A set of tracks from the 29th weekly project from the Disquiet Junto group. 

The Assignment: Make music from running water, inspired by William Gibson's novel Count Zero.

More information on the group at: 

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

More on the specific project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/07/19/disquiet0029-countzero/

Disquiet Junto Project 0029: Count Zero

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

2012 all n4tural Junto tracks

newest tracks. well, all of them actually, but in reverse chrono order. you get the idea.

for the Disquiet Junto #4 
using stems donated by http://soundcloud.com/mapmap -- thanks!

http://mapmap.ch/
http://www.tenchrec.com/TCH05.html
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

As per the updated Junto FAQ, i include this statement on compositional approach
	My capacity for enjoying ambient mixes has been severely harmed by the three Juntos to date, which have been chock full of depressingly good ambiance to the tune of several hours' worth, so the only a priori goal i set myself in attacking this one was that it be hard, loud and dirty.
	no, wait. fast, hard and dirty.
	
	but then i fell in love with this loop i made (completely by hand in audacity! no SuperCollider!) by streching all the samples to the same length, condensing the result to 6.6 seconds (i don't know why anymore), appending a reverse copy, and downpitching an octave.
	So the return to my heavy metal days will have to wait for a future Junto.
	
	
	


Nearly There (Disquiet0004-mfischer nearly n4tural condensed milk Remix)

I had just the field recording for this.  It was recorded in early 2011 at a garden center / drug store near my house.  The sprinkler was on a timer and was watering trees and shrubs late in the evening, and I heard it while exiting the store so I ran home and got my portable digital audio recorder and got about 8 minutes along with bird and parking lot sounds while sitting in my car.

For this piece, I carved out a little over 2 minutes of the field recording then added some of the rhythm source I used in Disquiet0020 Nodebeat, a looped bit of the train sound I used in Disquiet0002 Duet, along with some background color used in Disquiet0001 Ice.

Had to mix it all so the non-sprinkler rhythms wouldn't overpower the source, as advised.  I think the Nodebeat rhythm is very complimentary even if it and the sprinkler regularly go out of phase but I like it when things go out of phase.

The inspiration for this track came from the opening of chapter 17 of William Gibson's 1986 novel Count Zero.

More on the 29th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/07/19/disquiet0029-countzero/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 

Prickly Sprinkler (disquiet0029-countzero)

This is four recordings of rain hitting inverted singing bowls of varying sizes. These were then cut into samples of 15, 13, 11 and 9 seconds and then looped 8 times. After the 4th repetition of each sample, I faded in the hold function on the "Ambient" VST which freezes any sound.  There was also some ping pong delay, overdrive and EQ'ing involved with each sample.

Disquiet Junto Project 0029: Count Zero 

The inspiration for this track came from the opening of chapter 17 of William Gibson's 1986 novel Count Zero.

More on the 29th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/07/19/disquiet0029-countzero/ ;

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Disquiet Junto

Forecast [disquiet0029-countzero]

Disquiet Junto Project 0029: Count Zero

  This week's project is inspired by an aside that occurs at the opening of chapter 17 of William Gibson's classic cyberpunk novel Count Zero, originally published in 1986. The chapter is titled "The Squirrel Wood." It opens as follows:   "The plane had gone to ground near the sound of running water. Turner could hear it, turning in the g-web in his fever or sleep, water down stone, one of the oldest songs."  

This idea of water running down stone, of a gentle but insistent natural stream, being one of the "oldest songs" is explored further in the chapter in various subtle ways. The Disquiet Junto project this week is to explore that idea: that there is music in the natural environment. We'll makes songs from running water.  

Instructions:

  Step 1: Locate and make a field recording of source material that involves running water. It can be a stream, as in the Gibson book, but it needn't be natural. The sink, a toilet, a hose in the backyard — any such source material would be fine.  

Step 2: Extract a segment of the recording. That segment will serve as the basis for your composition, as its foundation. It will provide both rhythmic and melodic material. You can either use one long piece of the recording, or you can create the foundation of the track by combining and looping one or more brief segments of your original field recording.

  Step 3: Add elements and treatments to the foundation recording of running water. Do so with the intention of highlighting the water's internal sense of rhythm and melody. Do not embellish so much that the foundation recording becomes unrecognizable.   

Information:

This was a fairly rushed project as I am on business in Baltimore and New York at the moment. God bless wifi on Amtrak's Acela Express … greetings from Delaware at speed!

The recordings were made with an iPhone and the 4 track app of a dripping faucet/tap in my hotel (I had to make it drip, the plumbing was fine) and the overrun of the shower as it hit the resonant faucet beneath.

From these I was able to take a number of rhythmic, semi-resonant loops that I brought into Ableton Live for processing. If you've listened to many of my Junto projects, you'll know that I try to steer clear of pieces that only contain rhythmic constituents, so I also created a couple of granular patches from the sound waves of the water. This all seemed to give the track a post-rock/ambient feel.

