I've been trying to brush up on DSP math / coding for a while (it's taking me a while) so both the title and the project image had strong overtones of tangled impulsive vectors leaping through modes of rotation in a flattened space. hmmm... maybe not so musical...

But the general idea of 'imagining' repetitious patterns in time as rotations into an auxilliary realm, then back into the real, is powerful as a metaphor, and enigmatic as a tool - producing, on the way, the kind of fractal patterns computers have taught us to admire; along with every VST you may ever have 'plugged'!

I made a rough remix laid out free hand in Audacity, then carried it over to a sequencer, where I layered various long patterns of delay ('complex rotation') and applied phase delay based filtering in the same spirit. 

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Disquiet Junto Project 0188: Complex Complex
Take a provided track and make it more complex.

This project was proposed by Guy Birkin and Jay Bodley (aka Sun Hammer). It extends the thinking that went into their album Complexification, released by the record label Entr’acte. (There’s more background on album below the project description.)

These are the steps for this project:

Step 1: Pick one of the two tracks at the following URL: https://goo.gl/tN4Oit.

Step 2: Modify that one track in any way, using as much or little of it as you like, to make a new piece that sounds “more complex” than the original. You may add other sounds. (Note: You are free to use any definition or measure of “complexity.” You should be sure to describe your process and how it “increases” the complexity of the original track.)

Step 3: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 4: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, August 6, 2015, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, August 10, 2015.

Background: The album Complexification by Guy Birkin and Sun Hammer “explores musical complexity through a collaborative process based on a set of rules.” Those rules involved the two musicians swapping successive copies of a track in order to make it progressively more “complex.” For their purposes, they defined “complexity” as follows: “In this project, complexity is understood in terms of the quantity and variety of musical elements or patterns. The result is two parallel threads of music, each representing a progression of increasing complexity.”

Length: The length of your finished work is up to you.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0188-complexcomplex” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 188th Disquiet Junto project (“Take a provided track and make it more complex”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/08/06/disquiet0188-complexcomplex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

jω [Disquiet Junto Project 0188: Complex Complex]

heart-open & earth-honoring 
synthesist & field-recordist 
journalist & dreamtime walker
visualist & connector
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The seemingly limitless manifestations that are observed during improvisational performance of electronic audiovisual materials drive me to seek collaborative interactions between compositional systems, machines, and myself. In holding space to facilitate an emergence of indeterminate phenomenon through analog synthesis, feedback systems, and field recordings, I share elements from multiple sources to celebrate shapes, patterns, and spaces.
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I hold BAs in Art and English from Andrews University, and am currently enrolled in the Electronic Integrated Arts MFA at Alfred University. I was an artist in residency in 2017 at Signal Culture in Owego New York and in 2015 at Sachaqa Centro De ARTE, San Roque Peru. My visual works, and live electronic improvisational performances, have been featured across Peru, at The MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, and throughout the Midwest of America.
 
Note: Much of the work here is subtle in nature and I encourage you to listen via headphones or using a decent system whenever possible. Most computer speakers will not reveal the tracks fully.  Unless otherwise noted in the track description, everything is recorded direct to stereo track live and on the fly with no overdubs. Thanks for stopping by and listening!

A path choked by nettles does not deter the bearer of a swinging scythe.

Low traffic account with lots of sketches, explorations & unreleased tracks, some of them for download. I come here myself every now and then.

You can also download the opening track of my Album Hippopotamus from The Wire Tapper CD:
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wire-tapper/the-wire-tapper-46/9

For bookings, contact http://datamusicalism.com Paris.

Here on my SoundCloud we have varying levels of quality - some tracks that are stable / final and then lots of explorations & sketches, mostly for personal archiving.

Shout out to @venderstrooik @davidspeligro @svs-records @schamoni-musik @version111a @david-sardelle @danieldoor @leroyschlimm @protein-music @camilafuchs @belial-pelegrim @drumcorps and a million other people I love & forgot to mention...

Some of you might already know me as beat4poets… This is the place for collaborations, sketches and fragments...

Electronic Musician, Percussionist, Guitarist and Composer. Modular Synth Enthusiast
http://rupertlally.bandcamp.com 
http://www.rupertandespen.com

“One can only arrive at the experience of the transcendental – if it is reached at all – when one is oneself in a position of un-knowing, that is, of humility; namely, while remaining in the world of technê he or she begins to venerate a certain kind of experience, acquires it, makes it one’s own, realizes it, sustains it, repeats it – without burdening its sense, its essence with its own great questions.” - László Krasznahorkai, “The Acropolis in Sunglasses”

harsh sounds, lofi dirt.
there are two of us.

jω [Disquiet Junto Project 0188: Complex Complex]

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