pixels are mapped to the volume of a sine wave generator in Supercollider (gray squares on the illustration).
The 12 sine waves play through a delay line.
An average of the 12 volumes of the sines is calculated and is mapped to the "wet" parameter of the delay.
A 13th cell look at one pixel of the pale blue background and the saturation of this pixel is mapped to the feedback of the delay. (red square on the illustration).
Once my code was ready I played the video in loop mode and moved the square until I found something that pleased me. I also switched the pitches of the sines until I found an appropriate scale (minor scale finally).
While doing that I constantly heard two notes, so I recorded the sines an imported them in Logic to add a second track with this two notes played with a Microbrute.

More on this 138th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose a 2.5-minute soundtrack to complement a work of silent video art″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/08/21/disquiet0138-videosonicvoid/

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The image associated with this track is a still from the video that inspired it: “Untitled #8, 2004″ by Josh Azzarella.

Disquiet0138-Videosonicvoid

Stargate

A little trick I like to do with the Beatstep step sequencer :
On the first 4 pad I program the same note, the 4 following I program another one and I so the same on the 4 next pads. Here I have 3 notes for twelve pads, let say a chord. On the 4 last pad I program one or two more notes from a corresponding scale or in the same chord but with different octave. then I set the sequencer in the random mode and I play with the probability to make the notes sound as I wish. You can play with the probability  by muting some pads, or shorten the sequence to less than the full 16 step. It is fun also to change the timing : 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/ 32.
This track is a quick edit of a longer one posted on my profile, I really tried to make a short improvisation but just couldn't keep myself to freak out ....

More on this 139th Disquiet Junto project — “Create and upload a track that exemplifies one key creative process you’ve developed″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/08/28/disquiet0139-techtechnique/

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Stargate(edit)- disquiet0139-techtechnique

I messed around in audio mulch with its granulator effects (bubble contraption) on noise and with a phaser until I found a 'dark' sound then I decided to abruptly cut the sound with an archive of a corrupted audio file I kept since a long time.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0170: A Glitch in the Night
Create a one-minute track that takes the project title as its guiding aesthetic.

This project is the third in an ongoing occasional series that focus on late-night ambience. Collectively these nocturnal endeavors are being called “One Minute Past Midnight.” No one’s work will be repurposed without their permission, and it’s appreciated if you post your track with a Creative Commons license that allows for non-commercial reuse, reworking, and sharing.

The steps for this project are as follows:

Step 1: The primary goal of this project is to make a one-minute track. That track should, in your imagination, fit the description “A Glitch in the Night.”

Step 2: You may create an entirely original work that fits the brief project outline in Step 1. Or, you might choose to rework audio from one of two previous projects in this series, #0160 from January 22, 2015, and #0163 from February 12, 2015, both of which involve field recordings made of the sound one minute past midnight:

http://disquiet.com/0160/
http://disquiet.com/0163/

Step 3: If you choose, per Step 2, to use pre-existing material, locate segments that are especially quiet and meditative — and confirm that they are available for creative reuse. Many should have a Creative Commons license stating such, and if you’re not sure just check with the responsible Junto participant.

Step 4: Upload your track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, April 2, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, April 6, 2015.

Length: The length of your finished work should be roughly between one and four minutes.

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