These harmonic tracks were run through various instances of Guitar Rig to give some depth to the sounds. All the while, the rhythmic water sounds were pushed around the stereo field a little and given some glitchy movement.

Conceptually I saw this as pulling melody from rhythm with the latter being almost a cage within which the harmonic character is restrained.  

Credits:

Photo: Faucet in Baltimore @echosonic

  The inspiration for this track came from the opening of chapter 17 of William Gibson's 1986 novel Count Zero.  

More on the 29th Disquiet Junto project at: 

http://disquiet.com/2012/07/19/disquiet0029-countzero/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

A Good Morning in Baltimore [disquiet0029-countzero]

The inspiration for this track came from the opening of chapter 17 of William Gibson's 1986 novel Count Zero. More on the 29th Disquiet Junto project at http://disquiet.com/2012/07/19/disquiet0029-countzero/. More details on the Disquiet Junto at http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info.

Process:
- take a 30-second excerpt from a field recording I made of the Contoocook River in Peterborough, NH
- time-stretch it 7x in Paul's Extreme Stretch
- in Csound:
-- derive the spectral centroid[1] of each stereo track
-- use the centroid to control the pitch of a pair of sinewave oscillators
-- pass the oscillator tones through some reverb
-- combine the tones with the streatched water sound, crossfading so that the tones increase in amplitude as the water sound decreases
- convert to MP3 in Audacity

Image: "Animated loop of simulated hydrogen line spectra centroid jitter." found at http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/powerfrq.html, no copyright declared.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_centroid

Subsurface Tension [disquiet0029-countzero]

"The plane had gone to ground near the sound of running water. Turner could hear it, turning in the g-web in his fever or sleep, water down stone, one of the oldest songs." 
 -- William Gibson, Count Zero. 1986.

using http://soundcloud.com/gluid-1/bathwater-field for water down man-made stone -- bedaankt!
and the water pack by plagasul http://www.freesound.org/people/plagasul/packs/8/ -- gracias!

. . . . .

Disquiet Junto Project 0029: Count Zero

This week's project is inspired by an aside that occurs at the opening of chapter 17 of William Gibson's classic cyberpunk novel Count Zero, originally published in 1986. The chapter is titled "The Squirrel Wood." It opens as follows:

"The plane had gone to ground near the sound of running water. Turner could hear it, turning in the g-web in his fever or sleep, water down stone, one of the oldest songs."

This idea of water running down stone, of a gentle but insistent natural stream, being one of the "oldest songs" is explored further in the chapter in various subtle ways. The Disquiet Junto project this week is to explore that idea: that there is music in the natural environment. We'll makes songs from running water.

The instructions are as follows:

Step 1: Locate and make a field recording of source material that involves running water. It can be a stream, as in the Gibson book, but it needn't be natural. The sink, a toilet, a hose in the backyard — any such source material would be fine.

Step 2: Extract a segment of the recording. That segment will serve as the basis for your composition, as its foundation. It will provide both rhythmic and melodic material. You can either use one long piece of the recording, or you can create the foundation of the track by combining and looping one or more brief segments of your original field recording.
 
Step 3: Add elements and treatments to the foundation recording of running water. Do so with the intention of highlighting the water's internal sense of rhythm and melody. Do not embellish so much that the foundation recording becomes unrecognizable.
 
Deadline: Monday, July 23, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

The inspiration for this track came from the opening of chapter 17 of William Gibson's 1986 novel Count Zero.
 
More on the 29th Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/07/19/disquiet0029-countzero/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info


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pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dionnehartnett/7324180278/

The plane had gone to ground near the sound of running water [disquiet0029-countzero]

http://soundcloud.com/yuko-parris vs. http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural

fixed rhythmic syllables applied to moving sets of sounds



turntable sounds from http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural/random-coil-all-n4tural-my // http://soundcloud.com/random-coil/all-n4tural-random-coil-i-don

yuko n4tural: haikus

&rarr; <a href=http://echolab.de>echolab</a> & all n4tural OSC-based videocousmatic livecoding (quartz composer & supercollider), v0.0002

please see video, it's at least half of the fun: http://vimeo.com/54617039 

for Disquiet Junto #48: Fraternité, Dérivé (disquiet.com/2012/11/29/disquiet0048-libertederive )


sources used:
“Unloop Hullaballoo” off The Fleet’s Lit Up by Alex Charles and Richard Sanderson
http://threelegsduck.bandcamp.com/album/the-fleets-lit-up 
“Etude” off Emosphere by !Kung
http://threelegsduck.bandcamp.com/album/emosphere 
“04:54AM” off Four AM at Dusk Jérôme Poirier
http://threelegsduck.bandcamp.com/album/four-am-at-dusk

echolab & all n4tural [disquiet0048-libertederive]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0050: -…….–.-..-…-


"Junto till you drop"

&rarr; (http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html) (thanks!)

