Moved house over the past few months. Been without a music nook for far too long now. Put this together at a makeshift desk with only headphones for monitoring. It might sound a bit wonky. 
 
Music: Mike Brosco
Photo: Suzanne Rinehart & Jill Fleming

Apart

Skipping through the feedback, augmenting with improv.
More on this 585th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Generations (The Assignment: Fast forward an old track to make a new one), at: https://disquiet.com/0585/

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F9 Feedback & Skip (disquiet0585)

Made for Naviar Records' 487th Haiku Challenge, Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/03/naviarhaiku487-sound-of-mountain/

Made from treated elements of https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/mountain-puffs-naviarhaiku485   Thanks Ingvar!

Mountain ocean rain cycle [naviarhaiku487]

My entry to Disquiet Junto Project 0595: Filter Progression.

I took this as an opportunity to use every Eurorack filter module I have.

The source is the sound of our back garden last Saturday evening, recorded in mono on my iPhone, which was wrapped in a microfibre cloth to reduce wind noise. It was left near the bird feeding table, as I was hoping the jays and crows and pigeons and magpies and sparrows and goldfinches would come along and make a racket. No such luck! :)

The source sound is being played by an Expert Sleepers disting mk4, using the I-1 Audio Playback algorithm. The audio is being sent to four places: two Ripples, which feed their respective outputs into the two filters on Blades, and two Shelves. The outputs of the two Blades filters are being sent directly to the left and right main outputs. The four bandpass filters from the two Shelves are being mixed into a left and right pair via the Veils, and then being sent to left and right main outputs.

A Stages is being used to modulate the filter frequencies of the other modules. All six Stages segments are set to "orange" / step mode, which output between zero and eight volts dependent on the position of the slider.

The first Stages segment modulates the frequency of the first Ripples and first Blades filter, the second segment modulates the second Ripples and second Blades filter, and the final four segments modulate the two pairs of parametric filters on the two Shelves.

I manually moved all six sliders around during the recording, and the output voltage was slewed a bit by Stages as well to make the frequency changes a bit smoother.

All filters were in bandpass mode, or as near as possible.

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

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disquiet0595 Martian Back Garden

Der Titel "I forgot to mention the moon" stammt aus dem Gedicht "The Moon" von David C. Berman (aus dem Band "Actual Air").

ulrich langenbach/michael goering - I forgot to mention the moon

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

Sunset Mountain (naviarhaiku496)

Intrépido y vago tlacuachito

Attoseconds In Deep Time

21Dec23

My naviarhaiku520 track;
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/737233531017773056/naviarhaiku520-winter-sky
:D

Winter sky, distant dreams [naviarhaiku520]

Due to winter weather in my area, I've been taking the bus.  I have a 5 minute drive to the mall where I park and then hop on an express bus for the 12 mile ride to work in downtown Des Moines.  Leaving the car behind and taking the bus is a transformative process for me because I haven't taken public transportation and been at the mercy of schedules in a long time, so it's a change.  I do appreciate the time on the bus, and I always open my iPad to sketch out some music projects, listening in earbuds.

And that's how this piece started - on the bus.  I have to compose with all the noise and heated air rushing around me.  After I get home, I run it through my boxes, and turn it into something else.  In that way, it's a kind of alchemy.

The title, "Rode Here on the Bus" is a direct lift of the beginning lyric of "Dreams Tonite" by Alvvays.  "Now you're one of us, it was magic hour."  Yep, transformative - and alchemy is a kind of magic.

A rare full track from me.  Usually I cap them at 30 or 60 seconds.

Wear good headphones.  I like Grados.  I own three pairs.

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Rode Here On The Bus (disquiet0628)

A response to Disquiet Junto 0629: Puzzle Logic, a challenge to break an existing work into small pieces and reassemble it.

These pieces are so small, it's hard to see what they're supposed to be. You vaguely remember the picture on the box. Here, in the corner— a string? Is this part of a voice? What could the dark bit here be? You're tempted to check the picture on the box. This is definitely the bassline. And see how the— no, wait a minute, that's an edge piece. You don't want to look at the picture on the box. These have to come together somehow. Don't they? Don't they? Do not look at the picture on the box.

The original work was "St Anthony", which you can find on bandcamp: https://coralineada.bandcamp.com/track/st-anthony

Recorded and produced at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles, Chicago, IL USA.

About Disquiet Junto 0629: https://disquiet.com/2024/01/18/disquiet-junto-project-0629-jigsaw-logic/

disquiet0595 Martian Back Garden

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