Made a little Animation/Diashow of my latest fractals done with Apophysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mln7qiqzXF8
enjoy!

noxpox - cave romantics (videolink in description)

Orambur

Source sound is a very nice recording of a bathroom stall hinge: https://freesound.org/people/Valk17/sounds/706939/

The Love Of Three Hinges

Vanishing Point

Falling away to nothing
Oil black road in the haze
A new beginning
The promise of water
The lure of everything you dreamed
Never led to anything

Footprints on this road
Show how far we’ve come
The shimmer of the sun
Reveals how we came undone

Only now it is clear
What’s the way out of here
We’re at the vanishing point
Watch the ground fall away
We are miles, miles away
We’re at the vanishing point

Hanging on to something
Trying to turn this car around
Engine she ain’t turning
You’re still defending
Backed in a corner
 Still you won’t, you won’t surrender

Voices lost in time
On a desert wind
Fools gold shining still
Prizes never won

Only now it is clear
What’s the way out of here
We’re at the vanishing point
Watch the ground fall away
We are miles, miles away
At the vanishing point

It all took so long
You look at me like like I still have the answers
But that road is disappearing
Was it all a mirage
An illusion of love
Still you can’t get enough, get enough

We’re at the Vanishing Point
We’re at the Vanishing Point
We’re at the Vanishing Point
We’re at the Vanishing Point

Falling away to nothing
Oil black road in the haze
You’re near the ending…

Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point (Single 2024)

As dark and mysterious as it is fun and groovy, this instrumental track takes listeners on an adventure over moonlit terrain. The opening piano reveals an introspective but complex rider absorbing all the night has to offer, eager for anything. The earthy percussion keeps the listener focused and trotting forward, while the sound design reminds them to keep looking up at the ever-expansive clear night sky. There is more to be discovered in the shadows of this midnight ride than one might expect.

Cover art is "night auto" by Anthony Ball

Midnight Ride

I used two duets from the Disquiet Junto 637 project (see below): „Is still on the line“ by Andreas Kitzmann and 33per (https://soundcloud.com/33per/is-still-on-the-line-duet-with-andreas-kitzmann-disquiet0638) and „Take5“ by Actor Network and tunelight (https://soundcloud.com/tunelight/disquiet0637-2of3-take5-w-actor-network). So I ended up with four collaborators - thank you, Gentlemen! 

First step was Full Blotter, Giorgio Sanchristoforo’s new granulator, to get some pads from the material. Luckily the software treated the tracks as two mono lanes, so I ended up with four distinct pads. 

To get a pulse, I sped up the lovely clicky bassline from Take 5. EQ’ing and getting the levels right did take ages. 

Well, what else? Happy Easter, of course!

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Disquiet Junto Project 0639: Path Ways (4 of 3)
The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways.

Step 1: In the previous project, we completed musical trios. Project 0638 was the third of three consecutive projects. In the first one, 0636, musicians recorded solos. In the second, 0637, musicians took those 0636 tracks, nudged them to the left side of the stereo spectrum, and then added their own music to the right, forming duets with a hole in the middle. In project 0638, other musicians introduced a third track down the center of the 0637 recordings, completing the trios. You can revisit the music via the blog posts disquiet.com/0636, disquiet.com/0637, and disquiet.com/0638, and you can follow the forking paths through the related Google Drive spreadsheet.

Step 2: The goal of this project is to rework the material that accumulated over the course of the previous three projects. There are two main ways to go about this. One is to simply choose one or more tracks and remix, combine, mash-up, or otherwise transform them. The other is to move on to Step 3.

Step 3: Choose one 0636 track, a solo, that yielded more than one 0638 trio. (These are highlighted in light blue, or maybe it’s teal, in the leftmost column of the spreadsheet.) Trace the various routes that 0636 track took. Perhaps it also led to some 0637 tracks that never went any further. Perhaps there are various 0638 versions based on varied 0637 versions. In any case, record a piece of music that lets the listener experience the branching paths that the original 0636 track took over the course of the three phases of the trios project sequence. Clearly you will be using a linear form to represent variations, so how to achieve that will require some compositional ingenuity. But you’re up to the task.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include either “disquiet0639remix” (if you follow the loose rules of Step 2) or “disquiet0639paths” (if you follow the more specific rules of Step 3) 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-0639-path-ways-4-of-3/

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

More on the 639th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Path Ways (4 of 3) — The Assignment: Rework musical trios using the constituent parts — one of two ways — at https://disquiet.com/0639/

Tour Two One

Four Two One [disquiet639]

Marco Lucchi : piano and synthesizer
Gina Berrett : vocals

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aprile 2024

Iki no kôzô

Iki no k​ô​zô # 6 - w/Gina Berrett

It's hard not to love "Avril 14th" by Aphex Twin. The piece ticks many boxes for me: Lovely melodies, nicely played, somewhat classical, somewhat ambient… all in all, "short and sweet." 

About a month ago, I downloaded a MIDI performance (https://freemidi.org/download3-26764-avril-14th-artists-bands) of the piece, and added two instances of Piano Colors. But it sounded too mechanical and dull, so I put it aside. 

For this week's assigment, I used 
a) Ableton's built-in velocity variations for more sound variation
b) some timing "humanizers "(up to 25 ms) to make it sound less robotic
c) and some spectral effects from Unfiltered Audio for added sustain weirdness. 
To my ears, it still sounds somewhat mechanical ;-) 
So here's my question: How do you breathe life into MIDI files? 

(Nota bene: Published on the 14th of April, of course.)
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Disquiet Junto Project 0641: Re-re-re-re-revise 
The Assignment: Take an old track and make it better.

Step 1: Listen through some of your recent recordings.

Step 2: Choose one you think would benefit from being updated.

Step 3: Revise the track you selected in Step 2.

Step 4: Document the changes you made in Step 3, how you came to conceive the changes you wanted to implement, and how you achieved them.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0641” (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-0641-re-re-re-re-revise/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you.

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

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

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

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).

Please Include When Posting Your Track:

More on the 641st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Re-re-re-re-revise — The Assignment: Take an old track and make it better — at https://disquiet.com/0641/

Avril 14th [disquiet0641]

Elatial relein

What's that dribbling down your chin?
Look at the state you're in.
You make sloppy rock'n'roll!

You Make Sloppy Rock'n'Roll

Disquiet Junto Project 0644: Event Horizon
The Assignment: Record music for a party of your choosing.

Step 1: Imagine a party you want to attend.

Step 2: Write some music that would be appropriate as background music for that event.

Quot satis est e/o Trotskii and Chianti Will Tear Us Apart

Instruments and samples:

Nuvex-5
Sophisticated Drum Sequencer by Goremall

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/15247/

https://goremall-instruments.com/

Samples:
Marimba-1-2.aif
Lanii - Chimera vox 120bpm
looperman-l-4706172-0253884-india-pop-smoke-x-808meloS
looperman-l-0672759-0268969-female-flow-130bpm
rocks-falling-over-rocks-over-a-steep-hill-like-a-cliff-75778

Special guest: Ian Curtis
Love Will Tear Us Apart_Vocals

QuotSatisEst [disquiet0644]

Anatol Locker
Ambient | Electronica | Experimental
also plays in Lucid Grain, MOC and Spheric Lounge

Feel free to download everything here for personal use

Avril 14th [disquiet0641]

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