&rArr; ".--- ..- -. - --- / - .. .-.. .-.. / -.-- --- ..- / -.. .-. --- .--."

&rarr; <pre>(
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;~morsedurs = { |morsestring|
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var durs;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;morsestring.do{|x| 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;durs = durs.add(switch (x.asString, 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;".", {1/16},
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"-", {1/8},
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" ", {1/4},
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"/", {1/4}, {} ));
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;};
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;durs;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;};
)</pre>

&rArr; [ 1/16, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/4, 1/8, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/16, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/16, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/4, 1/16, 1/8, 1/8, 1/16 ]

Those are my beats (for aesthetic reasons i ended up adding a \stretch of 2, so everything's twice as long; bar length 2 * 9.8125 seconds).

There are two voices playing these beats:

↻ turntable sounds recorded with http://soundcloud.com/random-coil (for <a href=http://disquiet.com/2012/08/16/disquiet0033-turntable>Junto # 33 & 1/3</a>) (http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural/random-coil-all-n4tural-my // http://soundcloud.com/random-coil/all-n4tural-random-coil-i-don )

↻ http://soundcloud.com/ecut/aeolian-hang-of-ecut-free -- impossible to count the countless hours of fun this recording has provided me. thanks, http://soundcloud.com/ecut !


Disquiet Junto Project 0050: -…….–.-..-…-
This week’s project explores Morse Code for its rhythmic content. The instructions are as follows: Select a word or phrase. Encode that word or phrase by the Morse method. Record a rhythmic foundation in which the dash is represented by a long beat and the dot by a brief one. Use that rhythmic foundation as a loop for the length of your track, at the speed you desire — speed can vary over the length of the recording. Record accompanying drone/melodic material that takes the underlying rhythm as its compositional foundation.

More on this 50th Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/12/13/disquiet0050-morsebeat 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto

junto till you drop [disquiet0050-morsebeat]

so i have this mindboggling toothache -- funny story, last time i had one was exactly one year ago, same place, same people, same christmas eve -- and i'm whiling the night away and @Troente sends over this http://soundcloud.com/troente/reutels-na-kerstmis

So this is me howling at the moon mother of godawful why do i need to suffer this are we not in the 21st century psalm 69.



Trönte & all n4tural: Reutels en Keulen na Kerstmis (hymnal)

for @Disquiet Junto Project 0052: Bump Foot CC 

i used the first 20 seconds of all three, because it didn't seem fair to the Bongo otherwise. 

thanks to Bump Foot label and the artists for an enjoyable sunday afternoon and series of mistakes and misunderstandings between brain, fingers and supercollider that led here.

1. The first 20 seconds of "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album Los Desposeídos: http://archive.org/download/foot212/foot212_09-aguas_tonicas-bongo.mp3 
2. "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album Red Music: http://archive.org/download/foot211/foot211_03-gridline-broken_robots.mp3 
3. "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album Low Voltage: http://archive.org/download/foot206/foot206_01-pics_frunk-the_cat_in_the_ocean.mp3 

This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net 

More on this 52nd Disquiet Junto project at: http://disquiet.com/2012/12/27/disquiet0052-bumpcc 

More details on the Disquiet Junto at: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info 


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pic: http://www.bumpfoot.net

Broken Bongo Ocean [disquiet0052-bumpcc]

i like http://soundcloud.com/groups/word-music and http://soundcloud.com/groups/ill-field recordings
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headphone music alert!
a financial failure to date, i rarely listen to my tracks via normal loudspeakers. Please enjoy them via headphones. (Accounts of pleasant extra-headphone affairs graciously received.)
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all is explained:
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2011/04/12/chopped-off-the-think-all-n4tural">The Self-Cutting (Up) MP3</a>
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2011/07/01/all-n4tural-beyond-the-ken">SPLENDIDLY ANEMIC FUNK</a>
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2011/12/15/all-n4tural-helpless">REVEALING THE GLITCH IN VOICE</a>
<a href="http://disquiet.com/2012/06/20/rawore-all-cousmatic">UNDER THE BRIDGE, REVISITED</a>
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51 anonymous downloads &minus; no plays &minus; from Senegal today. Is there a black market for all n4tural tapes?
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newer! 
<a href="http://flamingpines.com/releases.htm">Rivers Home: the final five</a>
a <a href="http://soundcloud.com/flaming-pines">Flaming Pines</a> series

with smashing artwork
worth the price alone.
Support hyper-independent labels!

a taste: 
http://soundcloud.com/flaming-pines/sets/rivers-home-final-five 
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new! <a href="http://flamingpines.com/releases.htm">Burning Palms</a>. a <a href="http://soundcloud.com/flaming-pines">Flaming Pines</a> compilation [confusing, huh!]
Now here, too: <a href="http://flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/burning-palms">Burning Palms</a>
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thanks for the kind comments, kemosabes!
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